Nora gets inspired by Tusiata Avia whose chosen career came about because “... brown girls like me from Aranui didn’t become writers.”
WORD Christchurch 2023: The Importance of Writing Queer Joy
"My favourite point brought up at this panel was “There’s nothing hard about being queer until heterosexuals show up”. Arwen reports back from a session on queer joy.
Bible Lady: Picturing Canterbury
Taken in the Square in Easter 1971 of local character, the "Bible Lady". An image from Canterbury Stories.
WORD Christchurch 2023: Last WORD goes to reviewers
Four reviewers talk BookTok, capitalism, and what happens when someone at a party confronts you about a negative review.
WORD Christchurch 2023: The hungry ghosts of history
Moata reports back from a session with Kevin Jared Hosein, a discussion of Trinidad history, division, and colonisation.
WORD Christchurch 2023: Writing on the margins
This was a wide-ranging discussion about "re-indigenising through our words, decolonising and re-indigenising the page". This naturally leads to stepping away from the margin, the edge, into the centre - a place of power.
WORD Christchurch 2023: Emily Perkins, the Lioness of Literature
Angela reports back from an engaging session with Emily Perkins on Lioness, philanthropy, privilege and inertia at WORD Christchurch 2023.
WORD Christchurch 2023: Fresh flows at Confluence
Nora enjoys this "meeting of cultures, flowing and mixing, highlighting our strong oral traditions and the importance of whānau."
WORD Christchurch 2023: Summoning whakapapa with personal stories
Hong reports back from a session at Tūranga with Kai Tahu writers and musicians Ruby Solly and Ariana Tikao.
WORD Christchurch 2023: Political podcast with laughs
Teresa reports back from the live recording of the Gone by Lunchtime podcast, with special guest, Lianne Dalziel.
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