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.

People have told you time and again you are the funniest fucker they know. You’re always a hit at dinner parties. But can you shift to page, stage, screen, or fringe circuit? The number of stand-ups in Australia could populate Antarctica. Could you be one of them?

It begins at midnight(....well 11:30pm....so we lied) Where is it? What will you see? Leave your mobile number at the TINA info booth before 12 noon daily to receive the super-secret whos, whats, wheres, whens, and hows of The Late Night Mystery Meat. **Meat may or may not be included.

By Monday, believe us, your brain is jello. It's time to take a load off in your local bowls club! Comfy shoes, laid-back readings, acoustic tunes, and, yup, lawn bowls. When the most you have to move is from chair to cheap drinks, this could be mistaken for heaven.

NYWF artists lock and load: meet the team, pick up some treats and ching-ching with us as we officially throw open the doors of Staple Manor 2009 and whip the veil off of the ‘Judge A Zine By Its Cover’ exhibition. It’s GO-time. Be Prepared and look alive!

Enhance your sunny Sunday zine fair-funday with a literary TREASURE HUNT through Newcastle, courtesy of curatorial duo Nimble Fox Trappings. Get a gang together, register in the Car Park, drop a gold coin donation (like it's hot), and hit the town. With benefits.

Zombies are awesome. Movies are awesome. How amazing would it be if we could combine the two... oh wait, WE HAVE! View the finalists of our under-25s zombie movie comp. With an array of dead celebrity judges, this year is shaping up quite nastily!

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.

Forget SpellCheck. Put your money where your keyboard is. We test just who has the smarts to hold their own in an arena of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and--trust us--way beyond. Will you go the distance, poindexter?

Sharp-witted commentary with nothing but a stack of magazines, scissors, binder medium and stickers! DAg ARt are ready to divulge the secrets of their success. Have your say on celebrity gossip, breast augmentation, and current events, then stick your say on stuff.

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.

“People were not invited to Gatsby's house - they went there.” NYWF invites you to rogue your knees and roll your stockings down for a night of sequin-drenched debauch. Find your flapper, pack your top-hat and we’ll put the ‘ALL’ in your ‘BALL’. Come party like it’s 1925!

Come and read The Knitting Journal, and take the opportunity to join seasoned knitters and beginners alike in sharing stories, experiences and secrets. Bring along your current projects or pick up a set of needles available at the session for an informal fun-filled hour of knitting.

Suzanne Grae and the Katies show you how to make music without the instruments. Bring poetry to recycle into lyrics, and your lagerphone, recorder, kazoo, keytar, or just your untrained musical genius. Workshop concludes in a mostly musical performance as the This is Not Poetry Orchestra.

Kick back with a crumpet as he latest spoken-word artists deliver a scrumptious selection of spoken spreads to cater to any taste. Got a little jam of your own? Well get on up spread that sugar round.

Because Newcastle University has a rotating stage, and because that rotating stage demanded it, WRIRON CHEF pits food writer against food writer in a stainless, steely war of wills. They can mouth off on the page, but can you eat it off the stage? Watch, squirm, swallow the results.

A time for all of you Younger Young Writers to meet you mentors. Meet, greet and begin the hottest festival journey of your life! Run back to back with the artist meet and greet as one big melting pot of very important peeps! Hosted by Co Director Amy Ingram and YYWMP Coordinator Chris Vernon.

Are you feeling unappreciated? Unloved? Unequal? UNDEAD? Then join us on our 3rd annual March for Undead Rights. This year we are bigger, better and deader than ever. Bring your friends, bring your nan; whatever you do, don’t bring the coast guard.