The Emerging Writers’ Festival Reader


 

We would be delighted if you could join us for the launch of The Reader, the Emerging Writers’ Festival first publication, to be launched by Richard Watts at Bertha Browns (562 Flinders st) Monday the 12th of October at 630pm.

A sneak peak of The Reader cover should be here

The Reader is a new collection  that combines highlights of the 2009 festival with general writing information and new creative works across various writing forms.

The Reader is about the craft, the approaches, the techniques and processes; the discipline(s), the forms, the experiments; the inner life, the social life, the lifestyle; the ups and downs, the tricks and the tribulations, the fun and the failure…

The Reader is Artworks, Illustrations, Flash Fiction, Fragments, Interviews, Short Stories, Sketches, Songs, Sonnets, Haiku, Poetry, Plays, Photos, Comics, Couplets, Verse, Recipes, Rants, and Memoirs.

The Reader is Steven Amsterdam on writers’ workshops, Clem Bastow on freelancing, Jen Breach on writing comics, Mel Campbell on pitching to editors, Kathy Charles on shameless self-promotion, Stephanie Convery on writing Black Saturday, Olivia Davis on fear and writing practices, Lisa Dempster on how much writers earn, Koraly Dimitriadis talks to Christos Tsoilkas, Caroline Hamilton compares writers’ festivals and music festivals, Stu Hatton on his mentorship with Dorothy Porter, Jane Hawtin discusses publishing academic research for a general audience, Andrew Hutchinson recalls the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Tiggy Johnson on parenthood and writing, Krissy Kneen on not writing about sex, Benjamin Law on failure, Angela Meyer reviews books for writers, Jennifer Mills on the politics of publishing and engaging with readers, Anthony Noack on good grammar, John Pace on re-drafting your screenplay, Ryan Paine on the role of the critic, Ben Pobjie on writing comedy, Robert Reid on the role of the contemporary playwright, Aden Rolfe on the emergentsia, Jenny Sinclair on the landscape of her book research, Chris Summers talks to Lally Katz about theatre writing, Mia Timpano on how to cultivate the ultimate author profile photo, Estelle Tang on Christopher Currie and blogging fiction, Simmone Michelle-Wells pens a letter to her younger self, Cameron White reviews alternatives to Microsoft Word.

And new creative works by Maxine Clarke, Chris Currie, Chris Downes, Claire Henderson, Kirk Marshall, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Alice Mrongovius, Meg Mundell, Warwick Sprawson and Cameron T

Monday the 12th of October 6:30 – 8:30

Bertha Brown 562 Flinders Street Melbourne www.berthabrown.com.au

The Reader to be launched by the Emerging Writers’ Festivals inaugural director Richard Watts

RSVP: info@emergingwritersfestival.org.au

The Reader will be available from www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au from the 12th of October and at all good book stores, and of course at the launch for the miserly sum of $20.

Maxine Beneba Clarke

Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian author and slam poet of Afro- Caribbean descent. Her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the 2015 ABIA Award for Best Literary Fiction and the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her memoir, The Hate Race, her poetry collection Carrying the World, and her first children’s book, The Patchwork Bike, will be published by Hachette in late 2016.

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  1. I don’t why I am bothering seeing as how all I get back are insults but advertisements for books on the internet like this do not work unless they contain a link to where the book can be purchased online.

    When are you going to fess up to reading my work, Phillip Adams, pantheism in the Weekend Australian?

  2. Where are the ‘questions’ about copyright, Jeff? Where are all the good ideas now I have deleted the twitter? Suddenly Aus Lit has gone back to being the morgue it was before one artist arrived and allowed to you to feed of him like a pack of crows. And you wonder why it was so moribund in the first place.

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