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Think inside the square
Welcome to the 2008 Melbourne Writers Festival! This year the festival moved from it's long time base at the Malthouse Theatre, to Federation Square. Our venues were in the BMW Edge, the two cinemas in the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), and other venues in the Square. We used the RMIT Capitol Theatre for our Big Ideas series, with authors as diverse as Paul Keating, John Pilger, Maude Barlow and David Sedaris. We used restaurants for food related readings and hosted a massive crowd at St Pauls Cathedral for Russian poetry. Artplay hosted our children's program and we entertained over 9,000 school children in the schools program. The Atrium was the festival hub with the Readings bookshop, numerous places to sit and eat, and also our box-office. We broke box office records in 2007, and have done it again in 2008. More news and photos, and podcasts to come soon.  Augusten Burroughs at the Melbourne Town Hall  Crowds at Fed Square  Germaine Greer signing at the Melbourne Town Hall All photos by Singing Bowl Media The Age Book of the Year Awards The Age Book of the Year Readings 5:30pm BMW Edge We are thrilled to let you know of the winners of The Age Book of the Year Awards that were recently announced The winners are: - The Age Book of the Year and The Age Book of the Year Non-fiction Awards - Don Watson American Journeys - The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award - Tim Winton Breath - The Age Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize - JS Harry Not Finding Wittgenstein Watch our advertisement! Melbourne Writers Festival thanks Paul Ritchard and team from Applied Communication, RMIT University for the production of this advertisement. |
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