The Emerging Writers Festival will take place in Melbourne between Tuesday 26 May and Friday 5 June to provide emerging Australian writers with a platform for progressive interaction.
Throughout the festival, emerging writers will be able to engage with and learn from established writers and authors from many cross sections of the community.
Events include conferences, workshops, magazine launches, panel discussions and networking gigs where writers can employ the industry’s most important skill. Among the many writers who will be involved in this year’s events are three Greek writers; Fotis Kapetopoulos, Esther Anatolitis and Natasha Theoharous.
Fotis Kapetopoulos is the development manager of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival and a writer for the Crikey Daily Review and our very own Neos Kosmos English Edition.
Esther Anatolitis is a writer and curator, as well as the director of Regional Arts Victoria.
Both Kapetopoulos and Anatolitis will participate in the festivals National Writers’ Conference 2015, taking place over 30 and 31 May at Melbourne Town Hall. The conference will cover a range of topics, including freelance writing, the protocols of writing, interviewing, zine making, travel writing, blogging, novel writing and pop culture writing.
Kapetopoulos will take part in the event’s ‘Protocol’ conference conversation at 11.00 am on Sunday 31 May, where he will join two other writers to discuss the appropriate protocols writers must take to ensure their writing is inclusive and harmless.
Anatolitis will take part in both the ‘Working in the Arts’ conversation at 3.00 pm on Sunday 31 May, and the ‘Writing Rural’ conference conversation at noon on Sunday 31 May.
Natasha Theoharous is a designer, writer and lapsed broadcaster who produces digital content for Triple R. Theoharous will be apart of the festivals ‘#selfies’ event, which focuses on the importance of words through pictures. For the event, eight writers will be challenged to narrate themselves pictorially via a series of selfies. #selfies will take place at 7.30 pm on 30 May, at Schoolhouse Studios in Collingwood.
To take part in this year’s Emerging Writers Festival, head to www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au to delve into the program and purchase tickets.