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.

Enter the hot-pink ghetto of Chick-lit. Is it a retrograde celebration of anti-feminist longing, urging girls to laugh off sexual politics and just, like, consume? Or is it a destabilising, empathy-driven feminism that flies in under the patriarchal radar? Come take a ballsy look at one of the best-selling - and most-maligned - genres worldwide.

World-renowned Australian author Frank Moorhouse presents a meditation on that often-neglected concept: the imagination. What is it? Why, as writers, should we trust it? With reflections drawn from his own work and the wider worlds of literary and political history, expect a highly stimulating journey into the mind of the writer.

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.

Curl up with your favourite author in this intimate session of readings. Hear extracts from work both old and new, straight from the mouth of their creators, and be carried away to that wonderful land of make-believe.

For some authors, writing good characters means going to bed with, and waking up next to, the fictional people in your head. Novelists talk about the relationships they have with their characters: where they come from, what they're like, and how to get rid of them when their time is up!