Auckland Writers Festival 2016

Christchurch City Libraries connects you with the Auckland Writers Festival on from 10 to 15 May 2016 at the Aotea Centre. A team of library staff — Moata, Masha, and Roberta  — will be covering the festival.

Our AWF16 blog posts

• Petina Gappah on the elusive nature of writers’ satisfaction
• Things that you learn about yourself at a festival
• Quotable Auckland Writers Festival 2016
• Tusiata Avia and Maxine Beneba Clarke on friendship and reading beyond the colour
• Another country? Mainlanders discussing ourselves
• Janna Levin and a matter of some gravity
• Gloria Steinem: Encouraging troublemakers
• Making literary fiction exciting: Michel Faber
• Front lines: Michael Grant
• Jeanette Winterson: The gap of time
• Jean-Christophe Rufin: Walking your way to happiness
• Marlon James – the author who just comes in and is cool
• Tell it slant - Steve Braunias, Joan Fleming, Vivian Gornick and Chris Price
• The authenticity and secret obsessions of John Boyne
• "Herstory" in history - Barbara Brookes
• Auckland Writers Festival - how to do it on the cheap
• Festival love, exciting and new (audio)
• Different kinds of adulthoods - Hanya Yanagihara and Paula Hawkins
• The State of America - Janna Levin, Gloria Steinem, and Thomas Mallon
• Creativity and craziness - Jeanette Winterson and Susie Orbach
• Susie Orbach and feminist issues
• The odd woman and the city ... and me - Vivian Gornick
• First full day of festivalling (audio)
• Back-to-back greatness at the Auckland Writers Festival - Herman Koch and Jane Smiley
• Setting the Kiwi murder scene - Steve Braunias
• True tales of the Festival (audio)
• Liz Pichon: "Drawing, writing, painting - I have the best job in the world" (interview)
• Sharon Holt: Teaching a taonga (interview)
• Jane Smiley: "Important things are happening"
• Introducing your Auckland Writers Festival angels
• The Family Tree rant
• Messing with my comfort zone
• Confessions of a Jane Smiley groupie
• Which of these writers is a Great Kiwi Classic?

Browse all Auckland Writers Festival posts.

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