Bookcamp gathers together smart, bookish people from creative backgrounds of all stripes to explore the future of new book technologies – and consider how storytelling can be transformed by new media.

What’s it all about?

Bookcamp is an ‘unconference’. Instead of a traditional conference which is centrally-programmed and top-down, Bookcamp is bottom-up, grass-roots and collaborative. The unconference format creates the perfect environment to brainstorm ideas, spark conversations, and learn something new.

It’s a one-day, open, user-generated conversation where you create the agenda.

The theme for BookCamp Melbourne is the story of the future.

Where and when?

Friday, 2 September 2011
The Wheeler Centre, State Library of Victoria
as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival

Who’s involved?

You! Bookcamp is open and collaborative. We want you not just to attend but to contribute. Bookcamp is for writers, readers, typographers, designers, technologists, gamers, booksellers, literary agents, publishers and geeks – all those with a stake in the future of books.

To help spice things up, three international guests – Kate Pullinger (UK), Kassia Krozser (US), Hugh McGuire (Canada) – will act as provocateurs to spark conversation and ideas, while participants form groups to discuss, design, debate and create.

Bring your ideas and come prepared to talk. Buy your tickets from MWF.

More about Bookcamp

What is Bookcamp?
Guest speakers
Guidelines for attendees
Guidelines for presenters
Agenda? What agenda?
Buy tickets

And the all-important hashtag

#bookcampaus

Bookcamp is presented by if:book Australia, in partnership with:

if:book Australia is supported by: