WORD Christchurch Festival 2018

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

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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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