Fee reads an award nominated novel set in Northern Ireland. She finds it "an absolute hoot" (and learns lots of Irish words for "drunk").
Shuggie Bain takes out the Booker Prize!
Intense, heartfelt and complicated, Shuggie Bain illustrates that there is always love for a parent, no matter how flawed.
Last few WORDs: Interview with Fiona Farrell
In all the rush of WORD Christchurch Spring Festival, author Fiona Farrell found time to answer a few questions. This is remarkable since many of our contributing authors attended each other's events, and had more than one of their own. Fiona Farrell was part of the launch of her new book of poetry Nouns, Verbs…
Bill Manhire Wows the Crowds at WORD Christchurch
Bill Manhire wowed a large audience at Tūranga with readings from his new book of poems, Wow! Wow The master spoke with John Campbell, who, it turns out, was a student in his class of American Letters at Auckland University. What a hoot. There are a lot of laughs and banter between the two, and…
Dear Katherine : Fellows write a letter to Katherine Mansfield – WORD Christchurch Spring Festival 2020
In the last-but-one event at the hugely successful WORD Christchurch Spring Festival, Bill Manhire, Carl Nixon, Fiona Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan and Paula Morris shared their letters to our most beloved writer, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. All have been recipients of this funded stay in Menton, France, where Katherine…
And the winner is…! The Ngaio Marsh Awards for Best Crime Novel and Best First Novel: WORD Christchurch Spring Festival 2020
This event was one of the big moments I'd been waiting for. The lineup of nominees in both categories was highly competitive this year and it was anyone's guess who would win. On Saturday night, in the TSB Space at Tūranga, (fittingly All Hallow's Eve) Vanda Symon (author of the Sam Shepherd series) began proceedings…
WORD Christchurch: Te Papa Ōtākaro Walk
Fiona shares words and pictures from a WORD Christchurch walking event that explored local poetry as found along the banks of the Avon River | Ōtakāro.
An Hour with Vincent O’Sullivan: WORD Christchurch Spring Festival 2020
Vincent O’Sullivan (DCNZM) is one of New Zealand’s best-known writers. He is a poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, critic, editor, biographer, and librettist. Former Poet Laureate and recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship (1994), O'Sullivan jointly edited the five-volume Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (with Margaret Scott). He has won many national book awards…
Nouns, Verbs etc with Fiona Farrell: WORD Christchurch Spring Festival 2020
Local Clever Girl who became a Famous Woman, the wonderfully multi-talented Fiona Farrell launched her latest work at Scorpio Books last night; a work of poetry, humbly titled Nouns, Verbs etc. Nouns, Verbs, Etc Nouns, Verbs, etc is Farrell's fourth book of poetry, and its a 'Best Of'; including some of her greatest hits, taken…
The WORD on Crime: Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel 2020
The 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards for New Zealand's Best Crime Novel and Best First Novel will be held during WORD Christchurch Spring Festival on Saturday 31 October, 4.30pm at Tautoru | TSB Space at Tūranga. It's a free event - book your tickets now. The Ngaio Marsh Awards began in 2010, founded by writer and…
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