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August 29, 2008
Melbourne Writers' Festival Reports
As the Melbourne Writers' Festival moves though its first week a number of bloggers have been writing up their experiences.
Judith Ridge, of "The ::New:: Misrule" weblog dropped into three schools' sessions.
Jo Case, on the Readings bookshop weblog went along to see Louise Asher in conversation with Susan Johnson.
And further to the Readings coverage of the MWF are these photos from the first weekend.
Karen Chisholm, of the "Australian Crime Fiction" weblog has a few friends staying with her for the Festival. Whihc has probably made it difficult for her to post about anything. I suspect she'll be at the Ned Kelly Awards tonight so we might see something out of that.
Margo Lanagan has been and gone, appearing on a few panels earlier in the week; one at least that Judith Ridge went to.
Estelle, from "3000 Books" had a busy first Sunday.
"Hackpacker" went along to see David Sedaris, and Angela was interested in Augusten Burroughs.
The "Speakeasy" weblog mentioned the launch of a new edition of The Australian Writers Marketplace at the Festival.
And Mark Lawrence wonders why the MWF doesn't have "official" lit-bloggers covering the events as other Australian festivals have done.
Posted by larrikin at August 29, 2008 11:43 AM
Comments
Yep, I did go see Sedaris. I also interviewed Burroughs for the Big Issue, had a think about how the festival could be more 2.0 and looked at how the festival continues on Slow TV. Phew! It was a busy festival.
Posted by: hackpacker at September 6, 2008 09:33 PM