Melbourne Writers Festival
RMIT partners with Melbourne Writers Festival to feature public events that are co-curated between RMIT and MWF, a long-time presenting partner. The partnership and program with Melbourne Writers Festival showcases the talent and contemporary relevance of writing and publishing at RMIT. Through the playful sharing of personal and cultural stories, the writers programmed delight in experimentation and the possibilities of engaging with a festival audience.
Emerging Writers Festival
A talented cross-disciplinary team of RMIT staff and students collaborate with The Emerging Writers Festival event to produce The Gazette, a dynamic daily newspaper. Students organise themselves into a crack publishing team of quick-thinking editorial staff, on-the-ground reporters, professional artists, photographers and designers, working to real-world deadlines. Distributed around the festival venues, the newspaper covers events and initiates conversation about the industry. Students can take part in this exciting project by enrolling in the Media and Communications Internship (COMM2639 or COMM2460).
Rabbit
Rabbit is a non-fiction poetry journal supported by RMIT and founded by Jessica L. Wilkinson (Senior Lecturer at RMIT). A pioneer in the field, RABBIT intends to celebrate the potential for poetry to explore and interrogate the boundaries of nonfiction writing. RABBIT encourages poets to openly engage with auto/biography, history, politics, economics, mathematics, cultural analysis, science, the environment, and all other aspects of real world experience, recollection and interpretation., RABBIT publishes all things poetry – poems, reviews, essays on poetry and poetics, interviews with poets, and visual art by poets – with an emphasis on new and emerging rabbits (poets) and a focus on supporting Australian poetry.
The Garret
The Garret Podcast features the best Australian writers writing today about their craft. Astrid Edwards, Director and Host of The Garret, and a co-founder of the original podcast, also teaches professional writing at RMIT. Proudly supported by RMIT, The Garret is made for those who love writing, want to improve their writing or just love listening to writers talk about their craft. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and join the conversation on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.
