Editors - can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. In this ninety minute truce, editors put down their red pens and writers shelve their laptops to discuss professional co-dependence. Includes tips for writers on dealing with hyper-caffeinated deadline junkies, and for editors, massaging awful prose into publishable work without damaging tender egos.

Had enough of discussing/comparing/analysing/consuming writing? Shed that critic for a day to let your inner wordsmith roam wild with this spontaneous free-writing workshop. Using a series of prompted fast-flow, process-writing activities you'll soon be rambling like you've never rambled before!

Calling all writers, musos, stand-up comics and bag pipe kings. Got something new and hot to share with the rest of the world? The Matinee Open Mic sessions are your chance to show us what you're made of. Be bold. Be daring. Grab that mic and do what you will.

Calling all writers, musos, stand-up comics and bag pipe kings. Got something new and hot to share with the rest of the world? The Matinee Open Mic sessions are your chance to show us what you're made of. Be bold. Be daring. Grab that mic and do what you will.

Calling all writers, musos, stand-up comics and bag pipe kings. Got something new and hot to share with the rest of the world? The Matinee Open Mic sessions are your chance to show us what you're made of. Be bold. Be daring. Grab that mic and do what you will.

Calling all writers, musos, stand-up comics and bag pipe kings. Got something new and hot to share with the rest of the world? The Matinee Open Mic sessions are your chance to show us what you're made of. Be bold. Be daring. Grab that mic and do what you will.

See yourself in print! Join Voiceworks, Vibewire, Farrago and Youth Central to create an entire print & online magazine at the festival. It's collaboration in the extreme with just 5 days to write, edit, illustrate, layout, publish and distribute. This intro session outlines the process and will have you out there generating content in no time.

This workshop is an introduction to writing art and event reviews, helping with tone, argument, structure, and how to pitch ideas for publication. The final products will go toward Nanoworks. Presented by Farrago editors, this workshop will make everyone into an expert on ... something.

So, you say you want to be a writer/editor? We’ve got three words: present perfect continuous. Learn the basics of your own language PLUS proofreaders marks. Help the Voiceworks Editorial Committee edit work for the NYWF 08 mini-magazine Nanoworks. And watch as innocently wonkish debates over semi-colons escalate into brutal carnage.

Independent youth media network Vibewire presents a workshop for online reporters. Staff will be on hand to look over work you’ve prepared, or help make something new. All work will be published online and on paper in Nanoworks. Bring  your biros, notebooks, dictaphones, cameras, and your nose-for-news.

If you're under 18, listen up - this is your official introduction to the festival! Come find out what's going down with the program and the workshop series, and get hooked up with a mentor to be your partner in literati crime. Email amy.nywf@gmail.com for more.