Jessie attends "The Romance of Fantasy", where Andrea Eames and Rachael Craw tell all about the love and magic behind their latest novels.
“Polkinghorne, Polkinghorne, Polkinghorne” – Inside the Trial of the Century at WORD Christchurch 2025
Jessie reports back on Steve Braunias' "Polkinghorne" event - a revelatory, hilarious, and poignant look into the "trial of the century."
The Romance of Fantasy: WORD Christchurch Festival 2025
Jessie is looking forward to seeing Andrea Eames and Rachael Craw speak at their WORD Christchurch 2025 event "The Romance of Fantasy".
WORD Christchurch 2025 Pick – Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century
Jessie is looking forward to seeing Steve Braunias' event "Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century" at WORD Christchurch 2025.
Creative Gothic – Open Christchurch 2025 at Tūranga
On Sunday 4 May, as part of the Open Christchurch festivities, Tūranga held two Creative Gothic workshops. Each group, comprising of eight customers, created coasters inspired by the works of Benjamin Mountfort. The workshops tied in with Open Christchurch’s 2025 focus, which commemorated the bicentenary of the birth of one of Christchurch’s most prominent historical architects.
Level up your reading: Top tips for reading more
Here are a few easy tips to increase your reading power and get you reading more.
Rage (but also love) on the page at WORD Christchurch 2024
This session was a carthartic rage release, it was also joyful, vulnerable, sorrowful, bridging. As Louise Wallace so truthfully put it, rage is complicated, and it also involves love.
True Stories of Death and Desperation: surviving our lives at WORD Christchurch 2024
Jessie reports back on Steve Braunias' WORD Christchurch 2024 event: True Stories of Death and Desperation.
Let women be angry: rage reads at WORD Christchurch 2024
Jessie looks ahead to a fiery WORD Christchurch event featuring Louise Wallace, Airini Beautrais and Talia Marshall.
Death and desperation abound in “The Survivors”: reading ahead for WORD Christchurch 2024
Ahead of Steve Braunias's WORD Christchurch 2024 event, Jessie reads his latest book "The Survivors: Stories of Death and Desperation".
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