"WORD Christchurch Festival 2024 has been launched so it's time to peruse the programme and make some picks. WORD Festival proper runs from Tuesday 27 August to Sunday 1 September, but there's a Jesse Mulligan reading party on 22 July and The Savage Coloniser Show is on from 10 to 13 September, so WORD has some beautiful tendrils. There is a tonne of great stuff in the programme, but here are the events and people that have particularly piqued my interest."
Ōtautahi represents on the shortlists for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2024
Dive into the shortlists for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Local authors and illustrators are well represented, with Christchurch people in SIX of the seven categories!
Best Aotearoa book cover of 2023 – Dream girl by Joy Holley
Hear from the Dream Team behind the cover of my favourite New Zealand book cover of 2023.
Best book covers of 2023 – My pick of Aotearoa’s finest
Each year I handpick my favourite New Zealand book covers. Have a look at the winner, the top 10, and plenty of stylish books.
“It’s ours!”: Happy 5th birthday, Tūranga and the Discovery Wall
Tūranga is 5 today. Take a look back at opening day, and hear from Tūranga librarians about working here.
Tote-ally awesome: NZ Bookshop Day Saturday 7 October 2023
Donna is excited about NZ Bookshop Day and the possiblity of new books as well as a tote by Xoë Hall with the slogan "Books are my bag."
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: In absence lies essence – Roy Montgomery and Clementine Valentine
Black is the colour and the theme - absence, essence, death, and endurance. Roy Montgomery and Clementine Valentine play music, and then Roy reads poems from his new book Endurance.
WORD Christchurch 2023: Life, death, and doing the right thing – The Quiet Hero: Andrew Bagshaw
Philip Matthews and Sue and Phil Bagshaw explore the life of Andrew Bagshaw - heroism, life, death, and the truly extraordinary lengths someone can go to do what's right.
WORD Christchurch 2023: The Music Book Club
Music makes the WORD go round - Donna reports back on the Music Book Club with the Unlikely Librarian Mike and Marlon Williams.
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