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Emerging Writers Festival

The Reader - Various - edited by Aden Rolfe

The Reader brings together ideas and insights into the craft, philosophy and politics of being a writer. It’s about writing and everything that comes with that: editing and publishing, motivation and distraction, the missed opportunities and the poetics of failure. With articles, essays, poems, fiction and artworks, The Reader blurs the lines between the creative and the critical, ultimately asking, what is it to be a writer?

Edited by Aden Rolfe. Published November 2010.

The Reader is…

Jen Breach on writers as speakers • Paul Callaghan on writing as play • Sam Cooney on Calvino’s Six Memos • Matt Davies on Seven Enviable Lines • Paola Di Trocchio on curating as writing • Daniel Ducrou on community • Chris Flynn on not starting a literary journal • Greg Foyster on freelancer rates • Pat Grant on waiting to be discovered • Caroline Hamilton in conversation with Chris Meade • Jennifer Hamilton on the language of storms • Jill Jones on poetry manuscripts • Darryn King on workspaces • Gabrielle Maait on reading romance • Imogen Melgaard on writing as escape • Janelle Moran on the real writer • SC Patton on desire • Jana Perkovic on scripting • Gig Ryan on contemporary poetry • Craig Schuftan on love and lyrics • Laurie Steed on being an editor and a writer • Philip Thiel on blogging • Sam Twyford-Moore on writing and depression • Sean M Whelan on performing poetry • Susan White on the writer’s brain • Damon Young on distraction

Creative works by Rebecca Clements • Christopher Downes • Sarah Howell • Ben Hutchings • Tom Lee • Alanna Lorenzon • Derek Motion • Ahmarnya Price • Daniel Reed • Josephine Rowe • Lou Sanz • Sharne Vate • Corey Wakeling • Beck Wheeler

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