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! Join us to celebrate with bogan stubby-holder poetry, radical new forms of decentred publishing, hyper-nerdy discussion of plot & character development, passionate debates the cultural and political futures of the country, and some of the best parties you've stumbled across in a long while. Check the full program of entirely free events here.
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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Tom Keily - Treasurer Tom Keily has recently released an album reinterpreting the poetry of Rumi into a series of Australia-scented rhymes over beats and Persian instrumentation.... >> read more |
Ampersand Melbourne Launch Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Monday Oct 20th, 2008 THURSDAY OCTOBER 30TH / 6-11 pm, Wardlow Art Residence - 4 Wood St, Fitzroy (near the Napier) FREE! |
The Night Air - This Is Not Art Special Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Sunday Oct 19th, 2008 Tune in to The Night Air on ABC Radio National tonight at 8pm for a This Is Not Art special - an open-source, collaborative sampler of the best of this year's festival. Expect something as eccentric, vibrant and bizarre as the festival itself! |
NYWF on Radio National's Book Show Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Wednesday Oct 15th, 2008 A great wrapup of the NYWF broadcast last week on RN's The Book Show can be found here. Many thanks to Sarah L'Estrange! >> read more |
Frank Moorhouse at the NYWF - keynote speech Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Wednesday Oct 15th, 2008 Radio National's Book Show recently broadcast an excerpt of Frank Moorhouse's keynote speech from this year's National Young Writers' Festival. Listen here. >> read more |
The Friday Triple Bill - literally. Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Tuesday Sep 30th, 2008  Mixing the brash with the beautiful, The Caravan of Dooooooom is Cat Scoobie, Mickey Skelton, Wazza Deeno and Wharton Thomas, a new company dedicated to exploring the storytelling elements of contemporary circus practice. Catch them at the Friday Triple Bill, and check out the amazing triple bill artwork they've prepared for the occasion. >> read more |
Calling all zinesters: 10 years of zines at the NYWF Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Saturday Sep 27th, 2008 For the last decade the NYWF has hosted Australia's zine community with forums, workshops, collaborations and the country's biggest zine fair. In 2008 we're celebrating this achievement with the great NYWF 10th Anniversary Zine Show & Tell. We're looking for zines and zinesters of all shapes and sizes to bring their favourite work and tell one and all what they do, read from their work,... >> read more |
Web2POD Project: New Publishing Models Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Thursday Sep 25th, 2008 The 2008 National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) presents a series of discussion forums and workshops on innovative new publishing models from two of Europe’s leading experimental publishers. Hosted by the founders of Neural (www.neural.it - Italy) and Metamute (www.metamute.org – UK), join us for free sessions in Newcastle and Melbourne for in-depth discussions of the future... >> read more |
Search for Australia’s Best New Writers Author(s): Sonya Gee | Posted: Thursday Sep 25th, 2008 The Writers’ Resource Centre is looking for Australia’s best new writers. |
Stuffing a Greyhound: Get yourself to Newcastle with the Mobile Theatre Research Institute Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Thursday Sep 25th, 2008 My advice is that you take one last look at the town where you live, (if it’s on the East Coast of Australia between Melbourne and Newcastle that is…) because chances are its gunna get burned down when we roll through it. That’s right folks, lock up your sons, daughters, pets and toddlers cause all hell is about to break loose along the Princes Highway in the next week as... >> read more |
NYWF Comics Show: Black & White Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Thursday Sep 18th, 2008  Check the poster for the NYWF II Comics Show: Black & White, from the one and only Pat Grant. >> read more |