Digital Writers' Festival | 13 – 24 February, 2014

Digital Writers' Festival: 13 — 24 February, 2014

An online carnival dedicated to what happens when technology and the written word collide.

In February, the Digital Writers' Festival team is rounding up several dozen of the world's best writers, readers, and publishing types for a series of live-streamed online discussions about the future of all things bookish.

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All digital events will be livestreamed at digitalwritersfestival.com.
Times are in Australian Eastern Daylight Time.

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Bookclub

Panel

Project Launches & Performances

Workshop

Times in Australian Eastern Daylight Time. (Convert to your timezone)

February 2014

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Feb 10

All Day:
Mapping the Words

11:00 am - 12:00 pm:
The Unfinished Phrase 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm:
World’s First Live Glossaring

9:00 am - 10:00 am:
Personal Narrative in the Digital Age 11:00 am - 12:00 pm:
Oscar Schwartz on the Literary Turing Test

11:00 am - 12:00 pm:
Siv Parker on ‘Maisie May: Twitter Storytelling Event Project’

11:00 am - 12:00 pm:
Hologram 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm:
holy hela 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm:
The Tyranny of Distance

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm:
Genre in the Digital Age 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm:
Flashers Workshop

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm:
The UFO in the Garden: Internet Writing 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm:
Robin Sloan interview 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm:
Literary Sexting: Scum Mag Talk Sex Writing Online

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm:
Go Away, Go Away: The Worst Things We’ve Written That are Memorialised Forever Online 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm:
IRL: Literary Collectives and Place 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm:
WrICE: Postcard from Singapore

9:00 am - 10:00 am:
Cities of Literature: A Global Meetup 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm:
Right of Reply: Digital Writing, Trolling and Mental Health 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm:
From Notepad to Tweet: An Inside Look at the Digital Publishing Industry

All Day:
Readback Feedback: One-On-One Short Story Assessment Program 9:00 am - 10:00 am:
Nothing’s Dead That’s Done Right: Print Publishing in the Age of the iPad 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm:
Minority Support: Indigenous and Minority Writers Online

All Day:
Readback Feedback: One-On-One Short Story Assessment Program 11:00 am - 12:00 pm:
Inside a Blog: the teen perspective 7:00 pm - 7:00 am:
White Night Melbourne: The Book of the Night

7:00 pm - 7:00 am:
White Night Melbourne: The Book of the Night 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm:
Student Media Roundtable

9:00 am - 10:00 am:
New Games Criticism 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm:
Crowdsourcing Translation: Bridges Across the Multilingual Web 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm:
How To Do Digital Journalism: Breaking News vs. Getting It Right 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm:
DWF/KYD Book Club: Luke Carman’s An Elegant Young Man6:00 pm - 7:00 pm:
In Conversation: Writeability and the Deaf Arts Network

Special Projects

An interactive map, hosted on the DWF website during the festival, showcasing the work of Australia's best emerging writers. We are inviting Australian writers of all ages to submit short written works for the map. Entries will go into the draw to win a trip to Melbourne for the Emerging Writers' Festival in May 2014.

View & submit!

Writers are notorious for working feverishly into the night. The Emerging Writers’ Festival challenged 12 writers over 12 hours to write 12 chapters in a collective work of fiction titled The Book of the Night.

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