Strike a pose
Some stuff in my week: * A photo shoot for Emerging Writers’ Festival promo material with freelance/TV/ comedy writer Mia Timpano (I love this article of hers, have a look around her website while...
View ArticleStu Hatton’s Literary Space – Emerging Writers’ Festival Special #3
Stu Hatton says… Where do I write? Pretty much everywhere. Quite often I’ll be sitting in the study in our apartment. Desk, computer, chaotic piles of paper, the to-do list that never gets done. This...
View ArticleLiveblogging @ the Emerging Writers’ Festival Page Parlour
I am invincible. I have survived 11 days of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, from which I am currently liveblogging, on its final day. Around me are indie publishers, zinesters, perusers, cupcakes,...
View ArticleEmerging Writers’ Festival photo journal
Chris Currie, myself, Krissy Kneen Please view my Emerging Writers’ Festival 2009 photo journal in a public album on Facebook, complete with commentary and links to books and authors (from the 15...
View ArticleBig fat round-up post + May haiku comp winners
Hey gang. Are you cool? Be cool. Only got about a quarter of the response to this month’s haiku comp – doh! The them was ‘the richness of the internet’. Thinking I might have to do it only every two...
View ArticleEmbracing the medium: what makes a successful cultural blog?
The following article is a slightly amended version of the speech I gave during the Emerging Writers’ Festival panel The Revolution Will Be Downloaded, May 2009. In my reading of cultural blogs...
View Article2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival in full swing
With the beaming Lisa Dempster at its helm, the 2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival, here in Melbourne, is in full swing. So far I’ve attended The First Word (the opening night), one of the Fifteen Minutes...
View ArticleNever surrender! (But do read the submission guidelines) – EWF 2010
So first of all, I had too many wines at the Emerging Writers’ Festival artist party on Friday, so I didn’t roll up until about 1pm yesterday. The Town Hall was PACKED with moleskine-carrying,...
View ArticleSydney Writers Festival program out now
In case you missed it on Twitter and Facebook (where I do most of my ‘festival program’ linking as there are just too many to blog about), the program for the 2011 Sydney Writers Festival (16-22 May)...
View ArticleTypecasting and narrative voice at the 2011 Emerging Writers’ Festival
The Emerging Writers’ Festival, in its usual form, has thus far been about tequila shots and one long drunken conversation about The Wall. Yesterday I went to some actual sessions. Here’s a write-up of...
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