Get involved people! Want full-access VIP backstage passes to the NYWF? Why not get involved volunteering with us? We have plenty to do, from photography and documenting to selling merch. It’s a great way to meet artists and punters, and we promise fun and free ginger beer! Send your interest/questions to Sarah Gory at festivalcoordinator@youngwritersfestival.org, along... >> read more

Want to join NYWF?!?
Fancy sinking your teeth into the makings of a writers' festival?
Reckon you’ve got some shit hot ideas to share with (create mayhem in) the writing world?
NYWF is recruiting two spanking new creative co-directors to join incumbent co-director Sarah Howell for 2010 and to take on 2011 with their own new co-director!
This is an... >> read more

Hello fine people!

As you would all be aware of NYWF is upon us! This year we have a program called The Younger Young Writers Mentorship Program (YYWMP)  which we are all pretty stoked about. The aim of which is to make sure young peeps stay/become engaged with the festival and that NYWF doesn't age as we get old, decrepit and start wanting to eat soup soup and more soup. (... >> read more

Like writing?  Like poetry or spoken word, zines or comics?  Think you might have what it takes to be the next hot young thing in the Australian Literary Scene? If only you knew where to start off or had someone to talk to about how awesome you... >> read more

There are currently a whole bunch of opportunities for writers out there at the moment. Look below for a list of competitions/job opportunities and call outs currently on offer. For more information check out each of the different websites.

Good Luck



Call for Entries. Environmental Journalism

Australian Museum Eureka... >> read more

Thankyou to everyone who submitted for this years Festival, again we have been flooded with expressions of interest and as a whole are very excitied about some of the ideas that have been coming through. We will be contacting everyone who applied very shortly via email so stay tuned to your emails people and BE EXCITED........be VERY excited.
Over and Out.
 
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POOL is a new online initiative of the ABC and this year is a feature of the festival.  It’s a free online space for artists to showcase their work and network with others. If you're coming to the... >> read more

Though he may have founded the This is Not Art Festival, of which the NYWF is part, has been the artistic director of Melbourne's Next Wave art festival, written and produced for ABC radio and most recently has been published in the Griffith Review, Newcastle native Marcus Westbury isn't shy to point out that he got kicked out of his Communications degree...
Check out his blog as he... >> read more

Vibewire.net, a project of non-profit youth media and arts organisation Vibewire Inc designed to provide young Australians with a forum where they can comment on matters pertinent to their lives, is looking for writers for their nationwide Arts section.  If you're a culture vulture, street-art enthusiast, into performance art, design, sound-art, comic books,... >> read more