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.

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!

Think other people read like crap? Well, wait until they get a load of you. Bring some work down to our intensive readings coaching/boot camp, where our expert panel will run your reading right through the gauntlet. It's like Idol, except these people really want to help you. Like Scientologists!

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.

Pretty much what it sounds like! You write a story in five minutes. Then write a story in four. Then so on and down into the decimals. Speed meets endurance in this extreme workshop taught by the masterful Chris Currie. He is friendly but will also whup you.

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.