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5.00pm – 5.45pm
Featuring BURNers Anna Krien & Ben Law + John Birmingham, Trent Dalton, Baz McAlister, Katherine Feeney
Young, emerging and experienced journalists talk about Media Watch-induced high anxiety, fact flaws and cringe-worthy stuff ups.
5.45pm – 6.30pm
Featuring The Estates
with digital story telling from BURN Writers Collective
The best of Brissie indie bands bring on the night
6.30pm – 7.00pm
Featuring BURNers + special guests Tom Guerney, Laura Middlebrook, Chris Bowman and Marisa Allen
Micro-readings, rants and pumping poems in a medley of fast tracked word play.
7.00pm – 7.30pm
Featuring Krissy Kneen, Brendan Lindsay, Austin Arnatys & Patricia Escalon
Writers of erotica write about sex from another orientation. Gay writes straight. Male writes female. Bi writes hetero-normative. See the transformation live.
7.40pm – 8.40pm
Hosted by Dan Evans and special guest judge Kludi Hymes
Featuring BURNers Ronnie Scott, Sam Martin & Rachael S. Morgan + special guest UQP authors Rebecca Sparrow, Belinda Jeffrey & Kate Hunter
Established writers from the UQP stable take on members of the BURN Writers Collective in a war for literary supremacy. One of the most popular sessions of Writing - The Fringe Festival '08. Don’t miss this hilarious battle of the bards.
8.50pm – 9.20pm
Featuring Antonia Strakosch, Alinta Krauth & Emily Wellstead + Open mic
Micro-readings, rants and pumping poems in a medley of fast tracked word play.
9.30pm – 10.15pm
Featuring BURNers: Sally Breen, Sommer Tothill, Ira McGuire, Corey J. White, Matt Lowe, Sam Madden, Daniel Walker, Anna Krien, Sam Mee
BURN Writers Collective presents a literary and visual feast which unpacks the curious relationship writers have to the Sunshine State.
10.30pm – 12.00am
Featuring ouTsideRs
Bleeding the Grid features performances from the ouTsideRs mainframe, scalding you with guts and grime. Satiate yourself with the planetary brew of Tessa Leon, the open heart surgery of Suzanne Jones, the flaming moonshine of Marisa Allen, the elegant dragnet of Pascalle Burton and the twisted and haunted knickers of Ghostboy. Joined by experimental house band Bremen Town Musician, the evening promises to suck your outsides in and insides out!.
12.00am-1.00am
Settle back with a drink and enjoy the smooth sounds of Brissy’s finest crooners and contemplate the night that was.
5.00pm – 5.45pm
Featuring Dan Evans (co-director of the National Young Writers Festival), Sally Breen (director of BURN Writer’s Collective) and Ronnie Scott (founding editor of The Lifted Brow).
Ever wondered how you get a festival off the ground, form a writer’s collective or publish your own literary magazine? Join three young and emerging cultural provocateurs as they share their secrets and discuss the highs and lows of DIY literary enterprise.
5.45pm – 6.30pm
The Impermanence
with digital story telling from BURN Writers Collective
The best of Brissy Indie Bands Bring on the Night
6.30pm – 7.00pm
Featuring Allan Vaarwerk, Jack Vening, Anna Krien, Mandy Beaumont, Sarah Holland-Batt
Micro-readings, rants and pumping poems in a medley of fast tracked word play.
7.00pm – 7.50pm
Featuring students from QUT and Griffithn University
As close as we get to a Fringe tradition. Hear what’s happening on the page from this state’s finest emerging writers
8.00pm – 8.50pm
BURNers Cameron Pegg, Cathy Vallance & Chris Somerville + special guests Matthew Condon, John Birmingham and Kirsten Reed
Inspired by the notion that all a writer needs is a Bic pen and a bottle of Becks the Fringe pumps up the textual volume on the Spics and Specs model
9.00pm – 9.50pm
Don’t miss one of Australia’s most intriguing new talents as he whips himself into a medley frenzy of words and music. The most popular act of Fringe 08 returns from interstate to grace us with his magic lyrical puns.
10.00pm – 10.40pm
Featuring
BURNers Corey J. White, Bryan Whalen, Daniel Walker, the digital series from Brendan Lindsay + Open mic
BURN Writers Collective invites you to join us on stage to read micro-fictions inspired by dead heroes and prevailing ghosts. Whether it’s satire, or a frustrated diss it all comes out like a kind of warped homage. In 2005 Hunter S Thompson decided the only way into the canon was to fire his ashes out of one. This session is dedicated to his chutzpah.
10.50pm – 11.30pm
Featuring
BURNers Sommer Tothill, Matt Lowe, Rachael S. Morgan, Brendan Lindsay + special guest Shannon Miller
BURN members explain why they like boys who sparkle. Punters are invited to read micro-fictions in warped salute to the repressed desires of "Twilight".
11.30pm – 1.00am
Featuring Mark Boulle & The Habbadudes and ‘the unexpected’!
Not your average wrap up, the BURN party promises to send you to sun rise with a smile on your face and the sky hanging somewhere around your ankles. Bring your camera and beware BURN’s signature style interventions!
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