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2018 Salisbury
Writers’ Festival 24 to 26 August 2018
PROGRAM 24 to 26 August 2018
2018 SALISBURY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL Proudly presented by the City of Salisbury in partnership with Writers SA the 2018 Salisbury Writers’ Festival provides a range of activities designed for local writers whilst also providing opportunities for aspiring writers and bloggers. There is one ticket price and attendees can focus on creative or business topics, the program also offers community workshops and activities so there is something for everyone.
I always look forward to the Salisbury Writers’ Festival and each year this fabulous event continues to surpass my expectations. This year will be no different. A range of writing topics from blogging, to plot creation, to creativity and getting published will be on offer as the festival looks to support professional and amateur writers. I am pleased to welcome Vikki Wakefield as this year’s keynote speaker along with a wealth of experienced writers who graciously pass on their knowledge to our community. Whether you have a passion for the arts, whether you’re looking for support in publishing or whether you just want to hone your craft – this year’s Salisbury Writers’ Festival is for you. Gillian Aldridge, OAM Mayor of Salisbury
PROGRAM FRIDAY SATURDAY
Len Beadell Library
Salisbury Institute
11.30am to 1pm WORKSHOP: Diverse Voices Writing Your Salisbury Story Presented by: Manal Younus FREE Workshop - Bookings essential
2pm to 5pm AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM 2018 South Australian Heat 2 $6 at the door - No bookings required
24 AUG
John Harvey Gallery 12 James Street, Salisbury
6pm to 7.30pm OPENING & AWARDS EVENING Featuring: Phil Cummings FREE Event - Bookings essential
25 AUG
55 John Street, Salisbury
1.30pm to 3pm STORYTIME FOR KIDS Presented by: Adam Cece FREE Activity - No bookings required
2018 Salisbury Writers’ Festival Program
17-19 Wiltshire Street, Salisbury
TICKETED PROGRAM Len Beadell Library 55 John Street, Salisbury
Details: One ticket for two days, attendees can choose to focus on either creative or business topics Cost: Full Price $80, Concession/Student $60 Bookings: discoversalisbury.com.au/swf Ticket holders have the opportunity to book in for a ten minute consultation session with Writers SA staff to talk about their writing and career trajectory. Bookings will be taken on the day at the Writers SA consultation desk.
SATURDAY
25 AUG
9.30am to 10.15am CRACKED UP TO BE: The Truth About Writing, Publishing and Success Stream: Both Creative & Business Presented by: Vikki Wakefield 10.30am to 11.15am PANEL: Where do ideas come from? Ideas, Creativity and Getting Started Stream: Both Creative & Business Rebekah Clarkson Chaired by: Presented by: Vikki Wakefield, Kristin Weidenbach and Jason Fischer 11.30am to 1pm WORKSHOP: Creative Writing 101 Stream: Creative Presented by: Rebekah Clarkson
11.30am to 1pm WORKSHOP: Building Your Online Profile Stream: Business Presented by: Karen Larsen
1.30pm to 3pm WORKSHOP: Immersing the Reader in your Plot Stream: Creative Presented by: Jason Fischer
1.30pm 3pm WORKSHOP: Blogging 101 Stream: Business Presented by: Amanda McInerny
SUNDAY
26 AUG
1pm to 1.45pm PANEL: The Writers’ Life. How to be a Writer Stream: Both Creative & Business Chaired by: Victoria Purman Presented by: Clare Connelly, Amy Matthews and Kristin Weidenbach 1.45pm to 3pm WORKSHOP: Whipping Your Manuscript into Shape Stream: Creative Presented by: Lynette Washington
1.45pm to 3pm WORKSHOP: Writing for Business Stream: Business Presented by: Michelle Prak
3.15pm to 4pm PANEL: What Now? Getting Published Stream: Both Creative & Business Chaired by: Jessica Alice Presented by: Amy Matthews, Clare Connelly and Lynette Washington
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OPENING & AWARDS EVENING Special Guest Phil Cummings 6pm to 7.30pm Fri 24 Aug 2018 Join us for a jam-packed Salisbury Writers’ Festival opening and awards evening, with special Guest Phil Cummings and the announcement of the winners of the Salisbury Writers’ Festival short story competition.
FREE WORKSHOP: DIVERSE VOICES WRITING YOUR SALISBURY STORY (Workshop) Presented by Manal Younus 11.30am to 1pm Sat 25 Aug 2018 Through a combination of conversation, writing prompts and performance exercises, we will create a collaborative learning space to encourage attendees to trust their own voices, their own stories and their own delivery of those stories.
FREE ACTIVITY: STORYTIME FOR KIDS Presented by Adam Cece 1.30pm to 3pm Sat 25 Aug 2018 Join award-winning children’s author Adam Cece for a reading of his work that will delight young and old alike.
$6 AT THE DOOR (ALL AGES): AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM 2018 South Australian Heat 2 2.30pm to 5pm Sat 25 Aug 2018 Salisbury Institute 17-19 Wiltshire Street, Salisbury Two minutes to make your mark on the mic! The search is on for Australia’s best spoken word poet. Speak, scream, howl, whisper or sing your original poem at the South Australian heats of the Australian Poetry Slam - electric live events where the audience is the judge! 2018 Salisbury Writers’ Festival Program
CRACKED UP TO BE: THE TRUTH ABOUT WRITING, PUBLISHING AND SUCCESS (Keynote Speech) Presented by Vikki Wakefield Stream: Creative & Business 9.30am to 10.15am Sat 25 Aug 2018 Vikki Wakefield’s keynote speech about her experience with writing, publishing and success.
WHERE DO IDEAS COME FROM? CREATIVITY AND GETTING STARTED (Panel) Chaired by Rebekah Clarkson Presented by Vikki Wakefield, Kristin Weidenbach and Jason Fischer Stream: Creative & Business 10.30am to 11.15am Sat 25 Aug 2018 Have you ever wondered where successful authors get their story ideas from? Join Rebekah Clarkson, author of Barking Dogs, in asking our panel of authors from different genres how they get started, find their creativity, and generate ideas.
CREATIVE WRITING 101 (Workshop) Presented by Rebekah Clarkson Stream: Creative 11.30am to 1pm Sat 25 Aug 2018 Twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, a few punctuation marks and a blank page: a writer’s tools are both simple and humble. So how do we capture the imaginations of our readers? This workshop will guide you through essential techniques to help bring your writing to life:
• The use of authentic and effective dialogue • Highly specific concrete detail • Sensory detail • Action • Word choice as alchemy There will be lots of opportunities to practice new writing techniques, ask questions and share… but only if you want to (introverts welcome). By the end of this workshop you will be reading like a writer and have a range of short pieces to begin a new story.
BUILDING YOUR ONLINE PROFILE (Workshop) Presented by Kate Larsen Stream: Business 11.30am to 1pm Sat 25 Aug 2018 It’s more important than ever for writers and businesspeople of any kind to think about their online profile. Join literary sector leader and social media poet Kate Larsen to find out what options are available online, how to use them to your best advantage, and how to balance your working time alongside the time you need to spend building your brand as a writer. You’ll learn: • Why you need an author platform • How to engage with online communities and audiences • Strategies to build your author brand and manage your reputation • The sticky issues of working online, such as pseudonyms and copyright concerns • How to balance your writing and marketing schedules.
IMMERSING THE READER IN YOUR PLOT (Workshop) Presented by Jason Fischer Stream: Creative 1.30pm to 3pm Sat 25 Aug 2018 Immersing the Reader in Your Plot - In this workshop, learn how to structure your work to hook in a reader, and keep them invested until the end. Explore everything from Aristotelian narrative structures through to TV Tropes and Booker’s ‘The Seven Basic Plots’. Workshop participants will get to take a hands-on approach, assemble a brandnew plot, and test-drive it in the session. These narrative tools can be used for any genre of writing, and are suitable for everything from your next great novel to your screenplay or web-comic.
BLOGGING (Workshop) Presented by Amanda McInerny Stream: Business 1.30pm to 3pm Sat 25 Aug 2018 Blogging is a great way to share a personal passion with the world and getting your writing noticed, while honing your skills and learning how to maintain a personal writing schedule. Beginning the process can be a little intimidating, but this workshop will introduce you to the bones of blogging – how to set one up, selecting platforms and themes, establishing a structure for your posts and the importance of photography. The workshop will also cover the day to day running of a blog, including monitoring and replying to comments, the significance of SEO and the importance of promoting it using social media.
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THE WRITERS’ LIFE: HOW TO BE A WRITER (Panel) Chaired by Victoria Purman Presented by Clare Connelly, Amy Matthews, Kristin Weidenbach Stream: Creative 1pm to 1.45pm Sun 26 Aug 2018 What’s it really like to be a writer? In this panel, Chair Victoria Purman and authors Clare Connelly, Kristen Weidenbach and Amy Matthews will delve deep into inspiration and ideas, the thrill of landing a book contract, the ups and downs of publishing and what bum glue really means.
WHIPPING YOUR MANUSCRIPT INTO SHAPE (Workshop) Presented by Lynette Washington Stream: Creative 1.45pm to 3.15pm Sun 26 Aug 2018 Ever wondered if your manuscript is ready to send off? Have you done everything you can to give yourself and your work the best possible chance in the competitive world of publishing? And what are publishers looking for exactly? Does a spit and polish really make a difference? In this workshop we will discuss basic self-editing techniques and methods for redrafting. You will learn how to critically assess your own work, and learn how to address weaknesses so that you can whip your manuscript into shape!
2018 Salisbury Writers’ Festival Program
WRITING FOR BUSINESS (Workshop) Presented by Michelle Prak Stream: Business 1.45pm to 3.15pm Sun 26 Aug 2018 Writing for Business will explore many facets of business writing: formal letters, memos, web pages, emails, media releases, annual reports, blog posts and more. Modern business communication is largely online, and this workshop will focus on online writing. This session is a handy refresher of what’s expected in professional communication and, at the same time, participants will be encouraged to consider their personal style and the brand of writing which best suits their organisation. • Writing in a professional tone and style • Principles of good online writing • Writing for public relations • Planning your writing • The importance of a style guide and organisational design
WHAT NOW? GETTING PUBLISHED (Panel) Chaired by Jessica Alice Presented by Amy Matthews, Clare Connelly and Lynette Washington Stream: Creative 3.15pm to 4pm Sun 26 Aug 2018 You have come up with a great idea, written your first draft, edited and revised until you can do so no more, but what’s next? How do you get published? Join Writers SA’s new director, Jessica Alice, in asking a panel of traditionally published and self-published authors how it’s done.
PHIL CUMMINGS Phil Cummings has written over sixty books for children in a career that has spanned thirty years. Phil has been an ambassador to the Premier’s Reading Challenge in South Australia since the program began in 2004. He is also an ambassador for the Dad’s Read campaign with the State Library, ambassador for The Little Big Book Club Raising Literacy Australia and was an ambassador for the National Year of Reading in 2012. Phil has received a number of honours and awards in Australia and overseas for his work.
VIKKI WAKEFIELD Vikki Wakefield’s first YA novel All I Ever Wanted won the 2012 Adelaide Festival Literary Award for YA Fiction, as did her second novel Friday Brown in 2014. Friday Brown was also a 2013 CBCA Honour Book and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Vikki’s third novel Inbetween Days was Highly Commended in the 2016 Barbara Jefferis Award, a 2016 CBCA Honour Book, shortlisted for the 2016 Prime Minister’s Awards, and awarded the SCBWI 2017 Golden Kite Honor. Vikki lives and writes in Adelaide. Ballad for a Mad Girl is her new YA novel (June 2017).
REBEKAH CLARKSON Rebekah Clarkson is the author of Barking Dogs (Affirm Press, 2017), a short story cycle set in Mount Barker, South Australia. Her stories have been recognised in major awards in Australia and overseas, including the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, Fish Publishing Short Story Prize and Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open. Her fiction has appeared in publications including Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories and Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women (Black Inc.). She has a BA in Aboriginal Studies and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, where she works as a sessional lecturer and tutor. She has also taught short story writing at the University of Texas at Austin. Rebekah is a Board Member of the International Society for the Study of the Short Story.
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KRISTIN WEIDENBACH Kristin Weidenbach writes popular non-fiction focused on Australian history. She is the author of Growing up Moonta, Rock Star: the Story of Reg Sprigg and the Australian bestseller Mailman of the Birdsville Track: the Story of Tom Kruse, which has sold over 100,000 copies. Her picture books for children include King of the Outback: the story of Sidney Kidman, Meet Banjo Paterson and Tom the Outback Mailman illustrated by Timothy Ide, which won the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Eve Pownall award, 2013. Kristin is the author of commissioned histories Blue Flames, Black Gold: the story of Santos, and First Watch: 40 years of the Cruising Yacht Club of SA.
JASON FISCHER Jason Fischer is an Adelaide-based screen-writer and workshop facilitator. Winner of the Colin Thiele Literature Scholarship, Writers of the Future Contest and the Aurealis Awards, Jason has worked on comics, computer games, television, short stories, novellas and novels. He also has a passion for godawful puns, and is known to sing karaoke until the small hours.
KATE LARSEN Kate Larsen is an Adelaide-based writer, arts manager and non-profit/cultural consultant. One of Australia’s bestknown social media poets, her alter ego, “Katie Keys”, has written and tweeted a daily poem as @tinylittlepoems for nearly a decade. As a writer and poet in residence, her work has been published or commissioned by Arts Centre Melbourne, the Australia Council for the Arts, Kill Your Darlings, Overland Journal, and anthologies, magazines and blogs in Australia, Singapore and the UK. Her chapbook, An Apology to the Librarian and other Camden poems, was published by the London Borough of Camden in 2010.
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MANAL YOUNUS Manal Younus is an Australian based freelance storyteller from Eritrea who believes that language and stories are the very fabric of our existence. Since making the Australian Poetry Slam National Finals for the second time in 2013, Manal no longer competes in slams but has gone on to perform around the country. In 2015, Manal released her first book of poetry called Reap. In 2016, Manal represented Australia at the Georgetown Literary Festival in Penang, Malaysia, appeared on ABC’s QandA, and presented at the Adelaide TEDx Conference. Now, Manal travels frequently to perform and facilitate workshops across states and territories in schools, as well as public events and conferences with a range of different audiences.
AMANDA MCINERNY Amanda McInerny is the author of Lambs Ears and Honey, a food/travel blog with a strong focus on seasonal, local regional good and food security/politics, which she began in 2010. She is a graduate of the University of Adelaide Le Cordon Bleu course with a graduate certificate in Gastronomy. Amanda has written for various publications and is a contributor to SALife Magazine, where she is also one of three writers who compile the massive annual food and wine issue, a region-by-region look at South Australia’s wonderful culinary scene. She has worked extensively with SATC, putting together and hosting blogging conferences as part of Tasting Australia and is part of an international research team which works on an annual major food trend report for Campbell’s Foods.
ADAM CECE Adam Cece is a South Australian children’s author. His debut middle grade novel, Wesley Booth Super Sleuth, was published by Scholastic in 2015. His second book, Twin Spin, will be published in 2018. His book The Extremely Weird Thing That Happened In Huggabie Falls won the 2017 Text Prize. The first two books in the Huggabie Falls series will be published by Text Publishing in 2018. Adam is also a manuscript assessor for Writers SA and regularly does school visits and author talks through Becky’s Literary Bookings (www.beckysliterary.com.au). discoversalisbury.com.au/swf
VICTORIA PURMAN Victoria Purman is a multi-published, award-nominated, Amazon Kindle bestselling author whose thirteenth novel, The Last of the Bonegilla Girls, was published in May 2018. She is a Vice President of Romance Writers of Australia, and was long-standing member of the Writers SA Board until this year. She is a regular guest at writers festivals, has been nominated for a number of readers’ choice awards and was a judge in the fiction category for the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
AMY T MATTHEWS Amy T Matthews is an award-winning novelist, a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Flinders University, and Chair of Writers SA. She has had short stories published in collections including Best Australian Stories and journals including TEXT, and Verita La, and has co-edited three anthologies, the most recent of which is Crush: stories about love. Amy also writes non-fiction and scholarly articles and publishes historical romance under the name Tess LeSue. Tess’s Frontiers of the Heart series is published by Penguin Random House USA; Bound for Sin is in stories September 2018.
CLARE CONNELLY Clare Connelly self-published her first ebook in May 2014 and by the end of that same year was selling thousands of copies a month and earning a six-figure income. Six months later, she was in the top 100 of Amazon-exclusive authors in America and the top 15 Amazon-exclusive authors in the UK. She had sold almost a million digital books before signing with Harlequin (Harper Collins) in October 2016 – and now writes as a ‘hybrid’ author, continuing to publish best-sellers as an indie as well as selling books through traditional publishing. She writes as full-time as a busy life with two young children permits, and loves to cook, eat French food and drinks far more tea than is good for anyone.
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LYNETTE WASHINGTON Lynette Washington is a short story writer, editor and teacher of creative and professional writing. From 2014 to 2017 she was the Editor and Submissions Editor at MidnightSun Publishing. When she is not writing, she teaches police cadets the importance of sentence structure. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. She has been a panellist at the Australian Short Story Festival (2016 & 2017), Salisbury Writers’ Festival (2017) and Festival Fleurieu (2015 & 2017). Her stories have been published widely and in 2014 she edited the story collection, Breaking Beauty. In 2017 she co-edited the story collection, Crush. Plane Tree Drive, her debut, was published in 2017 and was Highly Commended in the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award.
MICHELLE PRAK Michelle Prak is a public relations consultant with more than 20 years’ experience in communications. She is a PR and writing teacher at UniSA and Flinders University, and immediate past president of the Public Relations Institute of Australia - SA branch. Michelle has a BA (Journalism) and Masters in Communication Management. She is a former board member of Writers SA (then SA Writers’ Centre).
JESSICA ALICE Jessica Alice is the Director of Writers SA and has worked as a writer, editor and broadcaster. She is Poetry Editor of Scum and was Co-Director of the National Young Writers’ Festival in 2014 and 2015. Jessica’s writing and reviews have been published in the Guardian Australia, Junkee, VICE, the Lifted Brow, Spook, the Victorian Writer, Voiceworks, Cordite Poetry Review, among others.
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