National Young Writers’ Festival

NYWF is an annual gathering of young writers, taking place in Newcastle, NSW, 3––6 October 2025.

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Want to get involved with NYWF? We're looking for emerging arts leaders to present the 2025 festival!

Check out available roles for two Creative Producers and a Marketing & Digital Coordinator 💫
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We're nine days away! 🎉

Explore the full program at https://t.co/BpcvR7h5jh 👀

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NYWF ~ 2023 program out now. Welcome our 21 new artists: poets, storytellers, weavers, chefs, essayists, scholars, memoirists, academics and educators. Full event listing is up on our website.
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We're thrilled to announce writer, critic and visual artist Anwen Crawford as the Special Guest at this year's NYWF ✨

Join us this Saturday in Newcastle for our 2023 program launch 🎉 https://t.co/CWUUujC499

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We're happy to introduce our final member of the 2023 NYWF team: writer, broadcaster and musician Matthew Tomich, our new Marketing & Brand Coordinator 🙋‍♂️

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Please welcome our Volunteer & Production Coordinator for NYWF 2023 - Newcastle born-and-raised writer Tarni Cruickshank 🙌

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We're delighted to welcome writer, performer and arts organiser Chloe Mills back to NYWF for 2023 as Festival Manager 👏

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We're excited to welcome Thomas Hamilton back to the role of NYWF Co-Director for 2023 🎉

This year marks Thomas' fourth year with NYWF and second as Co-Director - and as someone who grew up in Newcastle, we're thrilled to have hi back again to drive this year's programming.

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Applications for The Richell Prize close this Friday! Submit your manuscript for your chance to win a $10,000 prize and a 12 month publishing mentorship with Hachette.

Learn more: https://t.co/whrxnOqJI3

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We're thrilled to welcome Kanika Chopra as NYWF Co-Director this year 🥳

Kanika is an award-winning writer, editor and facilitator, plus the creator and editor literary zine More than Melanin, with bylines in South Asian Today, Colournary Magazine and more. Welcome Kanika 👏

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While we're squirrelling away working on this year's festival, we'd like to introduce our 2023 NYWF team.

First up is our Festival Co-Director Tina Huang, a Chinese Australian writer, performance poet and curator based in Sydney on unceded Wangal land.

Please welcome Tina! 🎉

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Just a reminder! EOI applications for the 2023 festival close tomorrow at 11:59pm AEST. So don’t miss out! 💛

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We are extending our artist applications! Head to the link in the bio to apply! 💛

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We can't forget to give a huge shout out and thanks to our 2022 partners, we wouldn't have been able to do this without all of you! 💛

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Huge shout out to our incredibly talented artist illustrator, we can’t wait to see more of these! 😍💛 @AwesomeBlackOrg @senoritamorita @deahaque @markusmuch

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@timothy_newport Thank you Tim! It was lovely having you about for our big 25th :P

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Spring has sprung, Hallowe'en is nearing and Voiceworks is getting out and about!

VW will be at Coburg Makers Market next Saturday 🌻 Come say hi and grab a mag :)📚

When: 10am - 3pm

Where: 69 Charles Street, Coburg North (near the velodrome)

Poster design by Ginger Taylor 🎨

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How am I 26 followers away from 1000 already...
This is nuts. It feels like yesterday I just had 900. Send help

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Anywho. @NYWF is awesome. #LoveOZYA is awesome. Very appreciative of this community today 🥰