The Chamber, a smaller, lower-ceilinged room at The Piano, was packed on Sunday evening. Runners and the running-curious gathered to hear from writers (and runners) Josie Shapiro, Guyon Espiner and Jessica Howland Kany in conversation with Alex Casey from The Spinoff. Josie Shapiro recently published the novel "Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts", the story…
WORD Christchurch 2023: Climate Fiction and Climate Futures
On Thursday evening at The Piano, environmental anthropologist Mahmah Timoteo, climate and sustainability writer and political scientist Bronwyn Hayward, and poet and editor Eric Kennedy took the stage for a discussion of writers and writing in the face of a changing climate. A wide-ranging conversation with Melanie Dixon unfolded, with a few of the many insightful moments outlined below.
WORD Christchurch 2023: Not Set in Stone – David Vass
On Friday at The Piano, an attentive audience listened to David Vass and Nic Low discuss the pleasures & perils of climbing mountains.
My WORD!: Clare looks forward to the festival
Clare's picks for the festival tend towards the environment and the outdoors - think climate change, mountaineering and running.
Freedom, Only Freedom – Behrouz Boochani returns to WORD
Last Wednesday evening WORD director Nic Low took the stage of The Piano to welcome Kurdish Iranian writer, journalist, cultural advocate and filmmaker Behrouz Boochani back to Ōtautahi.
Freedom, Only Freedom – The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani: WORD Christchurch – Wednesday 16 November 6pm
Writer, journalist and filmmaker Behrouz Boochani will be a familiar figure to many in Ōtautahi, having made the city his first home in Aotearoa. Hear from him about his new book Freedom, Only Freedom.
Tilting back towards the sun: Three novels with solar power
Winter has Clare wanting warming reads. She recommends three excellent novels that bring the heat in different ways.
CHESS FEVER: Just a sweet pawn, trying to become a chaos knight
Clare considers the appeal of chess, an activity "that can be a place of connection, amusement, and sustained keen attention."
WORD Christchurch: Medical Misadventures
Clare reports back from a WORD Christchurch session with novelists Carl Shuker and Eileen Merriman and their reflections on the medical profession and health system.
WORD Christchurch 2020: Pip Adam: Nothing to See
I first encountered the work of Pip Adam on reading The New Animals, winner of the 2018 Acorn prize for best fiction. A strange, slippery novel, it struck me in its adept portrayal of inter-generational dissonance, and darkly beguiled in its slinking descent to mermaid-transmutation in the Hauraki Gulf. This year, Adam's latest book Nothing…
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