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Attendence up at 2010 Ubud writers festival
The 2010 Citibank Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia last week was the largest in the festival's history. The four-day festival was attended by 135 writers from 27 countries, w...
Baker replaces Caffin at Byron Bay Writers Festival
Candida Baker has replaced Jeni Caffin as Director of the Northern Rivers Writers' Centre and the Byron Bay Writers' Festival. Caffin, who programmed the Byron Bay Writers' Festival for the past four ...
Emerging Writers' Festival comes to Sydney
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) has announced that it will host a festival in Sydney for the first time this year. The one-day mini festival will be held on Sunday 7 November in conjunction...
Inaugural Queensland Writers Week in October
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced it will implement the inaugural Queensland Writers Week (QWW) from 11 to 17 October. The week-long event will be an ‘open literary festival', ba...
Audience and bookshop sales boost at this year's BWF
The Brisbane Writers Festival wrapped up on Sunday 5 September after five days of events--and some impromptu African drumming--at the State Library of Queensland. Typically, the big names drew the big...
MWF celebrates 25 years
The Melbourne Writers Festival has recorded a 10% increase in the number of tickets sold in 2010 and said the festival had ‘maintained record attendances of 50,000'. It was Steve Grimwade's firs...
MWF joins international festivals to form 'The Word Alliance'
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) is one of five international literary festivals that have formed The Word Alliance (TWA). TWA was launched by Edinburgh International Book Festival director ...
Edinburgh Festival faces funding cuts
As this year's Edinburgh Festival is underway, the world-renowned arts festival faces steep funding cuts in coming years.
Sunshine and politics at Byron Bay Writers Festival
This year's Byron Bay Writers Festival wrapped up on Sunday after a thankfully sunny three days back at its ‘traditional' North Beach site, which had been a washout for the 2008 festival, result...
In brief
New role for HawthorneSusan Hawthorne, co-founder and director of Spinifex Press, has been appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University. CBCA awards to be p...
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