By the way, did we mention we're turning ten? And that we're in full-blown celebratory mode as only a bunch of overexcited creative anarconauts and ratbag thinkers can be? A decade on, the four-dole-cheques-a-damn-good-idea approach that began the NYWF has bloomed into Australia's most fertile, over-stimulating and best-loved writers' festival. Where else will you find bogan stubby-holder poetry, radical new forms of decentred publishing, hyper-nerdy discussion of plot & character development, passionate debates the cultural and political futures of the country, mind-expanding workshops and some of the best parties you've stumbled across in a long while?
So join us to celebrate the past with favourite past guests, a kick-arse NYWF anthology and hot discussion panels on a decade of alternative Australian culture. And step up to initiate the new - an experimental theatre and performance mini-fest, some stupendously, gloriously unlikely collaborations, and a host of new writers and performers for your pleasure.
It's the five days of the year where you get to share your ideas, passions and saliva with like-minded crew from all over Australia. As well as focusing on craft and literary skill, we place an equally strong emphasis on the ideas, politics and cultural practices which surround writing. We're a festival of ideas as much as a festival of writers. For that reason, we also have a broad definition of what constitutes writing - in addition to novels, poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, jounalism, script-writing etc, we are fascinated by spoken word, comics, experimental theatre, song-writing, zines, blogging, new-media collaboration and more.
Special guests this year include Frank Moorhouse, Tara June Winch, Lally Katz, Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, Italy) and Simon Worthington (Mute, London).
As always, the NYWF is about collaboration and participation, so bring your words, your ideas and your excitement and prepare for a five-day explosion of the finest creative culture this country has to offer.
The National Young Writers' Festival would like to thank its partners and supporters - This Is Not Art, The Octapod, the Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board and Story of the Future initiatives, Arts NSW, Arts WA, CAL, the Brisbane City Council and the Myer Foundation.
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