Auckland Writers Festival 2015

Christchurch City Libraries connected you with the Auckland Writers Festival on from 13 to 17 May 2015 at the Aotea Centre.

A team of library staff — Alison Rodgers, Zac McCallum, Masha Oliver, and Donna Robertson — covered the Auckland Writers Festival.

Our AWF15 blog posts

• Anna Smaill – from a writing musician to a musical writer interview
• Kids' writing heroes at the Auckland Writers Festival
• Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Captain Underpants!
• What matters: Atul Gawande
• The Quotable Auckland Writers Festival
• 8 reasons to visit Writers Festivals
• Satirists at Large: Steve Braunias and David Slack
• History's shadow and the Life Beyond
• Ben Okri: “Reality is a bit more than what we think it is.”
• Family Matters at the Auckland Writers Festival
• (Don't) Stop tweeting
• David Walliams for breakfast, Haruki Murakami for dessert. And a lot of delicious munchies in between
• The action-packed life of Anthony Horowitz
• Keep calm and read Murakami
• The silly and serious sides of Morris Gleitzman
• David Mitchell's Middle Earth
• The Weird and wacky world of David Walliams
• The role of the critic - Wystan Curnow and Peter Holland
• Survival is insufficient – Emily St John Mandel at the Auckland Writers Festival
• Alan Cumming: “As an artist, I don’t want to entertain people, I need to provoke.”
• Stories for everyone : Auckland Writers Festival – New Zealand Listener Gala night!
• Horowitz and Gleitzman and Walliams, oh my!
• How Haruki Murakami taught me bridge building
• Shakespearean Spinach – Auckland Writers Festival and beyond

Writers

Authors who attended the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival included:

• David Walliams
• Alan Cumming
• Atul Gawande
• Helen Macdonald
• David Mitchell
• Captain Underpants (aka Dav Pilkey)

New Zealand authors at the Festival included:

• Tiny Ruins
• Nalini Singh

Follow the Auckland Writers Festival

• Auckland Writers Festival
• Like the Festival on Facebook
• Follow @AklWritersFest on Twitter
• View recorded sessions
• Check out the full programme

Previous Festival coverage

• Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2013
• Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2012
• Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2011
• Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2010
• Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2009
• Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2008
• Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2007
• Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2005

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