Sidestep the agent, bypass the manager, negotiate the restraining order, get the goods, get out. Learn how to cut the red tape and secure a scoop with your favourite artist, celebrity, idol – all while remaining cool and collected (and keeping that groupie doofus concealed).

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, read them out - share them in a shine of honesty. Tonight let’s pull up a pew, cringe, and bask in their insightful and embarrassing splendor! Or grab a pad, hit the mic and CONFESS my child.

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 that? A panel of judges judges the worst covers they've ever seen, and gives us tips (with moving parts!) on how to avoid their hate.

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 topic of the day is you, you, you. Check in so Bethany Jones an entertianment lawyer, film and theatre all round guru can check you out!

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 topic of the day is you, you, you. Check in so Kelly Chandler: Chair of the NYWF Board (Need we say more?) can check you out!

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 topic of the day is you, you, you. Check in so Margo Lanagan a highly celebrated international author can check you out.

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 promotion, then come on down and hear the pros explain how not to let it happen to you.

Pushers of good writing everywhere! Forget SHOULD we sell - ask only HOW. Take some marketing tips and tales from people who have the smarts and the souls. By the time they're through with you, you'll be able to sell the whole thing right back to 'em.

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 Voiceworks Editorial Committee and Farrago kids edit work for the NYWF 09 mini-magazine, Nanoworks.

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 old poems. Hosted by the editors of Voiceworks.

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 is part of our new series of informal, abnormal, but very, very practical roundtable how-tos.

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 dropped: the ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of developing a relationship with the peeps in charge.  From pitching articles to delivering on deadline: this one is a must.

The nails are well and truly in this coffin. Hell, the worms have probably set in. Come light a candle and contact the dearly departed with some old friends. Lament: Mourn: Resuscitate: Student Media, This Was Your Life. BYO candle.

Does Meanjin misunderstand you? Overland drive right by? Voiceworks shove its fingers down your throat and tinker? Wet Ink wait until your work is long dry? Come and meet the new class of literary magazines, as scrutinised by a panel of booksellers, writers, sceptics, and the editors themselves.

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 Lifted Brow. We'll give you art; we'll give you leis; and we'll probably set your forehead on fire, as the name implies.

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 of boozy debauch - perhaps direct from this weekend? Writing under (Hemingway's?) influence: let’s hear a ditty about alcohol and you.

 Loosen your collar and slip into something uncomfortable as writers steam up the stage with some of the most foul, disgusting, graphic and hideously unsexy writing they're ever (1) read; and (2) written themselves.

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 does a novel happen? Writers discuss how they bridged the gap between ‘Uh-oh’ and ‘Opus’.