• Behrouz Boochani Friday 29 November
• Omar Musa, Michael Pedersen, Dominic Hoey Friday 15 November
• Zadie Smith Wednesday 13 November
• Toby Faber Sunday 11 August
• What a fool honesty is Wednesday 31 July
• Adrian Hayes: One Man's Climb Thursday 4 April

Shifting points of view - 18 August to 14 September 2019

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WORD Christchurch Autumn Season 2019

Read our posts on the WORD Christchurch Autumn Season. Wednesday 8 May to Saturday 25 May 2019.
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WORD Christchurch Festival 2018

Posts and reports on festival events for 2018

2018 Events

Lee Child Friday 23 November 7pm
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Kaveh Akbar Tuesday 6 November 6.30pm
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• Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton Marshallows, Money, and Madness Sunday 22 July 2pm
  Photos of the Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton Treehouse Tour
• Robert Webb - How not to be a boy Tuesday 15 May 7.30pm
• The Amazing Jeff Kinney Wednesday 2 May 6pm
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• A feast of Francis - An hour with Francis Spufford Wednesday 7 March 7pm
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• Dip your pen in your own psyche: An interview with Francis Spufford Wednesday 7 March 7pm
• Mutton chops, and door knockers, face fungus and designer stubble - Lucinda Hawksley at the Christchurch Art Gallery Sunday 11 February
• 10 reasons to love Nigella Lawson Thursday 8 February

2017

• Shifting points of View — Christchurch Arts Festival 1 to 16 September
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• WORD Christchurch Autumn Season 14 to 17 May
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• Fiona Farrell: Decline and Fall on Savage Street launch 1 August
• Hera Lindsay Bird and Ashleigh Young 22 March
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• All about (Nasty) women 5 March
• All about women
• My library - Rachael King
• Hear Orphan X author Gregg Hurwitz in Christchurch 1 March
• Reading poetry around the world 26 January

WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival 2016

• Festival coverage
• Photos

Jane Smiley - May 2016

• Jane Smiley – “Important things are happening”
• Confessions of a Jane Smiley groupie

Anis Mojgani - March 2016

• Fiercely hopeful and in love
• A new chapter: An interview with Anis Mojgani
• Things we LOVE about poet Anis Mojgani
• Geraldine Brooks and the Pulitzer Surprise 18 November 2015

Shifting points of view – 30 August and 7 September 2015

Shifting points of view was a bumper crop of sessions from top writers and commentators. It was WORD Christchurch's part of the Christchurch Arts Festival and warmed the cockles of enquiring minds. Read our coverage:

• Patricia Grace and Paula Morris: On Belonging
• Imaginary Cities: Fiona Farrell, Anna Smaill, Hamish Clayton, Hugh Nicholson, chaired by Lara Strongman
• Quick questions with Anna Smaill
• Margaret Wilson: The Struggle for sovereignty
• Quick questions with Margaret Wilson
• Quick questions with Suki Kim
• A half circle journey: Suki Kim and North Korea
• Jesse Bering: On Perversion
• Pride and Perversion
• On effective altruism – Peter Singer
• Sarah Waters at Shifting Points of View
• WORD Christchurch photos

• WORD Christchurch Autumn Season 12 to 17 May 2015
• Feminism is a feminist issue 8 March 2015

2014

• Julia Gillard in conversation 20 November 2014
• WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival 2014

Earlier festivals and events

• Michael Palin gets a Brazilian … 2 November 2012
• 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

Our page on literary festivals and events.