After the Emerging Writers’ Festival, I could do what I’ve done in the past and list my highlights, who spoke and what were the light bulb moments. But throughout the festival, I found points and questions particularly interesting that led me to jot down questions or talking points in my little red notebook. These are [...] Continue reading →

After 10 days of entertaining performance, thought-provoking panel sessions and inspiring workshops, it’s safe to say that I’ve had a pretty fulfilling festival experience with the Emerging Writers’ Festival and feel like it’s really helped in my development as a writer. As always, I find just the act of going to festivals or literary events [...] Continue reading →

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, tweeting, emerging writer-types of all ages. Pictured: Tiggy Johnson and I at the EWF artist par-tay. Before I go into the [...] Continue reading →

8.30am. It was absolutely freezing this morning, but I got out of bed. I got to the city. I got coffee. When I walked up to the door of the Town Hall, a fatherly looking man in an entirely-too-endearing beefeater-esque hat … Continue reading &#8… Continue reading →

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 of Fame Sessions (which received a great write-up hereby Thuy-Linh Nguyen), the Page Parlour, and last night’s Wordstock performance – [...] Continue reading →

Yesterday, I took part in a very different writers’ festival event as part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, a ‘TwitterFEST’ hosting a discussion about ‘the Australian novel’ on Twitter. It was hosted by Jason Ensor, the man behind the AustLiterature Twitter account and it moved at a rapid pace with tweeters firing off debate and [...] Continue reading →

As many of you may know the Emerging Writers’ Festival is going on right now and there’s so much great stuff happening. Last night I made it to the Wheeler Centre for the first of the 15 Minutes of Fame launches. It’s a fun little event that will launch or relaunch 16 books, journals and [...] Continue reading →

The yearly book total is about to spike superlatively – this week brings the Emerging Writers’ Festival 15 Minutes of Fame book launches. I’ll be interviewing the people responsible for 16 books at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, at 7pm Monday to Thursday this week. The books are: Featuring — Monday 24 May Miscellaneous Voices [...] Continue reading →

Yesterday’s Page Parlour for the Emerging Writers’ Festival went splendidly. I apologise I don’t have more photos to post than the one above, but the iphone does not like low-light settings. I can put the ‘flash’ on Hipmastatic, but it has little affect on the overall result (it’s more of a ‘glaze’ than a true [...] Continue reading →

I haven’t been as good at updating you all on my happenings within the Emerging Writers’ Festival as I would’ve liked, but this is my attempt to sum up a pretty good start to the festival this weekend. Little Girl With a Big Pen is doing much better at it than me currently. After the [...] Continue reading →