Posts Tagged Verb Festival

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on November 5, 2020
Collage of drawings by Tara Black made live at Verb Festival 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.

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on November 19, 2019
Collage of drawings by Tara Black made live at Verb Festival 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.

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on November 11, 2018
Collage of Tara Black's drawings, made live at Verb Festival 2018

8 November 2018

Kaveh Akbar in discussion with Kim Hill at Meow Bar.

10 November 2018

Kidscrawl: The wonderful writers and illustrators of Annual provided a treasure-hunt, story-making adventure.

No Country Woman: Zoya Patel in discussion with Kiran Dass.

Writing Outsiders: Dame Fiona Kidman, Amy Head and Rob Doyle in discussion with Anna Smaill.

Anxiety Understood: Riki Gooch, Danyl Mclachlan, Kirsten McDougall, Anthony Byrt and editor, Naomi Arnold discuss their contributions to Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety, a collection of writing about anxiety.

Litcrawl 2018 Stage 1: Meet the Starling Residents – featuring Eleanor Morton, Ruby Solly, Isabelle McNeur, Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor, essa may ranapiri and Rebecca Hawkes.

Litcrawl 2018 Stage 2: Bad Diaries Salon – featuring Rajorshi Chakraborti, Rob Doyle, Tracy Farr, Chris Price and Kate Camp.

11 November 2018

Bilingual Future: Scotty Morrison (Ngāti Whakaue) and Doireann Ní Ghríofa talk about their hopes for a bilingual future.

Bringing Down the Man: Michele A’Court, Sasha Borissenko, Lizzie Marvelly and Zoya Patel discuss feminism and activism.

Sophomore Year: Therese Lloyd, Kate Duignan and Michele A’Court discuss publishing their second books. Chaired by Chris Tse.