The Emerging Writers’ Festival work, learn and play largely on the land of the Kulin nation, and pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.

EWF celebrates the history and creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.

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Bella Li: Composition as Explanation

What is it we do when we write? How does composition relate to vision? Bella Li discusses two particular methods of composition – collage and ekphrasis – as well as general compositional principles of structure and sequence, in works of poetry. 

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Saturday 17 June, 1:45pm

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Bella Li

Bella Li is the author of Argosy, Lost Lake, and Theory of Colours.

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