Archive for July, 2009

Books in the digital age

I’m speaking on the 11th of August at an event organised by the Queensland Writers Centre:
Books in the Digital Age:The Future of Writing
With the rapid changes in Australia’s writing and publishing industry, where will books fit in the digital future and how will this affect how we read and write?
As part of QWC’s Wordpool series [...]

BrisCulture: The online newsletter #2

August is almost upon us and there are quite a few intriguing events coming up in the next couple of weeks that BrisCulture folks will be interested in. So welcome to the second edition of our online newsletter.

Crowdsourcing cultural policy

One of the speakers at our Creative Brisbane event, Marcus Westbury, has recently begun writing a regular culture and cultural policy column for The Age. In a post on his blog this week, Marcus calls for crowdsourced ideas on:
non cash/funding related things that governments could do to help artists. Or even just areas where they [...]