emerge, you writers

As Lisa, Angela and other more vigorous bloggers have noted. (I've had my head under a rock I think.)

All happening, this weekend and next - the online program is here and includes some events during the week as well as next weekend, mostly at the Melbourne Town Hall. This time last year I watched my daughter in Scrabble, a night of performance poetry and theatre which has been renamed Wordstock and this time around is inspired by the work of Nick Cave.

I hope to get to a couple of things next Saturday, and maybe look in on the Page Parlour at the Fed Square Atrium (what a terrific venue) as well on Sunday arvo. If I am spared...

Lisa has some great news relating to Express Media,  who organises the former co-host of the Emerging Writers' Festival. She has been asked to edit Voiceworks' 21st anniversary anthology: what a great gig, and what a fascinating publication that will be. Bring it on.

Comments

[Ann oDyne]

Hi GT - I have some great images of readers at my place - I forgot to add "do click to enlarge", so please do it and enjoy them. A Belgian photographer - Penev - he is brilliant.
cheers

[Andrew]

I'm sad that I'll be missing Wordstock, as I'll be up the road at the Reading Matters hypothetical - So you want to be a YA Writer?, which is looking to be an awesome evening also.

[lisa]

I'm so excited about the Voiceworks gig, it's a big job but a really interesting one.

I think that the Emerging Writers' Festival is no longer run by Express Media though - it's a seperate entity, though there are still partnerships between the two organisations.

[genevieve]

MEH!! I have fixed that. Thank you Lisa.
That does look like a fine event, Andrew, thanks for that link.
And thanks for your note, AOD - you should feel free to leave a link to such things, anytime. I shall go and look.

[Mark]

I'm sorry that I won't be able to make the Emerging Writers Festival this year. Each year, I say to myself that I should make an effort to go, but just don't make it. This year it's a combination of illness wiping me out all last weekend, deadline pressures work and study commitments. aagh.

What someone from the festival said on radio the other day that this festival is more about writers (albeit emerging) while the Melbourne Writers Festival is more about readers really resonated with and appealed to me, but honestly I haven't found anything in the program that really made me want to rearrange my schedule to make it this year. Perhaps I haven't looked hard enough…