Angela Meyer is a 25-year-old writer from Melbourne, well-known for her blog LiteraryMinded, which features book reviews, author interviews and personalised, passionate literary musings. Her fiction, reviews and interviews have appeared in Hecate, The Death Mook, Wet Ink, Idiom 23, Page Seventeen, Southerly, Lip, Cordite, Mascara, Through the Clock’s Workings (the Remix My Lit anthology), AntiTHESIS, The Lifted Brow and many others. She is a former acting editor of Australian book trade magazine Bookseller+Publisher, and is now in her first year of a Doctor of Creative Arts through the University of Western Sydney. She teaches workshops on writing, blogging and social media; and participates in many writers’ festivals. Her fiction predominantly deals with themes of consumerism, materialism, technology, and gender roles in contemporary society. http://blogs.crikey.com.au/literaryminded

In the program

Thursday 5th of August:  9.30am -12.30pm,  SAE Institute   Workshop: On my own
Friday 6th of August:  9.15am- 10.15am,  BLUE MARQUEE   Our whizzing, whirling world: can writing reign supreme?
Friday 6th of August:  12.45pm-1.45pm,  SCU MARQUEE   Kindle, blog, tweet: what the hell does it all mean?
Friday 6th of August:  4.00pm- 5.00pm,  ABC3 MARQUEE   The firm: when writing is the family business CHAIR
Saturday 7th of August:  10.15am-11.15am,  SCU MARQUEE   Fragmented identities: fractures, flaws and fears CHAIR
Saturday 7th of August:  4.00pm- 5.00pm,  BLUE MARQUEE   Fantastical and magical: expanding the conventional world CHAIR