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YYWMP Meet and Greet
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
PROGRAM BY DAY
PROGRAM BY EVENT TYPE
- Artist Presentation (1)
- Exhibition (1)
- Panel (23)
- Performance (3)
- Reading (4)
- Roundtable (7)
- Roving (1)
- Screening (1)
- Special Event (19)
- Workshop (18)
PROGRAM BY CATEGORY
- Art writing (5)
- Comics / Illustration / Graphic Novels (12)
- Fun! (21)
- Grants and Funding (5)
- Ideas and issues (18)
- Journalism / Media (15)
- Life writing / auto / biography (14)
- Magazines & Journals (20)
- New media (4)
- Non-fiction (16)
- Novels (14)
- Performance art (12)
- Playwriting / Theatre (9)
- Poetry (17)
- Project management, organising, festivals (6)
- Screenplays / scripts for TV (5)
- Short Fiction (10)
- Small press & Independent Publishing (17)
- Spoken word (10)
- Web publishing (6)
- Zines (6)
NYWF Festival Program
Welcome to the National Young Writers' Festival Program, a collaborative effort by some of the most fertile and inventive brains in the country. All events are free and no registration is required. All you have to do is get yourself to Newcastle, and the rest is history!
Events by day: Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday |
Panels
- Adaptation: A better habitat
1. The process whereby an organism becomes better-suited to its habitat. 2. The transfer of a written work to a feature film. Pretty... - Are Poets Nice?
Was Shakespeare really in love, or was Gwyneth Paltrow just... hot? When that poet spilled beer on you at her reading, was it really all just part... - Are you serial?
From Twilight to True Blood, Lost to Six Feet Under – what is it about the serialised narrative that makes us hell-bent on the next fix?... - Bookfail
We've all seen it. The grossest book in the world. How did the people with training and dollars think you were going to buy... - Boys on boys on girls on girls on dykes on homos
Girls who like boys who like boys who like girls. Does anyone care anymore? This panel pits die-hard queer arts gurus against a gang of homophobic... - Crimes Against the Industry
We all love writing, right? So why do we treat it so bad? If you've ever abused an intern, stolen stationery, or passed your frenemy up for... - Funny Business
People have told you time and again you are the funniest fucker they know.... - Girls Gone Wild
Artists and academics seek to understand the... - Give Me Cleo Over Kerouac
Jonathan Safran Whoer? Nabokov my where, now? Not everyone wants to be an indie superstar. Clean up your wank and ride the mainstream wave to this... - How to Write a Comic (and get an artist to actually draw it)
SO, you want to make a comic but you don’t know how to draw? Here we discuss the subtle art of convincing someone to draw your story. How to... - Journalistic Ethics
Journalism and ethics. Can the two ever co-exist when a commercial or institutional interest is involved? This mega-panel chaired by the president... - Life In A Lonely Planet
Dim the lights and crack out the projector, these globe-trotting travel writers have seen the highs and lows of what writing on the road has to... - Moving Units
Pushers of good writing everywhere! Forget SHOULD we sell - ask only HOW. Take some marketing tips and tales from people who have the smarts... - So I married a struggling artist
Going out with another creative person would be totally ideal, right? They forgive you when you wake them up at 4.30am after working late on yet... - Stop! That's Textual Harrassment!
Editors, Publishers, Curators, and Cool-Kids-In-The-Know talk out their classic writing faux pas. Find out how editors chop, why your work was... - Sweet Staple High: The New Class
Does Meanjin misunderstand you? Overland drive right by? Voiceworks shove its fingers down your throat and tinker? Wet Ink wait until your work is... - Uni Schmuni
Where are my readers and where is my money? And why is my writing course so full of hacks? A two-pronged inquiry into what writing courses are... - Well It's Technically Not About You
Writers discuss their thinly-veiled works which were actually based on real people. We explore what happened when the subject discovered... - When Institutions Meet Zines
Zine-making's creative and personal rewards mean the artform is... - When you were young
Do you ever love as violently as when you're 17? Do you still relish the books of your youth, or are they hidden shamefully in the back of the... - Whitefellas Telling Black Stories
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.... - Writing The BIG One
So you've dabbled in mini-masterpieces and now everyone’s wanting you to beef up, go BIG. How do you begin piecing together research? How... - You Are So Lacist
We've seen a white man play a Chinese dude who likes to dress up Aboriginal. We've said "chink" on television, and permanently changed...
Workshops
- * the space project - your participation is called
(The Sat arvo session) this is about diving into the space that exists around and inside letters. the typographical... - * the space project - your participation is called
(The morning sessions) this is about diving into the space that exists around and inside letters. the typographical void that type is set into and... - Artistic Resilience Intensive
Is your internal keyboard missing a few keys? Ctrl+alt+del and reboot with the highly-praised psychotherapist/artist Margi Brown Ash. In this... - Collation Station
The blinds may be down, but you need only knock to be ushered into Staple... - Creating a Comic Likeness
Develop your own comic likeness, then use it in a comic strip. Very helpful, unless you already look exactly like Garfield or something! Chris... - Drawing Jam
Disorientated? Somehow jetlagged? Overstimulated and light-headed? Grab a... - Mouth Camp
Think other people read like crap? Well, wait until they get a load of you. Bring some work down to our intensive... - Nanoworkshops: Express Editing
Come and fight for your comma! In this workshop, learn the basics of your own language, plus proofreaders' marks and how they operate. Help the... - Nanoworkshops: Non-Fiction
How do I write a review that people will actually want to read? What makes a good interview? How do I present the facts without my audience... - Nanoworkshops: Writing Poetry
Learn the nuts and bolts of writing poetry - including line, rhythm, sound, image and form. Then learn how to use these elements in your new or... - Nanoworkshops: Writing the Short Story
Let Nanoworks teach you narrative device, endings, even inspiration: all the finest basics. Offers a range of writing exercises to aid you in... - Printing How-To
In an age of cheap, perfect digital reproduction, when should you use a commercial press? Explaining colour and quality in the worlds of... - Speed-writing
Pretty much what it sounds like! You write a story in five minutes. Then write a story in four. Then so on and down into the decimals. Speed meets... - Sticker Workshop
Sharp-witted commentary with nothing but a stack of magazines, scissors, binder medium and stickers! DAg ARt are ready to divulge the secrets of... - The Knitting Journal
Come and read The Knitting Journal, and take the opportunity to join... - THE THIS is NOT POETRY ORCHESTRA
Suzanne Grae and the Katies show you how to make music without the instruments. Bring poetry to recycle into lyrics, and your lagerphone,... - Zine Counsel
48 hours to the Sunday... - Zine Layout How-To
Consulted Sticky's zine...
Performances
- Valcapella and Dwinn
Do you think performance poetry is lazy and lame? Well, sometimes it is! But not tonight. Guzzle a cushion. Pull up a drink. Let Tom Guerney's... - Zombie Rights March
Are you feeling unappreciated? Unloved? Unequal? UNDEAD? Then join us on our 3rd annual...
Readings
- Bless Me Reader, For I Have Sinned
Keep your flaws and fears shrink-wrapped in a room behind a double-bolted iron door? Writers of confessional work don't. They write them down,... - Dear Adam Sandler, Where'd The Funny Go?
Writing letters is a great way to stalk celebrities,... - The Ernest Hemingway Appreciation Society Inaugural Soiree
A toast to the grandmaster of the typewriter (and the bottle)! In our final theme-based reading, you're invited to sip, swill and serve up a tale... - Un-Erotic Erotica, Put Your Hands All Over My XXX
Loosen your collar and slip into something...
Special Events
- Creative Health Check: Bethany Jones
Feeling creatively blue, mentally remaindered, or just a bit shithouse? Book in to get a once over with one of our very hot practitioners. Their... - Creative Health Check: Kelly Chandler
Feeling creatively blue, mentally remaindered, or just a bit shithouse? ! Book in to get a once over with one of our very hot practitioners. Their... - Creative Health Check: Margo Lanagan
Feeling creatively blue, mentally remaindered, or just a bit shithouse? ! Book in to get a once over with one of our very hot practitioners. Their... - Creative Health Check: Tony Woodward
Feeling creatively blue, mentally remaindered, or just a bit shithouse? Book in to get a once over with one of our very hot practitioners. Their... - Late Night Mystery Meat
It begins at midnight(....well 11:30pm....so we lied) Where is it? What will you see? Leave your mobile number at the TINA info booth before 12... - Launch Pad: How To Make Trouble And Influence People
Climb aboard. Strap yourself in. We’re hitting the button marked TAKEOFF and launching a... - Launch Pad: Meta Detective & Channel Z
Climb aboard. Strap yourself in. We’re hitting the button marked TAKEOFF... - Launch Pad: Neon Pilgrim & Apply Within: Stories Of Career Sabotage
Climb aboard. Strap yourself in. We’re hitting the button marked TAKEOFF... - Monday Come Down
By Monday, believe us, your brain is jello. It's time to take a load off in your local bowls club! Comfy shoes, laid-back readings, acoustic... - NYWF Welcome Jamboree!
NYWF artists lock and load: meet the team, pick up some treats and ching-ching with us as we officially throw open the doors of Staple Manor 2009... - Spelling Bee
Forget SpellCheck. Put your money where your keyboard is. We test just who has the smarts to hold their own in an arena of nouns, verbs,... - Step Up To The Pitch
Have an idea that’s sizzling through your back pocket? Got a manuscript that packs-a-punch? Are you the Next Big Thing? No,... - Sunday Fair
Back by popular demand, and this time in our hot new venue! Includes Zine & Independent Publishers Fair, Artist Markets,... - The All-Star Literary Smackdown
Get ready to rumble. Fiction and Non-Fiction go head-to-head in this all-out literary smackdown where only one genre can emerge triumphant! Watch... - The BURNing Brow Luau
The perfect push into a wild Nova night, The BURNing Brow is a wicked, tropical party from Brisbane's BURN collective and ex-Brisbanites The... - The Great Gatsby Ball
“People were not invited to Gatsby's house - they went there.” NYWF invites you to rogue your knees and roll your stockings down for a... - The Wild Brunch
Kick back with a crumpet as he latest spoken-word artists deliver a scrumptious selection of spoken spreads to cater to any taste. Got a little... - Wriron chef
Because Newcastle University has a rotating stage, and because that rotating stage demanded it, WRIRON CHEF pits food writer against food writer... - YYWMP Meet and Greet
A time for all of you Younger Young Writers to meet you mentors. Meet, greet and begin the hottest festival journey of your life! Run back to back...
Roundtables
- Almost Famous How-To
Sidestep the agent, bypass the manager, negotiate the... - Curatorial How-To
Wranglers, hoarders, dropouts, show-offs, very talented circles of friends! Wanna figure out how to get all gallery on that shit? CURATORIAL is... - Distro How-To
A roundtable for all of us who make book-shaped objects to discuss the... - EXIT Interview
Pick over the bones, give us a piece of your mind, tell us how it should be done. And while you're at it, farewell outgoing festival co-directors... - Publishing How-To
Work it. Print it. Glue it. Proof it. Send it. Get it. InDesign it. Get comfy and bring some Qs for this catch-all publishing blowout. PUBLISHING... - Space Invaders: DIY and Artist-Run Festivals and Spaces
No budget is the way of the future. DIY spaces bring people together, creating an explosion of ideas and action: real social networking, people.... - Student Media Seance
The nails are well and truly in this coffin. Hell, the worms...
Exhibitions
- Judge a Zine by Its Cover
They say don't judge a zine by its cover, but that's exactly what we do. An exhibition in the warm confines of Staple Manor celebrating...
Artist Presentations
- Making Better Comics
Chris Downes, Rebecca Clements, and Pat Grant show how making crappy comics can be the first step on the path to making brilliant comics. They'll...
Screenings
- Screen Scream
Zombies are awesome. Movies are awesome. How amazing would...
Rovings
- Pleasure Hunt
Enhance your sunny Sunday zine fair-funday with a literary TREASURE HUNT through Newcastle, courtesy of curatorial duo Nimble Fox Trappings. Get a...