Program

06:30pm - 10:00pm

Underground Epicureans' Art Feast

It not art, its food, or is it art? On this Underground Epicureans dining adventure you will wonder where to start when food and art become intertwined in a way you haven’t imagined. This adventure will confound your expectations and satisfy your ...

09:00am - 12:00am

TiNA Festival

Full program available here 

12:00pm - 03:00pm

The Set

What makes the places that define you? A daily interactive installation that creates, explores and demolishes the world around us. Artists: Corrugated Iron Youth Arts

05:00pm - 07:00pm

Meet and Greet: An Introvert's Guide to Networking

Writers can be solitary creatures, but learning how to network with other writers and editors is more important to a young writers' career than ever before. Hear some real talk about how to make friends and influence people at NYWF with some non-cringeworthy ...

06:00pm - 07:30pm

TiNA Launch

Come along and help us officially launch with a welcome to country and some short words from our event partners. 

07:00pm - 07:30pm

The Set

What makes the places that define you? A daily interactive installation that creates, explores and demolishes the world around us.

07:00pm - 07:45pm

Spent

Using discarded receipts as its primary text, Spent combines movement and multimedia to explore notions of significance and narrative creation.

08:00pm - 08:30pm

Breathing Dirt

This dance work is an energetic yet humorous and sensitive look into Australian culture through the lens of Tim Winton's novels.

08:00pm - 10:00pm

NYWF Launch Launchpad

More explosive than a NASA take off, NYWF launches the festival with launch upon launch upon launch! (Plus, y'know, drinks.)

08:30pm - 09:30pm

Naked Uniform Vomit

The next level of high-energy, diabetes-inducing comedy, jam-packed with characters, misogynistic rap songs, witty stand-up and heaps of bright colours.

09:30pm - 10:30pm

Shoot to Kill

Affairs of the heart are a bloody business… Lust, pain and casual games of 'Guess how many fingers…?. #NSFW

10:45pm - 11:15pm

Intrusion

Join us for a meld of organic imagery and synthesized sounds. Responding to urban break down, the resurgance of a natural energy- destructive and immersive, be entranced by this performing installation experimental artist.

11:00pm - 12:00am

Late Night Readings #1: Closer Each Day, Home and Away

Finish your day with a bedtime story from some of the country's finest young writers.

09:00am - 10:00am

Everyday Flashers: Scum

Themed flash fiction led by your favourite journals! Grab your pen and coffee and get your NYWF day off to a great start in a flash.

10:00am - 09:00pm

Interiors

You are invited to enter the grid and explore it. Inside you will encounter various objects with a story to tell.

10:00am - 11:00am

Critical Animals '13 Meet and Greet

Start your festival with strong coffee and meet our CA'13 artists. Supported by the Lock Up Cultural Centre.

10:00am - 11:30am

Get Rid of Gina

Sharpen your sharpies and get ready to try blackout poetry! You will be given a handful of pages from a copy of Gina Rinehart's biography to turn into poetry. All participants will be invited to have their work displayed as part of the collection.

10:00am - 11:00am

I Heard You Like Book Clubs

Two bookclubs take each other on in a podcast-off.

11:00am - 12:30pm

Who killed the avant-garde? Apathy and Contemporary Art

Recent polemics by prominent art critics have attacked the apparent apathy of the scene and the deflation of the market. Join us for a discussion of these claims as we attempt to navigate a way out of the mire. Supported by the Lock Up Cultural Centre.

11:30am - 12:30pm

B2B: The Business of Taking a Blog to Book

What happens when your blog becomes a book? Does blog success necessarily entail a bestseller? Four writers discuss the process of transforming their work from Wordpress to printing press.

11:30am - 12:30pm

Policy in Practice

What national cultural policy Creative Australia means to young writers in Australia.

11:30am - 12:30pm

Sci-Fi Kitchen Sink: the new badlands of genre

Genre can be a lazy beast. What happens when you prod it to do work outside its comfort zone? Superheroes swoop on ecological disasters, sci-fi-scapes swirl in kitchen sinks, that's what.

01:00pm - 02:45pm

Creating the City

A musician, an architect and two writers talk about the cities they live in, both literally and imaginatively. Features a screening of a short film by Frazer Bull Clark, Leaving Lost, looking at the relationship between Canberra artist Derek O'Connor, and ...

01:00pm - 02:00pm

Elsewhere: Portraiture of Place

Just as a person poses for a spectator, so too does a place. How can we adequately capture a place's essence? A masterclass led by Western Sydney artist David Capra in collaboration with Australia's leading lookbook for the arts, Das Superpaper.

01:00pm - 02:00pm

This One Time... with Lorelei Vashti

For some it's a tea-soaked madeleine cake, for others it's a beer-soaked pub carpet. Memory is a funny thing, and in this series of presentations, three talkers take us through their best/worst/most memorable.

01:00pm - 02:00pm

New Voices Poetry Launch

Launch of poetry books.

02:00pm - 03:30pm

Sing Me Your Sorrow

Spill your sorrows into an empty room and watch South Australia collective Paper Ensemble transform them into song.

02:00pm - 04:00pm

Feelings

Sometimes being sad is its own kind of fun, but others definitely not. Join Voiceworks for some (hopefully) helpful hints on how to stay sane and professional as a creative type.

02:30pm - 03:30pm

Hey, Good Looking

Good design is often critical to journals, magazines and books. These editors show us how style can go hand-in-hand with substance in their publications.

02:30pm - 03:30pm

Why Write?

The written word is being/has been superseded by the visual and the aural. Is this even a bad thing? Or will capital W writing always have its place?

03:00pm - 05:00pm

Cornucopia of Liez

Liez A'Penty invites the audience to exchange in conversation in her new tearoom, with no judgment or expectations.

03:00pm - 03:30pm

Awabakal Dreaming

Chris Tucker's installation imagines how Newcastle's past inhabitants would negotiate today's city to find shelter and survive. Supported by the Lock Up Cultural Centre.

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Systematic Wonder - Science as Art

If we view science as a cultural system - a lens through which me make sense of the universe - it does not differ greatly from art. Creative practitioners discuss how they engage these disciplines.

04:00pm - 05:00pm

Spent

Using discarded receipts as its primary text, Spent combines movement and multimedia to explore notions of significance and narrative creation.

04:00pm - 05:00pm

Learning to write?

A panel of local post-graduate students, teachers and writers discuss the merits, pitfalls and contradictions of being a creative writing student. Hosted by SWAMP Writing, a UoN-based online creative writing journal for post-graduate students. Supported by ...

04:00pm - 05:15pm

The Right Stuff

Writers are drawn to messy situations and ethical quagmires, and these can complicate the act of writing itself. How far can or should writers go in the name of a story? Do they need to draw the line somewhere or is the writer's role only ever to observe and ...

04:00pm - 05:00pm

An Isolating Endeavour

Writing is often called an isolating business, but what about when you live in a regional or peripheral area? Does space and solitude equal better productivity, or is there something to be said for having easy access to a community of other writers?

04:00pm - 09:00pm

This is Not ARTillery

Ever wondered what it would be like to be involved in a moment from our nation's past? Well history lovers, military enthusiasts and intrigued spectators, your wait is over. The chance to be transported back to a time, which will never be forgotten in our ...

04:30pm - 06:30pm

Interfacing the Real: Adventures in Speculative Aesthetics

Guided by speculative procedures of theoretical dissolution, this collective considers the potential of aesthetic experience through a parallax interfacing of human and object, thought and matter, and imagination and mathematics.

05:00pm - 06:30pm

DIY Theatre

05:30pm - 06:30pm

Sick As

Stories and anecdotes about writing when you're stuck in the sick bay. Can illness be the muse, or can you only write as well as you feel?

06:00pm - 06:45pm

Ether

In the grey ether between lightness and darkness twins meet to traverse their irrevocable connection. Physical Theatre by Murmur Collective.

06:00pm - 10:00pm

The Newi Awards

On Friday October 4 2013, The Lunaticks Society of Newcastle will host its 3rd Annual NEWi Awards Ceremony to announce the winners. The NEWi Awards for Digital Excellence over the years has developed into a renowned program celebrating the very best digital talent ...

06:30pm - 07:15pm

MILKSHAKE

Directions: Shake well before use. Apply liberally and evenly to all areas. Re-apply as necessary. If rash or irritation occurs discontinue use. Avoid contact with eyes.

07:00pm - 07:30pm

The Set

What makes the places that define you? A daily interactive installation that creates, explores and demolishes the world around us.

07:00pm - 09:00pm

Penguin Plays Rough

Penguin Plays Rough is dedicated to finding fun, inventive and interesting ways of engaging readers in imaginatively wild literature.

07:15pm - 08:00pm

CATALYST 189

A CLOWN explodes. Exit A BEAR. Enter THE KING. Entry THE UMBRELLA. EXIT a HOUSE. Exit THE METHOD. Exit all.

08:00pm - 09:00pm

In Summary: Romance

Your Friends have been researching for two years now, and it's time to present some findings. A participatory performance examining the mechanics of romance.

08:00pm - 12:00am

Critical Party Animals: The Animalia Launch

Dress up as your Spirit Animal and celebrate CA's tenth-birthday! Featuring Live Bands, DJs, parlour games and the launch our Anniversary Journal, Critical Animalia.

08:30pm - 10:30pm

First Time for Everything

"The first time I..." A few brave souls fill in the blank in this funny array of awkward firsts from some of our country's most hilarious writers and performers.

09:00pm - 10:00pm

Carly and Troy Do 'A Dolls House'

Carly and Troy do ‘A Doll’s House’ explores gender, power, personal desire and nineteenth century Norway…maybe.

10:00pm - 11:00pm

The Mayfly Project

An exploration of our relationship with time, combining live generative music, storytelling and lo-fi animation.

10:00pm - 08:00am

Sleepover

Pack your adult onesie!  Stow a pillow and sleeping bag! Cos this year we've got a sleepover planned you'll never forget. There'll be ghost stories from Australia's best young writers, plus truth and dare, screenings, teen poetry and more. Hot ...

10:00pm - 10:00pm

Twenty-Four Hour Writing Power

One woman, one pen, one whole day. Can we get a witness?

11:00pm - 12:00am

Shoot to Kill

Affairs of the heart are a bloody business… Lust, pain and casual games of 'Guess how many fingers…?. #NSFW

11:00pm - 01:00am

Late Night Readings #2: Hi, Heartbreak

Finish your day with a bedtime story from some of the country's finest young writers.

09:00am - 10:00am

Everyday Flashers: The Lifted Brow

Themed flash fiction led by your favourite journals! Grab your pen and coffee and get your NYWF day off to a great start in a flash.

10:00am - 12:00pm

Masterclass

Join us for a free masterclass with a leading expert. An unmissable opportunity. Come to the Crack House for more details!

10:00am - 11:00am

Best of Brow Book Cover Bonanza

Buy a copy of The Best of Brow book and design your own cover! The Lifted Brow supply paints and paper (and macaroni, paddle pop sticks etc) to make book jackets with a heavy dose of browstalgia.

10:00am - 11:00am

Fresh and Frank: An Insider’s Look at the Publishing Industry

A relaxed and friendly Q&A with four young industry insiders. With expertise in editing, publicity, marketing and rights, they can give you some top tips on self-branding, pitching your work to publishers and getting noticed.

10:00am - 11:00am

The New Niche: journals proving print ain't dead

People keep whining about print going the way of the dodo. And yet every week there's a new, excellent publication to prove them otherwise. What's the deal?

10:30am - 01:30pm

Cat & Mouse

Cat & Mouse is an experiential game devised to draw attention to our everyday actions of sensing. Working through a facilitated setting, participants are encouraged to play, to chase curiosities, to re-discover. Supported by the Lock Up Cultural Centre.

11:00am - 12:00pm

Authorial Ethics in a Self-Authoring Age

Barthes influential essay ‘Death of the Author’ fundamentally altered the status of the creator. This panel examines authorial ethics through the lens of post-documentary practice, fact-based narrative and celebrity culture.

11:00am - 12:00pm

Backchat

Your alternative to talkback, live from NYWF! One sweet hour of politics, news, and current affairs. Discussions, arguments, and interviews covering everything from the state of local music to the craziness in Canberra.

11:00am - 02:00pm

Interviews

A three hour workshop led by Triple J's Tom Tilley on the art of a good interview.

11:30am - 12:30pm

Speaking in Tongues

If a writer’s role is to exploit the possibilities of language, how might this be influenced by knowing a second (or third) one? Does biligualism change us as writers?  If so, how? Multilingual writers discuss their language backgrounds and how it ...

11:30am - 12:30pm

Lowering the Tone: writing for kids

From readers of picture books to YA novels, smaller humans can be the toughest critics. These writers tell us why and how they approach writing for kids, teens, and young-at-hearts.

11:30am - 12:30pm

Scripts, Scenes and Sluglines

These screenwriters discuss what sets their craft apart from other writing, what makes a successful script, and how to write stories that come to life on screen. Lauren Carroll Harris. With Alice Bell, Michelle Law, Holly Austin and Tom Wilson.

12:00pm - 04:00pm

Make the Call

A one on one performance conducted by zin over the telephone. It's gonna go off. Anonymously.

12:30pm - 02:15pm

Sonic Ontology: The Art of Noise

Noise is not just the sounds we hear or make, but an articulation of our contemporary inhabitance. Four thinkers discuss the sonic relations between representation, modulation and materiality. Julian Day, Amy Ireland, Benjamin Kolaitis, Jake Moore, Alex ...

01:00pm - 03:00pm

Wings of Wax- An Oracle of Myth and Mind

Step behind the curtain, choose your cards and prepare to walk the labyrinth of a mind unbalanced. Here lie the tales of secrets, seductions and sorrows that pave the unpredictable path through mental illness. Luna Mrozik Gawler in conjunction with Upstart ...

01:00pm - 02:00pm

Dead Beauty Queens

Does being pretty enough to be crowned a beauty queen mean you’re pretty enough to be killed? (Side of Go Lo in a Car)

01:00pm - 02:00pm

Daily Life Feminism

01:00pm - 02:00pm

This One Time...

For some it's a tea-soaked madeleine cake, for others it's a beer-soaked pub carpet. Memory is a funny thing, and in this series of presentations, three talkers take us through their best/worst/most memorable.  Dan Ilic

01:00pm - 02:00pm

Salad Days: stories of memorable meals

Whether it was a moveable feast or crying over spilt milk, a confession of guilty pleasures or a tale of being in a pickle, these food writers and lovers share their stories of memorable meals.

01:00pm - 02:00pm

Salad Days: stories of memorable meals

Whether it was a moveable feast or crying over spilt milk, a confession of guilty pleasures or a tale of being in a pickle, these food writers and lovers share their stories of memorable meals.

02:15pm - 03:15pm

Desiring Machines

Desiring Machines brings together work by emerging artists who explore the gulf between felt experience and mechanised production. Dawn-Joy Leong, Kirsty Hulm, Dylan Hammond, Sara Morawetz, Victoria Hempstead, Kate Vassallo, Ben Kolaitis, Tega Brain, Jake ...

02:30pm - 03:00pm

Sing Me Your Sorrow

Spill your sorrows into an empty room and watch South Australia collective Paper Ensemble transform them into song. The Paper Ensemble

02:30pm - 03:30pm

How to Not Be a Douche

Is it possible to want to succeed in advertising/marketing/media and keep your ethics/soul/other creative practice intact? What happens when you have two people inside you, and one is a tiny CEO and the other a tiny Bob Dylan? Chair: Lucinda ...

02:30pm - 03:30pm

Why Festivals?

Arts and literary festivals are better attended than ever. What is it about festivals that's so important to artists and audiences? Facilitator: Pip Smith. With Eliza Sarlos, Lisa Dempster, Sam Twyford-Moore

02:30pm - 04:00pm

atyp/Fresh Ink present The Voices Project Launch

The Voices Project brings together the best of new writing from atyp’s Fresh Ink emerging playwright program, and presents it on stage, on page, on film and online, giving voice to a new generation of Australian writers. Chair: Alysha Herrmann. With ...

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Carly and Troy Do 'A Dolls House'

Carly and Troy do ‘A Doll’s House’ explores gender, power, personal desire and nineteenth century Norway…maybe.  Emma McManus

04:00pm - 05:30pm

Can't Touch This

Love it or hate it, audience participation is everywhere these days. Hear some exciting advocates and passionate haters of audience participation.

04:00pm - 06:00pm

Vanessa Berry Map Making Workshop

04:00pm - 05:00pm

Making Memories

Two writers read excerpts of their unpublished manuscripts and discuss their development process. Anamnesis and The Strays each explore nostalgia and false-positive memory as literary devices. Emily Bitto, Aden Rolfe

04:00pm - 05:00pm

Too Close For Comfort

Exploring the relationship between literary couples and families and the challenges (and benefits!) that arise from working with your nearest and dearest in the same industry. Benjamin Law/Michelle Law, Rebecca Harkins-Cross/Sam Cooney, Lizzie Stafford/Paul ...

04:00pm - 05:15pm

Ball and Ballpoint

From game coverage to investigative journalism, sport has more drama than a novel: packed full of highs, lows, power, glory, defeat and scandal. How does sports writing differ from other forms? Fiona Crawford. With Alex Vitlin, Ben Pobjie, Anna Krien ...

05:00pm - 06:30pm

Double Tribute

Ever wondered what happens when the person who wrote the tribute to their dead friend dies too? Answer: Nick Coyle steps up to the plate and dances into your heart! Double Tribute: a hilarious take on boring regular tributes.

05:30pm - 07:00pm

Cornucopia of Liez

Liez A'Penty invites the audience to exchange in conversation in her new tearoom, with no judgment or expectations. Sexy Tales Comedy Collective/Stephen Jones

05:30pm - 06:15pm

MILKSHAKE

Directions: Shake well before use. Apply liberally and evenly to all areas. Re-apply as necessary. If rash or irritation occurs discontinue use. Avoid contact with eyes. Sarah Anne Ling

05:30pm - 07:00pm

Damned Whores and Fame Monsters

The image of woman as outsider remains planted in our collective cultural imagination. Three papers interrogate this trope while examining colonial Australia, Lady Gaga and Game of Thrones.

06:00pm - 06:45pm

Ether

In the grey ether between lightness and darkness twins meet to traverse their irrevocable connection. Physical Theatre by Murmur Collective.

06:00pm - 08:00pm

Sick As

Stories and anecdotes about writing when you're stuck in the sick bay. Can illness be the muse, or can you only write as well as you feel? Michelle Law Luke Ayres Ryan, Elmo Keep, Kat Muscat, Patrick Lenton

06:00pm - 08:00pm

The In-Voice

Who will get to send The In-Voice? In the style of reality TV show The Voice, editors choose teams of writers based only on their pitches. They'll cover issues like payment, pitching, communication and story angles in a journalism showdown.

06:00pm - 07:00pm

Recipe for Success

Adam Liaw is a cook, author and television presenter, best known as the winner of MasterChef Australia. He has written two cookbooks, is a regular contributor to numerous publications, including The Sydney Morning Herald, Feast magazine, and The Wall Street ...

06:15pm - 07:00pm

CATALYST 189

A CLOWN explodes. Exit A BEAR. Enter THE KING. Entry THE UMBRELLA. EXIT a HOUSE. Exit THE METHOD. Exit all. The Bloom

07:00pm - 07:45pm

PANIC

PANIC: A fresh new work exploring being young and anxious in a brave new world.

07:00pm - 07:30pm

The Set

What makes the places that define you? A daily interactive installation that creates, explores and demolishes the world around us. Corrugated Iron Youth Arts

07:00pm - 08:00pm

Tok Thoc

A multi-lingual, multicultural performance, incorporating dance, drumming and music, that reaches to the farthest end of colour blind casting. bAKEHOUSE Theatre examines how we understand one another in a multicultural world. BAKEHOUSE Theatre

07:00pm - 09:00pm

Reading the Trolls

Don't feed the trolls, read them out loud! In this flame war to end them all, these writers read their best/worst burns and bullies. May the best troll win. Host: Dom Knight. With Karen Pickering, Ben Pobjie, Amy Gray, Bethanie Blanchard, Tom Tilley

08:00pm - 09:00pm

Kids Killing Kids: A play about plays and the Pinoy people

A combination of the findings of four playwrights and their countless collaborators in a part-narrative, part-documentarian, on-stage dissection of cross-cultural collaboration, contemporary Filipino culture and the nature of fictional violence.

08:30pm - 10:00pm

The Book of Hours

The Spheres are a cadre of musicians and filmmakers who soundtrack the light thrown from projectors. Concurrent themes of collective preoccupation include the melancholy of memory, capitalism and the sea.

09:00pm - 10:00pm

Beaches Love Power

Using 400 years of history and the Bette Midler film ‘Beaches’, this show is a light and self-deprecating look at the backstabbing and general cattiness that can undermine relationships between women. Nikki Kennedy & Erica Brennan

09:00pm - 12:00am

Paranormal Formal

Join the NYWF family to celebrate the festival's sweet sixteenth birthday at the Paranormal Formal. Tarot readings and psychics! Prom dresses and ectoplasm! Come dressed as your favourite medium, svengali, or magician, and dance the night away to spookily ...

10:00pm - 11:00pm

Dead Beauty Queens

Does being pretty enough to be crowned a beauty queen mean you’re pretty enough to be killed? Hot New Sensation

10:00pm - 10:30pm

Breathing Dirt

This dance work is an energetic yet humorous and sensitive look into Australian culture through the lens of Tim Winton's novels. Courtney Sheu

11:00pm - 12:00am

Naked Uniform Vomit

The next level of high-energy, diabetes-inducing comedy, jam-packed with characters, misogynistic rap songs, witty stand-up and heaps of bright colours. Nicole Henriksen

10:00am - 12:00pm

Masterclass

Join us for a free masterclass with a leading expert. An unmissable opportunity. Come to the Crack House for more details!

10:00am - 11:00am

Eggheads Like Their Booky Books

Ease into your Sunday with strong coffee and soft words from a slew of emerging writers and poets. Emily Stewart, Tara Cartland, Owen Kirby...and more!

10:00am - 11:00am

Everyday Flashers: Seizure

Themed flash fiction led by your favourite journals! Grab your pen and coffee and get your NYWF day off to a great start in a flash. Seizure

10:00am - 12:30pm

Wind Beneath my Wings

Did these guys ever know they were your hero? Now's the time to tell them. This special paired mentoring program gives you the chance to spend some quality time learning from a pro. Advanced bookings required, please email info@youngwritersfestival.org by ...

10:00am - 06:00pm

Electrofringe Showcase

The Electrofringe 2013 Showcase brings together up to 30 of the most exciting and innovative new media and electronic art projects from around Australia and internationally. Held throughout the foyer, gallery and workshop spaces at Newcastle's Hunter Street ...

10:00am - 01:00pm

Pitches

Alysha Herrmann leads this workshop about elevator pitching, honing ideas and learning to collaborate. Using an Open Spaces format, attending writers will 'pitch' an idea they are currently working on, refine and present it to the group. Alysha ...

11:00am - 12:00pm

Does it Matter?

Celebrating their 10th year, Kings ARI curators and artists talk transformation, energy and matter, and consider the artistic potential of matter’s capacity to change as an arrangement of particles in flux. Anabelle Lacroix, Kate Warren, Benjamin ...

11:00am - 03:30pm

Zine Fair

With a new home in Staple Manor (The Kensington), the 2013 NYWF/TiNA zine fair is leaner, meaner, and curated by the talented Beef Knuckles crew. Come along for specialty coffee, cracking tunes on vinyl, and zines, zines, zines!

11:30am - 12:30pm

The Future in Review

A discussion on the state of review and literary criticism in Australia today and into the future. Facilitator: Angie Andrewes. With Bethanie Blanchard, Sky Kirkham, Grace Nye, Rebecca Harkins-Cross, Lizzie Stafford, Paul Donoghue

11:30am - 12:30pm

Tony Soprano is Dead

Sometimes we love a fictional character so intensely we become emotionally attached, or hate them to the point of disgust. What makes us like or dislike characters? Do we even need to like characters at all? Chair: Ronnie Scott. With Romy Ash, Amy Espeseth, ...

12:30pm - 02:00pm

(Prof.) Mischief Makers

Three papers look at the artistic opportunity of play, spontaneity and mischief, as creative provocations that subtly interrogate cultural prescriptions of thought and practice.

01:00pm - 02:00pm

In Summary: Romance

Your Friends have been researching for two years now, and it's time to present some findings. A participatory performance examining the mechanics of romance.

01:00pm - 02:00pm

#WTF: Writing in the Post-Internet Age

If you spend more time online than IRL, this presentation is for you. Touching on LOLspeak, coding language, ironic hyperlinks, screenshots and Snapchats, two presenters will attempt to rove over the many-sided terrain of writing post-world wide web.

01:00pm - 02:30pm

$$$$$

Cha-ching! In the digital age, more and more outlets are expecting writers to work for free. But you can't pay bills with social media shares. How much are you worth per word? Are there ever circumstances when we should write for free?

01:00pm - 02:00pm

This One Time...

For some it's a tea-soaked madeleine cake, for others it's a beer-soaked pub carpet. Memory is a funny thing, and in this series of presentations, three talkers take us through their best/worst/most memorable. Ellen van Neerven

01:00pm - 04:00pm

Funnies

A workshop with a particular focus on writing comedy and how to be funny on the page as well as the stage, with The Sturgeon General's Patrick Lenton.

01:00pm - 05:00pm

Yarns

Kaitlyn Plyley has trained in storytelling under teachers from New York's The Moth and LA's Upright Citizens Brigade. She'll share techniques and tips in this live storytelling workshop.

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Tell It To The Borgeoise

Why performing on the main stages may not be the height of a performance career. Context can make work great but what is the right context to make it truly incredible?

02:00pm - 02:45pm

PANIC

PANIC: A fresh new work exploring being young and anxious in a brave new world.

02:00pm - 03:30pm

Revolutionary Theatre

How can we create a space for militant political theatre in Australia? Two theatre makers present a provocative manifesto agitating for an engagement with the revolutionary moment.

02:30pm - 02:30pm

Why Awards?

Helen Garner recently said "Prizes are rather like wills. Terrible anxieties cluster around them." Do we need awards to motivate writers? Does awards culture help or hinder writing? Facilitator: Benjamin Law. With Anna Krien, Romy Ash, Alli ...

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Beaches Love Power

Using 400 years of history and the Bette Midler film ‘Beaches’, this show is a light and self-deprecating look at the backstabbing and general cattiness that can undermine relationships between women.

03:00pm - 05:00pm

Wings of Wax- An Oracle of Myth and Mind

Step behind the curtain, choose your cards and prepare to walk the labyrinth of a mind unbalanced. Here lie the tales of secrets, seductions and sorrows that pave the unpredictable path through mental illness.

03:00pm - 04:30pm

45%

45% of adults between 16 and 85 have had a mental disorder in their lifetime. We talk with artists exploring this in their work, their lives and experts to help you take the best care of yourself and those around you.

03:45pm - 05:15pm

From the Grass Roots to the Grand Gesture

How do you take a grandiose idea, no money, the political and the personal  and turn it into art? Join members of Sipat Lawan, David Finnigan and Boni Cairncross to delve into the profound mysteries and mundane realities of making charged performances ...

04:00pm - 05:00pm

The Mayfly Project

An exploration of our relationship with time, combining live generative music, storytelling and lo-fi animation.

04:00pm - 04:30pm

The Set

What makes the places that define you? A daily interactive installation that creates, explores and demolishes the world around us.

04:00pm - 05:00pm

We Don’t Speak Americano

Younger Australian radio producers have been accused of imitating This American Life or Radio Lab, while dismissing the culture and knowledge built up by older Australian radio greats. How can we retain an Australian flavour of radio, while employing techniques ...

04:30pm - 06:00pm

Linguistics, Social Politics and You

Watch what you say: four linguists discuss the social politics in language, viewed through the practical lens of objective language research.

05:00pm - 06:00pm

Crack on Crack

If you see nothing of the Crack Theatre Festival, which we hope isn't true, Sunday, 5pm we present for you everything (almost) in 2 minutes.

05:00pm - 07:00pm

Feelpinions

We've all got one, and they all stink. So why do news outlets dish out so many opinion pieces? And do these opinions get in the way of hard news that matters? Join a motley gang of media professionals from both sides of the opinion/news divide as they ...

05:00pm - 07:00pm

Lush 4 Lyf

William Faulkner couldn't write without it. Dylan Thomas killed himself with it. Dorothy Parker would rather have it than a frontal lobotomy. But is alcohol necessary to the writing life, or does the writing life drive people to drink?

06:00pm - 06:15pm

Applespiel Presents A Theatrical Primer To Every Panel At Crack Theatre Festival 2013

Applespiel will take every single panel at Crack Theatre Festival, and put it on a stage. For you.

06:00pm - 07:00pm

What the Fuck, Australia…

A forum of discontent which will trawl through the intrigues and scandals of ‘Election 2013’ and ask if there was any method at all in the madness. Ben Jenkins, Alice Workman, Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

06:00pm - 12:00am

Electrofringe TiNA Closing Night Party

For TiNA's 2013 Closing Night Party, Electrofringe brings some of the most exciting electronic musicians and sound artists from Sydney and Newcastle together for a flat out party of experimental music fun. Featuring 6 emerging electronic artists spanning ...

06:00pm - 12:00am

Electrofringe TiNA Closing Night Party

For TiNA's 2013 Closing Night Party, Electrofringe brings some of the most exciting electronic musicians and sound artists from Sydney and Newcastle together for a flat out party of experimental music fun. Featuring 6 emerging electronic artists spanning ...

06:30pm - 07:30pm

Unfinished Business

A cataloguing and crucifixion of Crack: a ceremony of creation through destruction; a eulogy to the ephemerality of art.

07:30pm - 12:00am

AFTER PARTY!

07:30pm - 09:00pm

The Critical Animalia: A Decade between Disciplines

What does it mean to be a Critical Animal in 2013? We welcome all voices to discuss and discern the contemporary status of Criticality today. Registrations for mike time essential.

09:00pm - 11:00pm

Late Night Readings #3: Everybody Needs Good Neighbours

Finish your day with a bedtime story from some of the country's finest young writers.

02:00pm - 04:00pm

Feelings

Sometimes being sad is its own kind of fun, but others definitely not. Join Voiceworks for some (hopefully) helpful hints on how to stay sane and professional as a creative type.