At 2pm (AEDT) today, we’ll be hosting a livestream launch event, where Festival Director Connor Tomas O’Brien will unveil the full program and share what makes this...

Explore the art of capturing an audience with the help of publishing experts from Text and Freshly Squeezed Reads.

Join a handful of writers and app developers as, in quick succession, they let you know about their latest games, writing tools, and interactive...

From Lena Denham to the Bondi Hipsters tomorrows media superstars will will be discovered through the next big web series… so if you want...

Six writers will defend their passion for culture, whether it be posh or trashtacular in nature.

Take a literary tour around the world, with the help of the Digital Writers’ Festival! Join a pair of emerging writers from each of...

Take a literary tour around the world, with the help of the Digital Writers’ Festival! Join a pair of emerging writers from each of...

What details make for good sex writing? Can sex be written without clichés, or without falling into the tropes of erotica? Can sex be...

When it comes to freedom of speech, just how much is too much and how much is too little? Should we redefine freedom of...

The Stella Prize Reviewing Masterclass is an invaluable opportunity for emerging reviewers and books writers to hone their craft, under the guidance of two...

Meet ABC Open Producers Vanessa Milton and Emily Bissland as they discuss the ABC Open project, the mentoring they offer regional writers and explain...

Take a literary tour around the world, with the help of the Digital Writers’ Festival! For this session, join award-winning writer and Locative Literature artist...

Remember three-legged races? This is a bit like that, but instead of itchy burny rope, you’ll be tied together with the internet!

To kick off your Valentine’s Day evening, join a bunch of writers as they share their stories of love (both true and unrequited), lust,...

Take a literary tour around the world, with the help of the Digital Writers’ Festival! Join a pair of emerging writers from each of...

Join Andrew and Katie as they move through the videogame worlds Andrew creates, discussing the craft of game writing and criticism while low-gravity roughhousing,...

We're told never to feed the trolls, but is it possible to disagree online without turning into the most horrible versions of ourselves?

If you love podcasts but are bored of audiobooks, or have an interest in experimental audio and exciting storytelling, jump into this live collaboration...

Chatting from their bedrooms, Australian musos Will Cuming (LANKS) and Brendan Maclean will perform their latest tracks before jumping in to dissect what it...

As the world moves online and the way we consume the written word changes, it’s essential for writers to familiarise themselves with the web...

The 2015 Stella Prize Longlist will be announced on Thursday 12th February. Just a few days later, a selection of the longlisted authors will...

Boss Fight Books publishes great, short books about classic video games. We join the writers of books in the series to discuss the rise...

This insightful panel will show how writers can harness their digital communities and seek online advertising and crowdfunding opportunities to fund their passions.

Scum editors and contributors who work in confessional memoir will discuss the intersections between confessional memoir and technology, gently dissecting anonymous submissions received from...

Join a handful of writers and app developers as, in quick succession, they let you know about their latest games, writing tools, and interactive...

In this special instalment of the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club, author Ellen van Neerven will discuss her acclaimed debut book, Heat and...

Join four comedy writers as they share the most embarrassing extracts from their old online journals... with a twist.

Oscar Schwartz explores the future of everything, from plagiarism to Pygmalion, newspapers to artificial intelligence, speaking to three people who have very different conceptions...

Is a status update part of a real-time memoir? Is a tweet really just a form of free verse? What happens when literature finds...

Take a literary tour around the world, with the help of the Digital Writers’ Festival! Join a pair of emerging writers from each of...

Join some of the world's best visual storytellers for a performative celebration of all things comics, zines and visual art.

Take a literary tour around the world, with the help of the Digital Writers’ Festival! Join a pair of emerging writers from each of...

Join four female bloggers for a discussion about blogging as a means of building confidence as a writer, and as a form of publishing...

For our innovative Digital Dinner Parties series, join some of the world's most exciting emerging food writers and critics for a cross-continental feast.

For the launch of Betanarratives, writer Brendan McDougall is gettin’ inked... with your help.

Take a literary tour around the world, with the help of the Digital Writers’ Festival! Join a pair of emerging writers from each of...

Video game critic Brendan Keogh will take you on a journey in which he plays through games while offering critical commentary.

May-Lan Tan grew up in Hong Kong, where her family had migrated from Indonesia. She lived in Northern California before moving to London to...

The Emerging Writers’ Festival, the Digital Writers’ Festival, and The Lifted Brow present White Night: Magazine in a Night As part of Melbourne’s White...

Chelsea Hodson is the author of two chapbooks: Pity the Animal (Future Tense Books, 2014), and Beach Camp (Swill Children, 2010). A collaborator with the Marina Abramovic Institute’s Immaterial...

For writers of Young Adult (YA) fiction, the most important audience is not publishers or parents, schools or editors – it’s teenagers. If teens...

The NEWS x DWF Student Editor Conference brings together new student newspaper editors from all over the world to participate in discussions about everything...

Student publications are an unusual part of the media landscape. Often produced entirely by students, they offer a fantastic gateway to the industry. Join...

In this panel, three young Australian journalists chat about when data journalism works best, how we can keep building on it, and who its...