30 Nov, 2017
The 2017 Annual General Meeting of the Copyright Agency Limited will be held at the Remington Room, Level 5, SMC Conference and Function Centre, 66 Goulburn Street, Sydney, New South Wales. Please take the elevator to Level 4, then the stairs to Level 5. An access lift is also available from Level 4; please advise […]
30 Nov, 2017 to 01 Dec, 2017
“Now, gods, stand up for bastards!” – Edmund in King Lear The Victorian Association for the Teaching of English State Conference will be held at Deakin University on Thursday 30 November and Friday 1 December. In 2017 VATE celebrates those individuals who take the contrary line; who will not or cannot swim in the main stream; […]
29 Nov, 2017
The 62nd Annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism will be held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on 29 November. The awards cover all media, including print, television, radio, photographic and online media. They are regarded as the Australian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes. Journalists around the nation submitted more than 1,200 entries, which […]
24 Nov, 2017 to 25 Nov, 2017
“None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” – Jane Austen, Persuasion The English Teachers Association NSW’s Annual Conference will be held at UNSW on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 November. Significant elements of the conference deal with the new syllabus emphasis on writing and how to teach it, as well as […]
17 Nov, 2017 to 19 Nov, 2017
The Word for Word National Non-Fiction Festival will be held at the iconic Geelong Library & Heritage Centre on 17-19 November, 2017. It is the largest national event to showcase non-fiction writing in all forms and this year features more than 80 enthralling guest speakers over three days of masterclasses, keynote addresses, panels and in-conversation […]
15 Nov, 2017 to 15 Nov, 2017
On this year’s Day of The Imprisoned Writer, award-winning cartoonist Cathy Wilcox will turn her attention to those less-common practitioners of freedom of expression: cartoonists. She will discuss how they, too, suffer and are punished, imprisoned and even killed for speaking out and drawing truths that the powerful – or fanatical – find objectionable. Since […]
10 Nov, 2017
Exploring the way design speaks to us, and the way we speak about design, the inaugural national design writing conference will be held at Roy Grounds’ iconic 1959 Shine Dome as a signature DESIGN Canberra event. For the first time, designers, writers, critics, bloggers, researchers, collectors, makers, curators and design lovers will come together to […]
02 Nov, 2017
Kate Forsyth wrote her first novel at the age of seven, and is now an internationally bestselling and award-winning author of almost forty books, ranging from picture books to poetry to novels for both adults and children. She was recently voted one of Australia’s Favourite 15 Novelists, and has been called ‘one of the finest writers of this generation’. She […]
