Writers – want to be a panelist or performer at the Emerging Writers’ Festival 2013?
The Emerging Writers’ Festival is the Festival for Writers. We pride ourselves on being inclusive to everyone in the writing community, of all ages and at all stages of their career. In this spirit, each year we run an open panelist callout as an opportunity for writers to put up their hands and let us know they’d like to be involved in the festival.
Our main requirement for writers taking part in the festival is this: engagement. We want writers who are opinionated and informed about their creative practice and the writing culture at large, and who are also prepared to deliver in front of a large (but warm and friendly) audience. We cannot always find room for everyone within our program and we cannot provide individual feedback on applications, but we can say that this a genuine opportunity to shape the conversation at the Emerging Writers’ Festival in 2013.
If you would like to be a considered as a festival guest at the Emerging Writers’ Festival in 2013, simply email us at writers @ emergingwritersfestival.org.au. The Emerging Writers’ Festival runs a combination of professional development and performance based events, so please let us know if you consider yourself someone more suited to a panel or to performing your work.
Most importantly, give us a brief and concise indication of the following:
1. What you write (a short bio of max 50 words).
2. What you want to hear at #ewf13
Applications are open now and close February 17 2013. We look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you at the Emerging Writers’ Festival in 2013!
6 Responses
1. My name is Michelle Worthington and I am a published Australian author. The stories I write are like the stories I used to read when I was little and they have what may now be seen as an old fashioned feel, but they have a timeless message. My goal is to be known for uniquely Australian, classically elegant and compassionate stories for young children.
2. I would like to hear about the changing face of children’s literature, if picture books are still a viable market, if YA fiction should have a rating like movies and how we,as authors, can foster a mutually beneficial relationship with independent book stores.
1. My name is Claire Duffy and I write literary fiction, so far short stories and a stab at prose poetry. My stories have been published in AntThesis, Gold Dust, Hecate and more. I am a PhD candidate at Deakin and my interest is in humour in feminist fiction.
2. I would like to hear about the morphing ideas around 21st century feminism, and how literature can be a site for cultural exchange. Can literature really change people’es ideas?
email sent! xoxo
email sent.
I can go forth
into a jungle
with some hope.
xo
Definitely interested!
1. Mary-Lou Stephens studied acting and played in bands before she got a proper job –in radio. Her memoir Sex, Drugs & Meditation is being published by Pan Macmillan in April 2013. She writes whenever she’s not working for the ABC or heading off to a meditation retreat.
2. I would like to hear about ways to engage and entertain our readers. How to captivate our audience. Encouraging people to read and to buy our books by delivering on a promise- that the book they’ve spent their money on will transport and amaze them, that a book will give them something they can not find anywhere else.