Blogs about the 2009 Melbourne Writers Festival

It has been wonderful to see the flurry of online activity that this year’s festival has generated on this blog, on Facebook and on Twitter. However, there has also been an extraordinary amount of blogging done elsewhere by both MWF guests and visitors.

Here is a list of all the bloggers we could find who wrote about MWF during the festival. The writing collected here is diverse and ranges from event reviews, interviews, personal reflections, festival wrap-ups and humorous takes on the festival. There’s a lot of content here but we certainly had a great time pouring over it all (and noting the feedback!) so we’re sure you’ll enjoy it too.

Finally, we did our best to make contact with everybody who blogged about MWF this year but if we did miss you then apologies and please feel free to submit links to your blog in the comments.

Blogging from within:

Official MWF bloggers Estelle Tang and Frenchelbow (Simon Keck) here at mwfblog.com.au

Philip Hensher, whose novel The Northern Clemency was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, wrote about his visit to Melbourne for MWF here for the UK newspaper The Independent.

Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah wrote this post on her personal blog about her visit to Melbourne as a MWF guest.

Festival guest Angela Meyer is the author of the LiteraryMinded blog and she kept an incredibly comprehensive online diary during the festival:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8

Festival guests Jessica Au and Sophie Cunningham from Meanjin Quarterly wrote this piece about The Future of the Book session on Spike (Meanjin‘s blog).

Young adult and children’s fiction writer Julia Lawrinson blogs here on her Writing in the margins blog.

Artist Chay-Ya Clancy created the Federation Square word board installation, which so many of you had fun with. Chay-Ya did some behind the scenes blogging on her Stillness in flight blog.

MWF Copywriting intern Megan Burke covered MWF extensively throughout these posts on her Literary Life blog.

MWF related content from Readings, the festival’s official bookseller.

Blogging from without:

Freelance writer George Dunford covered the festival on his blog Hackpacker in the posts collected here.

On ANZ LitLovers LitBlog, the blog for the online reading group, Lisa Hill covered the festival on the posts collected here.

Perry Middlemiss, who has written online about Australian literature since 1996, filed these four reports on his Matilda blog.

Ghostlines author Nick Gadd wrote about MWF in these three pieces from his blog The writer in disguise.

Joyce Kwok, the author of the decisive guide to Melbourne Mel: Hot or Not, covered MWF in these posts.

Benjamin Solah, Marxist Horror Writer, covered MWF on these posts and a summary of those posts appears at The Specusphere.

Writer, reader and teacher Sherryl Clark filed these four reports on her Books and Writing blog.

Thuy Linh Nguyen wrote about MWF across these posts.

Kathryn Daley covered MWF in these posts on her A little bit of life blog.

Also check out:

Author Jon Bauer’s festival wrap-up

Planning With Kids on the Schools Program

Jabberwocky on Wells Tower

MrsUnderhill.com on MJ Hyland

Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum on the MJ Hyland masterclass

Emancipation of Eve on Marketing in the Info Age

eleventyone on Digital Publishing and McSweeney’s (Futuristic) Antipodean Adventure!

Words in progress on Award Winning Australian Fiction launch and Liner Notes: Michael Jackson’s Thriller

Bookends on Kamila Shamsie

Ambrosia : A Memoir on Krissy Kneen (interview)

Just for fun

The satirical news blog The Late Breaker did a series of literary theme posts to celebrate MWF and they can be found here.

Idiot’s View on Writers Festivals