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- Launch of The Reader
Bertha Browns
12 October at 18:30 - Emerging Writers' Festival
Various
22 May at 19:30 - Page Parlour
The Atrium, Federation Square
31 May at 12:00 - Melbourne Town Hall program
Melbourne Town Hall
30 May at 09:00 - The Early Stages - She's Not P...
Black Box, The Arts Centre
28 May at 18:00 - 15 Minutes of Fame - THURSDAY ...
City Library
28 May at 17:30 - The Early Stages - The Endarke...
The Black Box, The Arts Centre
27 May at 18:00 - 15 Minutes of Fame - WEDNESDAY...
City Library
27 May at 17:30 - The Early Stages - SICK
The Black Box, The Arts Centre
26 May at 18:00 - 15 Minutes of Fame - TUESDAY 2...
City Library
26 May at 17:30
Notes
Emerging Writers' Festival
The Reader is a new collection published by the Emerging Writers’ Festival that combines highlights of its 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 exp...eriments; 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.Read more
The Reader is about the craft, the approaches, the techniques and processes; the discipline(s), the forms, the exp...eriments; 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.Read more
The Emerging Writers' Festivals first publication
Time:Monday, 12 October 2009 18:30
Location:Bertha Browns
Emerging Writers' Festival is having a little rest after a truly awesome ten days
Emerging Writers' Festival enjoyed the first in the pub, looking forward to the next
Emerging Writers' Festival looking forward to the first 15 minutes of fame
Emerging Writers' Festival is going to the library to take out a 'book' or two
Emerging Writers' Festival is launching tomorrow night at the First Word event at BMW Edge...be there or be square.
Emerging Writers' Festival
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Emerging Writers' Festival
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Emerging Writers' Festival
The Early Stages is a series of three evenings featuring some of Melbourne’s exciting emerging playwrights. They will present their new works through performed readings.
The second in the series is The Endarkenment, by Fregmonto Stokes:
The recession’s turned into a depression, and the electricity companies have called ...it quits. In the candlelit aftermath two police officers try to maintain order, setting up a makeshift prison squat and arresting some anarchist guerrilla gardeners for good measure.
Determined to reform their inmates the officers agree to indulge in some operatic therapy, allowing the young hooligans to work through the seeds of their deviant behaviour, from dodgy hospitality jobs to employment as erotic computer gamers conducting other people's extramarital affairs. In the ensuing all-singing all-dancing insurrection, both sides know that the government's gone for good and whoever fills the vacuum must find a way to take power without electricity.
The Early Stages are FREE events, and the series is presented in partnership with Full Tilt.
To see the full 2009 Emerging Writers' Festival program, see www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au
Read more
The second in the series is The Endarkenment, by Fregmonto Stokes:
The recession’s turned into a depression, and the electricity companies have called ...it quits. In the candlelit aftermath two police officers try to maintain order, setting up a makeshift prison squat and arresting some anarchist guerrilla gardeners for good measure.
Determined to reform their inmates the officers agree to indulge in some operatic therapy, allowing the young hooligans to work through the seeds of their deviant behaviour, from dodgy hospitality jobs to employment as erotic computer gamers conducting other people's extramarital affairs. In the ensuing all-singing all-dancing insurrection, both sides know that the government's gone for good and whoever fills the vacuum must find a way to take power without electricity.
The Early Stages are FREE events, and the series is presented in partnership with Full Tilt.
To see the full 2009 Emerging Writers' Festival program, see www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au
Read more
A presentation of a new work by Fregmonto Stokes
Time:Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:00
Location:The Black Box, The Arts Centre
Emerging Writers' Festival
Hate asking questions about writing in front of other writers in case you'll look like a total fool?
Panel sessions and workshops full of strangers fill you with dread?
Don't have a lot of time to spare for that sort of thing anyway?
The Emerging Writers' Festival has you covered.
In 2009 the EWF will be hosting its firs...t Living Library event. 8 'Books' (experts from around the writing traps including a literary agent, dramaturge, picture book author, freelance editor & comic book writer etc.) Will be available for 'Borrowing' (i.e. a 15 minute, one-on-one mentorship session where you can chat to them about your deepest secrets to your heart's content).
To join in on Saturday 23rd May at the State Library send in your contact details and the name of the person you would like to speak to Susan at library@emergingwritersfestival.org.au . We'll get back to you with the time you're meeting with your Book. Tickets are $5 a session and all the Books have time to spare but they won't for long with places filling super quick. Just so you know, this session is intended to be an open discussion with your Book, please keep in mind that you can't bring any printed material in for them to review.
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Elise Hurst (Picture Book Author and Illustrator)
Elise Hurst has been working as a full-time illustrator and writer of children's book for 15 years. She has illustrated over fifty titles and written five, the latest of which, The Night Garden (ABC 2007), was shortlisted for the 2008 CBCA Book of the Year award (Early Childhood). She works from her home-studio in Carlton.
Lili Wilkinson (Young Adult and Blog)
Lili Wilkinson is a reader and writer of young adult literature. She manages insideadog.com.au, the State Library of Victoria's website for teenagers about books and reading. Lili is the author of Joan of Arc: The Story of Jehanne Darc, Scatterheart and The (Not Quite) Perfect Boyfriend. Her next book, Pink, will be published by Allen & Unwin in August 2009.
Nadine Davidoff (Freelance Editor)
Nadine Davidoff is a freelance book editor with over ten years’ trade publishing experience. She has worked as a senior editor at Random House Australia and a commissioning editor at Black Inc.
Peter Matheson (Dramaturge)
Peter Matheson is a freelance dramaturge. He learnt part of his craft writing 14 plays (all produced) and working backstage, front of house, and on stage. He spent 13 years at the Melbourne Theatre Company reading thousands of scripts and finding out how other writers ticked. He now works with hundreds of writers in all parts of Australia expanding his dramaturgical base and listening to their scripts creak into life.
Shane McCarthy (Comic Writer)
Shane McCarthy presently resides in Perth, Western Australia, officially one of the top ten most furtherest away from everywhere places on the planet, and is employed as a freelance writer, working for the likes of IDW, DC and Marvel Comics. Shane's work is published internationally and has covered such well known properties as BATMAN, STAR WARS and DAREDEVIL. He's currently writing the Transformers for IDW
Donica Bettannin (Literary Agent)
Donica Bettanin has worked in the book publishing industry for ten years. She began her career with The Text Publishing Company and for the last six years has worked at Jenny Darling & Associates.
Stephanie Convery (Short Story Writing)
Stephanie Honor Convery is a rebellious redheaded twenty-something writing her first novel via PhD at Monash University and digging into the murky side of Australian history and politics. She’s had a slew of haphazard writing, editing, proofreading, mediating, reviewing, proofing and publishing gigs—some worthy, many cringeworthy.At the moment she works behind-the-scenes in television and disappears up to the tropics when the bad journalism gets too much.
Elin-Maria Evangelista (Novelist and Writing Structure)
Elin-Maria Evangelista is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Monash University. She taught fiction writing for second and third year students at Monash University in 2008 and was awarded a School Commendation for Excellence in Sessional Teaching for this work. A chapter from her currently unpublished first novel The Stone Baby won second prize in the short story competition My Brother Jack Literary Festival in Melbourne 2008.
The Living Library is fully supported by the Emerging Writers’ Festival Education partner, Monash University Faculty of Arts.
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Panel sessions and workshops full of strangers fill you with dread?
Don't have a lot of time to spare for that sort of thing anyway?
The Emerging Writers' Festival has you covered.
In 2009 the EWF will be hosting its firs...t Living Library event. 8 'Books' (experts from around the writing traps including a literary agent, dramaturge, picture book author, freelance editor & comic book writer etc.) Will be available for 'Borrowing' (i.e. a 15 minute, one-on-one mentorship session where you can chat to them about your deepest secrets to your heart's content).
To join in on Saturday 23rd May at the State Library send in your contact details and the name of the person you would like to speak to Susan at library@emergingwritersfestival.org.au . We'll get back to you with the time you're meeting with your Book. Tickets are $5 a session and all the Books have time to spare but they won't for long with places filling super quick. Just so you know, this session is intended to be an open discussion with your Book, please keep in mind that you can't bring any printed material in for them to review.
----------------------------------------
Elise Hurst (Picture Book Author and Illustrator)
Elise Hurst has been working as a full-time illustrator and writer of children's book for 15 years. She has illustrated over fifty titles and written five, the latest of which, The Night Garden (ABC 2007), was shortlisted for the 2008 CBCA Book of the Year award (Early Childhood). She works from her home-studio in Carlton.
Lili Wilkinson (Young Adult and Blog)
Lili Wilkinson is a reader and writer of young adult literature. She manages insideadog.com.au, the State Library of Victoria's website for teenagers about books and reading. Lili is the author of Joan of Arc: The Story of Jehanne Darc, Scatterheart and The (Not Quite) Perfect Boyfriend. Her next book, Pink, will be published by Allen & Unwin in August 2009.
Nadine Davidoff (Freelance Editor)
Nadine Davidoff is a freelance book editor with over ten years’ trade publishing experience. She has worked as a senior editor at Random House Australia and a commissioning editor at Black Inc.
Peter Matheson (Dramaturge)
Peter Matheson is a freelance dramaturge. He learnt part of his craft writing 14 plays (all produced) and working backstage, front of house, and on stage. He spent 13 years at the Melbourne Theatre Company reading thousands of scripts and finding out how other writers ticked. He now works with hundreds of writers in all parts of Australia expanding his dramaturgical base and listening to their scripts creak into life.
Shane McCarthy (Comic Writer)
Shane McCarthy presently resides in Perth, Western Australia, officially one of the top ten most furtherest away from everywhere places on the planet, and is employed as a freelance writer, working for the likes of IDW, DC and Marvel Comics. Shane's work is published internationally and has covered such well known properties as BATMAN, STAR WARS and DAREDEVIL. He's currently writing the Transformers for IDW
Donica Bettannin (Literary Agent)
Donica Bettanin has worked in the book publishing industry for ten years. She began her career with The Text Publishing Company and for the last six years has worked at Jenny Darling & Associates.
Stephanie Convery (Short Story Writing)
Stephanie Honor Convery is a rebellious redheaded twenty-something writing her first novel via PhD at Monash University and digging into the murky side of Australian history and politics. She’s had a slew of haphazard writing, editing, proofreading, mediating, reviewing, proofing and publishing gigs—some worthy, many cringeworthy.At the moment she works behind-the-scenes in television and disappears up to the tropics when the bad journalism gets too much.
Elin-Maria Evangelista (Novelist and Writing Structure)
Elin-Maria Evangelista is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Monash University. She taught fiction writing for second and third year students at Monash University in 2008 and was awarded a School Commendation for Excellence in Sessional Teaching for this work. A chapter from her currently unpublished first novel The Stone Baby won second prize in the short story competition My Brother Jack Literary Festival in Melbourne 2008.
The Living Library is fully supported by the Emerging Writers’ Festival Education partner, Monash University Faculty of Arts.
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"Speed dating meets the Frankfurt Book Fair..."
Time:Saturday, 23 May 2009 10:00
Location:Experimedia Room, State Library of Victoria
Emerging Writers' Festival
Give six emerging playwrights two days to write a new play each, team them up with six established directors and a team of actors and what do you have? The giddy rush of theatre-making madness that is the 48 Hour Play Generator!
Innovation converges with hastened inspiration in a one-off event that pushes its creators t...o their limits. This is seat of your pants theatre as writers create, actors perform and the audience hangs on the debut of these new exciting short plays inspired, created and produced in the space of the weekend.
Debuts of 48 Hour Plays in previous festivals have since developed into full-length works, so this is your chance to see the next big thing now.
Featuring Amelia Evans, Declan Greene, Julian Hobba, Natasha Jacobs, Glyn Roberts and Chris Summers generating plays.
Read more
Innovation converges with hastened inspiration in a one-off event that pushes its creators t...o their limits. This is seat of your pants theatre as writers create, actors perform and the audience hangs on the debut of these new exciting short plays inspired, created and produced in the space of the weekend.
Debuts of 48 Hour Plays in previous festivals have since developed into full-length works, so this is your chance to see the next big thing now.
Featuring Amelia Evans, Declan Greene, Julian Hobba, Natasha Jacobs, Glyn Roberts and Chris Summers generating plays.
Read more
“The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost” Arthur Miller
Time:Sunday, 24 May 2009 19:00
Location:BMW Edge Theatre
Emerging Writers' Festival
The Early Stages is a series of three evenings featuring some of Melbourne’s exciting emerging playwrights. They will present their new works through performed readings.
The third in the series is She’s Not Performing, written by Alison Mann
Margarite by chance sees a girl at a strip club that uncannily resembles herself.... She becomes fascinated by the girl and continues to attend the strip club by herself. Margarite had a daughter adopted out when she was a teenager. Is it possible the girl at the club could be her? Or is Margarite looking out from within her own fantasies?
The Early Stages are FREE events, and the series is presented in partnership with Full Tilt.
To see the full 2009 Emerging Writers' Festival program, go to www.emergingwritersfestival.org.auRead more
The Early Stages is a series of three evenings featuring some of Melbourne’s exciting emerging playwrights. They will present their new works through performed readings.
The third in the series is She’s Not Performing, written by Alison Mann
Margarite by chance sees a girl at a strip club that uncannily resembles herself.... She becomes fascinated by the girl and continues to attend the strip club by herself. Margarite had a daughter adopted out when she was a teenager. Is it possible the girl at the club could be her? Or is Margarite looking out from within her own fantasies?
The Early Stages are FREE events, and the series is presented in partnership with Full Tilt.
To see the full 2009 Emerging Writers' Festival program, go to www.emergingwritersfestival.org.auRead more
A presentation of a new work by Alison Mann
Time:Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:00
Location:Black Box, The Arts Centre
