on April 17, 2021
Waitohi Library Talk and Draw
Dylan Horrocks and I were live streamed in conversation at the Waitohi Library. It was a bit of an experiment in the art of talking and drawing. Click here to watch.
on April 1, 2021
2021
31 March 2021 – Nina Mingya Powles in conversation with Chris Price
29 October 2021 – The Next Page: Dani Yourukova, Clara van Wel, Nkhaya Paulsen-More, Bronte Heron, Gerard O’Brien, Aline Tran, Lachlan Taylor, Janet Holst, Tamara Tulitua, Zoe Higgins, Michaela Tempany, Charlotte Doyle, Flora Feltham, Joe Parker and Callum Knight.
2020
30 October 2020 – The Next Page: Barbara Summer, Hannah Amante, Marita Hunt, Elizabeth Hibbs, Evana Belich, Jo Cho, Samantha Lane Murphy, Linda Martelletti, Areez Katki, Melissa Browne, Sarah Catherall, Thomas Walter and Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
Writers on Mondays 2019
29 August 2019 – Best New Zealand Poems 2018: Fiona Farrell (editor), Nikki-Lee Birdsey, Jenny Bornholdt, Doc Drumheller, Sam Duckor-Jones, Bernadette Hall, Anna Jackson, Therese Lloyd, Mary McCallum and Chris Tse.
2 September 2019 – The Next Page 2019: Kate Duignan introduces Caleb Harris, Ash Davida Jane, Elaine Webster, Cris Cucerzan, Rebecca Reilly, Geraldine Warren, Stacey Teague, Una Cruickshank, Mikee Sto-Domingo and Fiona Lincoln.
30 September 2019 – Elizabeth Knox and Craig Cliff
7 October 2019 – A Hostile Place: Lawrence Patchett and Carl Shuker
Writers on Mondays 2018
31 July 2018 – Jane Stafford and Harry Ricketts
13 August 2018 – Anna Jackson and Helen Rickerby
27 August 2018 – Tina Makereti in conversation with Lawrence Patchett
1 October 2018 – The Next Page 2, 2018: Emily Perkins introduces: Andrei Seleznev, Sinead Overbye, Tim Grgec, Charlotte Forrester, Laura Southgate, Anna Rankin, Johanna Knox, Madison Hamill, Tracey Schuyt and Rose Lu
Joy Cowley Masterclass for The Sapling
on November 25, 2020
THIS IS NOT A PIPE
Beth has a pole through her arms. This is not a metaphor. A metaphor would be a lot less inconvenient.
On the other side of the room, Kenneth is creating a new religion. He thinks narrative is the operating principle of the universe. He also thinks he’s the hero of Beth’s story. Beth is worried he’s going to leave her. The creatures living in the pole may have stolen her cat.
Tara Black’s comic is surreal, dark, sad, perversely joyful, and if you bet someone they couldn’t find another book remotely like it, you would win. It’s a little bit about being with Kenneth. It’s a little bit about losing your cat. It’s definitely not about the pole.
‘One of the most potent, unsettling texts I’ve encountered.’ —Tracey Slaughter
‘Poetic, whimsical and painfully honest.’ —Dylan Horrocks
‘A strange and wonderful book, both surreal and very real.’ —Tina Makereti
‘A freaking masterpiece.’ —Pip Adam
Media:
Waitohi Library – talk and draw with Dylan Horrocks
Landfall Online – Robyn Maree Pickens
Book Club Monster Mash – Sam Duckor-Jones, Erin Harrington and Rebecca Hawkes
Kete Books – Elizabeth Heritage
Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan – Claire Mabey
Otago Daily Times – Hamesh Wyatt
on November 5, 2020
Know Your Place: Golriz Ghahraman in conversation with Brannavan Gnanalingam about her book, Know Your Place.
Made in Wellington: Elizabeth Knox, Brannavan Gnanalingam, Pip Adam and Murdoch Stephens discuss Wellington, housing, institutions, living and writing.
Jonathan King on Adventure Writing
Diary of a Young Naturalist: Dara McAnulty talks to Paul Stanley Ward about autism and the wonder of the natural world.
Crip the Lit: Featuring Alice Mander, Charlotte Simmonds, Helen Vivienne Fletcher, Henrietta Bollinger, L.J. Ritchie, Maisie Chilton Tressler, Robyn Hund and Trish Harris.
Not That I’d Kiss a Girl: Lil O’Brien and Emily Writes discuss coming out stories, researching how to be a lesbian and memoirs.
So Real: Ashleigh Young, Eamonn Mara, Chloe Lane and David Coventry discuss writing realist fiction.
WOW: Bill Manhire and Kim Hill discuss his new book, Wow.
Show Ponies: The Return, featuring Freya Daly Sadgrove, Chris Tse, Sudha Rao, Sinead Overbye, Jackson Nieuwland, Rebecca Hawkes, Sam Duckor-Jones, Joy Holley, Tayi Tibble and Anahera Gildea. MCed by Eamonn Marra.
Comment
on June 12, 2020
Die Hard is not a Christmas film
My poem comic, ‘Die Hard is not a Christmas film’, is published on Stasis Journal, today. Read it there.
on March 16, 2020
Spot the 12 space monkeys. Thanks so much to the NZ Festival of the Arts and Verb for letting me cover the festival.
22 Februrary 2020
On Imagination: Elizabeth Knox giving the opening address at NZFA Writers’ festival
Bloodstone Cowboy: Kara Jackson and Courtney Sina Meredith in conversation
The Old Drift: Namwali Serpell in conversation with Whiti Hereaka
23 February 2020
An Indigenous Future: Maria Bargh, Jade Kake and Rebecca Kiddle discuss decolonisation with Leigh-Marama McLachlan
An Orchestra of Minorities: Chigozie Obioma in discussion with Brannavan Gnanalingan
Kate Tempest: Kate Tempest in conversation with Tayi Tibble.
29 February 2020
City of Trees: Sophie Cunningham in conversation with Ingrid Horrocks.
Shakti: Rajorshi Chakraborti in conversation with Lynn Freeman about his new novel, Shakti.
Don’t Hold My Head Down: Lucy-Anne Holmes in conversation with Melody Thomas, discussing her book, Don’t Hold My Head Down.
1 March 2020
Many Hearts- a journey through love: Dame Fiona Kidman, Freya Daly Sadgrove and Tracey Slaughter discuss writing about love with Catherine Robertson
A Feminist Romance: Bronwyn Sell and Lucy-Anne Holmes discuss ‘women’s fiction’ with Catherine Robertson.
7 March 2020
Coming to Our Senses: Jessie Bray-Sharpin chairs Long Litt Woon and Laurence Fearnley
Celestial Bodies: Jokha Alharthi in conversation with Kiran Dass
The Cut out Girl: Bart van Es in conversation with Miri Young-Muir
The Joy of Queer Lit Salon: Chris Tse chairs Jackson Nieuwland, Alison Glenny, Janis Freegard, Emily Writes and Victor Rodger
8 March 2020
Writing Women’s Lives: Jokha Alharthi and Rijula Das in conversation with Kiran Das
Paula Green Poetry Shelf: Paula Green introduces: Karlo Mila, Simone Kaho, Gregory Kan, Jane Arthur, Tayi Tibble, Tusiata Avia and Joy Harjo
What Keeps Me Up at Night: Karlo Mila, Bart van Es and Rose Lu each give a short lecture on what keeps them up at night.
12 March 2020
Why Women are Better Under Socialism: Kristen Ghodsee in conversation with Kim Hill
14 March 2020
Blakwork: Anahera Gildea speaks to Alison Whittaker and Carwyn Jones
What Does My Future Look Like? Kinley Salmon, Hannah Critchlow and James Renwick look to the future and past, with Melissa Clarke-Reynolds.
Sex, Politics and Gender: Kathryn Ryan chairs a discussion on sex, politics and gender with Marilyn Waring and Kristen Ghodsee
on November 19, 2019
Lie Down and Listen Poetics at Verb 2019: In which we lay in a creepy Masonic room and listened to Nina Powles, Cilla McQueen, David Eggleton, essa may ranapiri, Hannah Mettner, Amy Brown and Vanessa Crofskey read their poetry.
Litcrawl, Stage One: Sweet Mammalion – Jackson Niewland, Chris Holdaway, Miriama Gemmell, Jasmine Gallagher and Sam Duckor-Jones.
Litcrawl, Stage Two: AUP – Anna Jackson, Chris Tse, Rebecca Hawkes and Carolyn DeCarlo.
Litcrawl, Stage Three: Starling – Mel Ansell, Sinead Overbye, Vita O’Brien, Rhys Feeney, Caroline Shepherd, Isabelle McNeur and Ash Davida Jane.
Growing Up Wāhine Māori: Tayi Tibble and Patricia Grace chaired by Nadine Anne Hura.
Pakaru: Mitch Tawhi Thomas, Whiti Hereaka and Greg McGee discuss writing about family.
Toby & Toby & Toby: Toby Manhire interviewing Sharon Murdoch, Sophie Handford and Renée while Toby Morris illustrates.
Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with Kim Hill about her book Constellations.
Writing My Best Life: Ingrid Horrocks chairing Rose Lu, Sinead Gleeson and Linda Burgess in a discussion about the essay-memoir.
