Reproduced with Express Media’s kind permission from over at Facebook
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Express Media @ Signal for 13 – 20 year olds, but older people welcome!
Once an abandoned train signal box, Signal is now an exciting new arts studio, designed exclusively for the creative ideas of 13 – 20 year olds. Come inside this box as Express Media presents a series of workshops, panels and publishing opportunities for young writers and media makers.
The Future of Reading
Is reading headed in the direction of iPhone applications and kindles, or will books and newspapers outlast new technologies? With Karen Andrews, Angela Meyer and Louise Swinn.
Wednesday 10 February 2010 from 7.30-8.30pm. Parents, teachers and friends welcome. (My emphasis)
Karen Andrews is an author and publisher. Her personal blog (www.miscmum.com) is listed in Australia’s Top 100 ranking blogs.
Angela Meyer is a blogger, fiction writer, and acting editor of Bookseller+Publisher magazine. Find her reviews, interviews and literary adventures at LiteraryMinded.
Louise Swinn is a critic and fiction writer, and the editorial director of Sleepers, publishers of the critically acclaimed Sleepers Almanac.
There will be a workshop earlier that day. Same place, different time:
The Way To Blog
How to make your blog stand out from the rest. Learn about what to write, how to get an audience and how to keep them.
With Karen Andrews
Wednesday 10 February 2010 from 5 – 7pm.
Inquiries, or if you want to make a booking, can be made here
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If you can make it to either event, I would love to see some familiar faces in the crowd. I’m excited to talk about two of my favourite things: blogging and reading!
