Emerging Writers’ Festival

Writing & Blogging – post-EWF thoughts

May 30, 2011

As I stood waiting for the train yesterday afternoon tired families trudged past, many children carefully holding orange NGV helium balloons between their fingers. Before this, on the upper platform, I walked past a couple with a young baby; the father, at that moment, held up the child to sniff and check for a dirty [...]

Emerging Writers’ Festival: Taking a Close Look at the Program #ewf11

May 16, 2011

The Town Hall program at the Emerging Writers’ Festival is the one weekend I block out long in advance to enjoy. All fledgling writers AND bloggers would benefit attending, in my opinion, if you’re serious about learning about craft, or at the very least discovering more about the writing scene. I’ve selected below a cross-section [...]

Emerging Writers’ Festival 2011 #ewf11

April 28, 2011

The program of the 2011 Emerging Writers’ Festival is now available online. Go and click and see what wonderful writers and sessions are on offer this year – not to mention the revamped, extremely cool website! I’m excited to be able to say I’ll be speaking on Sunday 29th May. Details below: Children’s books, 11am [...]

Page Parlour photos and other bookish domesticities

May 24, 2010

Yesterday’s Page Parlour for the Emerging Writers’ Festival went splendidly. I apologise I don’t have more photos to post than the one above, but the iphone does not like low-light settings. I can put the ‘flash’ on Hipmastatic, but it has little affect on the overall result (it’s more of a ‘glaze’ than a true [...]

Emerging Writers’ Festival Program 2010 – available now!

April 23, 2010

Last night I went to the EWF program launch party, and now the program has been made available online. As long-time readers will know, the EWF has a special place in my heart and I’m pleased to say that I’ll be there on Sunday 23rd May as part of the Page Parlour at Federation Square (see photos [...]

Emerging Writers’ Festival – The Page Parlour

June 3, 2009

I spent Sunday afternoon on my table selling Surprise! in amongst a diverse and fascinating range of literary journals, zines, and small publishers. I was sharing my space with Helen and we both looked after each other’s things while the other occasionally ducked off for food, and so I didn’t get as much of a [...]

Emerging Writers’ Festival – ‘The Revolution will be Downloaded’ host’s introduction and thoughts

June 2, 2009

Good afternoon everyone, my name is Karen Andrews and welcome to our session ‘The Revolution will be Downloaded’. As we begin, we’d like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where we sit today, the tribes of the Kulin Nation. Many of us here will know that recently Ashton Kutcher was in a great [...]

Emerging Writers’ Festival – The Semi-Drama Before It Even Began

June 1, 2009

I’m home, everyone. What a weekend. I don’t think I slept more than a few consecutive hours each night. I’ll write about it in stages over this week, as I am quite tired. It was an exciting Friday afternoon. Some of you may know that central Melbourne was partially evacuated due to a chemical leak. That [...]

Emerging Writers’ Festival here I come!

May 29, 2009

In a few short hours I will be bidding my family adieu for the Emerging Writers’ Festival. What am I doing again, you ask? Here’s a reminder: The revolution will be downloaded Saturday 30th May 3 to 4pm Melbourne Town Hall In this age of electronic enlightenment there are so many ways for writers to [...]