The inaugural St Kilda Writers Festival is fast approaching! Kicking off on 31 January and continuing through eight days of workshops, panels, performances and competitions, it?s sure to be a wordfest for the writer within. The festival website now features a full program and is your best bet for information on session times and so on.

The festival writing competition may be of particular interest: with the theme St Kilda: Tales From the Edge, the organisers seek poems of up to thirty lines (there?s also a short story and a songwriting category). If you?re a St Kilda resident, entry is free. For the rest of us it?s $10. The competition close 5pm Friday 28 January, 2005. So get busy!