Comments and social media: trends in blogging interaction
At home, with lots of time to think and write and bludge and do other things, there has finally been time to settle down after the Emerging Writers’ Festival and think. One of the coolest things about...
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EWFdigital: What does an online writing festival look like?
Image: Initial whiteboarding of "what does an online festival look like?" Over the last few years EWFdigital has grown to be a significant part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. Thanks to social media...
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Things To Do At The Emerging Writers Festival (When You’re In Canberra)
I attended the Emerging Writers Festival in person two years in a row when I lived in Melbourne, in 2009 and 2010. I volunteered, helped with sitting-behind-zine-fair-table duties and largely just...
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Books, blogging and the creativity-sapping spectre of validation
Written by Rose Powell There are a lot of book-related blogs out there, trailing paragraphs of finely worded reflections across the internet and uniting the bookish regardless of our location. Whether...
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How to deal with online comments
By Erin Stewart Only a couple of weeks ago, Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph launched a ‘War Against Trolls’. They said that ending online trolling is ‘a battle society must fight’. Australia’s...
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Top 10 Online Writing Tools
by Avi Vince You hear it all the time: the internet is a great tool. This is true. However, it can also be a black hole where you spend all your time searching only to come back to life three hours...
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Shifting places – how I became a Melbourne writer
In 2008, I migrated to Australia. Before that, I lived in Paris, and wrote in French about French things. Becoming a Melbourne writer was not a simple metamorphosis. I needed a new language – not...
View ArticleThe Emerging Gala
I had never been to a gala before. I had no idea what to expect, What to wear, how to behave, who to talk to when I got there. I decided on a white shirt, red tie, brown waistcoat and pants, with long...
View Article“The West is Best, The East is Least”.
There is a lot of growth in the West. Communication and writing is being discussed. Footscray has a booming population, from this population a diversity of stories is emerging. The Western writer is...
View ArticleIndustry Insider: Editors Rule
Having spent the past few days trying to fight off a nasty cold I was not particularly looking forward to walking the streets of Melbourne on a chilly Tuesday night. As I was preparing to leave the...
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