Wominjeka ,

No Typewriters / No Talking invites you to a pop-up session hosted in conjunction with our dear friends at the Bendigo Writers Festival.

When: 10:00am – 11:00am Saturday 6 May

Where: Emporium Creative Hub, 25 Mitchell Street, Bendigo

RSVP now by smashing this button 👇

I REALLY WANT TO COME SO I'M GOING TO RSVP RIGHT NOW BY PRESSING THIS REALLY BIG BUTTON.

Just because we’re in Bendigo doesn’t mean you can bring a typewriter (or talk). It’ll be the same silent hour of writing surrounded by people you can freely ignore that you’ve come to know and love, so get RSVPing 👆

What is the Bendigo Writers Festival?

Bendigo and La Trobe University present four brilliant days of events — a big-hearted festival in the heart of Central Victoria. The action packed festival has a program of interesting discussions and talks from writers, authors, poets and more, check out the line up here.

This year's theme — such is life — resonated with the No Typewriters / No Talking Team, so we reached out and they’ve taken a punt and let us host a session at their esteemed festival. Let’s not disappoint them.

The session is open to anyone, but we strongly encourage you to buy tickets to the Bendigo Writers Festival, it'll be a blast.

I’VE BEEN MEANING TO GO TO BENDIGO SO I’M GOING TO BUY TICKETS TO THE WRITERS FESTIVAL RIGHT NOW BY CLICKING THIS OTHER LARGE BUTTON.

Tell your Bendigo buddies

We know most of you are Brunswick/Melbourne based. That’s okay, but do us a favour and share the event and the festival with your friends. Call them up. Email them. Plaster the event link on BookFace. Tweet our sign up page on Twitter. Do whatever it is you do on TikTok to make content go to people.

Spread the word: Bendigo is a typewriter free city*.

About Emporium Creative Hub

Emporium Creative Hub is a place for creative practitioners, entrepreneurs and businesses to work, connect, build their skills and expand their networks. It's a dedicated community space for working and networking, with first class facilities, high speed internet, flexible project spaces and business development programs that support the growth of our local creative industries.

They're very cool, so check out their website.

Fig 3. A giant No Typewriters / No Talking logo is crudely photoshopped to appear behind Bendigo's Sacred Heart Cathedral. An old tram travels down a leafy green tree-lined road as local traffic drives alongside. Original image is a scanned photograph from the 1970s courtesy of Matt W on Flickr.

Got questions?

We might have answers. We might not. Depends on what you ask. You can read the FAQ page, email us, message us on Instagram, or etch some hieroglyphs into a granodiorite tablet.

Help spread the word

You can help us by:

• Sharing the session on your socials.
• Telling us about cool spaces you'd like to see a No Typewriters / No Talking session held in.
• Mercilessly bullying** any friends who say they wished they wrote more into signing up, and/or
• following us on Instagram, or BookFace and re-sharing our posts.

See you soon (in Bendigo),

The No Typewriters / No Talking Team

*At least one small corner of the Emporium Creative Hub in Bendigo will be a typewriter free space for roughly an hour. 

** Don’t actually do this. Please be nice to one another.