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.

The blinds may be down, but you need only knock to be ushered into Staple Manor in its finest hour(s). Staple Manor opens til late to provide you with the space and tools you need to do your zine in time for its triumphant debut at the Sunday Fair.

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.

Wranglers, hoarders, dropouts, show-offs, very talented circles of friends! Wanna figure out how to get all gallery on that shit? CURATORIAL is part of our new series of informal, abnormal, but very, very practical roundtable how-tos.

A roundtable for all of us who make book-shaped objects to discuss the best way to get them into the hands of people; even new, exciting ones we haven’t met! Share your experiences or ask questions of representatives from Australian small press publishers, online distributors, zine shops.

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.

In an age of cheap, perfect digital reproduction, when should you use a commercial press? Explaining colour and quality in the worlds of letterpress, risograph, offset, and digital, PRITING is part of our new series of informal, abnormal, but very, very practical workshop and roundtable how-tos.

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.

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.