The National Young Writers' Festival is Australia's premier event for emerging writers, publishers, performers and trouble-makers. Several thousand of the country's most challenging and original young minds will descend upon Newcastle for a five day creative bender. Far from the seas of white hair, book signings and celebrity author worship you might expect, the NYWF is a DIY, hands-on conversation between equals.
In 2008, we turn 10! To celebrate a decade of the NYWF, we are currently working hard on a huge 10th anniversary festival, including the first ever full-scale NYWF Anthology. Stay tuned!
The NYWF takes place as part of the This Is Not Art (TiNA) festival, which adds independent musicians, journalists, artists, performers, activists, nerds and lovers-of-ginger-beer to the mix. It's a combination of cutting-edge performances, panels, collaborations, experiments, workshops and parties. It's unique. It's free. You should come and be part of it.
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Megan Darling - Artist Logistics Coordinator  New to the fold, Megan Darling has grasped the reins of artist logistics with both hands. With a working history of artist and tour coordination in the music industry, Megan is now studying... >> read more |
Cutwater - new literary anthology call for submissions Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Wednesday Jul 23rd, 2008 Cutwater will collect the best in Australian writing - fiction, literary journalism, poetry, comics and zines - for a literary anthology to be published in 2009 with the assistance of an Australian Council of the Arts Write In Your Face Grant, edited by Daniel Collins and Sam Twyford-Moore. |
TEXT CAMP reader launch - Melbourne Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Wednesday Jul 23rd, 2008  Next Wave is proud to launch its latest publication, the TEXT CAMP Reader. Edited by Rosemary Forde and designed by Chase & Galley, the TEXT CAMP Reader features written responses to over twenty 2008 Next Wave Festival projects by emerging writers Holly Childs, Jared Davis, Jessica Friedmann, Katie Furlonger, Alana Hunt, Leon Goh, Ruth McIver, Elise Routledge, Mickie Skelton,... >> read more |
Postcards from the Periphery - Call out for entries Author(s): Sonya Gee | Posted: Tuesday Jul 22nd, 2008 Mail is more than just bills and bank statements and lovers of Post-no-Bills and Post-Secret will be stoked about Postcards from the Periphery, the latest project from deLiver. Artists, writers and zinesters living in regional Australia are invited to participate in an annual 'super inter-regional postcard art swap lucky dip exhibition spectacular'. |
Brow Attack - The Lifted Brow 3 Launch Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Tuesday Jul 15th, 2008 Everything is good in the House of Brow. If you're in Melbourne, we're launching TLB3 at the revamped Birmingham Hotel this Friday, with Talkshow Boy, Washington, Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth, DJ OK, a DJ set from Faux Pas, and readings by Josephine Rowe. $12 gets you entry and the magazine, which retails for $12, so you get a free show or a free magazine, depending on how you look at ... >> read more |
Love & Devastation - Midnight Morning Art Book Launch: Sydney Author(s): Sonya Gee | Posted: Sunday Jul 13th, 2008  Graphic artist, winner of the 2007 Cut + Paste Digitial Design Competition and super dedicated self-publisher Matt Huynh is about to launch a new book, an illustrated celebration of love and devastation. It's the latest project from the very energetic and experimental Popperbox art and design collective, which also features Haline Ly and William Leong. |
Tell It To Yourself - Spit & Polish Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Friday Jul 11th, 2008 'Don't eat fruit or anything else in the public streets. A gentleman on the sidewalk engaged in munching an apple or pear presents a more amusing than edifying picture'. Spit & Polish, a collaborative arts project, will be delivering a rotating set of etiquette lessons to the pedestrians of Centreplace, via the Majorca House exhibition windows, during the month of August. |
Fed Square Book Market Relaunch - meet independent melbourne publishers Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Wednesday Jul 2nd, 2008 This Saturday 5th July sees the relaunch of the Federation Square Book Market, featuring a new stall for independent Melbourne publishing. Present will be Torpedo, The Lifted Brow, The Sex Mook (and forthcoming Death Mook), Cherry Fox Press, Cloth Covered Button, Ampersand (once it's printed) and a few others. By present I mean you'll be able to buy those publications and meet the people... >> read more |
Human Rights Arts & Film Festival - call for entries Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Saturday Jun 28th, 2008 The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival is a not for profit event established in 2007 by a group of passionate artists and human rights activists who want to make human rights relevant and significant to the broader community. |
John Marsden Award for Young Writers Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Thursday Jun 26th, 2008 Young scribes have until Friday the 15th of August to enter this year's John Marsden Award for Young Writers. Run by Express Media (the publishers of (Voiceworks), and sponsored and judged by the eponymous author John Marsden, the award is open to young writers (under 25) of novels, poems and short stories and has a total prize pool of $4,500. For more information, do not... >> read more |
Newcastle Poetry Prize - entries closing July 4th Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Thursday Jun 19th, 2008 The Newcastle Poetry Prize is Australia's only New Media Poetry Award with a prize value of $2000 and it closes soon on Friday July 4, 2008. |