Emerging Writer's Festival

Melbourne has quite a few literary festivals and perhaps the biggest one you'll have heard of is The Melbourne Writers Festival which is around the September period.

But what if lets say, you can't make it to the Melbourne Writers Festival?

For a lesser known alternative, why not try the Emerging Writers' Festival? It is going to be held this weekend (9th-11th May), at the Melbourne Town Hall, and will have many exciting and informative events, such as panels and talks by authors from different levels of experience, a 48 hour play generator event, scrabble night, zine stalls and more! The EWF original started as a more youth orientated writing festival, but has since branched out to cater for writers of all ages and experience.

Not to mention the EWF has a great goodie bag for all who attend; packed with tons of information on manuscript services, writing courses, and free issues of literary zines like Overland, Monthly, Voice, etc which gives you a good idea on the Melbourne writing scene- the goodie bag alone is worth coming for! - how I know this? I'm a volunteer and helped to stuff them ^_^

So if you're a writer looking for a place where you can hear from people in the writing industry, or are simply a reader looking out for new creative voices aka reading material, come and check it out!

For more details, vist:
http://www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au/