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• EWF
• lisa dempster
• people collective

New EWF Website

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Johannes Jakob

Apr 15, 2010

The new Emerging Writers’ Festival website/blog is so damn hot, it’s like design porn or something. The folks being exploited by this unabashed fetishism are People Collective, who are also the reason it feels like you are being rude when you look at Voiceworks.

EWF will run from 21-30 May, the program goes up 22 April. Expect more coverage then, but for now, just look at those colours and be soothed.

The Internet is Addictive and I Found the Cure

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Sam Cooney

Apr 03, 2010

The Internet is the enemy of writing. Many people have said it, from famous authors to upstarts like you and me. It will suck your time and distract your brain so that you will never get any non-online writing done.

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• community
• James Bradley
• Magazines

Little magazines growing content

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Jodie Kinnersley

Mar 31, 2010

Late last year, James Bradley took stock of Australia’s landscape of literary journals for The Australian. It’s a fantastic overview for the uninitiated that looks not just at the current state of these magazines but also their pasts, raisons d’être and their possible futures.

On the future of online presences that complement established journals such as Meanjin and Overland, he writes:

In such a future the literary magazine is no longer a static thing but something closer to what it has always been, in some essential way: a community, a forum for debate, a space in which the new can be shared and tested.

It is not at all revolutionary to talk in these terms but in relating this purpose to the evolution of Sleepers from a regular salon, to an annual publication and eventually to showcasing specific writers as novelists, he gives a useful example of how such a community can work offline.

It would be disingenuous at this point not to acknowledge that Bradley makes no mention of Voiceworks, an omission that could be graciously explained by his ineligibility for publication in it (and perhaps The Australian’s own audience demographic). But it also presents an opportunity. Just as every poem is in some way is an answer to the question of what is a poem, so is every magazine or blog an answer to the question what sort of forum or community is this. So, in what ways can both our writers and editors answer those questions?