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Thanks to all who put their hands up for the Panellist callout, as always we were stunned by the amount of interesting writers reading our newsletter, delighted with how many people were keen to be part of EWF 2009 and a little surprised by the amount of people who didn’t read the brief.
From here it’s a giant jigsaw puzzle of who would work well for which panel balancing the demands of each panel with the need to have writers of different styles and forms and genres on each panel. Don’t despair if you haven’t heard from us yet, we will be umming and erring for another month yet and as some of last years panellist call out people found out today, we have long memories.
Three quick notes to finish off with this week.
*/_(The event formerly known as)_/**_ Scrabble_*
Long time Emerging Writers’ Festival fans will know we do a performance event called Scrabble. Last year we did the works of Paul Kelly in a night of radical word based reinterpretations. This year we are…well let’s not give everything away.
Anyway the issue is we are changing the name. Not due to any multinationals telling us to do so but just because it confuses some people who come to the event and are annoyed they can’t see a triple word score anywhere.
What shall we call it? Well…surprisingly for such an innovative festival we are stumped. Thus we turn to you our loyal e-newsletter list.
We are looking for suggestions for the new name for the /(The event formerly known as) /Scrabble. It needs to be snappy, short, maybe linked to the fact we perform lyrics and of course original.
The winning entry gets a double pass to /(The event formerly known as)/ Scrabble on Thursday the 28^th of May at BMW Edge
Competition closes Friday the 20th of February. Email it to director@emergingwritersfestival.org.au with the heading ‘I’ve got a much better idea’
*_Program Booklet_*
Each year for the festival we print a wonderful little A6 booklet which details the whole festival, has wonderfully creative bios and occasionally even a vaguely inspirational message from the me. We see it as the passport to the festival and with this years festival being ten days with over twelve different events its going to be the must have item to plan your festival.
Unfortunately this wonderful tome rarely ends up in the hands of those who want it. We don’t know why but the 3000 or so we print disappear, with people who come to the festival thinking our two page download _is_ the program.
This year we have had enough and have put aside a little money for direct mailing. So if you would like the program mailed to you, arriving the day the ticket sales go online on April the 27^th , please email your name and postal address (with postcode) in the body of your email to info@emergingwritersfestival.org.au . Please title your email Program. (Also don’t reply directly to this e-newsletter. It doesn’t go anywhere useful when you do).
Also we will not be posting internationally.
*_Twitter_*
For those wanting to keep up with us as things happen, come join us on twitter at http://twitter.com/EmergingWriters.
And we are also on Facebook if you really want to go social media crazy http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=534231192&ref=name#/pages/Emerging-Writers-Festival/22221031271?ref=s
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David Ryding
Director
Emerging Writers' Festival
Friday 22nd - Sunday 31st May 2009
www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au
Emerging Writers’ Festival 2009
Internship: Associate Producers
The Emerging Writers’ Festival is looking for artists and arts management students to undertake Internships and play a vital role in the management and development of the 2009 Festival
These positions are voluntary and we expect it to fit quite well with the internship project requirements of arts or events management, communications, publishing, editing or writing students.
This Internship is an ideal grounding for developing your career in the sector. Each intern will be exposed to all facets of festival management, including responsibilities covering the administration of the festival, the production of the festival as well as the programming of the festival, and will play a significant role in the success of the Emerging Writers’ Festival.
Position description
Working closely with the Festival Director, Admin and Communications Coordinator and Festival producer you will
– Be responsible for the program development, management and realisation of one selected program within the 2009 Festival.
– Assist in the overall development and management of, including assisting of the running of the program, of the 2009 Melbourne town hall program
– Be responsible for one selected business project within the organisational structure
– Assist with the coordination of Festival Artists
– Attend relevant meetings with EWF board, project partners, publicist etc
– Attend weekly staff meetings
– Contribute to the streamlining of EWF processes, and feed these into ongoing documentation;
– Produce a post-event report.
Conditions
– This position is voluntary and we expect it to fit quite well with the internship project requirements of arts or events management, communications, publishing, editing or writing students.
– The successful applicant will negotiate a weekly schedule with the Festival Director, which is expected to be a half-day to a day per week. Work will build for the whole team in the month before the Festival with the successful applicant needing to be very available the ten days of the festival.
– Actual days/hours per week are to be negotiated. Some work outside of these hours might be necessary e.g. to attend meetings.
– The intern reports to the EWF Director, David Ryding.
– The position is located within the Next Wave Offices, Office 4, 5 Blackwood St North Melbourne with some work undertaken offsite as required.
– The EWF WorkCover and public liability insurance covers the intern
Selection Criteria
– A passion for new writing, and for the environments which showcase and accommodate it – this position will work best for people who are keen to learn about literary events management, so let us know why this internship would be a great experience for you right now;
– Superb communications skills, both oral and written;
– The ability to respond to direction, and work both independently and as part of a team;
– Ability to commit to a consistent weekly schedule against other work and study commitments, across the entire six-month period, with peak periods in the month before the Festival – please let us know about all your competing time commitments;
– Familiarity with relevant office software such as MS Office, in a Mac OSX environment;
– Desirable: previous experience working on comparable events;
– An interest in EWF’s mission and target audience development groups.
Application process
After the close of applications on Tuesday, January 27th, shortlisting will quickly take place and we expect applicants to be available for interview on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 3rd.
Applicants should be able to start in mid-February 2008.
For further information please David Ryding via director@emergingwritersfestival.org.au
Applications must include a statement addressing the selection criteria, along with your covering letter, CV and referees’ contact details.
Applications must be received by 5:00pm Tuesday, January 27th.
Please apply by email: director@emergingwritersfestival.org.au using subject line Associate Producers
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David Ryding
Director
Emerging Writers' Festival
Friday 22nd - Sunday 31st May 2009
www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au
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