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.

What are the politics of cultural production and participation? We ponder the connection between artistic activity, community involvement and participatory culture, and examine the role government arts funding bodies and the wider public play in defining non-professional approaches to art.

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.

It's back, the biggest Sunday of the year for Australia's zinesters and independent publishers. Mingle with usual suspects and new faces, all hocking the hottest loot this side of the equator. Swap 'n' sell your own wares or roll out a rug and read the day away! Book a free table: runawaykite@gmail.com.

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.

That's right, double digits baby! NYWF turns 10 and to celebrate, we're launching our 10th Anniversary Anthology Herding Kites, showcasing new books and performances from festival favourites and giving away zine showbags. We're also getting all teary-eyed, busting out the baby photos and showering you with free champagne!

Sticky is a not-for-profit shop space in Melbourne, dedicated to zines and artist books. Since 2001 it has supported over 3500 photocopier addicts from around the world. Join Sticky coordinators Luke Sinclair and Eloise Peace as they discuss the amazing highs, death-defying lows and more amazing highs of seven Sticky years.

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.

So how do you small-press publish and survive? Forget sales charts and smiling future prospect reports. I mean, how do you really get by in small publishing with the everyday problems, financial questions and personal pressures? Useful tips, practical suggestions and honest stories from those who do it.

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.

While YouTube has revolutionised how we procrastinate, there's been a quiet explosion in other online media initiatives. We discuss open source and collaborative approaches to publishing, explore creative commons and copyright revenue issues, and ponder the dissolving boundaries between writing, publishing, networking and socialising.