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Saatchi Design SWF TV commercial wins Silver at design awards

Congratulations to our friends at Saatchi Design who recently won Silver at the Cannes Lions 2008 Design Awards for their 2007 Sydney Writers' Festival 'A City Transformed by Words' TV commercial. A total of 39 Design Lions were awarded with 1,126 entries from 54 countries.

Click here to watch the 2007 SWF TVC on YouTube

Greening the Festival

NRMA Insurance is a major partner of the 2008 Sydney Writers’ Festival and proud to be making the event climate friendly.

For the second year in a row, NRMA Insurance is helping the Festival reduce its environmental impact by offsetting carbon emissions generated by things such as air travel for the authors and the day to day running of the Festival office.

Increased greenhouse gases are causing global temperatures to increase, which impacts the rate of climate change. A warmer climate is expected to bring more weather related natural disasters which means more insurance claims. So it makes both business and community sense for NRMA Insurance to work to reduce the risk of climate change.

NRMA Insurance will also provide Festival audiences with tips and information on how they can minimise their own environmental footprint. This includes information about the company’s Climate Help program, which enables drivers to offset their car’s carbon and details how NRMA Insurance rewards customers already minimising their impact through the Fuel Efficient Car Savings.

The 2008 Sydney Writers’ Festival was measured and audited by the independent auditing consultancy, Carbon Planet. With their help, we’ve been able to make this a climate friendly event.

SWF in the classroom

The NSW Department of Education and Training’s Centre for Learning Innovation, in collaboration with Sydney Writers' Festival, authors and teachers across Sydney, has developed a program of masterclasses and teacher interviews with Australian and international writers participating in Sydney Writers’ Festival.

From 19 to 25 May 2008, writers participating in this year's Festival will conduct masterclasses in primary and secondary schools in NSW and teachers from the Department will interview writers about their work.

The writers will read excerpts of their work and discuss the purpose and process of writing, the sources of their inspiration and their perspectives on issues of style.

The program has wide application to the curriculum with relevance not only for English but also for History, Economics and Aboriginal Studies.

The masterclasses and interviews will be filmed and used by the Centre for Learning Innovation to develop a suite of multimedia resources. The resources, to be titled Writers Talk, will be offered to students, teachers and parents through the Department’s Teaching and Learning exchange.

Visit the 2008 Writers Talk website

PM announces literary prize

There has been a sense of anticipation in the Australian arts sector as the Labor government recently unveiled its plans for two Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The awards for a fiction and a non-fiction book each worth $100,000, tax-free, will make this one of the world’s richest prizes for literature. Arts Minister, Peter Garrett, will appoint three judges who will assess the entrants and make recommendations to the Prime Minister. The Awards are intended to recognise Australia's great writers and to help foster and inspire new generations of writers.

Vale Andrea Stretton

The staff at Sydney Writers' Festival were deeply saddened by the passing of literary and arts journalist, Andrea Stretton in November.

A highly respected figure in the literary and arts world, Andrea Stretton was best known as the presenter of SBS TV's popular and long-running The Book Show and Masterpiece, and ABC TV's Sunday Afternoon arts program.

She had been a regular guest of Sydney Writers' Festival where she participated as a commentator and facilitator numerous times throughout the Festival's 10-year history.

Andrea Stretton was a passionate supporter of the Australian book and arts industry and will be sadly missed.

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