On the long weekend in Newcastle, 2 hours drive north of Sydney there happens a rather great festival called This Is Not Art. Made up of a myriad of sub-festivals including the National Young Writers Festival, Sound Summit, Electrofringe and other, it is pretty globally unique event.
Several Cyclic Defrost writers are going to be there speaking on panels and generally spreading there ideas and wisdom. Try to track them down – those I know will be there as panellist are co-editor Matt Levinson, and writers Emmy Hennings and Dan Rule.