There'll be performances and readings from the of three sharpest lit-mags around, all centring on cult writing, be it about music, film or other left-of-centre obsessions.

We can promise some very exciting live music and spoken word performances, from very familiar faces that will make your eyes go fluttery and your underthings catch aflame. Yes there will be more than one room. Yes there will be the chance for audienc...

The literary festival is a form by which we communicate to an audience, and gather together like-minded people. What we do with that form is entirely up to us. It is vital that programmers consider deeply the context in which we live, play, read and...

"My interpretation of What Right Do I Have changes depending on whether we’re talking about fiction or non-fiction. If we all wrote fiction based on things we had experienced ourselves, we wouldn’t have books like, and I’m casting a wide net of...

The wonder of women, diversity in publishing, sharing story. Festival artist Allison Whittaker talks about her appearance at the Emerging Writers' Festival this year.

Criticism we love from critics we admire.

The stuff of terror: ghosts, slugs, myki fines, and being a 13-year-old.

In conversation with Robert Watkins and Brodie Lancaster.