Author: Lisette Ogg Created: 27/11/2008 12:06 PM
The Empty Page is an opportunity; a place of creation, where new ideas germinate, messages are conveyed, and characters begin to grow. The Empty Page Blog is one of the TOop 50 writing blogs in Australia. As the offical blog of the Queensland Writers Centre, this blog offers opportunity, latest news, opinions and resources on the writing and publishing industry.

Barely a month goes by without news of staff cuts or restructuring at major newspapers, or in the US and the UK, newspapers stopping presses and closing their doors forever. This tide of change has been brought about thanks to the web and the rise of digital media. Claims abound of the 'death of journalism'. But is the web really killing the news? Or, is it fostering an entirely new form of journalism.

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Join us on QWC's Blog Tour, where we'll be visiting Queensland writer's blogs from October until December 2009. The first writer we're visiting is JJ Cooper, author of The Interrogator (Random House). JJ has answered a quick Q&A for QWC. Check it out via his website.

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Rachel Hills on why it pays to have an audience, the best RT from today, and what Kayne West really thinks of Australia's dust storms.

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Daniel Menaker, former Executive Editor-in-Chief of Random House US examines the stats.

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Kate Morton, author of the best-selling titles The Shifting Fog, The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden  joins us for this week's Writing Race on AWMonline from 7:45pm AEST .

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A Monday mash-up of The Intern, Cyanide and happiness, buddhist pilgrimages through Japan, wordbox and Young Writers Boot Camp.

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I would write a blog about the upcoming National Young Writers Festival, but Angela from Literary Minded already has and hers is way better. Check it out.

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Chris Baty, Founder of NaNoWriMo, which is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Chris joined awmonline for a live forum this morning to discuss his own novels, the inhabitions of the inner editor and what's happening with NaNoWriMo in Queensland.

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The first ten people to respond will receive a free ticket to join Avid Reader, BWF and the School of English, Media Studies and Art History @The University of Queensland in welcoming Marina Lewycka author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian and now We are All Made of Glue @ Avid Reader Bookshop 193 Boundary Street West End.

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Acclaimed writer Tim Sinclair (Brothers of the Head, Nine Hours North Penguin) will spend a week leading QWC's Young Writers Boot Camp; an intensive five-day series for teenage writers agesd 13-17. Here, he shares with The Empty Page what he wrote when he was young, what young writers can expect from her course, and how every writer has a different way of seeing the world.

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