Would the zinesters please stand up? Take a bow! We're celebrating a decade of zines at the festival, so bring copies of your favourite work from the last decade for a show-and-tell free-for-all. Then it's time to make zine anthology showbags, to be given out at our 10th birthday party.

Tired? Chances are you're suffering from ‘Artistic Fatigue.’ Come to the NYWF doctor's surgery, check in with a professional and give your creative practice some long-overdue one-on-one attention. Thursday: Free and friendly personal help on project management, organising and funding from guru Fiona Maxwell, General Manager of the Next Wave Festival.

Tired? Chances are you're suffering from ‘Artistic Fatigue.’ Come to the NYWF doctor's surgery, check in with a professional and give your creative practice some long-overdue one-on-one attention. Monday: free and friendly personal help from writer and Overland reviews editor Rjurik Davidson on writing short stories - bring a short story along for some one-on-one feedback.

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.

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!

Grab your camera and head to the streets, where an ocular adventure awaits you. Collect your instructions from the Tina Info Booth and prepare to see Newcastle in a  whole new light. Get snap-happy and see your photos get turned into an exhibition at the Octapod, where all eyes become one!

Welcome to This Is Not Art 08 - the official cutting the ribbon, cracking open the bubbly, popping the cherry type affair. BYO cherries.

Street Spoken is a spoken word tour of some of Newcastle's most fascinating hidden locations. Stop by the TiNA information Booth to collect an ipod / head-set and a map, then delve into the rich current of stories living around, above, beneath and between you.

Enter Civic Park on Sunday for the world's longest picnic. Ok, there have been longer, but where else will you find sunshine, rugs, endless tea and hours of great entertainment? Featuring the One Horse Town launch, Teen Angst Time Capsule, Raw and the Open Brunch Spoken Word Sessions.

We need you, your alienation, and your worst piece of writing - ever. Dig up an old journal, recycle a love-letter or pen something for the occasion. Read your fantastically dismal work to the crowd, then cram it into the world's daggiest time-capsule. To be unearthed at NYWF 2018. Teen Angst 4 Eva!

Step into the festival club and enter the world of The Comic Effect, an interactive video installation which reframes real life as a classic noir comic book. Summon your inner superhero, practice your gritty one-liners and get ready to strike a pose for the camera.

Track the Trickster through Newcastle's streets, following a public trail of private dirty laundry. With mudmap in hand, piece together the truth as poems, charms, curses and love-letters lead you into the heartbroken heart of the city.

This is Not Fashion: a blog, a zine, a social commentary, a photo-montage, an experiment, an archive, and an excuse to take pictures of potentially hot NYWF punters. Watch out for the TiNF crew on the streets of Newcastle and get ready to pout.