HOME | PROGRAM | ARTISTS | VENUES | ABOUT | PARTICIPATE | FEATURES | PEOPLE | RESOURCES | CONTACT | TINA |
2009 Program Archive
 
Bless Me Reader, For I Have Sinned

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.

 
... and everyone else (including you!)

>> Also featuring in...
Amber Fresh
Amber Fresh writes poetry on a typewriter and makes music in a band called Rabbit Island. Recurrent themes include boys, the Bible and Bukowski.
>> Also featuring in...
Matthew Lowe
A recipient of an Express Media Mentorship Award, Matthew’s works have appeared in Griffith REVIEW, Through the Clock’s Workings and in titles by Cleis Press.
>> Also featuring in...
Patrick Pittman
Patrick Pittman keeps a lair in darkest Perth, from which he runs Cottonmouth, writes, builds websites, talks on the radio and starts fights. patrickpittman.com
>> Also featuring in...
Sean Wilson
Sean Wilson is a writer and one half of the two-piece editing team at Melbourne journal stop drop and roll.
>> Also featuring in...
Simon Cox
Simon Cox helps run and organise Perth's monthly spoken word event, "Cottonmouth" and writes short stories and poems for publication and performance. In 2008 he self-published a chapbook of poetry, Book Lung.
>> Also featuring in...
Tom Cho
Tom Cho is a former NYWF coordinator and the author of Look Who's Morphing, a fiction collection recently published by Giramondo. Visit him at www.tomcho.com
>> Also featuring in...