Imagine taking all the kid-in-a-candy-shop fun and excitement of Luna Park and mixing it with a writers’ festival? For an emerging writer that’s a bit like taking a ride through the events at this year’s Emerging Writer’s Festival. Trade the dodgems for a double-decker bus – and you get the mobile zine-fair, swap the mirror maze for a disco ball and you’ve got a trip into disco history, then turn down the pace for a carousel ride around the publishing industry.
The Emerging Writers’ Festival opens this Friday with The First Word and runs for a week with 20 events broken into over 60 sessions and 170 assorted guest speakers, writers and panellists. Attendance is hoped to top the 6,000 visitors last year with many more expected to take part in the con-current online festival.
