WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival 2016

WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival was on from 24 to 28 August 2016. Visit our page on WORD Christchurch.

A team of librarians reported back on WORD sessions. Read our blog posts and interviews:

• After WORD – an interview with Rachael King, literary director of WORD Christchurch
• Word for WORD: Quotes of the festival
• Afternoon tea in the Treehouse with Andy Griffiths
• Monster Making 101 - Tracy Farr
• Andy Griffiths
• "All eyes" - Justin Cronin
• Festival Faves
• Ivan Coyote - Talking across boundaries
• About a boy - Tanya Moir, Elizabeth Hay, and Emma Neale
• Sex, Sex, drugs and rock n roll, and rock n roll Aotearotica launch, Kate Holden, Bianca Zander, Jodi Wright, and In love with these times: Flying Nun
• Black and Blue Storytelling: Ivan Coyote, Alice Canton and The Unicorn
• How to be a writer: Steve Hely
• How to start a magazine - The Sunday Fringe. Duncan Greive, Debbie Stoller and Luke Wood
• Speaking Out: Tara Moss
• My WORD - Anne's report
• Sister Cities/First Nations: Ali Cobby Eckermann and Elissa Washuta
• How are we doing, Christchurch?: Sam Crofskey, Ciaran Fox, Katie Pickles, Robyn Wallace
• Tales from the Ice
• Tickled Fiction
• Word Up to Flying Nun
• Reimagining journalism: Simon Wilson, Cate Brett, Morgan Godfrey, Duncan Greive, Paula Penfold
• Ask a Mortician: Caitlin Doughty
• Adventures in Publishing: Scott Pack
• The right to be cold: Sheila Watt Cloutier
• An hour with Nadia Hashimi
• Giving them hell - Political cartoons: Peter Bromhead, Sharon Murdoch and Toby Morris
• The State of America: Peter S. Field, Amy Fletcher, and Steve Hely
• Work/Sex: Kate Holden, Leigh Hopkinson, and Jodi Sh. Doff
• Atmosphere of hope: Tim Flannery
• WORD Up
• Busted: Feminism and Pop Culture: Debbie Stoller
• Bloomsbury South: Peter Simpson
• Grieving and Living: What Abi taught us: Lucy Hone
• Last Word Whisky and Poetry: Sarah Jane Barnett, Steven Toussaint, Emma Neale, and David Howard
• The Spinoff After Dark: Toby Manhire, Alex Casey, and Duncan Greive
• Cities of tomorrow: A better life?: Marie-Anne Gobert, Cecile Maisonneuve, Mark Todd, and Barnaby Bennett
• The Margaret Mahy Memorial Lecture: David Levithan
• Water: Alok Jha
• Where do you get your ideas from?: Alice Canton, Mohammed Hassan, Hollie Fullbrook, Toby Morris
• 2050: Tim Flannery, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Mai Chen, and Bronwyn Hayward
• No sex please, we're teenagers: Ted Dawe, David Levithan, Frances Young
• True Crime: Jarrod Gilbert, Tim McKinnel and Steve Braunias
• A Literary Life: John Freeman
• The Stars are on fire
• Reading favourites: David Hill and Jolisa Gracewood
• Shelf life: CK Stead
• An hour with Dame Fiona Kidman
• Migrant voices: Qaali Mohamed, Hassam Ibrahim, Abbas Nazari, Murdoch Stephens
• “Christchurch is where it all started for me” – an interview with Roger Shepherd
• Canadian tales with Elizabeth Hay
• Speaking proud
• Can books change the world? John Freeman, Kate De Goldi, Victor Rodger
• Carpe Librum - Seize the book
• Win an interview, VIP afternoon tea with Andy Griffiths, & two tickets to his show!
• Poetry Ōtautahi – National Poetry Day, Friday 26 August 2016
• Let’s take a walk: A poignant pop-up book about Christchurch
• WORD Finder: Things to do in Christchurch
• A WORD with Bill Manhire
• Netta Egoz – the woman behind Christchurch’s PechaKucha Nights
• Your own personal Christchurch – we pick things to do and see for WORD Christchurch writers
• How to interview yourself
• Beautiful but doomed: Ted Dawe’s Devon Santos
• WORD Writers & Readers Festival 2016 – Bringing the BIG names to town!
• WORD Christchurch: Moata's picks of the festival

Quick Questions with WORD authors

• Alok Jha
• Frankie McMillan
• Rachael Craw
• Nadia Hashimi
• Leigh Hopkinson
• Jarrod Gilbert
• Helen Lowe
• Kate Holden
• Tania Roxborogh
• Ted Dawe
• Toby Morris
• Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh
• Danyl Mclauchlan

WORD photos

Our photos of WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival 2016.

WORD Christchurch information

• Visit the WORD Christchurch website
• Sign up for the Festival newsletter
• Follow @WordChristchurch on Twitter
• Like WORD Christchurch on Facebook
• WORD Christchurch author biographies

Writers and thinkers at WORD Christchurch 2016

Find works by the writers at WORD Christchurch in our collection:

• Tusiata Avia
• Sarah Jane Barnett
• Joe Bennett
• Steve Braunias
• Peter Bromhead
• Barbara Brookes
• Mary Cowen
• Ivan E. Coyote (Canada)
• Rachael Craw
• Stephen Daisley (Australia/NZ)
• Ted Dawe
• Caitlin Doughty (USA)
• Doc Drumheller
• Ali Cobby Eckermann (Australia)
• Marianne Elliott
• Tracy Farr
• Tim Flannery (Australia)
• John Freeman (USA)
• Hollie Fullbrook Tiny Ruins
• Jarrod Gilbert
• Robert Glancy
• Kate de Goldi
• Morgan Godfery
• Jolisa Gracewood
• Mandy Hager
• Nadia Hashimi (USA)
• Elizabeth Hay (Canada)
• Bronwyn Hayward
• Karen Healey
• Steve Hely (USA)
• Jane Higgins
• David Hill
• Julie Hill
• Kate Holden (Australia)
• Lucy Hone
• Leigh Hopkinson
• Alok Jha (UK)
• Fiona Kidman
• David Levithan (USA)
• Richard Loseby
• Nic Low
• Helen Lowe
• Danyl McLauchlan
• Anna Mackenzie
• Frankie McMillan
• Bill Manhire
• Selina Tusitala Marsh
• Owen Marshall
• Tanya Moir
• Josephine Moon (Australia)
• Paula Morris
• Toby Morris
• Tara Moss (Canada / Australia)
• Emma Neale
• James Norcliffe
• Katie Pickles
• Rebecca Priestley
• Victor Rodger
• Tania Roxborogh
• Ben Sanders
• Roger Shepherd
• Tracey Slaughter
• Debbie Stoller (US)
• Lara Strongman
• C.K. Stead
• Vanda Symon
• Chris Tse
• Matt Vance
• Matt Vickers
• Sheila Watt-Cloutier
• Damien Wilkins
• Helene Wong
• Jodi Wright
• Bianca Zander

Satellite events

• Justin Cronin (USA)
• Andy Griffiths (Australia)

More WORD articles and blog posts

• Read WORD's Five Festival Picks from a variety of people.
• Top ten WORD Festival picks… for Writers! Amy Paulussen, chairperson of the Canterbury branch of the NZ Society of Authors.
• Sparkling lineup for WORD Festival Eleanor Black, Stuff

Previous Festival coverage

• WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival 2014
• The Press Christchurch Writers Festival 2012
• Our coverage of The Press Christchurch Writers Festival 2010 links to interviews we conducted before the Festival was cancelled.
• The Press Christchurch Writers Festival 2008
• The Press Christchurch Writers Festival 2006

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