Feeling creatively blue, mentally remaindered, or just a bit shithouse? Book in to get a once over with one of our very hot practitioners. Their topic of the day is you, you, you. Check in so Bethany Jones an entertianment lawyer, film and theatre all round guru can check you out!

Feeling creatively blue, mentally remaindered, or just a bit shithouse? ! Book in to get a once over with one of our very hot practitioners. Their topic of the day is you, you, you. Check in so Kelly Chandler: Chair of the NYWF Board (Need we say more?) can check you out!

Feeling creatively blue, mentally remaindered, or just a bit shithouse? ! Book in to get a once over with one of our very hot practitioners. Their topic of the day is you, you, you. Check in so Margo Lanagan a highly celebrated international author can check you out.

Feeling creatively blue, mentally remaindered, or just a bit shithouse? Book in to get a once over with one of our very hot practitioners. Their topic of the day is you, you, you. Check in so Tony Woodward sculpter, zinester and senior arts educator can check you out.

It begins at midnight(....well 11:30pm....so we lied) Where is it? What will you see? Leave your mobile number at the TINA info booth before 12 noon daily to receive the super-secret whos, whats, wheres, whens, and hows of The Late Night Mystery Meat. **Meat may or may not be included.

By Monday, believe us, your brain is jello. It's time to take a load off in your local bowls club! Comfy shoes, laid-back readings, acoustic tunes, and, yup, lawn bowls. When the most you have to move is from chair to cheap drinks, this could be mistaken for heaven.

NYWF artists lock and load: meet the team, pick up some treats and ching-ching with us as we officially throw open the doors of Staple Manor 2009 and whip the veil off of the ‘Judge A Zine By Its Cover’ exhibition. It’s GO-time. Be Prepared and look alive!

Forget SpellCheck. Put your money where your keyboard is. We test just who has the smarts to hold their own in an arena of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and--trust us--way beyond. Will you go the distance, poindexter?

Back by popular demand, and this time in our hot new venue! Includes Zine & Independent Publishers Fair, Artist Markets, snack treats, coffee, performances, readings, improvised dance, and the greatest panoramic ocean vista views ever. Bring your parasol, and spare change or swap wares...

Get ready to rumble. Fiction and Non-Fiction go head-to-head in this all-out literary smackdown where only one genre can emerge triumphant! Watch FACT cut FICTION down to size, and see FICTION kick FACT in the balls! Minds unite, fight, and win. Arrive early for a ringside seat.

The perfect push into a wild Nova night, The BURNing Brow is a wicked, tropical party from Brisbane's BURN collective and ex-Brisbanites The Lifted Brow. We'll give you art; we'll give you leis; and we'll probably set your forehead on fire, as the name implies.

“People were not invited to Gatsby's house - they went there.” NYWF invites you to rogue your knees and roll your stockings down for a night of sequin-drenched debauch. Find your flapper, pack your top-hat and we’ll put the ‘ALL’ in your ‘BALL’. Come party like it’s 1925!

Kick back with a crumpet as he latest spoken-word artists deliver a scrumptious selection of spoken spreads to cater to any taste. Got a little jam of your own? Well get on up spread that sugar round.

Because Newcastle University has a rotating stage, and because that rotating stage demanded it, WRIRON CHEF pits food writer against food writer in a stainless, steely war of wills. They can mouth off on the page, but can you eat it off the stage? Watch, squirm, swallow the results.

A time for all of you Younger Young Writers to meet you mentors. Meet, greet and begin the hottest festival journey of your life! Run back to back with the artist meet and greet as one big melting pot of very important peeps! Hosted by Co Director Amy Ingram and YYWMP Coordinator Chris Vernon.