A three-day program of events celebrating the written word.
Thursday 31 October to Saturday 2 November 2013
The Emerging Writers’ Festival will be in Tasmania for three days of discussions, performances, workshops and networking opportunities.
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This unique roadshow opens on Thursday with a Digital Writers Conference, an event that aims to bring writers from around the country together to discuss and share their work with audiences online.
At 1pm there will be a special keynote and conversation with novelist Jennifer Mills and Island editor Matt Lamb looking to Twitter and beyond to keep in the loop.
Then we’ll spend Halloween night celebrating the horror genre. Graphic Content: An Evening of Visual Storytelling bringing together five visual storytellers to present their work on screen, accompanied by narration and a ghoulish DJ set.
Then on Friday at 5.30pm at The Hobart Bookshop, come and meet some of the editors and people behind some of Australia’s leading literary magazines, not to mention the EWF team!
That night Mixtape Memoirs, one of the EWF’s most popular night-time events with The Lifted Brow, will take place in one of Hobart’s most lively nightspots, The Grand Poobah.
On the final day, Saturday, EWF will present a special young writers program, a free event bringing together two of the most exciting emerging writers’ collectives in the country – the Stilts Collective (Melbourne) and Twitch (Tasmania). Twitch meets Stilts will be followed by drinks to say goodbye and thanks for all the fish!
The PROGRAM
Digital Writers Conference
12:30 PM, Thursday 31 October 2013
$45/conc$40
Eros & Thanatos Rooms, MONA
Panellists throughout the day will include Bethanie Blanchard (Crikey, The Guardian), Matthew Lamb (Island magazine), Benjamin Laird (web producer atOverland), Jennifer Mills (novelist), Connor Tomas O’Brien (Tomely.com), Zora Sanders (Meanjin), Jacinda Woodhead (Overland) and more.
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Graphic Content
6:00 PM, Thursday 31 October 2013
$15/conc$10
Eros & Thanatos Rooms, MONA
The night features Josh Santospirito, Briony Kidd, Leigh Rigozzi, Rachel Tribout, Chad Parkhill, Gary Chaloner, Bronte Coates, Chris Somerville and our international guest Andrea Hoff (Canada).
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Meet the Magazines
5:30 PM, Friday 1 November 2013
FREE
The Hobart Book Shop
Enjoy a drink at the Hobart Bookshop and meet the team behind the Emerging Writers’ Festival and some of the best lit mags in Australia. Acclaimed author Danielle Wood will give a short talk about the importance of literary journal culture in Australia, followed by a fun introduction to the magazines themselves!
Mixtape Memoirs
7:30 PM, Friday 1 November 2013
FREE
The Grand Poobah
The popular literary magazine will present this free event featuring five of Australia’s best emerging writers, who will share the music that has inspired and influenced them.
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Twitch Meets Stilts
From 11:00 AM, Saturday 2 November 2013
FREE
The Grand Poobah
Two rooms at the Poobah stuffed to the brim with amazing opportunites, energy, writing, and YOU
11am. Twitch + Stilts Postcard Project
Send a note to an anonymous receiver from Stilts postcard stations around the festival venue. Take a postcard from the pile, write your note, and we’ll send these out to the expectant recipients. Jot down anything you like, write a short poem, tell them what you ate for breakfast, or what the weather’s doing in Hobart.
MENTOR ROOM - Short stories: come talk to Jennifer Mills and Chris Somerville
1pm. Stilts Workshop
Write a letter to someone about an artefact from your childhood. Use this as the chance to come clean to your Mum about the creepy costume she made you for book-parade, or explain to your desk buddy from primary school about the imaginary person you spoke to throughout Grade 2. Pieces from the workshop can be shared later in our open-mic performance event.
MENTOR ROOM - Graphic novels: Andrea Hoff
2pm. Twitch Pitch
Kat Muscat (Voiceworks), Brigid Mullane (Kill Your Darlings) and Steph Van Schilt (The Lifted Brow) will be on hand to hear pitches of your work and to suggest ways of approaching editors and sending your work in.
MENTOR ROOM - Poetry for performance: Kelly Lee Hickey
4pm. Childhood Artefacts Performance
Hear from a stellar line-up of readers as they tell us about mementos from their childhood. There’ll be an open-mic following for any other sharers (aka YOU).
5pm. Drinks to farewell the goodtimes.