Saturday, May 14, 2011

Festival highlights








Fiona Farrell's Quake story at the Gala Night



Gail Jones' articulate analysis of her writing process






Michelle Leggott's wedding poem



Barbara Strauch saying that logical reasoning is at its peak by age 60 but you still won't know where the car keys are!



Best round up of events as usual is from Christchurch City Libraries

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2011


The 2011 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival is bigger then ever with a schools programme, the Wordy Day Out, a series of workshops, special foody events, a free Poets Laureate event, words and music with the APO and lots of "meet the author" sessions.
I'm looking forward to hearing Aminata Forna, Fiona Farrell, Meg Rosoff, Madhur Jaffrey, Emma Neale, Charlotte Randall, Gail Jones, Elizabeth Smither, Tea Orbreht, and as many others as I can fit in to the packed weekend.
Hope to see you there!