WORD Christchurch Festival was abuzz with writers and readers from Wednesday 29 August to Sunday 2 September 2018.
A team of librarians reported on events.
WORD Christchurch Festival coverage
- The Nerd Degree
- Ted Chiang - Arrival
- Laurence Fearnley interview
- Vulnerability and Advocacy at WORD Christchurch Festival
- Mortification
- Melting the canon - Explosive Archaeology
- Adventurous women - Miriama Kamo, Hollie Woodhouse, Lilia Tarawa, Margaret Austin, and Dr Michelle Dickinson
- Timey-wimey stuff
- Selina Tusitala Marsh and Tusiata Avia - Fast burning women
- Hollie McNish and Hera Lindsay Bird - Poetry Stars
- Te Ao Hou - Weaving indigenous identity back into Ōtautahi
- The Body is not an apology - Sonya Renee Taylor
- A.J. Finn
- The Freedom Papers - Lloyd Jones, Yaba Badoe, Juno Dawson, and Nick Barley
- Nanogirl - Cooking with science!
- Motherhood - Emily Writes and Hollie McNish
- Driving to Treblinka - Diana Wichtel
- Horse Tales - Stacy Gregg and Soraya Nicholas
- Gavin Bishop - Aotearoa
- Yaba Badoe - Fire Stars, and Witches
- A Place to Stand - Karin Altenberg and Amy Head
- Embracing Te Reo
- Go YA - Juno Dawson, Whiti Hereaka, and Yaba Badoe
- “Everything else is just filler” - Sex and Death Salon
- Fatbergs, toilet water, and the number 2 bus - Laurie Winkless
- To the mountains - Laurence Fearnley and Nic Low
- The Great WORD Debate
- Ant Sang
- The Politics of Fiction
- The Neu! Ōtautahi! Incident
- The Body Issue
- Bad Diaries Salon - #Risk
- The sea, the sea - Philip Hoare
- Let love in - Soraya M. Lane and Michele A'Court
- Shaun Bythell - Diary of a bookseller
- Go girls and boys: Barbara Else - Margaret Mahy Lecture
- Poetry on a winter's night - Hell Fire Poetry
- Starry, starry night
- You write funny!
- Juno Dawson - Gender Games
- Helen Clark
- Opium licking, self-mummification, and whistling trees - Jonathan Drori
- “We’ve all been through a lot” - Chessie and Chris Henry
- Charlotte Grimshaw - I and I and existentialism
- Comfortable in your skin
- Anne Salmond - Tears of Rangi
- Curiosities - Paula Morris and Tina Makereti
- Kā Huru Manu - My names are the treasured cloak which adorns the land
- Ed Husain
- Witches of Gambaga – A Film By Yaba Badoe
- For Book Collectors Old and New - Shaun Bythell and Brian Phillips
- Orphans, Immigrants, and Identity - Lloyd Jones
- Catherine Chidgey and Paul Cleave
- New Regent Street Pop-up Festival
- 125 years - Are we there yet?
- Alt-America - David Neiwert
- Ian Chapman rocks WORD
- Strangers Arrive – Leonard Bell
- Free Radicals
- Robyn Davidson - Adventurous Keynote
- Saving the Future - Interview with Ant Sang
- Black marks on the white page
- WORD Christchurch Festival and Book Towns
- What to do in Christchurch while WORDing
- Alina - Picks for teens
- Roberta - Having coffee with my author friends
- Dan: Dead men's WORDs
- Joyce's picks
- Moata’s picks
- The world of WORD- Dan’s picks
- WORD things to get excited about - Mark’s picks
- Spoilt for choice – Roberta’s Picks
See also the excellent coverage by Booksellers New Zealand.
Quick Questions
- Laurie Winkless
- Michèle A’Court
- Brannavan Gnanalingam
- Catherine Robertson
- Kate De Goldi
- Kirsten McDougall
- Lloyd Jones
- Vanda Symon
- Rajorshi Chakraborti
- Diana Wichtel
- Barbara Else
- Megan Dunn
- Catherine Chidgey
- Hera Lindsay Bird
- Nathan Fa'avae
- Charlotte Graham-McLay
- Miriama Kamo
- Victor Rodger
- Emily Writes
- Nicky Pellegrino
WORD Christchurch information
- Visit the WORD Christchurch website
- Sign up for the Festival newsletter
- Follow @wordchch on Twitter
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Previous WORD Festival coverage
- WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival 2016
- 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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