Nuns, Angels, Witches & Sluts Dame Margaret Sparrow: LitCrawl Extended  –   C G  W A panel of New Zealand writers discuss the inspiration and A Celebration impact of the female other in New Zealand writing. Featuring  –  Welcome to the brand new LitCrawl Extended (VUP) is a new book by pioneering New , Kirsten McDougall, and Jess Risking eir Lives series! Come to City Gallery, immerse yourself Zealand hero, Dame Margaret Sparrow, who has worked Holly Bates. in writers and ideas and make an entire weekend Supported by Victoria University Press tirelessly to improve the lives of women in New Zealand. In of it. Unless otherwise stated, tickets for this session we celebrate her life and work, as well as her latest Extended sessions are , or  if you want to Born Storyteller: Jan Carson research, with Sasha Borissenko. give LitCrawl extra support. LitCrawl Extended .  –.   Supported by Victoria University Press multiple session passes are also available. Jan Carson (Belfast) is author of critically acclaimed novel All tickets and passes at citygallery.org.nz/events. Malcolm Orange Disappears, short story collection Children’s , and  ash  ction volume . Jan talks with Full programme at litcrawl.co.nz. Children Postcard Stories    Charlotte Graham about her inspirations, ambitions, working With thanks to City Gallery , our Extended partner. with Liam Neeson and her fascination with Bob Dylan. Flash Fiction with Jan Carson “A born storyteller, her narratives are uncontainable,  zzing up S   N,  –  out of her pages.” — e Guardian C G      Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Every day in , Jan Carson wrote a story on the back of a postcard and mailed it to a friend. Postcard Stories is the collec- tion of highlights from this experiment. Learn from a master Women of Letters     of  ash  ction and come away with snapshots of your own. .   |     e Whole Intimate Mess: A Rant Tickets  from citygallery.org.nz/events. Limited capacity. A stunning line-up of New Zealand women write letters on a  –  theme and read them aloud for the  rst time in front of you. Holly Walker, author of (BWB Texts),       is is an astonishing evening that will move you in every way. e Whole Intimate Mess a book which chronicles her time as both Green Party MP Starring Gaylene Preston, Jess Holly Bates, Ashleigh Young, and new mum, talks with Emily Writes, author of Georgina Beyer and Rachel Stewart. More to be announced. All Rants in the : , about the pitfalls and pro ts go to the Wellington Homeless Women’s Trust. Dark: From One Tired Mama to Another prejudices that make life that much harder for mamas in the Portrait of an Artist Mongrel “Women of Letters is the perfect alchemy of literary art-party S   N,  21 century. and storytelling” — Amanda Palmer A performed reading, directed by Nancy Brunning, produced by Hāpai Productions and featuring Reuben Butler, Moana Ete, An Extravagance of Writers Tanea Heke, Jim Moriarty, Te Kahu Rolleston, Mitch Tawhi      .  –.    omas and Trae Te Wiki. Presented by Totaranui Productions Luxuriate in an hour of readings. Sink into chairs, shut your in association with Māoriland Charitable Trust. eyes if you like, and listen to some of the most singular voices First Novels: Harriet McKnight Venue: Māoriland Hub, -  Main Street, Ōtaki from Aotearoa and around the world. Featuring, Harry Giles, Tickets: General Admission  & Annaleese Jochems Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Susie Anderson, Tina Makereti Māoriland Social Club Members   –  and more. Pip Adam talks to Harriet McKnight and Annaleese Jochems Reserve your ticket by emailing [email protected] about their debut titles and how it feels to get reviews like Why I’m Writing What I’m Writing or purchase at the door, cash only. Only those with reservations “Sultry, sinister, hilarious and demented, Baby blazes with are admitted before . . intelligence.” — Eleanor Catton; and “ is the kind of  –  Rain Birds Victor Rodger ( ), Eleanor Bishop ( novel you will think about for weeks.... McKnight is a writer to Sons, Black Faggot Body Dou- ), Harriet McKnight ( ) and Brannavan Gnanalin- watch.” — Ellen Cregan ble Rain Birds gam (Sodden Downstream) get stuck into the need to write, the Supported by the Australian High Commission power of the arts, and what they think the future might hold. LitCrawl Pop-up BOWEN   –   GALLLERIES Sleeps Standing  anks to Te Auaha, the LitCrawl Pop-up will be in the CBD. .  –.   : On Savage Street VicBooks will be there with all your bookish needs. Co ee “During three days in ,  Māori men, women and .  –.   Fiona Farrell  is one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed Supreme will keep you ca einated. And LitCrawl has got a children fought an imperial army and captured the imagina- writers. Her latest project is a two-part exploration into how world of activity going on inside: bibliotherapy, live podcasts, tion of the world.” by and Hēmi Sleeps Standing we rebuild a city: the books storytime, marathon readings…. See litcrawl.co.nz/pop-up for Festival Patrons: NZ Society of Authors Wellington branch Kelly is an extraordinary multi-perspective view of the Battle e Villa at the Edge of an Empire (non- ction) and ( ction). the schedule. With special thanks to Format Print, Speedy Signs, Ricoh, Bridget Williams Books, of Ōrākau.  ey talk with Michalia Arathimos about this New e Decline and Fall of Savage Street Penguin Random House, Otago University Press, Sucheta Raj, Gina Moss and Join Fiona and Louise O’Brien for an investigation into change Emma Densem. Zealand  rst. and transformation. You can support LitCrawl and keep it alive. Visit litcrawl.co.nz/support for information. LitCrawl Wellington is a project of the Wellington Treasure Trust and the Litquake Foundation. LitCrawl Wellington is produced by Pirate & Queen. BOU WELLINGTON THE TERR CENTRAL HARRIS LIBRARY 6 ST PHASE 1 6–6:45PM PHASE 2 7:15–8PM 3 1 9 17 Short Story Book Club Live!  ese Wild Nights 13 BATS eatre, 1 KENT TCE Ferret Bookshop, 175 CUBA ST Your guide to the crawl T

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S E Jesse Mulligan hosts Radio New Zealand’s Short Story Book  e Starling set returns, with six dazzling young writers. R T 2 S on Saturday 11 November Club… Live! Join Jesse along with Tracy Farr and Elizabeth Nightmares, paper boats, rabbits and moons: hear work from the A I TREET AP 16 R WILLIS S O Heritage to discuss stories shortlisted from submissions. Submit most recent issues of Starling, an online journal publishing the best T Entry to crawl sessions is by C W I AKEFIELD your short story for consideration at [email protected], poetry and prose by New Zealand writers under 25 years. Featuring V DI CUBA donation, $5 suggested. XON details at litcrawl.co.nz Henrietta Bollinger, Leah Dodd, Sharon Lam, Olivia Nonoa, S TREET 8 S Yasmin Nouri and Zoe Higgins. MANNERS TREET CABLE (except session 16) 2 12 ACE 7 S 10 TREET TAL TERR Bringing it all Back Home ORIEN 25 21 S 9 EDWARD STREET Doing Bad  ings TREET LE FT 19 Meow, 39 GHUZNEE STREET BAN 5 K Bowen Galleries, R 14 COU P TREET T O Dylanophiles Jan Carson (Northern Ireland), Je rey Paparoa EVA ST A S R S XBURGH TEN L

GH L T Five talented writers nd in each other’s work the extraordinary bad U A I Holman and Finn Johansson discuss, read and perform pieces from ZNEE Y PL S T S A S E GLOVER R things that make their writing so good. Pushing form and imagery STREET CE the Nobel Prize-winning songwriter, Bob Dylan. ALLEN WILLIS PARK S R 15 T O are writers , Faith Wilson, Liz Breslin, Annabel 10 BLAIR TREET AD COU 1 XBURGH S 3 O R Hawkins and Mīria George. Supported by Bowen Galleries TREET 4 RTEN R E S K 22 TREET TREET A Toby & Toby Live! W S Y PL TREET 9 S 18 11 S VIVIAN A A 101 WAKEFIELD STREET CE H CUBA23 MAJORIBANKS City Gallery, A Stranger in Town STREET ORIA T TREET T 223 CUBA ST MARION S TENNYSON S Toby Manhire and Toby Morris bring their award-winning RNZ ARANAKI VIC T Y S C Q Hotels, 20 CE TREET JESSIE R A collaboration to the stage as Toby Manhire interviews guests while 11 O S VIVIAN T TREET With the current state of world a airs, the migrant journey is an S TREET L LIPMAN Toby Morris does live illustrations to commemorate the occasion 24 PHASES ONE ORNE PHASE TWOCE PHASE THREE AFTER PARTY TREET A LE illuminating and vital story to be shared. In this session four talented S VY and capture the conversations. Music by Toby Laing. Guests to TREET ST writers will discuss their experiences migrating to New Zealand. ABEL SMITH be announced. WIGAN 6–6:45PM COLL 7:15–8PM ELIZABETH 8:30–9:15PM 9:30PM– KARO DRIVE E Featuring Giovanni Tiso, Daniela Dragas, Diane Comer and STREET STREET FREDERICK GE S KENT TERR VIVIAN TREET CAMBRIDGE TERR S 4 TREET TREET Rajorshi Chakraborti. S Wild 12 Bicycle Junction, 1 MARION STREET My Mythology PHASE 3 8:30–9:15PM 106 MANNERS STREET Paul Stanley Ward, Bill Nelson, John Summers, Richard Hall, Arty Bees Books, 17 22 Harriet McKnight and Laura Williamson read their works “It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night ”— Jack Aotearotica On the Soapbox: 4th Floor exploring the wilderness and the re ections that come from Kerouac, On e Road. LEVEL 2, 99 WILLIS STREET LEVEL 1/166 CUBA STREET adventuring beyond the con nes of city life, and inhabiting a non- Meanwhile, Matchbox, Five writers o er up fragments of their own myth making. Gather human world. Nestle in for readings from Aotearoa’s steamiest new journal Whitireia, they’re terri c.  ey’ve got students.  ey’ve got tutors. round for readings that overlay the universe with fresh openings to Aotearotica, featuring writing and art from New Zealand and And they’re terri c. But some of them are bad writers who lie. So 5 new worlds. Featuring Lee Posna, Valerie Arvidson, Emily Perkins, beyond. Featuring Laura Borrowdale, as well as contributors Dylan we’re taking their lies and we’re putting them in 4th Floor.  is year’s Shall We Take  is Outside? Dan Rabarts, and Lee Murray. LEVEL 1, 1 EVA STREET Horrocks, Sarah Laing, and Monica Macansantos. theme: Alternative Facts. Feat: Johanna Knox, Jackson Nieuwland, 13 Nicola Easthope, Wesley Hollis, Mary Little, Olivia Aroha Giles, Six Barrel Soda, 18 Mimicry Moshpit and Helen Vivienne Fletcher. Steve Braunias and are going to get very heated about 1 MANNERS STREET Essays the state of book reviewing in Aotearoa.  ere to throw a spanner in Caroline, 1 MARION STREET 23 Bicycle Junction, the works or perhaps put his body on the line if things get really bad Witness Mimicry, a local journal for emerging artists, cram a Hamiltron will be reviewer Danyl McLauchlan. heinous number of writers into one messy moshpit of a set. Essayists share their favourite moments from within their own 183 CUBA STREET catalogues online and in print. Featuring John Paul-Powley, Slowboat, 6 Readings by Chris Tse, Mia Gaudin, Eamonn Marra, Ines Almeida, True Stories Told Live Sam Irwin, Nina Powles, Erik Kennedy, Ruby Mae Hinepunui Charlotte Graham, Sarah Lang, Nadine Millar and hosted by “ e best thing about Auckland is that it’s close to Hamilton” — Steve 65 VICTORIA STREET Solly, Vincent Konrad. Guy Somerset. Braunias. Writers read and regale with their tales in praise of that magical city, Hamilton. Featuring Faith Wilson, Essa Morris, Central Library, 14 19  is year’s theme is Quiet Revolutions. Unscripted, unsupported by Cacophony of Voices I’m making a sign!  omasin Sleigh and Jesse Mulligan. notes or powerpoints or cue cards, this is storytelling from the heart. 56A GHUZNEE STREET CUBA MALL 204/LEFT BANK 24 Featuring: Makerita Urale, Witi Ihimaera, Hēmi Kelly, Renèe, Lucy Bartley & Co, Pegasus Books, Crip the Lit ƒƒ Revill, Rajorshi Chakraborti and Eamonn Marra. Is Aotearoa’s GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) sector Five writers read and discuss writing as protest and channeling their 223 CUBA STREET Supported by the New Zealand Book Council. ready for robust criticism? Tusk – Emergent Culture founders, activism through the page. Hosted by Action Station’s Marianne C Q Hotels, Matariki Williams and Nina Finigan, discuss with Courtney Elliott, and featuring Je rey Paparoa Holman, Rhydian  omas, “Truth thrives in the margins”— Joachim Kalka. When disabled 7 Poetry in and out of Translation Johnston and Bridget Reweti the place of criticism, writing and the Janis Freegard and Rachel Stewart. writers claim their voice and share their inner world, the parameters 25 TARANAKI STREET digital landscape as a means to create and occupy a free/radical space Supported by the NZ Society of Authors Wellington branch of what it means to be human broaden.  ree authors provide Hashigo Zake, in an ever-shifting cultural environment. insight into their lives, and, in doing so, introduce a new view of 20 Revel in listening to poetry in Māori, Chinese, French and Scots 15 Songwriters heritage, hospital beds and lunatics taking over the asylum. with writers Maraea Rakuraku, , Hui Luo and Dress me, Christine 215 CUBA STREET 25 Harry Giles. Hunters & Collectors, 134 CUBA STREET Alistair’s Music, Where Angels Fear to Tread Radio New Zealand’s Nick Bollinger hosts songwriters in 211 WILLIS STREET 8 Five stylish writers meet in one of Wellington’s most iconic spots to St Peter’s, Wellington’s most acoustically sympathetic venue, Alistair’s Music. A Cocktail with LaQuisha read each other’s work and describe live how the work of that writer 109 MANNERS STREET Featuring: Steve Abel, Jessie Moss and Finn Johansson. Four of New Zealand's favourite poets read in the beautiful Crumpet, translates into fashion. Featuring Tayi Tibble, Kirsten McDougall, St Peter’s Church. Featuring , Glenn Colquhoun, John Pip Adam, Sarah Webster and Jess Holly Bates. 21 LaQuisha St Redfern talks with playwright Victor Rodger about Dennison and Erice Fairbrother. Be in for a spiritual experience. 16 OPA! Launch of Aukati life, writing and Wellington. Victor is an acclaimed writer of such 41 DIXON STREET AFTER PARTY 9:30PM plays as Sons, Black Faggot and My Name is Gary Cooper. Tourettes + Skyscraper Stan Potocki Paterson Gallery, 9 EDWARD STREET LaQuisha is a performance artist, blogger, writer and much- Meow, Celebrate with Michalia Arathimos for the launch of her novel, 9 EDWARD STREET loved Wellingtonian. Aukati (Mākaro Press). Joining her is special guest Vana Manasiadis Meow, Dominic ‘Tourettes’ Hoey and Skyscraper Stan entertain you with who will lead a lively conversation into what Greekness means in Come dance it out at the LitCrawl After Party where you can buy their tales of love, loss and madness.  ough they work in di erent Aotearoa. beers, books, get them both signed and maybe even get yourself a mediums both artists share a love of language and an un inching wee personalised poem… live music too! critique of society. *Ticketed event. Tickets at litcrawl.co.nz Tickets at litcrawl.co.nz/after-party