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Last updated 9 Feb 2018. Please visit festival.co.nz/writers for the most current information.
there’s more to a good
Writers & Readers Week
than meets the eye
WELCOME
Kia ora and welcome to 2018 Writers & Readers,
Images: cover Gopal Vijayaraghavan; above Rob Suisted; inset Anna Briggs
the New Zealand Festival’s long weekend of fast-
www.unitybooksonline.co.nz paced, smart conversation from international and
local storytellers. We look forward to entertaining,
informing and delighting you in our new, intimate
venues set around the beautiful Wellington waterfront.
Across our live events, we’ll be plumbing the deep
thinking required in this crisis-ridden world, looking
for hope and to the stars, devouring visual feasts and
poetry, and honouring International Women’s Day.
We’ll look to the past, the rapidly changing present and always to Piki mai kake
the future, through memoir, poetry, polemic, essay, photograph, mai kaituhi me
comics, illustration, speculation and pure literary expression. kaipānui
Our arms are open to all readers – book-loving regulars and Welcome on
curious newbies – eager to come together, make connections, board, writers
listen, look, learn and have fun. With more than 75 sessions, and readers
special events, free launches and parties to choose from, there
is something to tempt every reader. Though be warned: space 8–11 March 2018
at some sessions is limited. Book early. Wellington
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Come to our Thursday opening night gala (it will be quite a
festival.co.nz/writers
show) and over the following three days fill your minds, meet
NZFestival
dark matter meets light like-minded others and revel in the power, joy and sheer fun
of words. #NZFestival
#NZFWriters
MARK CUBEY
50 years on Willis St | 32 years of Writers & Readers Week
Manager, Writers & Readers
with indie booksellers across NZ
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OUR FESTIVAL PARTNERS OUR WRITERS & READERS PARTNERS
INNOVATION PARTNERS DESTINATION PARTNERS CREATIVE PARTNERS
ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE WHEN THE NEW ZEALAND
Image: left Grant Maiden
LEADER LEADER CULTURAL PARTNER
sessions at Writers & Readers Festival launched in Wellington
was when Elmore Leonard in 1986 to celebrate arts and
came to Wellington in 1994. culture in its many forms,
ACTIVATOR He read out fan letters he’d literature was an essential part
ACTIVATORS received from prison inmates. of the programme. So it has
ACTIVATOR “Dear Mr Leonard, you are the most popular been ever since.
author on death row …” Often the fans
Writers & Readers showcases a diverse
wanted to pull the writer up on technical
and glorious range of writing that reflects
matters: “I think you’ll find a .44 Magnum
SUPPORTERS SUPPORTER the stories and people of Aotearoa New
is way too much firepower for the kind
SUPPORTERS
Zealand and our place as global citizens.
of robbery these idiots in your book are
We are delighted to be able to play our part
attempting.” There was support too: “If you
in bringing literature to the community and
ACCESSIBILITY PARTNER ever get a bad review, I know some guys.” I
to an audience of all ages.
remember us all laughing, tears on our faces.
On behalf of the Lion Foundation and our
Of course, Elmore Leonard was giving us a
local venue operators, we congratulate the
VENUE PARTNER version of ourselves as readers – how books
Festival team on this terrific programme and
provoke us to make connections, to see our
hope all audiences enjoy the experience
lives in a new light; how we long to carry
of Writers & Readers in its new home on
on these internal conversations. We finish
the Wellington waterfront.
EXPERIENCE PARTNERS ENGAGEMENT PARTNERS CORE PARTNER MAJOR GRANTS a book, but it’s not finished with us. Writers
& Readers is our chance to join our private
FESTIVAL CLUB PARTNER LEADER MURRAY READE
dialogue about books with a public one.
CEO, The Lion Foundation
DAMIEN WILKINS
SUPPORTERS CORE FUNDER Director, International Institute
ACTIVATORS of Modern Letters
UNIVERSITY PARTNER
ENTERPRISE PARTNER
SUPPORTERS
THANKS TO OUR OTHER SUPPORTERS
CORPORATE PATRONS
Air New Zealand CQ Hotels Wellington John Leuthart Resene
BERL Deloitte Mojo Coffee Southbase Construction Arts Access Aotearoa, Asia New Zealand Foundation, Australian High Commission, Canada Council
Building Solutions G K Shaw Phantom Billstickers Tutū Cider for the Arts, Circa Theatre, Department of Corrections, Griffith Review, International Literature
Craigs Investment Partners JacksonStone & Partners Showcase, LitCrawl, National Library of New Zealand, New Zealand Book Council, Norwegian
Literature Abroad, The Write Where You Are Trust.
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YOUR W&R GUIDE
You may have enjoyed Writers & Readers many times before, or this may
be your first time. Either way, this handy step-by-step guide will make your
Writers & Readers long weekend (8–11 March) a breeze.
Image: Jessica Ruscello
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4
CHOOSE YOUR SESSIONS BUY YOUR TICKETS HAVE FUN READ, READ, READ
Sessions are numbered for easy Tickets are all $19 (plus booking Enjoy our new waterfront Official Writers & Readers
reference, like this: fee) unless noted otherwise. All location and venues: bookseller Unity Books has got
There are plenty of launches, sessions are General Admission your reading needs covered.
(first there, best seated).
MFC Michael Fowler
RENOUF
Books from guest writers are
parties and other free events to Centre and the Renouf Foyer
choose from. Look for the FREE If you’re quick, you can pick up available in store now, and you
symbol throughout and see also a Take 5 Pass for a 20% discount FESTIVAL CLUB The pop-up can browse three onsite Festival
pages 11 and 39. on five sessions. Only until spiegeltent Festival Club bookshops – at Circa Theatre
23 February, while stocks last. at Odlin’s Plaza and Renouf foyers and popping
Writers On the Road may be up for each session at the
coming to a town near you – Book two sessions or more CIRCA 1 CIRCA 2 CIRCA FOYER
Festival Club.
find out on page 41. and you are automatically in Circa Theatre’s two auditoriums,
the draw to win a relaxing Be sure to ask your favourite
This brochure is just your and newly refurbished foyer.
Pacific Island holiday for two. authors to sign a book for you
starting point. You can read Stroll from session to session after their sessions.
more about our guest writers A perfect destination for
uninterrupted reading! with our helpful map (page 45)
and their sessions online at as your guide.
festival.co.nz/writers. It’s easy to book online at
festival.co.nz/writers. You can Grab food, coffee and drinks STEP 5
from the café in Circa Theatre,
shortlist your favourite sessions, GET SOCIAL
book multiple shows, add them nearby waterfront food trucks
to your calendar and more. or the Festival Club. Hours vary. Bring a friend, make a
You can also book using our Between sessions there is plenty friend and tell your friends
Booking Form (page 46). to do – write on Te Papa’s Art all about it:
For more information about Wall (page 21), visit the 2018 NZFestival
booking tickets and how we Photobook fair (page 43) and
NZFWriters
can make sessions accessible maybe catch some writers taking
the plunge (page 11). #NZFestival #NZFWriters
for you, see page 47.
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URGENT THOUGHTS
Images: main Jerry Kiesewetter;
Emma Espiner Arnia Appleby
The International Institute “I didn’t produce anything
of Modern Letters offers
creative writing courses in my MA year worth
in poetry, fiction, creative publishing, but I couldn’t Democracy in crisis? Art versus violence? Tikanga for all?
non-fiction, scriptwriting,
have written my first Planning to die? Pressing issues of our time weave their
science writing, children’s
writing, writing for theatre book without having way through our sessions.
and television and Māori
and Pasifika writing. experienced that year first.
It accelerated my thinking
For more information
and application deadlines and my courage and helped
contact the International me find my voice. It gave
Institute of Modern Letters.
me permission to make UK philosopher US journalist Sarah
p 04-463 6854
e modernletters@vuw.ac.nz writing the central task of AC Grayling lectures Sentilles talks about
victoria.ac.nz/modernletters my life.” Hera Lindsay Bird, MA 2011 on democracy in crisis art, violence and war
50 and discusses with Jo Randerson 52
where it all began and and Courtney Johnston
will it hold up, with (page 41), and faith with
Simon Wilson 45 , influential theologian
who in turn steers Lloyd Geering 25 .
a talk about radical
journalism 20 .
Intensive care Emma Espiner
specialist Dr Charlie proposes a brilliantly
Corke urges us all sensible way of doing
to talk about death things in New Zealand
so we can face up – tikanga Māori –
to the inevitable and with lecturer Māmari
make a good plan Stephens and unionist
for dying 41 . Morgan Godfery 33 .
Victoria University Press is VICTORIA UNIVERSITY PRESS LAUNCH PARTY AT THE FESTIVAL CLUB
proud to launch three new WHEN 5.15–6.45pm, Thursday 8 March 2018
titles at Writers & Readers at WHERE Odlins Plaza (between the Wharewaka and Mac’s Brewbar)
the New Zealand Festival To secure an invitation, email victoria-press@vuw.ac.nz by 2 March 2018
ORE IDEAS around politics, belief, hope and activism will be explored by our guests,
M
including the essayist and novelist Francis Spufford (UK) on God 31 , and esteemed
locals Vincent O’Sullivan and Diana Wichtel on the Holocaust 17 .
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VISUAL FEASTS SPECULATIVE VISIONS
Main image: Neil Silverwood
Images: main Juskteez; Lloyd Jones Carrie Tiffany
Storytelling through photography, illustration and comics has never In an age when reality and make-believe draw ever closer together,
been more vital. Immerse yourself in illuminating sessions with experts come and explore what the future may hold.
who show as well as tell.
Dance the line Lloyd Jones discusses
between technology his new fable
Award-winning comics Nigerian photographer, and magic with the far- about cruelty and
creators take centre author and critic seeing Cory Doctorow compassion, The
stage, with Singapore’s Teju Cole proves his and Charlie Jane Cage, with Charlotte
Sonny Liew 47 and visionary eloquence Anders, who appear Wood 2 , who in
the US’s Sarah Glidden in his new book together 9 and also turn talks with Emily
and Mimi Pond, in solo 43 , and spotlights in other exploratory Perkins about her
39 55 and group work by some of his sessions 26 / 62 . own ‘Atwood in the
sessions 3 . favourite international outback’ fiction 38 .
photographers 12 .
Intan Paramaditha,
here to launch the Maja Lunde juggles
Top political New Zealand first English translation bees in old England,
cartoonists Sonny Liew photographer Peter of her short stories modern USA and
from Singapore and Black shares his striking (page 39), also future China, in
locals Sharon Murdoch photographs of shops discusses horror with what’s been called
and Toby Morris 10 , a visual ode to the speculative fiction the most visionary
discuss the challenges overlooked beauty of master Ian Tregillis Norwegian novel
in making fun of the the everyday. and Wellington’s since Knausgård’s My
powerful 18 . Elizabeth Knox 44 . Struggle 16 .
LOCAL ARTISTS are also to the fore, with breathtaking caving photography 27 EMBRACE SPACE further at our Outer Space Saloon Salon – a lively literary salon
and illustration and design aplenty with Three Sarahs 64 . Booklovers and with a difference 49 . And go behind the scenes of the fantastical Planet of the
photographers can also enjoy Photobook NZ’s free four-day programme of Apes trilogy as Dan Lemmon of Weta Digital reveals how pioneering technological
lectures, talks and bookfair (page 43). advances have transformed storytelling opportunities for filmmakers 54 .
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SHORT TAKES FUN TIMES
Images: main Patrick Tomasso; Jenny Bornholdt Deborah Smith
Images: main Ian Schneider; Lots in Translation Marina Perillat
Succinct writing suits our fast-paced, need-it-now times. Get Make time for play and connect with like minds
straight to the point with short, intense poetry and prose from a rich at these sparkling Festival events.
gathering of international and local short-form stars.
Poet Laureate Bill Manhire: Nick Earls:
Selina Tusitala Wellington’s Australian
Marsh with poetry novella
fellow poets godfather revolutionary
1 23 40 21 Enjoy a family Saturday Poetry, game-play
morning at the National and a Scottish accent
Library, with our Lots make for a perfect
in Translation picture afternoon of powerful
Patricia Mike Ladd: Jenny book readings and playfulness with the
Lockwood: the “best Bornholdt: displays of classic fabulous performer
wild poet poet in former Poet children’s books and games-maker
and hilarious Adelaide” Laureate and (page 24). Harry Giles 34 .
US memoirist 40 children’s writer
1 46 19 23
Hera Lindsay Harry Giles: Chris Tse:
Bird: star sharp-tongued powerhouse
Wellingtonian Scottish poet young
shaking up and games- Wellington
the UK poetry maker 34 versifier 49 Connect in real life at You can get cos-play
scene 46 57 our 280 Characters crazy at the Outer
social tweet-up, an Space Saloon Salon
offline speed-meeting 49 , a literary salon
Jeet Thayil: Charlie Jane Ashleigh session for aspiring or with a difference, or
acclaimed Anders: US Young: existing players in any join us as we go out
Indian poet fantasy short- Raved about part of the writing and with a bang at the
and novelist fiction luminary personal
publishing game 24 . Writers & Readers
37 1 26 essayist 65
Closing Party at the
Festival Club (page 37).
A LSO SHARE in a celebration of New Zealand poets featured in the latest issue of ROLL UP to our role-player gaming session 61 , be part of the crowd at the free
prestigious US magazine Poetry 66 , a flock of young poets published in the online book launches (page 39) and more. You may also spot some writers accepting our
journal Starling 53 , and the announcement of this year’s Lauris Edmond Memorial challenge to don their togs and deliver a short verse or saying from atop the nearby
Award recipient 19 . Taranaki Wharf jump platform before leaping in ...
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THURSDAY 8 MARCH 7–8.30pm
Images: Prison Voices Department of Corrections; VUP Launch Party Grant Maiden
Image: Emma Hughes
PRISON VOICES 12–4.30pm VUW LAUNCH: 10.45–11.15am
LITERARY ATLAS
Come to the
launch and be
one of the first to
download the
Victoria University
of Wellington’s
Literary Atlas app to your smartphone or
tablet and take yourself on a stroll around
Wellington’s waterfront in the virtual
company of some of Wellington’s favourite
Inside Rimutaka and Arohata prisons, writers. Using geo-location tracking and
OPENING NIGHT:
prisoners are producing extraordinary augmented reality, you’ll tap into fascinating
written work, facilitated by the Write facts at each of the waterfront’s word sites,
Where You Are Collective. We offer and get to play with writers’ words to create
WOMEN CHANGING
you a unique opportunity to participate your own poetic masterpiece.
with invited guest writers and prisoners In association with Wai-te-ata Press
THE WORLD
in this interactive workshop event and
FESTIVAL CLUB FREE
listen to rarely heard voices.
Tickets are limited to 80 places, and
are available only by entering the ballot VUP LAUNCH PARTY 5.15–6.45pm
at festival.co.nz/prison, which closes
Victoria University
on 7 February.
Press warmly 1 Celebrate words and their power Enjoy the good company of:
Successful ticket holders will catch the invites all writers to make change on International Women’s • New Zealand Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh
Writers & Readers bus from outside Te Papa and readers to its Day – and the 125th anniversary of women’s
to Rimutaka Prison, and attend one of two Festival publisher • broadcaster Kim Hill
suffrage. Bring a friend or five for a fast-
simultaneous sessions with male or female party. It’s a triple • novelist Charlotte Wood
paced night of short, spirited shots from
prisoners, coordinated by Pip Adam, William celebration: the launch of a new novel by • fantasy champion Charlie Jane Anders
guests from all around the world.
Brandt, Rajorshi Chakraborti, Gigi Fenster Vincent O’Sullivan, All This by Chance;
• poet and memoirist Patricia Lockwood
and other members of the Write Where a memoir by Gigi Fenster, Feverish; and a Performer, broadcaster and author
You Are team. new collection of poetry by Therese Lloyd, Michèle A’Court introduces an array of witty, • free-range cook Annabel Langbein
In association with The Write Where You Are The Facts. To secure your invitation, RSVP to talented and clever women as they deliver • farmer and falconer Rachel Stewart
Trust, Arts Access Aotearoa and the Department victoria-press@vuw.ac.nz by 2 March. a powerhouse mashup of poetry, manifesto, • performance poet Harry Giles and others.
of Corrections FESTIVAL CLUB FREE
rave, entreaty, revelation and confession –
all illustrated live on stage by the playful And continue the celebration at the pop-up
RIMUTAKA PRISON $49 BY BALLOT
League of Live Illustrators. Festival Club from 9.30pm. All welcome.
Ticket holders must be aged over 18. Duration and F ind more free book launches
ticket price include bus travel to and from Rimutaka and parties on page 39. MFC $49
Prison in Upper Hutt.
12 13
FRIDAY 9 MARCH 10–11am 11.30am – 12.30pm
Images: Session 3 self-portraits by Sarah Glidden & Mimi Pond
Images: Session 4 Bart Koetsier; 5 Rowena Naylor; 7 left Claudia Latisnere
2 LLOYD JONES: THE CAGE 4 FRANCIS SPUFFORD: 5 JOCK SERONG: ALL AT SEA
ELECTRIC ECLECTICISM
Award-winning author Lloyd Jones (Mister Pip, The Book Refugees in
of Fame) is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated British author desperate flight,
Francis Spufford surveillance
and internationally recognised authors. His bestselling
has written about technology and
novel Mister Pip was shortlisted for the 2007 Man
science, history, political chicanery
Booker Prize, and won the 2007 Commonwealth
politics, theology – all woven into
Writers’ Prize Best Book Award and the 2007 Montana and technology, a novel ripped straight from the headlines.
Medal for fiction. and he is now making a name for himself as Award-winning Australian crime writer
Jones’s eagerly awaited new novel The Cage – his first in a novelist with his 2016 debut Golden Hill, Jock Serong set his explosive new thriller
seven years – is a profound and unsettling tale about humanity, dignity and the ease with which we which won the Royal Society of Literature On the Java Ridge on the seas between
can justify brutality. He talks about his book with Australian author Charlotte Wood (The Natural Way Ondaatje Prize, the Costa Book Awards first Australia and Indonesia as well as the more
of Things), who has delved into Jones’ work in her collection of interviews The Writer’s Room. novel prize and more. His latest book, True treacherous halls of power in Canberra. It
Stories & Other Essays, is a career-spanning engages with timely issues of liberty, power
RENOUF PARTNERED BY collection of his book extracts, blog and realpolitik, which he discusses in more
posts, journalism, book reviews, talks and depth with writer Pip Adam.
speeches. He talks with writer and academic
FESTIVAL CLUB
Ingrid Horrocks about his impressive career.
3 SARAH GLIDDEN & MIMI POND:
GRAPHICALLY PERSONAL WILD DOGS RENOUF
Two gifted UNDER MY SKIRT 6 RUNNING THE NUMBERS 7 ELSPETH SANDYS & RENÉE:
American comics Written by Tusiata Avia | Directed by Anapela Polata’ivao
Self-confessed
LOOKING BACK
artists mine
challenging nerdy data Two forward-
journalist Keith Ng thinking women
Image: Robert George
personal stories
in graphic joined the New look back. Renée
form. Sarah Glidden is at the forefront of a Zealand Herald in started writing
generation of journalists telling important late 2017 to assist at the age of
stories through comics with Rolling Blackouts: investigative business reporter Matt Nippert 50. Thirty-eight
Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq and with his “old-timey artisanal mining” of data. years, 20 plays and eight novels later, she
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less. Their task: to scoop up and sieve buckets still teaches workshops on the Kāpiti Coast
Mimi Pond has produced two volumes Samoan New Zealander Tusiata Avia’s poetry
of numbers for deep analysis, then make it and was recently awarded the Playmarket
of a graphic semi-memoir set in the 1970s becomes a fearless and enchanting piece of theatre insightful and accessible for readers. Settle in Award for her significant contribution to New
under the direction of Anapela Polata’ivao and a cast for a jest-packed visual presentation from two Zealand theatre. She tells her story in These
Oakland sex, drugs ’n’ diner scene: the of six powerful Pasefika actresses.
award-winning bestseller Over Easy and new experienced journalists who have embraced Two Hands. Another multidisciplinary writer
7–11 MARCH new ways of reporting, and discover how (novels, short stories, plays, adaptations) is
saga The Customer Is Always Wrong. They HANNAH PLAYHOUSE
discuss the personal and political with local WELLINGTON playing with numbers led to media scoops Elspeth Sandys, who tells more of her own
comics creator Sarah Laing. on tax and Kiwisaver. story in Casting Off, the sequel to her 2014
THANKS TO memoir, What Lies Beneath. They talk to
CIRCA 1 CIRCA 1
author and publisher Mary McCallum.
CIRCA 2
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FRIDAY 9 MARCH 1.15–2.15pm
Images: Session 9 centre Jonathan Worth; 10 Peter Black; 11 from left Victoria Birkinshaw, Grant Maiden
8 COMMONWEALTH NOW 9 SCIENCE & MAGIC
Arthur C Clarke
Here for the good
Seventy years since
the Commonwealth famously said,
of Nations was “Any sufficiently
formed to maintain advanced
of reading.
a “free and equal” technology is
association indistinguishable
between former British colonies, the rise from magic.” Charlie Jane Anders’s glorious
of populism, Brexit and other fast-moving fantasy novel debut, All the Birds in the Sky,
changes have set traditional alliances features a star-crossed young witch and a
wavering. Indigenous Australian writer genius technologist. Cory Doctorow writes
Melissa Lucashenko, Malaysian writer copiously about technology and creates
Bernice Chauly and New Zealand poet ideas-rich science fiction and graphic novels
Selina Tusitala Marsh feature in the new for young and old. Intan Paramaditha takes
special “Commonwealth” edition of the inspiration from horror, myths and fairy tales for
Australian Griffith Review, and reflect on our her tales of sexuality, culture and politics. They
common future with Griffith Review editor talk with local practitioner Darusha Wehm.
Julianne Schultz.
THANKS TO
FESTIVAL CLUB
RENOUF THANKS TO
10 PETER BLACK & STEVE BRAUNIAS 11 BLOODY DIFFICULT WOMEN
TALK SHOP Tough female
Wellington characters take
photographer centre stage in
Peter Black has two recent books
been making by Wellington
striking images of writers, both
New Zealand and its people for 40 years. In longlisted for the 2018 Ockham Awards.
his latest book, The Shops, he celebrates the Annaleese Jochems won the 2016 Adam
overlooked poetry of the commonplace, Foundation Prize for the manuscript of what
Proud supporters of with shops as metaphors for loss and became her critically acclaimed debut
change. He engages in shop talk with his novel Baby, featuring the extraordinary
publisher – author and columnist Steve Cynthia adrift in the Bay of Islands. Kirsten
Braunias – who recently published his own McDougall’s gothic novella Tess places her
shop book recounting a year spent trawling troubled and mysterious title character in
a West Auckland fast-food strip, The Man and around Masterton. They discuss writing
Who Ate Lincoln Road. difficult and dangerous women with fellow
novelist Catherine Robertson.
CIRCA 1
CIRCA 2
16 17FRIDAY 9 MARCH 2.45–3.45pm 4.15–5.15pm
Images: Session 12 Martin Lengemann; 13 left Aya Brackett; 14 from left Hayley Theyers, Deborah Marshall; 15 right Paul Taylor
Images: Session 16 Oda Berby; 17 left Grant Maiden; 18 Sharon Murdoch; 19 Colin McDiarmid
12 TEJU COLE: 13 GOOD EATING 16 MAJA LUNDE: 17 HOLOCAUST FAMILY SECRETS
FAVOURITE PHOTOGRAPHERS Free-range?
A DIFFERENT KIND OF BUZZ
The legacy of
Nigerian writer, Organic? Locally Experienced the Holocaust
art historian and sourced? Vegan? children’s writer is dramatically
photographer Never has there Maja Lunde has realised by two
Teju Cole is well been so much now enthralled acclaimed New
qualified to talk attention on readers in 30 Zealand writers.
about the photography of others. His highly the politics of what we put on our plate. countries with Multi-generational family saga All This by
regarded monthly column for the New York Award-winning Californian chef Samin Nosrat her bestselling debut novel for adults, The Chance is the long-awaited third novel by
Times Magazine has covered everyone famously taught ethical food author Michael History of Bees – described as the most Vincent O’Sullivan. Driving to Treblinka is New
from Andre Kertesz to Jem Southam (page Pollan how to cook. Annabel Langbein, New visionary Norwegian novel since the first Zealand Listener journalist Diana Wichtel’s
43). You can catch a separate session on his Zealand’s best known free-range cook, volume of Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle. memoir about her father, a Polish Jew who
new book Blind Spot 43 , where he will built a culinary media empire on the back of Travelling through 1852 England, 2007 USA miraculously survived the Holocaust but
talk about his own words and photographs, her hunter-gatherer skills and kitchen nous. and a future China, she weaves a complex disappeared when Wichtel was 13, when
but in this illustrated and illuminating talk, he Together they talk about good cooking and story of conflict between humans and nature, her family moved to New Zealand. They talk
shares and explores the work of selected making better food decisions in the kitchen and a quest for harmony. With Lydia Wevers. about family secrets with writer Paula Morris.
photographers he most admires. with award-winning chef Martin Bosley.
RENOUF THANKS TO PARTNERED BY
FESTIVAL CLUB
RENOUF FESTIVAL CLUB
14 COUSINS TALK IT OUT 15 BLOODY DIFFICULT MEN 18 POLITICAL PRICKING 19 THE LAURIS EDMOND
Lauded poet, Take a visit to two Caricaturing,
MEMORIAL AWARD
performer and dispossessed satirising and We are delighted
writer Tusiata Avia underworlds making fun of to announce the
joins her cousin that reveal the powerful has 2018 recipient of
Victor Rodger, New Zealand been a popular the biennial $4000
award-winning masculinity and dangerous position since the days of Lauris Edmond
playwright and producer, to talk about through a darkened lens. Multi-talented the hieroglyph. Discussing the challenges of Memorial Award
family, growing up as Polynesian Cantabrians artist Apirana Taylor, whose new play Ka drawing the right lines around current events for Poetry: Anne French. A respected poet,
and creative pursuits in their first ever on- Tito Au premieres at the 2018 New Zealand are three top political cartoonists: Eisner critic and editor, her poetry career spans
stage conversation. They will also talk about Festival, describes his new novel Five Strings Award–winning comics artist Sonny Liew three decades. She talks to Adelaide poet
their collaboration on Wild Dogs Under My as “a love story about two alcoholic drug from Singapore, and locals Sharon Murdoch Mike Ladd about her work, and is joined by
Skirt, the award-winning stage adaptation of addicts”. Substance abuse and love are also (twice cartoonist of the year at the Canon former Award recipients Jenny Bornholdt
Avia’s debut poetry collection. Produced by at the heart of Iceland, the acclaimed debut Media Awards) and Toby Morris (The Side and Diana Bridge for selected readings.
Rodger, this enchanting, powerful show is from Dominic Hoey, aka musician and slam Eye); with filmmaker Jonathan King. Supported by the New Zealand Poetry Society,
playing at the 2018 New Zealand Festival. poet Tourettes. Victoria University Press and The Todd Trust
THANKS TO
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CIRCA 1 CIRCA 2 CIRCA 2
18 19FRIDAY 9 MARCH 5.45–6.45pm
TO JOIN THE
CONVERSATION, YOU
Images: Session 20 Florian Klauer; 21 Candid Lane Photography
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Last Festival’s Poet Laureate event at the National Library of
New Zealand sold out, so be quick to join us for another
scintillating evening of poetry.
Contemporary New Zealand Poetry This year the current New Zealand Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala
4 December 2017 – 24 March 2018
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Marsh performs her epic “The Queen’s Sequence”, inspired by
her meeting Queen Elizabeth II in 2016 and other queens. After
interval refreshments, she will be joined on stage by fellow poets
Tusiata Avia, Serie Barford and former Laureate Jenny Bornholdt
to share selected readings, with poet Paula Green as chair.
In association with the National Library of New Zealand and Te Mata
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23SATURDAY 10 MARCH 10–11am 11.30am – 12.30pm
Images: Session 25 from left Bill Nichol, Gia Goorich; 27 Neil Silverwood
Images: Session 29 Aya Brackett; 30 centre and right Grant Maiden; 31 from left Bart Koetsier, Grant Maiden
25 QUESTIONS OF FAITH 26 CHARLIE JANE ANDERS: 29 SAMIN NOSRAT: 30 MANSFIELD AND US
Two deep thinkers BEAUTIFUL FANTASY SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT Three Katherine
discuss faith, Magic and Master these Mansfield scholars
fundamentalism, technology collide four elements and fans celebrate
hope and in the worlds of and anything the 120th anniversary
humanity. American writer you cook will of the famous New
Distinguished Charlie Jane be delicious. Zealander’s birth:
New Zealand theologian and author Lloyd Anders, who won So says major historian Redmer Yska, comics creator and
Geering faced a heresy trial in 1967 for daring major fantasy awards and attracted raves new culinary voice Samin Nosrat. Described illustrator Sarah Laing, and poet, fiction master
to question fundamental teachings of the from media and peers alike for her debut by Alice Waters of the famed restaurant and critic Vincent O’Sullivan – who have all
church. American journalist Sarah Sentilles novel All the Birds in the Sky, a startling and Chez Panisse as “America’s next great published on her life and work – with poet
explores the histories of art, violence, war touching journey of two young misfits – tech cooking teacher”, Nosrat distills decades Kate Camp, the latest Katherine Mansfield
and human survival in her new book Draw Your geek and witch – who come together to of professional experience in her New York Menton Fellow in residency at her former
Weapons – and explains why she decided save our future. She’s also renowned for Times bestseller Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, which South of France home. They share their
not to become ordained as a priest in her 2011 short fiction and recently released the mini she shares also with author, activist and thoughts on Katherine Mansfield’s singular
book Breaking Up with God: A Love Story. book Six Months, Three Days, Five Others. foodie Marianne Elliott. legacy and place in Wellington’s history.
They speak with writer Kate De Goldi. She talks about fantastical fiction with local
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31 FRANCIS SPUFFORD & ELIZABETH 32 RA SPRATT: FUNNY HA HA
27 CAVE MEN 28 THE MISSING KNOX TALK ABOUT GOD Authors who
British non-fiction spark laughter on
Squeezing into Kelly Dennett is
writer and novelist the page are rare
underground a journalist at the
Francis Spufford treasures. RA Spratt
passages for days New Zealand
penned a heartfelt has written jokes,
on end with the risk Herald and was
memoir about sketches and satire
of never coming previously a senior
the appeal of for dozens of television shows in Australia,
back alive is not something that would tempt crime reporter for
the unknowable in Unapologetic: Why, and now specialises in children’s animation.
most people. Two exceptions are Wellington Fairfax Media. Her first book, The Short Life &
Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Since her first book, The Adventures of Nanny
designer and writer Marcus Thomas and Mysterious Death of Jane Furlong, explores
Surprising Emotional Sense. He’s a longtime Piggins, published in 2009, she has written a
West Coast photographer Neil Silverwood, the as-yet unsolved case of the 17-year-old
friend and correspondent of Wellington further eight Nanny Piggins bestsellers and
who have published the lavishly illustrated, Auckland woman who went missing in 1993,
fantasy writer Elizabeth Knox (The Vintner’s is about to publish the seventh book in her
award-winning Caves: Exploring New whose body was discovered 20 years later.
Luck, the Dreamhunter duet). They share their equally hilarious Friday Barnes series. She
Zealand’s Subterranean Wilderness. Hear their Dennett talks to journalist and true crime
discussions on faith, belief, the concept talks to bestselling New Zealand novelist
thrilling stories of exploring New Zealand’s aficionado Steve Braunias, whose court case
of god and HPTFTU (“the human propensity Catherine Robertson about the serious
longest and deepest caves, accompanied by coverage was collected in his 2015 book The
to f*** things up!”). job of funny writing.
stunning images and expedition video. Scene of the Crime.
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Images: Session 33 UMA Broadcasting Ltd; 35 right Candid Lane Photography; 36 Bev Short
Images: Session 37 Akanksha Sharma; 38 Wendy McDougall; 39 Sarah Shannon; 40 from left Jennie Groom, Grant Maiden
33 TIKANGA NOW 34 FUN AND GAMES 37 JEET THAYIL: POST-NARCOPOLIS 38 CHARLOTTE WOOD:
In “We’re All Māori
WITH HARRY GILES THE POWER OF FICTION
After two decades
Now”, her new Get ready of alcoholism and Charlotte Wood
essay for The for powerful opioid addiction, was described
Journal of Urgent playfulness with widely travelled by The Australian
Writing 2017, Emma “the sharpest journalist and as one of that
Espiner proposes new tongue acclaimed poet country’s “most
a brilliantly sensible way of doing things in in Scotland”, Jeet Thayil burst on to the literary A-list in original and
New Zealand. She discusses why Pākehā Harry Josephine Giles. Abandon any 2012 with the Booker-nominated novel provocative writers”. Her most recent novel,
need to understand and embrace tikanga preconceptions and prepare to participate Narcopolis. He has just produced his The Natural Way of Things, won the country’s
Māori, or customary ways of doing things, with this founder of spoken word event second novel, The Book of Chocolate Saints, 2016 Stella Prize, 2016 Indie Book of the Year
with lecturer Māmari Stephens and unionist series Inky Fingers, co-director of live art a sprawling literary masterpiece that teems and was joint winner of the Prime Minister’s
Morgan Godfery (both Urgent Writing platform Anatomy and producer of the with life, ideas and contradictions, as does Literary Award for Fiction. She and New
essayists). A timely conversation for all playable map Casual Games for Casual Hikers: the India he calls home. And it’s timely: an Zealand novelist Emily Perkins talk about this
New Zealanders. The Essential Rules for Outdoor Activities. A unsparing indictment of male art-makers and book, her new project – about the way the
surefire afternoon of confounding delight. the sexual abuse of power. He talks with elderly are depicted in mainstream culture
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poet and artist Gregory O’Brien. – and how Australasian fiction can prevail in
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35 WORDS’ WORTH 36 UNTOLD WAR STORIES
Discover how two Jane Tolerton 39 SARAH GLIDDEN: 40 MIKE LADD & BILL MANHIRE:
award-winning uncovered COMICS CORRESPONDENT CAPITAL POETS
Australian authors forgotten women Journalism: what is If one poet can be
foster fascination in her previous it, and how to do it said to represent
for word fun in books, including in comics? Seattle- an entire city,
young audiences. the bestseller based writer and then Mike Ladd
Ursula Dubosarksy won her fifth NSW Convent Girls and award-winning biography illustrator Sarah is Adelaide and
Premier’s Literary Award for her book for of safe-sex pioneer Ettie Rout. Amazed Glidden works Bill Manhire
primary-aged children The Word Spy, and at how little was known about women’s primarily in reportage comics. Her first book, Wellington. They’ve embodied their
has since written two sequels. Nick Earls active participation in World War I, she self- How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, respective cities with unique worldly voices
weaves fascinating etymologies into his published Make Her Praises Heard Afar: The detailed her encounters with Israel’s internal across long careers and are never afraid
bestselling Word Hunters adventure series. Hidden History of New Zealand Women in conflict. She returned to the Middle East in to mix it up: Mike Ladd most recently with
They talk about how their passion for words World War One, telling the stories of doctors, Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Invisible Mending, ranging across essay,
translates to the page and the importance of dentists, ambulance drivers, mathematicians, Syria, and Iraq – “an ambitious, nuanced memoir, short story and poetry, and Bill
their illustrator collaborators with children’s hospital managers and more. and sprawling work of graphic non-fiction” Manhire with the poetry/photography/music
writer Kate De Goldi. (Rolling Stone). She talks with former war collaboration Tell Me My Name. They read
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correspondent and Morning Report co-host and converse about place, time and verse.
Susie Ferguson.
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Images: Session 43 Martin Lengemann; 44 centre Grant Maiden
41 READY TO DIE? 42 DEFINING A NATION
Death: it’s going to This country’s
happen, so best most significant
to be prepared. and traumatic
Leading Australian conflict, crucial in
intensive care shaping the nation,
specialist Dr was the 1863–64
Charlie Corke is a strong believer in the need war between Māori and British troops in the
for us to all brave up to conversations about Waikato. In his ground-breaking, monumental
dying. In his new book Letting Go: How to work The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato
Plan for a Good Death, he explores how 1800–2000, historian Vincent O’Malley
people can mess up dying and explains how explores Māori and Pākehā relationships from
a plan can give us dignity and autonomy in first contact to settlement and government
the face of the inevitable. He talks with writer apology. He discusses his research with
and performer Jo Randerson, whose essay “artivist” Moana Maniapoto, musician and
“How to Die” was published in The Journal of writer for e-Tangata.
Urgent Writing 2017.
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43 TEJU COLE: BLIND SPOT 44 THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
In his new book In 2018, it’s 200 years
Blind Spot, since Mary Shelley’s
Nigerian writer Frankenstein
and international launched the
Hidden away upstairs in the heart of Courtenay Place sits photography critic twin genres of
The Library. Live music, fun and frivolous cocktails, exquisite and Teju Cole features science fiction and
his own photography for the very first time. horror, and 50 years since George Romero’s
obscure wines, delicious desserts, local craft beers, exceptional cheeses More than 150 of his full-colour photographs classic Night of the Living Dead changed the
are accompanied by an intimate and vocabulary of horror movies. Popular culture
and scrumptious savoury snacks make this a great place to meet evocative diary of years of near-constant is now permeated by disturbing nightmare
friends and relax and unwind. travel. Blind Spot adds to his already varied visions. Join three writers whose work delves
catalogue – book-of-2007 novella Every Day into the dark – Ian Tregillis (the Milkweed
is for the Thief, award-winning novel Open Triptych), Elizabeth Knox (Wake) and Intan
City and ground-breaking essay collection Paramaditha (Apple and Knife) – for a
Known and Strange Things. All will be up for discussion about why we love a good scare.
discussion with writer Paula Morris.
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Images: Session 46 from left Grep Hoax, Vivian Lindsay; 47 Tom White; 48 Marti Friedlander
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45 AC GRAYLING: 46 BLAZING STARS 49 OUTER SPACE SALOON SALON
MODERN MINDS AND POLITICS American essayist Against a weekend backdrop of space-
How were divine-right and poet Patricia embracing New Zealand Festival events –
monarchy, religious faith Lockwood
Star Wars: A New Hope In Concert with the
and tradition trumped by received rave
NZSO, and the interactive digital magic of
democracy, secularism and reviews for her
Future Playground – focus on the futuristic
science? And can modern 2017 memoir
democracy be saved? In Priestdaddy, but made her bones as a poet at a literary salon with a difference.
his new book Democracy and Its Crisis, with the bravura collections Balloon Pop Dock in for free-form, fun-filled spoken word, fast
AC Grayling of the New College of the Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland fire conversations, quizzes and giveaways, with
Humanities in London investigates why Homelandsexuals. Hera Lindsay Bird has other-worldly guests including LaQuisha St Redfern,
institutions of democracy across the globe been dubbed “the most exciting new poet Charlie Jane Anders, Harry Giles, Ian Tregillis and
are struggling to hold up against the in New Zealand letters” and her debut Hera Chris Tse. We’re not promising to replicate the Mos
forces they were designed to manage. His Lindsay Bird is only the second volume Eisley Cantina, but if you don your spacesuit or alien
previous book, The Age of Genius, explored of New Zealand poetry to sell over 5000 dress-up there may well be a treat for you.
the changes that radically altered political copies. Hear these trailblazing young writers
thinking in 17th-century Europe. He discusses in readings and conversation with journalist, FESTIVAL CLUB
both with Chris Finlayson MP. essayist and broadcaster Charlotte Graham.
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47 SONNY LIEW: EPIC COMICS 48 CK STEAD: IN FULL STRIDE @0800phantom
With The Art of At an age when
Charlie Chan Hock many consider www.0800phantom.co.nz
Chye, Sonny Liew their working lives
not only created behind them, poet,
“probably the novelist, essayist
greatest work of and literary critic
art ever produced in Singapore” (NPR, US), CK Stead is astonishingly productive. As
but also a multi-faceted history of the comics New Zealand Poet Laureate in 2015–2017,
medium itself. His epic take on the complex he embraced blogging and published his
intersection of art, commerce and Asia’s illustrated poetry collection In the Mirror,
singular city-state won him three US comics and Dancing, along with his first novel in five
industry Eisner Awards in 2017. He talks to years, The Necessary Angel, set in the literary
local comics creator Dylan Horrocks about world of contemporary Paris. With his next
the challenges of speaking truth via art. poetry collection underway, he talks with
writer and columnist Steve Braunias. Your
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2018 PETER TURNER MEMORIAL LECTURE Page 43 SOUNDINGS THEATRE FREE 6.30–7.30pmSUNDAY 11 MARCH 10–11am 11.30am – 12.30pm
Image: Session 52 Gia Goorich
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50 AC GRAYLING: 51 ROBOTS, FAITH AND FREE WILL 54 RISE TO WAR: MAKING THE 55 MIMI POND: A GRAPHIC LIFE
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS American writer
PLANET OF THE APES
The illustrative
With dirty politics, Ian Tregillis knows The Planet of the works of Mimi
authoritarian leaders his science: he Apes trilogy is a Pond, described
and the simultaneous holds a PhD in box-office hit and by New Yorker
rise of populism physics for his a triumph of digital cartoonist
rampant across the research into filmmaking. In this Roz Chast as
planet, what can supercomputer simulations of radio galaxies. behind-the-scenes being “hilarious, terrifying, moving and
individuals do to preserve democracy, the He also likes making things up and was session, Visual Effects Supervisor Dan Lemmon compulsively readable”, have been pouring
“least worst” system of government? British described as “a major new talent” by A Game shows and tells how rapid advancements from her pen since she started at the National
humanist, philosopher, public intellectual of Thrones author George RR Martin. His in visual effects by Weta Digital allowed Lampoon magazine in the late ’70s. In her two
and prolific author AC Grayling lays bare the two trilogies, the Milkweed Triptych (Nazi the creation of a large cast of digital apes graphic semi-memoirs, Over Easy and The
specific problems of 21st-century democracy X-Men vs British warlocks during WWII) and displaying unprecedented and convincingly Customer Is Always Wrong, she looks back at
in his new book Democracy and Its Crisis. In The Alchemy Wars (a Dutch-ruled 1920s with dramatic emotion and intelligence. Discover her art student days working Oakland diners
this fascinating lecture, he expands on these clockpunk robots, exploring faith and free how this cutting-edge technology now gives in the drugs ’n’ sex-fuelled ’70s – and talks
issues and maps out what he sees as urgently will) are rip-roaring, page-turning fantasies filmmakers the ability to tell stories limited hospitality, morality, mortality and more with
needed reforms. that delve into deep issues. only by their imagination. broadcaster Eva Radich.
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52 SARAH SENTILLES: 53 A FLOCK OF STARLINGS 56 URSULA DUBOSARSKY: 57 HARRY GILES POETRY
DRAW YOUR WEAPONS Starling, the
THROUGH A CHILD’S EYES As well as creating
Every day we quarterly online Ursula Dubosarsky playful, hard-hitting
unconsciously magazine of has the rare ability performances,
are being short writing, to convey how lectures, pamphlets
conditioned was founded by the world and its and games, Harry
to accept writers Louise challenges are Josephine Giles
violence. So Wallace and Francis Cooke to celebrate perceived so – “general doer of things” – writes and
says American journalist Sarah Sentilles in and publish the short work of New Zealand differently by children and adults. In more performs seditious, innovative poetry in
Draw Your Weapons, her lucid and eloquent writers aged under 25. In this session, they than 40 illustrated books, picture books, English and “magpie” Scots. These languages
investigation of the histories of art, violence, introduce Starling writers from the magazine’s novels for children and non-fiction books both feature in Giles’s debut collection
war and human survival. Described as five issues – bringing to the stage nine about language, she has become, in the Tonguit, shortlisted for the 2014 Edwin
“haunting”, “riveting” and “astonishing”, it fresh voices: Sharon Lam, Rebecca Hawkes, words of writer Sonya Hartnett, “the most Morgan Poetry Award. Be enthralled by
is a thought-provoking analysis that strikes Claudia Jardine, Tayi Tibble, Emma Shi, Joy graceful, most original writer for young readings and conversation about identity,
at the heart of our times. Sarah Sentilles Holley, Henrietta Bollinger, Sophie van people in Australia – probably the world”. politics and humanity from one of Scotland’s
talks to playwright, poet and performer Waardenberg and Essa Ranapiri. In a session intended for adults, but suitable outstanding breakthrough performers, with
Jo Randerson of Barbarian Productions. for younger readers, she talks to literary critic local poet Chris Tse.
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and historian Lydia Wevers.
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Images: Session 58 Grep Hoax; 59 Alice Moore; 61 Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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58 PATRICIA LOCKWOOD: 59 SOUNDING OUT STORIES 62 CORY DOCTOROW: 63 CITIES FOR THE LIVING
MIDWEST MEMOIR Stories were told
SURVEILLING UTOPIA How can cities
American writer long before they In his bestselling best work for
Patricia Lockwood were written. books and on his their residents?
has been called Now podcasting popular group Ben Schrader
“the poet laureate has revived the blog Boing Boing, won the WH
of Twitter” and set oral tradition. The Canadian writer Oliver award
the verse world success of sex and sexuality podcast Bang! Cory Doctorow is for best NZ history for The Big Smoke: New
alight with poems like “Rape Joke” from will see another series from RNZ broadcaster never short of pithy insights into the state of Zealand Cities 1840–1920. Philippa Howden-
her 2014 collection Motherland Fatherland Melody Thomas. Istanbul-based journalist the world. His new novel Walkaway juggles Chapman, Professor of Public Health at the
Homelandsexuals. Her memoir Priestdaddy and poet Mohamed Hassan won a Gold issues of automation, surveillance and utopia University of Otago and director of the
centres on her father, his unlikely conversion to Trophy at the New York Festival Radio Awards against the background of a toil-free, climate- New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities,
Catholicism and married priesthood, which he for his podcast series Public Enemy. Performer change-wracked world owned by the super- authored Home Truths: Confronting New
came to after crewing on a nuclear submarine and writer Michèle A’Court is a contributor to rich. Sci fi masters William Gibson and Neal Zealand’s Housing Crisis. They dissect city
and watching The Exorcist more than 70 times monthly Spinoff podcast On the Rag. These Stephenson have sung its praises – prepare problems and proffer solutions in discussion
in 88 days. It has drawn universal rave reviews podcast creators talk together about sharing to be next. He talks to writer Pip Adam. with author and journalist Max Rashbrooke.
and made the New York Times Books of 2017 stories out loud.
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Top 10. With broadcaster Kim Hill.
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60 A DIFFERENT LENS: 61 MY DWARVEN CLERIC 64 THREE SARAHS 65 CUT IT OUT: ON EDITING
LOOKING AFRESH AT WWI SLAYS YOUR ELF How do you tap A session for
Two lavish new Would you rather into your visual anyone who
books eye cultural face chaotic evil imagination? What agrees with
change during or lawful evil? makes a great Truman Capote:
World War I. How high is your illustration? And “I believe more
Chris Bourke charisma? And what’s it like living in the scissors than
has followed his what’s with those with one of the most popular first names of I do in the pencil.” During a career of over
award-winning bestseller Blue Smoke with weird looking dice? If you have answers, the 1980s and ’90s? All those questions and 35 years, Jane Parkin has edited hundreds
Good-bye Maoriland: The Songs and Sounds you’ve probably rolled up your own more will be addressed by comics creator, of books, including many by leading New
of New Zealand’s Great War. Military historian characters and stories in role-playing games. illustrator and graphic designer Sarah Laing; Zealand authors, and is regarded as one of
Christopher Pugsley focuses heavily on the Join games maker Morgan Davie and comics award-winning designer and hand-letterer the best in the business. She joins Ashleigh
war years in The Camera in the Crowd: Filming creator and Dungeons & Dragons enthusiast Sarah Maxey; and award-winning illustrator Young – acclaimed Can You Tolerate
New Zealand in Peace and War, 1895–1920. Dylan Horrocks as they discuss player- Sarah Wilkins, whose work appears in the This? essayist, poet and editor at Victoria
They trade stories, songs and pictures in this generated games and their potential for great bestselling anthology Good Night Stories University Press – to talk editing, with
illustrated talk. storytelling with novelist Danyl Mclauchlan. for Rebel Girls. Chaired by (of course) Fergus Barrowman.
Sarah Lang.
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