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.

It's time to celebrate student media and find out where it can take you (New York, Paris, Nimbin, darling). Hear from stalwarts of the student media scene about how they cut their teeth in the media room, got their first taste of print, and the amazing places the experience has taken them since.

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.

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.

With budgets being cut and some publications either under threat or six feet under, we talk about ways to strengthen student media in Australia. Aiming to create a nationwide SM network and handbook to for new editors, we'll be generating ideas, sharing collective wisdom and publishing the results in late 2008.

Web2Pod is a new printing model which lets readers create high-quality, cheap, customised print-on-demand books and mags directly from your website. Users select their own material online, which is printed, bound and posted to their door. This workshop demonstrates the technology and offers a roadmap for implementing your own system.