National Young Writer's Festival, Newcastle, October 1-5 [15.09.2009]

The National Young Writers' Festival (NYWF) occurs annually in the city of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, over the New South Wales' Labour Day Holiday Weekend in late September/early October. It is the country's largest gathering of young and innovative writers working in both new and traditional forms including zines, comics, blogging, screenwriting, poetry, spoken word, hip hop music, journalism, autobiography, comedy, songwriting and prose.

NYWF presents 'writing' in its broadest sense through panels, discussions, workshops, launches, performances and readings. NYWF gives young writers a place to present their work and share ideas, to learn about the industry in which they write and to meet with like-minded people in a friendly festival atmosphere.

Emily is involved in:

Whitefellas Telling Black Stories When: Saturday 11:00:00 - 12:30:00 Responsible: Daniel Evans | Where: City Hall: Waratah Room | Event type: Panel | Politics of race are tackled head-on in this take-no-prisoners panel that unpacks what it means to write black stories as a non-Indigenous person. Who makes the rules? Where is the line? Or does it really matter whether you're black or white?

A Distro How-To When: Saturday 14:30:00 - 16:00:00 Responsible: Sarah Howell | Where: Totoro's Tea House | Event type: Roundtable | A roundtable for all of us who make book-shaped objects to discuss the best way to get them into the hands of people; even new, exciting ones we haven’t met! Share your experiences or ask questions of representatives from Australian small press publishers, online distributors, zine shops.

A Curatorial How-To Sunday 16:30:00 - 17:30:00 Responsible: Ronnie Scott | Where: Totoro's Tea House | Event type: Roundtable Wranglers, hoarders, dropouts, show-offs, very talented circles of friends! Wanna figure out how to get all gallery on that shit? CURATORIAL is part of our new series of informal, abnormal, but very, very practical roundtable how-tos.