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02 WORD Festival 2021 WELCOME

LIANNE DALZIEL VICKI BLYTH MAYOR OF CHRISTCHURCH CHAIR, WORD CHRISTCHURCH

It is with great pleasure that I extend Welcome to what has become, a warm welcome to all the readers, at least for the next few years, the writers and others of curious mind annual WORD Christchurch Festival. who will gather for the 2021 WORD Programme Co-Directors Rachael Christchurch Festival. King and Nic Low have created an In such a difficult time for events in New extraordinary programme of storytelling in a Zealand and the world, WORD has managed to pull terrific celebration of Aotearoa New Zealand writing. off not just a great festival programme, but an exciting international We are particularly grateful for the tremendous support of Creative event, using technology, tenacity and creativity to achieve the New Zealand and the Christchurch City Council which gave us seemingly impossible. much-needed certainty in a year of upheaval. Thanks to all our I am thrilled to see Abbas Nazari’s After the Tampa on the sponsors, both new and ongoing, the charitable trusts who have programme. I was the Minister of Immigration when New Zealand supported us with grants, and our patrons and supporters, all offered to take some of the asylum seekers from the MV Tampa and of whom make the programme possible. A special thanks to our determine their claims here. Abbas tells a powerful story of courage bookseller, University Bookshop, and to all our partners, including and determination and I am looking forward to hearing him speak. Publica and the publishers who bring their writers to Christchurch. I also can’t wait for Christchurch audiences to dive into the A huge thanks to the WORD team, to Rachael and Nic for their programme and immerse themselves in ideas and storytelling – creative and inspiring programming and to Executive Director many of which are rooted right here in Ōtautahi and Aotearoa. We Marianne Hargreaves for her wisdom and her effective running of love to be challenged, entertained and inspired, all of which are the organisation. To my fellow trustees, thanks for your support, your guaranteed. The festival is also a wonderful showcase for venues in commitment to the team and your enthusiasm for WORD. our revitalised city centre, including our beloved library, Tūranga. On behalf of the city of Christchurch, welcome, and have a great festival!

RACHAEL KING NIC LOW PROGRAMME CO-DIRECTOR PROGRAMME CO-DIRECTOR

It’s been a great pleasure working Nau mai, haere mai ki Kupu Ōtautahi! on this programme with my new Kō Hananui te mauka tūturu; Ko co-director Nic Low. It feels as though Aoraki te mauka teitei. Tihei mauriora! WORD is entering a new phase. The After nearly two decades overseas, pandemic nearly stopped us in our I’m excited to again be close to the tracks last year but we came back landscapes and people I love. It’s a punching; now it has spurred us to innovate privilege to be co-programming a festival in and collaborate, and a creative partnership with my home town, where my love of storytelling was born, Nic has brought a new perspective on what a festival can be. This alongside such a talented team. year, you’ll still find a commitment to New Zealand writers and Two themes have emerged: the richness of what’s right here, and, the industry around them, and a love of community in our ever- given COVID, our distance from the rest of the world. I’m proud that changing city. Some of the international writers we had to cancel a significant proportion of our events arise from the depth and last year have jumped on board our digital events with enthusiasm. breadth of Ngāi Tahu knowledge, people and history. I’m also proud I’m particularly proud to pull together an event that was cooked of the brilliance of all the Ōtautahi writers and thinkers featured, up pre-COVID: an intimate and magical show with David Mitchell including you, our audience, with new opportunities to create and and Tiny Ruins. I’m also thrilled to continue our relationship with publish your own work. And it’s been a pleasure designing new ways Edinburgh International Book Festival in new ways. As ever, I’m so to connect globally through our digital venue, The Faraway Near. grateful to Marianne Hargreaves, Magda Lorenzo and the rest of the hardworking WORD team. Special welcome to our fabulous guest So, to all of our guests, to all of you – welcome. If you see us around curators, AJ Fitzwater and Daisy Speaks. the festival, come and say hi!

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WORD CHRISTCHURCH TRUST FESTIVAL TEAM

Vicki Blyth, Chair Marianne Hargreaves Paula Granger Audrey Baldwin Marcus Elliott Executive Director Partnerships Manager Community Projects Co-ordinator Erin Harrington Rachael King Vanessa Reed Kate Fielder Daisy Lavea-Timo Programme Co-Director Production Manager Ticketing Manager Donna Robertson Nic Low Joseph Veale Fiona Brooker Morrin Rout Programme Co-Director Technical Manager Financial Advisor Paula Taylor Magda Lorenzo Annie de Senna Festival Administrator & Volunteer Artist Liaison and Schools Manager Manager

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GUEST CURATORS: AJ FITZWATER & DAISY SPEAKS

AJ Fitzwater WORD has been a home for me for more than half a decade, and it’s a privilege to be invited to add a fabulous lounge to my literary rooms. In Speed Date a Speculative Fiction Author p. 31, I’m recreating the relaxed kaffe klatsch experience I enjoy at spec-fic conventions, and showing audiences the depth of Aotearoa’s MAGAZINE IN spec-fic scene. And in the Stardust Cabaret p. 29, I’m combining my love of sci-fi, space, and fabulosity with eclectic literary and performance perspectives. RESIDENCE: TAKAHĒ AJ Fitzwater is Arts Four Creative in Residence at The Arts Centre, in association WHEN Thursday - Sunday with Creative New Zealand, and The Stout Trust, proudly managed by Perpetual 12pm – 4pm Guardian. WHERE Tūranga, Ground Daisy Speaks Floor Lobby

Mātō lava le soifua mana ma le lagi e mamā. I’m a spoken word poet and a We’re excited to introduce a brand facilitator of poetry spaces, and I’m learning the complex language of Samoan new WORD initiative: the Magazine- oratory (having not grown up in Samoa, but having a hereditary title from my in-Residence. We invite a leading mother’s side). After the earthquakes, creating music and poetry spaces was what literary journal to set up shop, and I did, for Christchurch people to bring whatever they had to the table, to perform, produce an issue on-site during the tell stories, tell their truths – to create hope. So it’s an honour to do this here at festival. Submissions are invited from WORD with Confluence, which brings together indigenous voices and songs to give our workshop programme, and from them mana, and to create from the and space of Māori and Pasifika peoples, as visiting writers, including you! tangata moana, not ‘either/or’. I hope you’ll come! This year our magazine in residence is takahē, an Ōtautahi-based magazine of fiction, poetry, art, review, and essay, since 1989. Drop in to visit their TE PAPA TUPU – WELCOME dynamic editorial team and special guests in the Tūranga foyer each day Te Papa Tupu is The Māori Literature Trust’s mentoring programme for aspiring between 12pm and 4pm to submit Māori writers, awarded biennially to six people who have a complete manuscript your work (poetry and short fiction and are working towards publication. It offers editorial guidance and mentorship, up to 1000 words), and find out what a stipend, and a community of writers. WORD extends a very warm nau mai, haere goes on behind the scenes at a mai ki Ōtautahi to this year’s rōpū, Ashlee Sturme, Deborah Williams, Geraldine literary magazine. See them editing Warren, Zeb Nicklin, Olivia Aroha Giles and Jade Kake – all names to watch out and laying out the limited-edition zine, for as they publish their books in coming years. They’re here to soak up the festival hand-printing the covers on a vintage and meet other writers. For info about Te Papa Tupu 2022, check out mlt.org.nz. press, and launching the finished product with readings and toasts on Sunday afternoon. (See page 34 for launch details.) You can also email your work to [email protected].

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HIGHLIGHTS

There are too many festival highlights to mention here, including The Faraway Near (see next page), but for a start, just because the borders are (mostly) closed, it doesn’t mean we can’t welcome international writers! On opening night, we feature a collaboration with Cúirt International Festival of Literature in Galway Tautitotito( Whenua: Reciprocal Songs of the Land, p. 10). On Saturday morning, you’re invited to an early audience with Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, beaming in live from Windsor for a cup of tea and a chat with Nicky Pellegrino at the James Hay Theatre (p. 21). Helen Clark reports from the frontline of global issues (p. 25). Happily, British-American book dealer and novelistRick Gekoski is currently in New Zealand, so we grabbed him for a session of fascinating anecdotes about the literary world on Saturday afternoon (p. 26). That evening, treat yourself to an intimate and intriguing evening of music and story with novelistDavid Mitchell (Cloud Atlas) and New Zealand songstress Hollie Fullbrook of Tiny Ruins (p. 28), and then get to the Piano for a special live broadcast from Edinburgh International Book Festival, with avid WORD supporterIan Rankin (p. 29). Festival evenings are rich with shining events of music, poetry and storytelling.Te Piki o Tāwhaki: The Ascent of Tāwhaki (p. 12) brings to life the stories embedded in our beloved Tūranga on Thursday, and that night we also bring back the sell-out Adventurous Women (p. 13), with five incredible storytellers. On Friday you can sample some of the festival’s stars presenting unforgettable new writing in This Place You Return to is Home (p. 18), or experience a night of indigenous poetry and music in Confluence (p. 19), curated by Daisy Speaks. Finally, on Sunday, we close the festival with a glorious musical and lyrical celebration of te wai o Te Waipounamu with Ka Wai o Tahu: Marlon Williams, Ariana Tikao and Ruby Solly (p. 35).

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THE FARAWAY NEAR

Part of our mission is giving you folk Our guests are broadcast from their based novelist and podcasterHari access to astonishing international own homes around the world, and Kunzru, on alt-right rabbitholes (p. authors. But we’re in a pandemic. appear in informal conversation with 24); native American novelistTommy International travel is off. And we’re all a skilled interviewer who’s sitting with Orange, author of the ground- sick of Zoom, right? you at the bar. Drinks will be served breaking There, There (p. 25); Kurdish Introducing The Faraway Near: our throughout, and you’ll have a chance novelist and activistAva Homa in custom digital venue that has the to ask questions of your guest as well. conversation with Behrouz Boochani intimacy of a night at the pub with It’s a world-first, right here in Ōtautahi. (p. 26); renowned English philosopher friends – and a favourite writer. We’ve Choose from sessions with: Helen A. C. Grayling (p. 27); and Irish writer transformed Tūranga’s TSB Space to Macdonald, author of Vesper Flights Mark O’Connell, author of the create a pop-up bar with ten tables and the sublime H is for Hawk (p.18); pertinentNotes from an Apocalypse of ten. Grab a coffee or a glass of Eliot Higgins, founder of open-source (p. 29). Don’t miss out; seats are limited! wine, and settle in for a session of intelligence agency Bellingcat (p. 19); deep storytelling and conversation Backlisted, the podcast that ‘gives with a special international guest new life to old books’ with hostsAndy – sitting life-sized at your table via Miller and John Mitchinson and live freestanding FHD display. guestPaula Morris (p. 22); New York-

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BOOK LAUNCH: ATUA BY GAVIN BISHOP

WHEN Tuesday 24 August 5.30pm — 7pm WHERE University Bookshop, University Drive, Ilam PRICE Free

Penguin Random House warmly invites you to the launch of Gavin Bishop’s new book Atua: Māori gods and Legends. Atua introduces readers to the Māori Gods, demigods and heroes, and explores Aotearoa’s most exciting legends, from ANDY GRIFFITHS TV creation to migration. All welcome. – STARRING YOU!

WHEN Saturday 17 July 3pm — 4pm WHERE Charles Luney Auditorium, THE LIVING MOUNTAINS St Margaret’s College WHEN Friday 20 August PRICE $20* 6pm — 7pm For Kidsfest, WORD Christchurch is WHERE The Piano stoked to be bringing Canterbury PRICE Free kids a super-fun event with none other than the co-creator of the Kā Huru Manu is Ngāi Tahu’s satellite atlas. It details mega-selling Treehouse stories, Andy thousands of placenames, rivers and histories, and a Griffiths! Andy will be beaming into network of historic trails. More than a dozen of those trails the venue from his home in Melbourne cross Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana, the Southern Alps. Tā Tipene (if we’re lucky he’ll give us a tour!) O’Regan is one of the driving forces behind Kā Huru and kids will have the chance to get Manu. Nic Low walked the old mountain trails contained up close to ask him their burning in Kā Huru Manu for his new book, Uprising, in an attempt questions. This will be an afternoon of to understand the stories living in the land. They talk fun for the whole family. about Ngāi Tahu’s life in the mountains and high country, and the power of place names and maps.

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MARK SOLOMON: Solomon stepped into the role of kaiwhakahaere (Chair) of the iwi’s MANA WHAKATIPU governing council, Te Rūnanga o WHEN Wednesday 25 August Ngāi Tahu. Mark joins Miriama Kamo 5.30pm — 6.30pm to speak about his memoir, Mana WHERE The Piano Whakatipu (co-authored with Mark Revington), detailing his years at the PRICE $20/18* helm of the tribe, his thoughts on In 1998, on the eve of Ngāi Tahu leadership and life, the people who reaching settlement with the influenced him, and his vision for the Crown, former foundryman Mark future of Māoridom, and Aotearoa.

BILL HAMMOND: ACROSS THE EVENING SKY LAUNCH

WHEN Wednesday 25 August 6pm — 8pm WHERE Christchurch Art Gallery TAUTITOTITO WHENUA: Te Puna o Waiwhetū RECIPROCAL SONGS OF THE LAND PRICE Free

In 2020, Christchurch Art Gallery Te WHEN Wednesday 25 August With Miriama Kamo as your host, Puna o Waiwhetū began working with 7.30pm — 8.30pm meet Irish authors Micheál Ó Bill Hammond on Across the Evening WHERE The Piano Conghaile and Máire Uí Dhufaigh, Sky, a new book on the artist’s beaming in to read new work PRICE $20/18* spectacular bird and cave paintings. and discuss the changing Irish Join us as we launch Bill’s book and What languages do the mountains of landscapes that formed them. They raise a toast to the memory of an Te Waipounamu speak? What tongue are joined by Ngāi Tahu authors artist with a singular vision, one of would we use to address the fields of and composers Hana O’Regan and the greats of Aotearoa’s art history. Ireland’s Aran Islands? How will we tell Charisma Rangipunga with a brand Hosted by WORD Christchurch’s the places we love what the future new apakura (lament) exploring Marianne Hargreaves, and featuring holds? Developed in partnership climate change’s impact on ancestral readings from authors Nathan Pōhio, with Cúirt International Festival of places. Immerse yourself in the Paul Scofield, Ariana Tikao, Rachael Literature, Galway, Tautitotito Whenua stunning vistas and sounds of te reo King, Nic Low and Peter Vangioni explores parallel Irish and Māori and Gaeilge, with discussion and — and more. histories of grief and revitalisation translations in English. with regard to language and land.

Supported by: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Supported by:Culture Ireland and Creative New Zealand

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MAGAZINE IN RESIDENCE: TAKAHĒ KURA REO - MĀORI Join Karuna Thurlow and Darren Solomon (Aropapaki Ltd) for a daily LANGUAGE CLASS hour of language power focussing on WHEN Thursday 26 August kīwaha and whakataukī – the sayings 12pm — 4pm WHEN Thursday 26 August 4pm — 5pm and idioms of Ngāi Tahu. Beginners WHERE Tūranga, Ground welcome! See page 37 for details. Floor Lobby WHERE Tūranga, Spark Place $10* Presented by: We’re making a magazine, start to PRICE finish, during WORD 2021! Drop in any time between noon and 4pm to watch the madness, submit your writing, or have a chat. Details on page 5.

MELANI ANAE: CHOP THE MOP FIFTY YEARS OF WHEN Thursday 26 August THE POLYNESIAN 6.30pm — 8pm PANTHERS WHERE Rangiora Library

WHEN Thursday 26 August PRICE Entry by koha 6pm — 7pm Waimakariri Libraries have been WHERE St Paul’s Trinity Pacific collaborating with the North RAIL:LINES Presbyterian Church Canterbury Cancer Society to PRICE Free provide writing workshops for WHEN Thursday 26 August people with cancer, and families 5pm — 6pm Fifty years ago, inspired by the affected by cancer. Workshop tutor, WHERE Centre of Contemporary Black Panthers, a group of young Learning Connections Coordinator Arts (CoCA), leaders founded the Polynesian Jason Clements, has grown out 66 Gloucester Street Panther Party to push back against his beard and trademark long hair, systematic racism like the Dawn PRICE $10 on the door in preparation to Chop the Mop Raids. One of those founders was at this fundraising event for the In late 2020, Liz Breslin, Annabel Wilson the brilliant Dr Melani Anae QSO, Cancer Society. Featuring special and Laura Williamson embarked on a Fullbright scholar and Marsden guest poetry readings byJohn a ‘spoke’n’word tour’ of the Otago Award recipient, and expert on ethics Allison, Bernadette Hall, Ciaran Fox, Central Rail Trail. The three poets and Pacific leadership and identity. Doc Drumheller, Ben Brown, Mally packed amps, mics and notebooks In conversation with young leader Hines, Stephanie Waterfield, Wendy into trailers and e-biked the length of Okirano Tilaia (responsible for the Campbell, participants from the North the Rail Trail, performing in the historic student candlelight vigil following Canterbury Cancer Society Writers halls along the way. It was a poetry the mosque attacks), Melani reflects and Orators group, and local high tour like no other: emission-free, muddy on the recent announcement of an school students. To support this Chop and rowdy, against a backdrop apology for the Dawn Raids, and the Mop fundraising effort please go of otherworldly landscapes. Join her new book The Platform, detailing to: https://www.youcanforcancer.org. Annabel, Laura and Liz for live poetry five decades spent in peaceful nz/jason-clements followed by the Aotearoa premiere resistance, educating New Zealand of Rail:lines: The film, a documentary about ongoing racism, and Pacific Presented by: Waimakariri Libraries about the tour. empowerment.

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TE PIKI O TĀWHAKI: THE ASCENT OF TĀWHAKI

WHEN Thursday 26 August 6.30pm — 7pm 8pm — 8.30pm WHERE Tūranga All Levels PRICE Free

For one night only, WORD transforms Tūranga to bring to life the ancient story of Tāwhaki that is woven into the building itself. Using the spectacular central staircase as the stage, with audiences ranged around the balconies on all sides, this not-to-be-missed transformation of Tūranga will fly you to the heavens in pursuit of matauraka, the knowledge of the gods. Presented by master storytellerJoseph Hullen (Ngāi Tūāhuriri / Ngāti Hinematua), taonga puoro virtuosoAriana Tikao (Ngāi Tahu) and Juanita Hepi (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāi Tukairangi), this is your chance to hear a uniquely Murihiku Ngāi Tahu telling of a story that is well over a thousand years old. Please note that while some seats are available, most audience members will be standing for thirty minutes.

Photo by Adam Mørk. Artwork: Tāwhaki by Fayne and Caleb Robinson

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TE PIKI O TĀWHAKI: THE ASCENT OF TĀWHAKI

A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: TINY LECTURES ON THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

WHEN Thursday 26 August ADVENTUROUS WOMEN 6pm — 7.15pm

WHERE The Piano WHEN Thursday 26 August the woman she always was; Julie PRICE $25/23* 8pm — 9.15pm Zarifeh countered unimaginable WHERE The Piano tragedy with travel and an WORD’s sellout lecture series is adventurous spirit; Anjum Rahman PRICE $38/$36 back! Famous for introducing the stands up for the voices of Muslim fascinating, the bizarre and the women to be heard; Emily Writes is a Once again, WORD takes you on an irreverant, this event asks writers to bold voice for mothers and children, adventurous night of storytelling with explore their innermost obsessions. online and in books; and Dr Hinemoa five incredible women who take risks What will you find when the cabinet Elder’s bestselling book Aroha in their personal and professional of curiosities is opened? Featuring shows us how we can live with love, lives, hosted by broadcaster and journalistTom Doig, Antarctic compassion and empathy. Book early writer Miriama Kamo. Kyle Mewburn’s historianJoanna Grochowicz, writer for a night like no other! memoir Faking It is an account of and illustratorGavin Bishop, historian growing up and outwardly becoming Madi Williams, and doctor bard Glenn Colquhoun, hosted byNaomi van den Broek. Presented by:

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Read or listen to Browse our selectors’ picks and new titles online: your books anytime, anywhere on Libby my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/new-titles FRIDAY 27 AUGUST

MARY HOLM: money work in the real world. In her latest book, A Richer You: How to YOUR MONEY make the most of your money, Holm WHEN Friday 27 August helps you understand how money 10am – 11am works, and to financially deal with whatever life throws at you: family WHERE The Piano complications, relationship issues, PRICE $20/18* house price fluctuations, being braver in retirement, helping your children. Join Mary Holm, bestselling author Come armed with questions, and learn and trusted financial expert, as how to make the most of your money! she talks about how to make your

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WHERE The Piano PRICE Free WHEN Friday 27 August PRICE $20/18* 1.30pm – 2pm Come and hear from some of the WHERE Linwood Library, We bring together two masters of the best poets working in Aotearoa today. First Floor, Eastgate Mall art of the killer plot to help you write Karlo Mila’s Goddess Muscle spans PRICE Free your own. New-comer Jacqueline a decade of work, and explores Bublitz’s debut Before You Knew My both the personal and political. Kate Jackie Clark founded the charity Name has been praised by Marian Camp’s How To Be Happy Though The Aunties in 2013. Her big heart and Keyes and Clementine Ford as a new Human was described by David take-no-bullshit attitude has won her take on the ‘woman in peril’ trope Eggleton as ‘like a bumper ride in a league of loyal fans and followers, that forms the backbone of the a fairground … at once jarring and and in 2018 she was the Supreme genre. Veteran Paul Cleave’s latest, exhilarating’. Tayi Tibble’s second Winner at the Women of Influence A Quiet People, is a clever, dark and collection, Rangikura, asks us to think Awards. Join Jackie for a relaxed talk entertaining journey through the minds about our relationship to desire and at Linwood Library as she shares her of those who write the killer plots. Both exploitation. Find out what drives these experiences and talks about the new writers talk about their books, and poets, what they think makes a good book, Her Say, which features stories share tips for creating memorable poem, and their insights into how you of women overcoming trauma from stories and keeping readers turning the can write your own. Chaired by fellow abusive relationships, told in their pages, with Jo Malcolm. brilliant poet, Bernadette Hall. own words.

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KURA REO - MĀORI Join Karuna Thurlow and Darren MAGAZINE IN LANGUAGE CLASS Solomon (Aropapaki Ltd) for a daily RESIDENCE: TAKAHĒ hour of language power focussing on WHEN Friday 27 August kīwaha and whakataukī - the sayings WHEN Friday 27 August 4pm – 5pm and idioms of Ngāi Tahu. Beginners welcome! See page 37 for details. 12pm – 4pm WHERE Tūranga, Spark Place WHERE Tūranga, Ground PRICE $10* Floor Lobby

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WHEN Friday 27 August 4pm – 5pm BEING PĀKEHĀ: WHERE The Piano CLAUDIA ORANGE AND ALISON JONES PRICE Free THREE MINUTES In the 1990s, Ross Calman (Ngāti OF FAME WHEN Friday 27 August Toa, Ngāi Tahu) stumbled on a 2.30pm – 3.30pm manuscript in an archive: a 50,000- WHEN Friday 27 August WHERE The Piano word biography of Te Rauparaha, 4pm – 5pm handwritten in te reo Māori in the PRICE $20/18* WHERE James Hay Theatre 1860s by his son Tamihana. Realising PRICE $20* What does it mean to be Pākehā in this was his ancestor’s work, Ross 21st-century Aotearoa? What anxieties set out to master te reo, and now, Are you a writer yourself, or secretly and opportunities flow from the decades later, has translated want to be one, but would rather increased visibility and assertiveness Tamihana’s words – complete with die than admit it in public? Kiwis of tangata whenua? How have Treaty eyewitness accounts and ancient are notoriously bad at owning their settlements, legal challenges and curses – as He Pukapuka Tātaku i ambitions, but now’s your chance: growing use of te reo Māori affected Ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui (A step on stage at the James Hay the Pākehā sense of belonging and Record of the Life of the great Te Theatre to read your work, and tell legitimacy? In conversation with the Rauparaha). Ross and tribal historian the world what writing means to you – University of Canterbury’s Jeanette Dr Te Maire Tau (Upoko of Ngāi without an audience in the room! King, two leading Pākehā thinkers, Tūāhuriri) discuss these fascinating Book a slot and get the full festival Claudia Orange and Alison Jones, and turbulent times between the author experience, from green room share personal stories and political two iwi, including the saga of Kaiapoi nerves to rapturous (pre-recorded) insights from lives spent working at pā, and the peace marriages that applause to post-show glow. Let your the intersection between two worlds. came after. words be heard!

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MATT AND SARAH Wu Tang Clan. But he’s best known for his legendary local shop My BROWN: SHE IS NOT Father’s Barber, where men come to YOUR REHAB get a haircut, and be heard without judgement, and to heal. Matt and WHEN Friday 27 August his wife Sarah Brown (Ngāpuhi / Te 5.30pm – 6.30pm Rarawa) speak with James Nokise WHERE The Piano about She Is Not Your Rehab, the PRICE $20/18* global anti-violence movement he inspired, his own journey of Renowned barber Mataio (Matt) healing, and what it might take for a Brown has cut the hair of everyone generation of men to break cycles from the All Blacks to members of the of abuse.

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WHEN Friday 27 August 6pm – 7pm WHERE Tūranga, Spark Place NEW REGENT STREET POP-UP FESTIVAL PRICE Free You know that saying ‘never let a WHEN Friday 27 August Christchurch’s most characterful good crisis go to waste’?Murdoch 6pm – 7.30pm laneway into a literary hive, with a Stephens does. He’s taken the housing crisis – a severe shortage of WHERE New Regent St dozen venues hosting back-to-back events and activities. Romance at Gin safe housing, average house prices $900K – and turned it into Rat King When is a festival not a festival? Gin? Improvised poetry at the AV club? Landlord, one of the funniest and When it’s a festival-within-a-festival! Rapid-fire book launches at The Last most savage works of satire in recent On Friday night, follow us down the Word? Sea shanties and salty rants years. Murdoch speaks with essayist, rabbithole into the packed-out bars, at The Instutution? All this and more, satirist and one-time landlordDanyl cafes, shops and broom-cupboards featuring over fifty local and visiting McLauchlan about life and debt, a of New Regent Street for a selection of writers for your pleasure. And best of generation of middle class adults for rapid-fire readings, launches, games, all – it’s free! Check our website for the whom flat inspections are the norm, projections and talks. We transform full lineup, online from 1 August. and that moment when you realise the rat in your compost bin has made Supported by:Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand it onto the property ladder before you.

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THE FARAWAY NEAR: beloved father. Compassionate and sublime, it won awards and hearts HELEN MACDONALD around the world. Her latest book, WHEN Friday 27 August Vesper Flights, gathers together 6pm – 7pm essays of observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space we make the world around us. Moving PRICE $38/$36* and frank, personal and political, it confirms the author as one of this Helen Macdonald arrived in the century’s greatest nature writers. She global literary consciousness several talks with Paula Morris. years ago with H is for Hawk, the What is The Faraway Near? exquisite account of training her See page 7. goshawk, Mabel, while grieving her

WORD GALA: THIS PLACE YOU RETURN TO IS HOME

WHEN Friday 27 August home, struggling to get home, finding a attended previous galas will know 8pm – 9.30pm new home when the old one is no longer this is a night of new and original WHERE James Hay Theatre safe. Taking our title from ex-pat New storytelling not to be missed. Featuring Zealand author Kirsty Gunn, resident in Patricia Grace, Rick Gekoski, Sue PRICE $38/36* Scotland, we ask five of our festival stars Kedgley, Tayi Tibble and Kate Camp, The idea of home has been at the to tell us about their place to return to, hosted byMichèle A’Court. forefront of global conciousness in their tūrangawaewae, or how our homes recent times: staying home, coming have shaped us. Audiences who have

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THE FARAWAY NEAR: Not the CIA or GCSB, but Bellingcat, an open-source intelligence agency ELIOT HIGGINS made up of citizen investigators armed with laptops and phones. Join Friday 27 August WHEN founder Eliot Higgins for a candid 8pm – 9pm conversation about his journey from WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space school drop-out to thought-leader. He PRICE $38/36* discusses Bellingcat’s latest work with our own investigative geniusNicky Who identified the men who poisoned Hager, including the hunt for QAnon, Sergei Skripel in Salisbury, and Russian the future of journalism, and whether opposition leader Alexei Navalny? Who the internet can actually be used for figured out who shot down Flight MH17 good. over Ukraine? Who uncovered Assad’s What is The Faraway Near? use of chemical weapons in Syria? See page 7.

RAY SHIPPLEY’S LATE NIGHT POETRY CONFLUENCE HOUR

WHEN Friday 27 August Project with words from Ben Brown, WHEN Friday 27 August 8pm – 9.30pm Karlo Mila, Juanita Hepi, Dietrich 9.30pm – 11pm Soakai, Hana Pera Aoake, Ruby WHERE The Piano WHERE Little Andromeda Solly and Tusiata Avia; and of the PRICE $20/18* tuakana / teina relationship between PRICE $15* Curated and hosted by the one and Māori and Pasifika peoples, both WORD is over the moon to once again only Daisy Speaks, Confluence is ancient and new. Expect soulful and feature the coolest nocturnal poetry a celebration of the vā: a bringing joyous explorations of mana wahine, salon in town. Ray Shippley’s Late Night together of the musical brilliance freedom, and stories shared across Poetry Hour (or two) brings together of Judah Band and The Byllie Jean oceans. visiting out-of-towners and hot locals for a night of poetry, frivolity, feelings, Supported by:Cross-Polynate and staying up after our bedtimes. The night is hosted by (you guessed it) Ray Shippley, and features the words and wisdom of Tayi Tibble, RikTheMost, Claudia Jardine and Jadwiga, as well as a mini open mic for a handful of glorious audience poems.

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REMEMBERING OVER THE TEACUPS WITH HELEN KELLY SARAH FERGUSON, DUCHESS WHEN Saturday 28 August OF YORK 10am – 11am WHERE The Piano WHEN Saturday 28 August on many parallels from my life’. Her PRICE $20/18* 8am – 9am Heart for a Compass is a fictional Tea served from 7am in the foyer account of the life and love story of Unionist Helen Kelly left a huge one of her ancestors: an immersive impact on New Zealand’s political WHERE James Hay Theatre historical saga that sweeps you from and industrial landscapes, with PRICE $38/36* Victoria’s court and the grand country some commentators hypothesising houses of Scotland and Ireland, to after her death that she might have In a New Zealand exclusive, WORD the slums of London and the bustle been Prime Minister one day. Helen’s Christchurch presents an unexpected of 1870s New York. We know it’s early, biographer Rebecca McFie (Tragedy and exciting romance author: Sarah but grab your friends, your mum and at Pike River Mine) speaks with writer Ferguson, Duchess of York and former your aunts, and come and share the and trade unionist Morgan Godfery wife of Prince Andrew, coming to you experience over a cup of tea and a (Te Pahipoto) about the life, times and live from Windsor via the magic of the bite. You can also submit a question legacy of a woman who ‘never shirked internet. The Duchess, who will appear in advance, and if selected will get a a fight’, whether it was with the Ports in conversation with popular author front row seat and the chance to ask of Auckland or with hobbits, and who Nicky Pellegrino, has co-written a it face to (digital) face! earned the humour and respect even historical romance novel, ‘[drawing] of those she so vehemently opposed.

CUT TO THE BONE often cutting, and cut down to the bone, getting to the heart of the WHEN Saturday 28 August matter in a few short words. Join 2021 10am – 11am Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction WHERE Christchurch Art Gallery winner Airini Beautrais and master of Te Puna o Waiwhetū the short story formTracey Slaughter for a conversation with Erin Harrington PRICE Free about the genesis of their respective Infidelity, old friendships, uncertain books Bug Week and Devil’s Trumpet, desires, brutal humour: in the Western and the craft techniques and tips used tradition, the best short stories are to realise their vision.

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THE FARAWAY NEAR: BACKLISTED

WHEN Saturday 28 August by Dr Maysoon Salama 10.30am – 11.30am illustrations by Jenny Cooper WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space PRICE $28/26*

WORD is thrilled to welcome one of the internet’s most popular book podcasts. Backlisted is ‘the podcast that gives new life to old books’ and has gathered a legion of loyal followers for its warmth, humour and THE GREAT WORD STORY HUNT erudition. Now The Faraway Near gives you a seat at the table. Each Saturday 28 August Episode, John Mitchinson and Andy WHEN Maysoon Salama hiding under 10.30am – 12pm Miller discuss a backlisted title with the stairs, reading her gorgeous a special guest, who chooses the WHERE Tūranga All Levels picture book Aya and the Butterfly? Joanna Grochowicz telling tales of book. For WORD, writer Paula Morris PRICE Free wil choose a New Zealand book and Antarctic derring-do with Shackleton’s will appear with our live audience, The Great WORD Story Hunt is back! Endurance? Maria Gill with a selection while the podcasters beam in from Grab the whānau and find clues of amazing true kiwi stories? Or Backlisted HQ in England. Grab a hidden in the library that will lead maybe Sarina Dickson and Hilary coffee and some friends and settle in you to the next story. Will it beJames Jean Tapper exploring red zone tales for a rare treat. Norcliffe in the lego pit, reading with A Stick and a Stone. Adventure from his new novel Mallory Mallory? awaits! Prizes to be won! What is The Faraway Near? See page 7. Supported by:University of Canterbury’s Child Well-being Research Institute

CHARLOTTE Zealand’s most well-known literary families: that of poet, novelist and GRIMSHAW: THE memoirist C. K. Stead. ‘It’s material. MIRROR BOOK Go and make a story out of it,’ was a WHEN Saturday 28 August mantra in the Stead house, and finally 11.30am – 12.30pm Grimshaw came out from behind the fictional veil to tell the truth as she WHERE The Piano saw it. The book has been praised by PRICE $20/18* reviewers and readers, even as they Few recent books have caused a stir squirm in discomfort at the inevitable as great as Charlotte Grimshaw’s fallout the book has caused. incendiary memoir The Mirror Book, Grimshaw appears in conversation which tore the lid off one of New with Stephanie Johnson.

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MEGAN DUNN: THINGS I LEARNED AT ART SCHOOL

WHEN Saturday 28 August 11.30am – 12.30pm WHERE Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū PRICE Free

Megan Dunn, author of 2018’s brilliant memoir Tinderbox, now turns her eye for the absurd on her days at art school. Things I Learned at Art School is a comic journey through pop culture and contemporary art, childhood obsessions, working as a barmaid at Showgirls, and her heady days spent mashing up video of Snow White with footage of Kim Basinger in 9 1/2 Weeks. Part memoir, part essay collection, this is a killer contemporary read. Megan appears in conversation AFTER THE TAMPA with fellow 90s art-school survivor, Aaron Kreisler, Head of Fine Arts, WHEN Saturday 28 August University of Canterbury. 11.30am – 12.30pm A child at the time, Abbas now tells WHERE James Hay Theatre his story in After the Tampa, from the Taliban’s brutal rule in Afghanistan, PRICE $20/18* MAGAZINE IN and his family’s desperate search It is twenty years since a Norwegian for safety, to Georgetown University RESIDENCE: TAKAHĒ cargo ship rescued a sinking fishing in Washington, where he is currently boat crammed with more than 400 a Fulbright Scholar. He is joined by WHEN Saturday 28 August asylum seekers, only to be turned Helen Clark, Prime Minister at the 12pm – 4pm away from Australia, sparking an time, who will discuss the political WHERE Tūranga, Ground international incident. Eventually, New circumstances around the incident, Floor Lobby Zealand offered to take 150 of those and whether or not anything has refugees, including Abbas Nazari and changed. Chaired by journalist Mike We’re making a magazine, start to his family. McRoberts. finish, during WORD 2021! Drop in any time between noon and 4pm to watch the madness, submit your writing, or Presented by: have a chat. Details on page 5.

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THE FARAWAY NEAR: in his sixth novel, Red Pill. Written as the culmination of twenty years spent HARI KUNZRU following online conspiracy theories, WHEN Saturday 28 August Red Pill explores a writer’s mid-life crisis 12.30pm – 1.30pm and torrid affair, not with a lover, but with the wit, mysterious symbolism WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space and paranoid certainty of the internet PRICE $38/36* itself. Funny, fiercely intelligent and Step into The Faraway Near with absolutely contemporary in his London-born novelist and podcaster thinking, Hari is not to be missed. Hari Kunzru, live from New York, for a What is The Faraway Near? journey down the alt-right rabbithole See page 7.

SUE KEDGLEY: FIFTY ADAPTING AVIA YEARS A FEMINIST WHEN Saturday 28 August WHEN Saturday 28 August 2.30pm – 3.30pm 1pm – 2pm TRANQUILITY & RUIN WHERE The Piano WHERE The Piano PRICE Free

PRICE $20/18* WHEN Saturday 28 August WORD invites you to spend an hour 1pm – 2pm Ever since 1971, when she and other celebrating the incredible work and students carried a coffin through WHERE Christchurch Art Gallery success of Ōtautahi’s own Tusiata Albert Park to lament the state of Te Puna a Waiwbetū Avia. Her adaptation of Wild Dogs women’s rights, Sue Kedgley’s name PRICE Free Under My Skirt recently toured has been synonymous with Second nationwide, and appeared off- Wave feminism in this country. An In his exquisite essay collection Broadway to great acclaim. In 2020, activist was born that day, and her Tranquility and Ruin, polymath Danyl she received a Queen’s Birthday new memoir, Fifty Years a Feminist, McLauchlan, author of Unspeakable honour and an Arts Foundation tracks a dynamic life through Secrets of the Aro Valley, goes laureateship, and published her latest journalism and politics, fobbing looking for enlightenment, or at least collection The Savage Coloniser off men along the way, because ‘if snatches of happiness, and finds Book, which won the poetry award we succumbed or capitulated to himself shovelling clay with a monk at this year’s national book awards. sex, that could ruin our marriage until his hands bleed. In conversation Avia is joined by the dream team prospects’. How far does she think with with self-described depressed who staged Wild Dogs, Victor Rodger the women’s movement has come? comedian James Nokise, Danyl shows and Anapela Polata’ivao, to discuss Are men still standing in the way? She how the weird worlds of Effective taking a poetry book to the New York swaps stories from the frontlines and Altruism, meditation and metaphysics, stage, the challenges of adapting her discusses the state of feminism with medication and depression can controversial new work, and what is Christchurch MayorLianne Dalziel. be hilarious - until you find yourself next on her agenda. inexplicably in tears. Supported by:National Library of New Zealand

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WIT WORLD more. Fiona Kidman said of Johnson’s new contemporary novel, Everything WHEN Saturday 28 August Changes, that it ‘startled [her] into 2.30pm – 3.30pm wild laughter’. Patrick Evans’ new WHERE Christchurch Art Gallery novel Bluffworld follows the travails of Te Puna o Waiwhetū a ‘Meister-Bullshit-Kunstler’ through corporate university life. Together PRICE $20/18* these two writers talk with the Stephanie Johnson is one of our University of Canterbury’s Paul Millar most versatile novelists, conjuring about the art of satire in a country up serious historical fiction and that has a reputation for rewarding incisive satire. Whatever she turns gloomy literary tomes over biting wit. to, it’s her characters who carry the story and keep us coming back for

THE FARAWAY NEAR: TOMMY ORANGE

WHEN Saturday 28 August 2.30pm – 3.30pm WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space PRICE $38/36*

Tommy Orange (Cheyenne, Arapaho) is the author of There There, an electrifying, multi-layered story about a version of America that few of us have seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. Winner of numerous prizes HELEN CLARK: THE BIG ISSUES and named a book of the year by everyone from The New York Times to WHEN Saturday 28 August O: The Oprah Magazine, There There 2.30pm – 3.30pm As editor of the new anthology follows twelve characters grappling WHERE James Hay Theatre Climate Aotearoa Clark brings with violence and tenderness, together New Zealand experts to PRICE $25/23* dislocation and communion, and the examine the climate situation as it is ways we break and remake tradition Helen Clark’s work has brought her now, as it will be in the years to come, in the modern world. Live from close to the two most urgent issues and what we can do about it. California, and frank and generous of our time: climate change and the In this essential hour, she discusses in his conversation, Tommy speaks coronavirus pandemic. Last year, the findings of the COVID report, about his work and craft, Native Clark took on the task of co-chairing published in May, and the book, and American history and culture, and the Independent Panel for Pandemic what needs to happen to avert future how the pandemic is affecting his Preparedness and Response, an catastrophe for both the planet communities today. impartial and comprehensive review and its occupants. In conversation What is The Faraway Near? of the internationally co-ordinated with the University of Canterbury’s See page 7. response to COVID-19. Bronwyn Hayward.

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KURA REO - MĀORI Join Karuna Thurlow and Darren Solomon (Aropapaki Ltd) for a daily LANGUAGE CLASS hour of language power focussing on WHEN Saturday 28 August kīwaha and whakataukī - the sayings 4pm – 5pm and idioms of Ngāi Tahu. Beginners welcome! See page 37 for details. WHERE Tūranga, Spark Place PRICE $10* Presented by:

THE FARAWAY NEAR: AVA HOMA & BEHROUZ BOOCHANI

WHEN Saturday 28 August 4.30 – 5.30pm WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space PRICE $38/36*

Join two Kurdish writers who have RICK GEKOSKI: harnessed language as a vehicle RARE BOOKS AND RARE PEOPLE for freedom, and literature as a weapon against oppression.Ava Homa was raised on Rumi and Emily WHEN Saturday 28 August and rare people, he likens the hunt Dickinson at the border between Iran 4pm – 5pm to a mythical quest. In conversation and Iraq, and is now in exile in North with fellow book dealer Brian Phillips, WHERE The Piano America. Her debut novel Daughters Gekoski, a stellar storyteller and PRICE $20/18* of Smoke and Fire, the first novel raconteur, discusses a life shaped by published by a female Kurdish writer Rick Gekoski has been hunting for books: bought, sold and written. Along in English, illuminates the brutal and rare books for over fifty years, and the way he has met, traded with, extraordinary lives of the Kurds in has written about the experience in lunched with, annoyed and played Iran. It is a haunting homage to the several volumes of engaging, witty ping-pong with such legendary figures strength of women in the face of memoir. In his new book Guarded by as William Golding, Salman Rushdie, great pain. Live at the Faraway Near, Dragons: Encounters with rare books Graham Greene and Ted Hughes. Homa speaks with New Zealand’s own great Kurdish writer-in-exile, Presented by: Behrouz Boochani.

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THE NEXT generation of Māori writers? What do they write, how do they relate to GENERATION their ancestors, and where do they like to go for decolonisation and/or WHEN Saturday 28 August brunch? Juanita Hepi (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti 4pm – 5.15pm Mutunga, Ngāi Tukairangi) hostsHana WHERE Christchurch Art Gallery Pera Aoake (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Te Puna o Waiwhetū Raukawa, Tainui/Waikato), Rebecca PRICE Free K Reilly (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Wai) and Ruby Solly (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe, Patricia Grace and Witi Ihimaera are Waitaha) for an informal session of household names. Who are the next kōrero, readings and laughs.

THE FARAWAY NEAR: A. C. GRAYLING

KĀ WAI O TAHU: WHEN Saturday 28 August NGĀI TAHU’S LEGAL 6.30pm – 7.30pm ACTION OVER WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space WATER PRICE $38/36* FUNNIER AND A. C. Grayling has written more than WHEN Saturday 28 August WEIRDER thirty books of philosophy, biography, 5.30pm – 6.30pm WHEN Saturday 28 August and history of ideas, and judged the WHERE The Piano 6pm – 7pm Booker Prize twice. Live from London, PRICE Free he joins Kim Hill to discuss the paradox WHERE Tūranga, Foundation Cafe Water has long defined the of knowledge outlined in his new PRICE Free landscapes of Te Waipounamu, book, The Frontiers of Knowledge: we and in recent years has begun to A lonely Asian woman discovers she once thought that enquiry diminishes define political life as well. Why has has kidnapped a baby, which may ignorance, but the opposite is true. Ngāi Tahu taken the Crown to court or may not be a collection of cute Spectacular advances in science, over freshwater? Join Lisa Tumahai, but disembodied limbs. A Pākehā history and psychology have vastly Kaiwhakahaere (Chair) of Te Rūnanga man discovers that the giant rat in extended our understanding of time, o Ngāi Tahu, Dr Te Maire Tau (Upoko his compost bin is now his landlord. space, and the human brain. Yet each of Ngāi Tūahuriri) and freshwater You discover that the authors of some new step simply raises new questions specialistDr Mike Joy for an in-depth of New Zealand’s weirdest satire that were previously impossible to ask: discussion of Ngāi Tahu’s legal action, are gathering at Foundation for a the more we know, the greater our and the history, tikanga and science of drink. You go along and find yourself ignorance. Erudite and engaging, the Wai in Te Waipounamu. Journalist listening to readings from Sharon Lam, A. C. Grayling explores just how much Mike McRoberts in the chair. Murdoch Stephens, Rebecca K Reilly, we know about the past, the world Nathan Joe and Megan Dunn, with and ourselves. Supported by: The Ngāi Tahu Research Centre at Ray Shipley as your host. Afterwards, What is The Faraway Near? the University of Canterbury you’re never quite the same. See page 7.

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DAVID MITCHELL & TINY RUINS: IF I WERE A STORY AND YOU WERE A SONG

WHEN Saturday 28 August one of New Zealand’s most cherished and reflective stories. WORD is thrilled 6pm – 7.15pm songwriters, Hollie Fullbrook of Tiny Ruins, to have commissioned this show and WHERE James Hay Theatre for a unique and intimate performance. to be sharing it with you. Grab your During lockdown, Fullbrook reimagined tickets early. PRICE $55/53* prose by Mitchell as songs, while Mitchell Supported by:AMPRA AMCOS A world-exclusive collaboration reimagined songs by Tiny Ruins as short between story and song! Acclaimed fiction. If I were a story and you were a British writer David Mitchell (Cloud song presents their cross-pollenated co- Atlas, Utopia Avenue) will digitally join creation: a mosaic of bewitching music

BAD DIARIES scandalous of their personal diaries and early writing. Candid, original SALON: NEAR and unedited, this is the angst-ridden WHEN Saturday 28 August written word, rediscovered and 7.30pm – 8.30pm shared for your pleasure. Featuring WHERE Tūranga, Foundation Cafe Kate Camp (whose previous Salon appearances at Verb Wellington PRICE $15* have brought the house down), Returning for a third WORD Victor Rodger, James Nokise and Christchurch Festival, Bad Diaries Kyle Mewburn, and hosted by Salon Salon features four writers reading founder Tracy Farr. from the good, the bad and the

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THE FARAWAY NEAR: NOTES FROM AN APOCALYPSE

WHEN Saturday 28 August LIVE FROM EDINBURGH 8.30pm – 9.30pm WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL: PRICE $38/36* IAN RANKIN Before Irish writer Mark O’Connell published Notes from an Apocalypse WHEN Saturday 28 August stage at the Piano, giving the you in early 2020, he had no idea that he 7.30pm – 8.45pm a chance to ask questions face to would be launching his funny-but- serious book into what was possibly WHERE The Piano (digital) face. the actual end of days. Notes details Something dark is afoot in Scotland. PRICE $25/23* preppers around the world, from Ian Rankin’s Rebus is facing a crisis in environmentalists fearing the ravages Thanks to the wonders of technology, A Song For The Dark Times. And in his of climate change to billionaire we’re joining one of the world’s brand new book, Rankin joins forces entrepreneurs dreaming of life on most significant literary festivals – with iconic Scottish crime writer, the Mars, to the strange story of Peter happening simultaneously on the late William McIlvanney, completing Thiel in New Zealand. One thing unites other side of the planet (14–30 August). the manuscript he left behind. The these people: their certainty that we Edinburgh International Book Festival result is The Dark Remains, which are only years away from the end presents beloved crime writer Ian brings to life the criminal world of of civilisation as we know it. Are they Rankin live from their studio in an 1970s Glasgow with McIlvanney’s DI right? Join O’Connell, live from Dublin, exclusive event just for WORD. Rankin Laidlaw, the detective that inspired a in conversation with fellow doomsday will appear with an interviewer on gritty genre. researcher Tom Doig. What is The Faraway Near? Presented by: See page 7.

THE STARDUST infused spoken word performances, MC’d the glitter-bright RikTheMost. CABARET Let poets, spec-fic authors, WHEN Saturday 28 August observationists and storytellers 9pm – 10.30pm sprinkle fabulosity and help you travel WHERE Little Andromeda the cosmos within and without. With Nathan Joe, Ray Shipley, Sascha PRICE $10 on the door supporting Qtopia Stronach, Jack Swallows, Siobhan Carl Sagan said ‘We are made of Tumai, and more! Curated by AJ star-stuff’. This festival night, get cosy in the Fitzwater, with all proceeds going to Little Andromeda bar and enjoy star-stuff- support local charity Qtopia.

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PARENTING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

WHEN Sunday 29 August 10.30am – 11.30am WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space PRICE Free

Raising children has always been hard, but at a time when human activity is changing the world in myriad ways it is uniquely demanding. With PATRICIA GRACE: intensifying challenges – the climate crisis, inequality and polarisation – FROM THE CENTRE and a narrowing window of time in which to address them, how do carers WHEN Sunday 29 August rights cases, and been invited to and communities prepare the next 10.30am – 11.30am share her work worldwide. Finally, she generations for the future? Join Emily WHERE The Piano has written a memoir covering all of Writes, Brannavan Gnanalingam this and more. Patricia joins Paula PRICE $20/18* and Sacha McMeeking, contributors Morris for a candid conversation to Freerange Press’s Parenting in the Patricia Grace (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti about her extraordinary life, the Anthropocene, for a conversation with Raukawa, Te Atiawa) has published people and places that have Ryan Reynolds. Babies and children seven novels and seven short story shaped her, and the ways that welcome – activities will be provided collections, raised seven children, stories, lives and land intersect. close by. won landmark literary prizes and land

SPEED DATE A Maker Workshop, Teece Museum, UC Recital Room and more. Come SPECULATIVE with questions prepared, and get FICTION AUTHOR inspiration and tips for building worlds WHEN Sunday 29 August not our own, with Graci Kim, Cassie 11am – 1pm Hart, Sascha Stronach and Karen Healey. Afterwards, come back down WHERE The Arts Centre to earth with a kiwi cuppa together PRICE $15* at the end. Curated and hosted Kōrero with four of Aotearoa’s by AJ Fitzwater, Arts Four Creative hottest science fiction and fantasy in Residence at The Arts Centre, authors in an intimate round-robin in association with Creative New experience, while exploring some of Zealand, and The Stout Trust, proudly The Arts Centre’s beautiful spaces: managed by Perpetual Guardian.

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MAGAZINE IN RESIDENCE: TAKAHĒ

WHEN Sunday 29 August 12pm – 4pm WHERE Tūranga, Ground Floor Lobby

We’re making a magazine, start to finish, during WORD 2021! Drop in any time between noon and 4pm to watch the madness, submit your writing, or have a chat. Details on page 5. MATARIKI AND STAR LORE

WHEN Sunday 29 August author of Matariki: Star of the Year, 12pm – 1pm and Victoria Campbell (Ngāi Tahu), WHERE The Piano take you on a flight through the exciting revival of Māori star-lore, PRICE $20/18* its relationship to contemporary Two highly energetic and deeply science, and just what the new knowledgeable tōhuka (experts) national holiday is all about. With in the world of Māori astronomy, Marae’s Shilo Kino in the chair. Professor Rangi Mātāmua (Tūhoe),

Supported by: A CLEAR DAWN: NEW ASIAN VOICES FROM AOTEAROA

WHEN Sunday 29 August 12pm – 1pm WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space PRICE Free

A Clear Dawn is the first ever anthology of Asian-New Zealand creative writing. It gathers together the brilliant work of a new wave UNSETTLING STORIES of writers with roots in soils from Indonesia to China, India to Thailand, WHEN Sunday 29 August and she was right. How, and why, and of course Aotearoa as well. 1.30pm – 2.30pm do novelists tackle the hard topics, Editors Paula Morris and Alison Wong writing through their own discomfort host readings and conversation WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space to produce important and unsettling with a rich selection of contributors PRICE Free books? Tracy Farr speaks with Clare, including E Wen Wong, Sharon Lam, Clare Moleta’s novel Unsheltered Brannavan Gnangalingam, author Nod Ghosh, Russell Boey, Melanie is about a woman searcing for her of Sprigs, about an elite boys school Kwang and Neema Singh, with special missing daughter across a continent closing ranks after a rape, andSue guestJeffrey Zhao on the erhu on the edge of collapse. ‘It’s your Orr, author of Loop Tracks, about a (Chinese classical ‘violin’). own worst nightmare. That’s why family crisis set during the unfolding you’ve written it’, a friend commented, catastrophe of COVID-19. Supported by:Asia New Zealand Foundation

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MARGARET MAHY the nation to nurture young readers. In this Margaret Mahy MEMORIAL LECTURE: Memorial Lecture, Ben draws on BEN BROWN the metaphor of te rito, the young shoot of a harakeke plant, and his WHEN Sunday 29 August experiences as a poet and educator, 1.30pm – 2.30pm to talk about building children’s The Piano WHERE imagination and confidence through PRICE Free storytelling in all its forms. If you caught Ben’s widely-acclaimed 2020 Local Lyttelton hero Ben Brown Read NZ lecture, on youth justice (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Koroki, Ngāti and the power of words, you know Paoa) is the inaugural Te Awhi Rito to expect an address that is direct, Reading Ambassador, travelling funny and devastating by turns.

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HOW TO WRITE FOR YOUNGER READERS

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HER SAY of a number of these women, told their way, spoken from the heart. WHEN Sunday 29 August Uncompromising, but offering hope, 3pm – 4pm redemption and personal triumph, WHERE Tūranga, TSB Space they deserve to be heard. Join Jackie and two of the women from Her Say, PRICE $20/18* Jane and Delicate, in conversation In 2013, Jackie Clark launched The with Michèle A’Court. Aunties, a grassroots charity helping All royalties from the book go to The women to rebuild their lives after Aunties to support their work, and $10 KURA REO - MĀORI enduring abusive relationships. Her from every ticket sold will be donated LANGUAGE CLASS Say features the very different stories to Christchurch charity Aviva.

WHEN Sunday 29 August 4pm – 5pm creating an issue live during the WHERE Tūranga, Spark Place TAKAHĒ MAGAZINE- IN-RESIDENCE festival itself. After four hectic days of PRICE $10* editing, layout, printing, and binding, LAUNCH PARTY the takahē editorial team and guests Join Karuna Thurlow and Darren invite you to join them to celebrate Solomon (Aropapaki Ltd) for a daily WHEN Sunday 29 August the launch of this very special issue hour of language power focussing on 4pm – 5pm with readings and toasts. Come kīwaha and whakataukī - the sayings Tūranga, Level 1, WHERE down to pick up a free copy of the and idioms of Ngāi Tahu. Beginners Outside TSB Space finished product. You may even welcome! See page 37 for details. PRICE Free come along to celebrate seeing your own work in print: see the details on Takahē is our 2021 Magazine-in- page 5 on how to submit work to the Presented by: Residence, which means they’re magazine yourself!

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KĀ WAI O TAHU: At the rough diamond in the crown of the poetry calendar – the Christchurch MARLON WILLIAMS, Poetry Slam – poets set aside the ARIANA TIKAO, RUBY SOLLY niceties and throw down like their lives depend on it, breathing fire and raising the bar a little more each time over WHEN Sunday 29 August lakes. Come swimming with us three intense rounds. Did they nail it? 6pm – 7.15pm through songs and stories of the YOU be the judge: the audience rules at beauty, power and threat of water WHERE The Piano the Poetry Slam. It’s about the poetry, as it moves through our lives and PRICE $45/43* not the points, so buckle up and don’t southern lands. This spectacular forget your hanky. Hosted byDoc The hammer of rain, a river’s murmur, closing event features performances Drumheller and Ciaran Fox. the roar of a flood. Cicada song and from Marlon Williams, Ariana Tikao, parched hills. Crystal clear streams, and Ruby Solly, plus exquisite new Preliminary heat: Wednesday and drained swamps and poisoned work from special guests. 4 August, 7pm at Space Academy, 371 St Asaph St. $10 on the door.

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TAKEN PLACES: SENSE writers to the tap-root of physical place, looking at how crucial it is to OF PLACE & BODY IN have a sensory ‘base of operations’ THE SHORT STORY in the short story form. Discussions WHEN Friday 27 August and exercises will focus writers on fully 1pm – 4pm inhabiting landscape in their writing, WHERE The Piano, The Box concentrating on the sensing body who travels the story-territory. The PRICE $45* goal is to achieve grounded, dynamic This workshop, led by the fabulous writing that takes the reader by the and experienced Tracey Slaughter senses, meshing them into the story (author of Deleted Scenes for Lovers, through an evocative and visceral and Devil’s Trumpet) will connect engagement with place.

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WHEN Saturday 28 August WHEN Saturday 28 August 9.30am – 1pm 10am – 12.30pm WHERE Te Whare o Te Waipounamu WHERE Tūranga, Spark Place 15 Show Place, Addington PRICE $45* PRICE Book your free ticket at Eventfinda Nicky Hager is New Zealand’s most respected investigative As Māori and Pasifika writers and storytellers, what do journalist, with seven best-selling books to his name, we want the future of indigenous storytelling to look including Secrets and Lies, Dirty Politics, and Hit and Run. like? Hosted in the stunning indigenous design space of His work on political spin, logging, intelligence agencies Tokona Te Raki, the Māori Futures Collective, this wānaka and attack politics have had lasting impacts, from (workshop) explores ways of telling our own stories, triggering major government enquiries to the resignation navigating and remaking the mainstream writing world, of a minister. In this masterclass, Nicky discusses the and the evolution of traditions and forms. It’s also a chance ethics, tactics and techniques of the investigative to meet and welcome the Te Papa Tupu emerging writers journalism trade, and gives insights into his own career, crew, and have a kai with storytellers from across the motu. plus opportunities to discuss your own projects as well. All Special guests includePatricia Grace, Ben Brown, Kera welcome. Sherwood O’Regan, Daisy Lavea-Timo and Eboni Waitere.

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ALISON WONG: of Aotearoa, Australia and China, looking at identity, belonging and MEMOIR WORKSHOP sense of home. In addition to hands- WHEN Saturday 28 August on exercises, Alison will help you 1pm – 3.30pm explore craft, editing and how to write WHERE Tūranga, Spark Place a compelling narrative. You’ll examine the difference between autobiography PRICE $45* and memoir, and the thorny question Have you ever thought about writing of privacy when writing about your and publishing your own memoir? If own and other people’s lives. You’re so, this workshop is for you. Award- also invited to submit any writing winning author Alison Wong, known done in this workshop for editing for her lyrical and intelligent prose and publication in our Magazine- and poetry, has a memoir forcoming in-Residence, takahē - see page 5 on her and her family’s experiences or details.

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KARLO MILA: POETRY aimed at aspiring and established writers alike, she will focus on writing WORKSHOP a poem deeply embedded in person WHEN Sunday 29 August and place. A range of exercises will 10.30am – 1pm help you write a textually layered poem WHERE Tūranga, Spark Place that is evocative of self, belonging and origins. It will be grounded in personal PRICE $45* reflection, whenua, memory and Karlo Mila is a poet, mother, meaning-making. You’re also invited researcher, writer and the Programme to submit any writing done in this Director of the Mana Moana workshop for editing and publication Experience at Leadership New in our Magazine-in-Residence, takahē Zealand. In this hands-on workshop, - see page 5 or details.

EDITING YOUR OWN for most major publishers, and with renowned authors including Fiona WORK(SHOP) Kidman, Witi Ihimaera and Owen WHEN Sunday 29 August Marshall. In this workshop Anna will 1.30pm – 4pm take both experienced and aspiring WHERE The Box, The Piano writers through the principles and practices needed to knock your PRICE $45* own rough drafts into beautiful shape. You’re also invited to submit The secret to good writing is good any writing done in this workshop editing. And the secret to good editing for editing and publication in our is learning from the best.Anna Rogers Magazine-in-Residence, takahē - is one of New Zealand’s top fiction and see page 5 or details. non-fiction editors, having worked

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INSPIRING WRITERS POETRY TAKES READ ALOUD SECONDARY YOU PLACES SCHOOLS DAY SCHOOLS DAY WHEN Friday 27 August WHEN Friday 27 August WHEN Thursday 26 August 9.15am – 2.45pm WHERE James Hay Theatre WHERE Tūranga, Spark Place WHERE University of Canterbury The Read Aloud Schools Day is back for PRICE $25 another year! Each festival, we bring six Once again, we’re offering incredible Celebrate Phantom Billstickers exciting children’s writers to the stage, speakers to Christchurch secondary National Poetry Day! Discover poetry free for all primary and intermediate schools, absolutely free of charge. and poets in special locations schools in Canterbury. This year we are Don’t miss this amazing opportunity around Christchurch. At each spot stoked to welcome Gavin Bishop (Wild for students to hear from and meet an amazing poet will share a poem, Aotearoa, Atua), Maysoon Salama (Aya exciting writers who make waves in offer a prompt and provide words and the Butterfly), Lily Emo (illustrator everything they do: award-winning of wisdom. In the afternoon, award- for Margaret Mahy’s The Boy Who poets Tayi Tibble, Glenn Colquhoun winning poet and sought-after Made Things Up), Graci Kim (The Last and RikTheMost; Ngāi Tahu writer, poetry editor Gail Ingram will help Fallen Star), Joanna Grochowicz activist and disability advocateKera you turn your scribblings into polished (Shackleton’s Endurance) and Maria Sherwood-O’Regan; former refugee poetry. For students Years 9 to 13; $25 Gill (Remarkable Animal Stories). and current Fulbright scholar Abbas per student. Bookings and details Nazari (After the Tampa) and emerging Teachers, contact online at www.schoolforyoungwriters. young writers E Wen Wong and Russell [email protected] org/masterclasses Boey. Expect the audience to go away for session details and to secure a spot buzzing, and they might even learn a This event is organised by Write for your school group. thing or two. On School for Young Writers and supported by Creative Communities Teachers, contact schools@ Presented by: Christchurch and WORD wordchristchurch.co.nz for session Christchurch. details and to secure a spot for your school group. SLAM POETRY IN performances will be held during the Presented by: week of the festival at participating WAIMAKARIRI schools throughout the Waimakariri SCHOOLS District, with a lunchtime performance open to the public: Wednesday 25 One of the world’s leading slam poets, August, Kaiapoi Library, 12.30pm. RikTheMost, brings Slam Poetry to the For more information please go to: Waimakariri District. https://libraries.waimakariri.govt.nz RikTheMost is a vegan, queer, non- binary spoken word artist, event Presented by: Waimakariri Libraries organiser and workshop facilitator, originally from the UK. Workshops and

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Michèle A’Court is a writer, stand-up comedian, Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, Rt Hon Helen Clark is a former New Zealand MC and strident feminist. Michèle has written scholar, cultural advocate, writer and filmmaker. Prime Minister and a former UNDP Administrator. two books: Stuff I Forgot To Tell My Daughter He is the author of No Friend But The Mountains, She currently chairs the boards of the Extractive (2015) and How We Met (2018). She won Comedian which portrayed life inside Australia’s notorious Industries Transparency Initiative and the of the Decade in 2010 and continues to tell jokes refugee detention centre on Manus Island. Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child in pubs. It won numerous awards, including the 2019 Health. She is also currently the co-chair of The Victorian Prize for Literature. Boochani came to Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness Dr Melani Anae QSO is Associate Professor of New Zealand in 2019 at the invitation of WORD and Response mandated by the World Pacific Studies at The University of Auckland. Christchurch and in 2020 was granted asylum. Health Assembly to review the internationally She is a member of the Polynesian Panthers, is In 2021 he is a University of Canterbury Ursula coordinated response to the COVID-19 author of The Platform: The Radical Legacy of Bethell writer in residence. pandemic. the Polynesian Panthers (2020), and co-editor of Polynesian Panthers: Pacific Protest and Liz Breslin is a writer, editor and performer. Jackie Clark founded the charity The Aunties in Affirmative Action (2015). Her second poem collection, In bed with the 2013. Her big heart and take-no-shit attitude has feminists, (a selection of which won the 2020 won her a league of loyal fans and followers, Hana Pera Aoake (Ngaati Mahuta, Tainui/ Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems) and in 2018 she was the Supreme Winner at the Waikato, Ngaati Hinerangi me Ngaati Raukawa, was published by Dead Bird Books in June 2021. Women of Influence Awards. Waitaha, Kaati Mamoe, Ngaati Waewae) is an artist and writer based in Aotearoa. They Ben Brown (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Koroki, Ngāti Paul Cleave is the author of twelve thrillers, love eating kaimoana and defacing colonial Paoa) is an award winning children’s author, eleven of which take place in his hometown of property. In 2020, Hana published their first book, a nonfiction writer, a poet and performer. He Christchurch. His books have been translated A Bathful of Kawakawa and Hot Water with was appointed inaugural Children’s Reading into twenty languages. He’s won the Ngaio Compound Press. Ambassador for New Zealand, Te Awhi Rito in Marsh Award three times, the Saint-Maur book May 2021. festival’s crime novel of the year award, and has Tusiata Avia’s first book, Wild Dogs Under My been shortlisted for the Edgar and the Barry and Skirt, shares its title with the multi award-winning Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown is the Ned Kelly. The Quiet People is his latest book. show that played most recently Off-Broadway. an internationally acclaimed barber and hair Her most recent book, The Savage Coloniser artist. He and his wifeSarah Brown (Ngāpuhi Glenn Colquhoun is a poet and children’s writer. Book won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for / Te Rarawa) founded My Fathers Barbers, the His sixth collection of poetry, Letters to Young Poetry at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book barbershop where men go to heal, and the People was published in 2020. A new children’s Awards. In the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours, global anti-violence movement She Is Not Your picture book, The Small Girl Who Lives Next Tusiata was appointed a Member of the New Rehab. Door is expected in 2021. He works as a GP in Zealand Order of Merit for services to poetry Horowhenua. and the arts. Jacqueline Bublitz lives between Melbourne, Australia and her hometown on the west coast Lianne Dalziel is serving her third term as Mayor Airini Beautrais lives in Whanganui. She is of New Zealand’s North Island. She wrote her after serving for 23 years in the New Zealand the author of four collections of poetry and a debut novel Before You Knew My Name after Parliament, the last four terms as the Member collection of short fiction, Bug Week (VUP) which spending a summer in New York, where she of Parliament for Christchurch East. Lianne won the 2021 Jann Medlicott Acorn Foundation hung around morgues and the dark corners of served as a Cabinet Minister in the fifth Labour Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. city parks (and the human psyche) far too often. Government under the leadership of Prime Airini has a mixed academic background in Minister Rt. Hon. Helen Clark (1999-2008). science and creative writing and currently Ross Calman (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāi teaches health science at UCOL Whanganui. Tahu) is the author of a number of books on Sarina Dickson is a writer, artist and educator Māori language and history. He is a descendant based in Christchurch. She has two picture Byllie-Jean Zita aka The Byllie Jean Project of Te Rauparaha and is the translator and books publishing with Hachette in 2021: The (Ngāti Rangikoanake, Ngāti Whatuiapiti) is every editor of He Pukapuka Tātaku i ngā Mahi a Te Fairies’ Night Before Christmas illustrated by inch the wahine toa singer and songwriter. Her Rauparaha Nui | A Record of the Life of the Great Sarah Greig and A Stick and a Stone illustrated lyrics and soulful voice merge neo-soul and Te Rauparaha. by Hilary Tapper. waiata to communicate the journey of people and sound. Kate Camp is a poet and essayist, author of Tom Doig is an author, academic and journalist. seven books of poetry, most recently How To His book about the 2014 Australian mine fire Gavin Bishop (ONZM) has published 70 Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected disaster,Hazelwood, was nominated for the books that have been translated into twelve Poems. Her awards include the New Zealand 2020 Walkley Book Award. His latest is Living with languages. Most recently he was awarded Book Award for Poetry, Creative New Zealand the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa. the Te Tohu a Ta Kingi Ihaka for a lifetime Berlin Writers Residency, and Katherine contribution to Māori Art and Culture and the Mansfield Menton Fellowship. Doc Drumheller has worked in award-winning Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. groups for theatre and music, and his poems In 2009 the Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for Victoria Campbell (Kāi Tahu) is passionate have been translated into more than 20 new illustrators was established in recognition about te reo me ōhona tikaka and mātauraka languages. He has performed widely overseas of his work. Māori including tātai aroraki/astronomy. and throughout New Zealand, and is the editor Victoria is also involved with the Dark Sky Project and publisher of Catalyst. Russell Boey was born in Singapore and grew (Takapō), is a member of the Aoraki Mackenzie up in Christchurch. He is now a student at the International Dark Sky Reserve Board and the Megan Dunn writes about herself, mermaids University of Auckland. He won the Sunday Star- government Matariki Advisory Group (regarding and contemporary New Zealand art. Not Times Short Story Award’s secondary schools the establishment of a Matariki Public Holiday). necessarily in that order. She like jokes. Even bad category in 2017, and his most recent project is a jokes. Her memoir Things I Learned at Art School fantasy novella. is as honest as Karl Ove, as intellectual as Adrian Mole and as sassy as a Sweet Valley High. True story.

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Dr Hinemoa Elder is a child and adolescent Maria Gill has written 60 children’s books Bernadette Hall lives at Amberley Beach. psychiatrist, and has worked in a number of including Anzac Heroes, which won the 2016 Fancy Dancing is her eleventh collection of mental health settings including the Child NZCYA Book of the Year prize. Ten of her poetry. ‘It’s as close as I’ll ever get to writing an and Family Unit/ Mother Baby Unit at Starship books have received Storylines Notable Book autobiography’ she says, laughing. In 2015 she Hospital, in Auckland. She is also a Maori awards. Maria writes fulltime and enjoys received the Prime Minister’s Award for poetry. Strategic Leader for the Centre of Research giving author talks and writing workshops. Excellence (CoRE) for the Ageing Brain. Cassie Hart (Kāi Tahu) is a writer of speculative Brannavan Gnanalingam is a writer and fiction. She’s had short stories published in Lily Emo, award-winning illustrator, spends her lawyer based in Wellington. He has written six award-winning anthologies, and is a Sir Julius time juggling the demands of an illustration/art novels, including Sodden Downstream (2018) Vogel, Australian Shadow, and Hugo award career and freelancing as a graphic designer and Sprigs (2021), both finalists for the Jann finalist. Her traditional debut, Butcherbird, is and relief art teaching. Her portraiture work of Medlicott Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction at published by Huia. COVID-19 essential workers was displayed in The the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. National Portrait Gallery. Karen Healey is a full-time teacher and Morgan Godfery (Te Pahipoto) is a writer part-time writer of young adult fantasy and Patrick Evans retired from tertiary teaching and trade unionist. He is the author of Māui science fiction. She is the author of Guardian in 2016. He most recently published a trilogy of Street, a collection of essays, and the editor of the Dead, The Shattering, the When We novels: Gifted (2010), The Back of His Head (2015), of The Interregnum, both published by Bridget Wake duology and The Empress of Timbra (in and Salt Picnic (2017) all published by VUP, who Williams Books. His work spans broadcasting, collaboration with Robyn Fleming). She was a published Bluffworld, a campus novel, in March. journalism, law, and public policy. Morgan 2017 Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the currently works at the University of Otago. University of Canterbury. Tracy Farr is a Wellington writer who used to be a scientist. Her third novel, Wonderland, is in the Patricia Grace is one of New Zealand’s Chessie Henry is the author of We Can Make wings. She is co-curator, with Melbourne writer most prominent and celebrated Māori a Life, a family memoir which was awarded a Jenny Ackland, of the live literary series Bad fiction authors and a figurehead of modern best first book award at the 2019 Ockham New Diaries Salon. New Zealand literature. Her works include Zealand Book Awards. Her personal essays numerous award-winning novels, short stories, have been published on The Spinoffand Sarah Ferguson is the Duchess of York and the picture books, and her recently released The Wireless, and she has an MA in Creative former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and memoir, From the Centre. Writing from the International Institute daughter-in-law of HM The Queen. Her Heart of Modern Letters. She lives in Ōtautahi for a Compass is her first novel for adults. The A. C. Grayling is the author of over thirty books Christchurch, where she is currently working mother of two daughters, Princess Beatrice and of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, on a novel. Princess Eugenie, she lives in Windsor with five and essays. He was for a number of years a Norfolk terriers. columnist on the Guardian, the Times, and Juanita Hepi (Kāi Tahu) is a multidisciplinary Prospect magazine. He has twice been a storyteller exploring the intersections of AJ Fitzwater is unicorn disguised in a snappy judge on the Booker Prize, and is a Fellow of race, class and gender through Indigenous blazer who lives between Christchurch’s both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal storytelling and cross-cultural collaboration. cracks. A graduate of Clarion 2014, they write Society of Literature. She holds a Masters of Māori and Indigenous short speculative fiction, and have authored leadership with Distinction, a Graduate the fantasy books The Voyages of Cinrak the Andy Griffiths is one of Australia’s most Diploma of Teaching and Learning and a Dapper and No Man’s Land. They are one of popular children’s authors. He and illustrator Bachelor of Arts from Toi Whakaari. She is the Arts Four Creatives in Residence at the Terry Denton have collaborated on more than māmā to three. Christchurch Arts Centre for 2021. 30 bestselling books since their first title, Just Tricking, was published in 1997. Their much- Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat, Ciarán Fox is a published writer, photographer loved Treehouse series has been embraced an independent international collective and editor with 20 years of experience in health by children around the world and is now of researchers, investigators and citizen promotion, community development, arts published in more than 35 countries. journalists using open-source and social advocacy, events and social marketing. He media investigation to probe some of the works with the Mental Health Foundation and Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of seven world’s most pressing stories. for the All Right? campaign. novels and two short story collections and has @EliotHiggins | bellingcat.com been shortlised for or won many accolades, Hollie Fullbrook is a songwriter and performer. including the Montana Medal for Book of the Kim Hill joined Radio New Zealand in Gisborne, A rare blend of eloquent lyrical craft and Year. She is an award-winning reviewer and then moved to Checkpoint, before co- explorative musicianship, the songs of Tiny Ruins columnist, and her bestselling novels The presenting Morning Report, where she gained have been treasured by crowds and critics for Night Book and Soon have been made into a high profile. Nine years on Nine to Noon was over a decade. Via an eclectic raft of influences, the TV miniseries, The Bad Seed. Her memoir followed by 18 hosting Saturday Morning, for the musical world of Hollie Fullbrook and band The Mirror Book was published in April to huge which she has won international and national spans delicate folk, lustrous dream pop and media attention and acclaim. awards. ebullient psychedelia. Joanna Grochowicz is an author and polar Mary Holm, ONZM, has written three No. 1 Rick Gekoski – described by Tatler as ‘think historian. Drawing on diaries, letters, and bestsellers. She writes a personal finance Bill Bryson, only on books’ – is a writer, rare expedition narratives from archives and column in the Weekend Herald, presents book dealer, and occasional publisher and personal collections around the world, her seminars, and discusses money with Jesse broadcaster. An American who moved to compellingly written novels bring to light new Mulligan on RNZ. For 16 years she wrote The England in 1966, he studied English at Oxford, and often overlooked elements of heroic age Investor in the Press. and is now a British citizen. exploration. Ava Homa is an activist and journalist, and Nod Ghosh graduated from the Hagley Writers’ Nicky Hager works as an investigative is the award-winning author of the novel Institute in 2014. Nod has published extensively journalist and author. He has written seven Daughters of Smoke and Fire. She holds an in Aotearoa and overseas. Truth Serum Press best-selling books about New Zealand politics, MA in English and Creative Writing from the released The Crazed Wind in 2018 and Filthy intelligence, public relations and military University of Windsor in Canada. Her collection Sucre in 2020. Toy Train will follow in 2021. www. subjects. His most recent books were Dirty of short stories, Echoes from the Other Land, nodghosh.com/about Politics and Hit & Run. was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Prize, and she is the inaugural recipient of the PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-In-Exile Scholarship.

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Joseph Hullen (NgāiTūāhuriri/Ngāti Professor Jeanette King (Pākehā) teaches Vana Manasiadis was born in Te Whanganui- Hinematua), born and raised at Tuahiwi in Aotahi: School of Māori and Indigenous a-Tara, and has been moving between and Kaiapoi, has spent a lifetime gathering Studies at the University of Canterbury. She Aotearoa and Kirihi Greece for the last 25 traditional kai and hearing stories about his researches and publishes in aspects of te reo years. In 2021 she is in Ōtautahi for the Ursula hapū. He is a hunter-gatherer, a fisherman, an Māori and language revitalisation. Bethell Writer-in-Residence at Canterbury explorer, a kaitiaki, a storyteller – and always University. Her most recent book is The Grief he is Ngāi Tahu. Shilo Kino (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Maniapoto) is Almanac: A Sequel. the author of The Pōrangi Boy, a book about Jadwiga is an award-winning comedian, protecting the land. It is a finalist for Young Dr Rangi Matamua (Tūhoe) is a professor at playwright and poet raised in Otago, currently Adult Fiction book of the year and a finalist in the University of Waikato, and his research based in Ōtautahi. Renowned for her nervous the Best First Book Award at the NZCYA book fields are Māori astronomy and star stage presence and biting dry wit, she is a awards this year. lore, Māori culture, and Māori language rising talent not to be missed. development, research and revitalisation. He Aaron Kreisler is the Head of Ilam School of travels extensively throughout the country Nathan Joe is an award-winning Chinese-Kiwi Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury. A giving public lectures about Matariki and playwright, performance poet and critic. He former curator at Dunedin Public Art Gallery Māori Astronomy. is the current national slam poetry champion (2008 – 2014) he produced over fifty exhibitions. and an Arts Four Artist in Residence at The He is also an award-winning arts writer, who Rebecca Macfie is a Christchurch journalist Arts Centre. continues to do freelance curating, writing and the recipient of more than 20 awards, and arts-focused initiatives. including the Wolfsen Press Fellowship. She Stephanie Johnson MNZM is the author of is the author of Helen Kelly: Her Life. Her several short story and poetry collections, Hari Kunzru is the author of six novels, previous book was Tragedy at Pike River Mine, plays, adaptations, and numerous award- including The Impressionist and White Tears, published by Awa Press in 2012 winning novels. She has received a number of a short story collection, Noise, and a novella, significant awards and fellowships. In 1999 she Memory Palace. His lates novel Red Pill Danyl McLauchlan is the author of the comic co-founded the Auckland Writers Festival with was published in 2020. He is the host of the noir novels Unspeakable Secrets of the Peter Wells. podcast Into The Zone. Born in London, he lives Aro Valley and Mysterious Mysteries of the in New York City. Aro Valley. He works at the VUW School of Alison Jones is a professor in Te Puna Biology and his essays on literature, politics, Wānanga, School of Māori and Indigenous Melanie Kwang is a first-generation economics, science and philosophy appear Education, at the University of Auckland. Taishanese-New Zealander writer from on The Spinoff. Danyl’s first non-fiction She is a Pākehā, born in Auckland next to Christchurch. She studied English and Screen collection, Tranquillity and Ruin, was published Maungakiekie One Tree Hill. She writes and Production at the University of Auckland, and in February. teaches about Māori-Pākehā relations today completed the Masters of Creative Writing and in the pre-Tiriti period. This Pakeha Life: An there in 2018. Sacha McMeeking is the Head of Aotahi Unsettled Memoir is her latest book. the School of Māori and Indigenous Studies Sharon Lam is a writer and architectural and co-founder of Tū Māia a kaupapa, Mike Joy is an outspoken advocate for graduate. Her debut novel, Lonely Asian Māori business that designs leadership and environmental protection in New Zealand. Woman (Lawrence & Gibson, 2019) , was entrepreneurship programmes. He researches ecological modelling, longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize bioassessment, environmental science, for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Mike McRoberts (Ngāti Kahungunu) has been environmental policy and energy futures. He Awards. a journalist for more than thirty years, covering has received numerous recognition for his war and conflict from Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza work, including the inaugural New Zealand Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe, Waitaha) and Syria to East Timor and the Solomon Universities Critic and Conscience Award in is the author of Arms Race and Uprising: Islands. Mike is currently in his 17th year as 2017. Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand, anchor for TV3’s flagship 6pm news, Newshub and Programme Co-Director of WORD Live at 6. The Judah Band monsters of groove hailing Christchurch. from Sāmoa, Solomon Islands and Japan, Kyle Mewburn is one of New Zealand’s most with Iona Ulaula on drums, Motoi Shibuswa Dave Lowe, NZ atmospheric scientist, began eclectic and prolific writers. Her titles have on guitar, brothers Steve and Vincent Lasei on a pivotal record of atmospheric CO2 at Baring been translated into eighteen languages and keys, and Seta Timo (MD) on bass. Head in 1970. His times of elation and despair won numerous awards including Children’s are told in story form in his recently published Book of the Year. Her memoir Faking It is Miriama Kamo is a broadcast journalist who memoir The Alarmist: Fifty Years Measuring published by Penguin. presents current affairs programmes Sunday Climate Change. and Marae on TVNZ1. She’s a cantabrian, a Dr Karlo Mila (MNZM) is an award-winning mum, and a writer. Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist Pasifika poet of Tongan and Pākehā descent. and historian of science. Her book H is for Her first collection, Dream Fish Floating, won Sue Kedgley is a former broadcaster who Hawk won many prizes, including the Samuel the poetry category of the Montana New later was elected to Parliament as a Green Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book Zealand Book Awards. Her latest poetry book Party MP, was one of the founders of Auckland of the Year. Her lates book is a collection Goddess Muscle was published by Huia in University Women’s Liberation and one of the of essays, Vesper Flights. She is a frequent 2020. She lives in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, originators of the Second Wave of feminism in contributor to the New York Times Magazine, with her three sons. New Zealand. She has served as a local body and lives in Suffolk. politician and is a member of the Wellington Paul Millar is Professor of English and Digital District Health Board. Jo Malcolm is a former television journalist Humanities at the University of Canterbury. who now teaches visual storytelling at the He researches and writes about New Zealand Graci Kim is the bestselling author of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. She and Pacific literature and social and cultural Korean mythology-inspired novel, The Last began her career in journalism because of a impacts of disasters. Fallen Star, published by Rick Riordan Presents. love of writing and good storytelling and is an Called a ‘sparkling yarn’ by Entertainment avid book reader. Weekly, it has been optioned by the Disney Channel for a live-action television series.

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Andy Miller is a reader, author and editor Mark O’Connell is the author of Notes from Anjum Rahman is the Project Lead of Inclusive of books, most recently The Year of Reading an Apocalypse and To Be a Machine, which Aotearoa Collective Tāhono, an organisation Dangerously (4th Estate). He has also written was awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, working to create a stronger sense of belonging books about how much he likes the Kinks the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and through connections and collaboration. She dislikes sport. His favourite Split Enz abum is was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for is a strong community advocate, as well as Time And Tide. Non-Fiction. He is a contributor to The New holding governance roles in various community York Times Magazine, Slate, and the Guardian. organisations. David Mitchell is the internationally-bestseller, He lives in Dublin with his family. multi-award-winning author of the novels Charisma Rangipunga (Ngāi Tahu, Taranaki, Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Dr Hana O’Regan is the CEO of CORE Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Hinematua) is an Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Education and is based in Christchurch. author, composer, mother to three boys, and Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House Of Kāi Tahu and Pākehā decent, Hana is a dedicated to the revival of the Māori language. and Utopia Avenue. passionate advocate for te reo Māori and She is deputy chair of the Māori Language education, and is committed to community Commission, and drove the language and John Mitchinson is a writer and publisher, and cultural development. cultural revitalisation efforts of Ngāi Tahu for co-founder of Unbound, the crowdfunding many years. platform for books. He helped create the BBC Tā Tipene O’Regan is the former Chair of the TV show QI and co-wrote the bestselling series Ngāi Tahu Māori Trust Board, and led the Rebecca K Reilly (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Wai) is a of QI books. His favourite Split Enz album is Ngāi Tahu claim negotiation and settlement fiction writer from Tāmaki Makaurau. She won Dizrythmia. process. He is Adjunct Professor at the the 2019 Adam Foundation Prize. Greta & Valdin Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, University of (VUP) is her first book. Clare Moleta was born in Aotearoa, grew Canterbury, Ūpoko of Awarua Rūnanga, and a up on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Western Companion of The Royal Society Te Apārangi. Ryan Reynolds is one of the key figures Australia and has lived in Pōneke since 2005. shaping the global placemaking movement. Her fiction has been published in literary Dame Claudia Orange is one of New Zealand’s He has given public talks and workshops on journals and broadcast on RNZ, and she has most distinguished historians. After publishing placemaking in nine countries. He co-edited won awards for her travel writing. She has an The Treaty of Waitangi in 1987, she became Freerange Press’s Once in a Lifetime: City- MA in Creative Writing from Te Herenga Waka General Editor of the Dictionary of New building after Disaster in Christchurch and is the |Victoria University of Wellington. Unsheltered Zealand Biography. A director at the Museum father of two children. is her first novel. of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa for many years, she is now a research associate at the RikTheMost is a vegan, queer, non-binary Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai) is the author of museum. Dame Claudia has received many spoken-word artist, facilitator and events the collections Forbidden Cities (2008) and awards and honours for her contribution to organiser, who spends most of their spare False River (2017); the essay On Coming Home a wider understanding of our history, which time making homophobes feel uncomfortable. (2015); and seven novels including Rangatira includes research for the He Tohu and Te Their work largely deals with the psychology of (2011). She is a co-editor of the anthologies Ko Kōngahu Museum of Waitangi exhibitions. choice, emotion, motivation and interaction; Aotearoa Tātou and A Clear Dawn. and how fear, and overcoming it, directs us. Tommy Orange, author of There, There, Abbas Nazari is a proud Cantabrian, and is is a graduate of the MFA program at the Victor Rodger ONZM is a Christchurch-born the author of After The Tampa, a memoir of Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled writer of Samoan (Iva) and Scottish (Dundee) his family’s journey in fleeing Afghanistan as member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes descent. As a writer he is best known for his refugees and finding home in New Zealand. In of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in play Black Faggot and as a producer he helped 2019, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship Oakland, California. present Tusiata Avia’s Wild Dogs Under My Skirt to study in the United States. He wrote After Off-Broadway last year. the Tampa during the COVID-19 lockdown of Sue Orr is a Wellington writer. Her novel Loop 2020. Twitter/Instagram: @theabbasnazari Tracks was published by Victoria University Anna Rogers is an experienced editor of both Press in June. She teaches creative writing at fiction and non-fiction. She has written several Multi-award winning comedian James the International Institute of Modern Letters, non-fiction titles. Her latest, With Them Through Nokise is also an acclaimed theatre maker, Victoria University, and in Wellington prisons Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First playwright, social commentator and host as a member of the Write Where You Are World War, was shortlisted in the 2019 Ockham of RNZ’s hit podcast Eating Fried Chicken in Charitable Trust. Book Awards. the Shower, where he interviews celebrities about life and mental health while eating his Nicky Pellegrino is the author of 13 novels Tania Roxborogh is an award-winning author favourite food in his favourite place. and also a freelance journalist with regular and educator with over thirty years’ experience columns in the Listener and the New Zealand teaching English, writing, media studies and James Norcliffe is an award-winning Woman’s Weekly. Her last two novels A Dream drama. She has over 30 published works and poet, novelist, editor and educator. He has of Italy and Tiny Pieces of Us have been New has taught writing to a range of people – from published ten collections of poetry, most Zealand number one bestsellers. Her new early primary through to tertiary and community recently Deadpan (Otago University Press, novel is called To Italy, With Love. level. She currently teaches English and writing 2019) and over a dozen novels for young courses at Lincoln High School. people, including Mallory Mallory and his new Brian Phillips, who has had a long career title, The Crate. in the book trade, is a Christchurch-based Dr Maysoon Salama is a scholar in science second-hand bookseller specialising in New with a PhD in Food Microbiology and Molecular Micheál Ó Conghaile is a native Irish speaker Zealand-published titles. He is a former co- Biology. She dedicates her time to educating the from Connemara in the west of Ireland. owner of Godwit Press. In 2018 he chaired the children of Muslim and non-Muslim families and Regarded as one of the leading prose writers event with Shaun Bythell, author of Diary of a is the co-founder and manager of two An-Nur in the Irish language, he has published novels, Bookseller. Childcare Centres. She is currently the Emeritus short stories and plays. A member of Aos National Co-ordinator for the Islamic Women Dána, his work has been translated into more Anapela Polata’ivao graduated from Toi Council. than ten languages. Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 2000 and has gone on to win numerous awards for acting and directing. She directed a new version of Tusiata Avia’s Wild Dogs Under My Skirt in 2016 which has since featured in festivals throughout New Zealand and at the SoHo Playhouse in New York off-Broadway.

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Kera Sherwood-O’Regan (Kāi Tahu) is an Murdoch Stephens is a novelist (Rat King Lisa Tumahai (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Waewae, indigenous and disabled storyteller and activist Landlord) and non-fiction (Doing Our Bit: the Makaawhio) is kaiwhakahaere/chairperson working at the intersections of indigenous and campaign to Double the Refugee Quota) of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. She is also deputy disability rights, hauora, and climate change. author, born in South Otago and based chair for the Climate Change Commission for She runs social impact creative agency, in Wellington. He is a founding member of New Zealand. Activate, to co-create community-led stories Lawrence and Gibson publishing collective. and projects for social change. Siobhan Tumai (Waikato Tainui) is an Sascha Stronach (he/they) is a speculative Ōtautahi-based Māmā, rainbow educator Ray Shipley is a comedian, poet, and librarian fiction author based in Pōneke. Their debut and creative. Siobhan is a part of Ōtautahi from Ōtautahi. In 2019 Ray was nominated for novel The Dawnhounds won the 2020 Sir Kaituhi, a local Māori writers group, and has the Billy T Award – the biggest award for the Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel, and has poetry published in Tupuranga journal. rising stars of comedy in Aotearoa – and has been picked up by Saga Press for a 2022 won the Christchurch Poetry Slam four times, international release. Máire Uí Dhufaigh lives on Inis Oírr, in the Aran placing third nationally in 2018. Ray makes a Islands, off Galway’s west coast. She is an really good cup of tea, and sometimes crochets Jack Swallows is a multi-faceted Drag and author, translator, Irish language publisher, for cash. Burlesque artist bringing a mix of humour retired primary school teacher and curriculum and glam. Jack will get you hooked with their designer. Neema Singh is a first-generation New Zealand sparkling satire. poet. She was born in Christchurch and is of Naomi van den Broek is a creative person Indian descent. She holds a Masters of Creative takahē is a literary and arts magazine living in Ōtautahi Christchurch. She enjoys Writing from the University of Auckland and was covering fiction, poetry, review, art, and essay sewing, bike riding, eating, talking and published in the anthology Kō Aotearoa Tatou, in three issues a year. Based in Ōtautahi, reading. She can often be found on various and is working on a first collection of poetry it features the work of emerging and stages singing, acting or playing piano under called Hairy Arms. established practitioners from Aotearoa, and the moniker Naomi Ferguson. a selection of work from overseas. Tracey Slaughter’s latest book is Devil’s Eboni Waitere (Ngāti Kahungunu) is Executive Trumpet. She is the author of the acclaimed Hilary Jean Tapper is a picture book illustrator, Director of Huia Publishing, and is passionate short story collection deleted scenes for lovers perpetually enchanted by the magic of about Māori writing and writers; Huia have (VUP, 2016), and her work has received numerous watercolour and small folk. Hilary’s work seeks published more than 1000 books in te teo. awards, including the international Fish Short to inspire connection within ourselves, with Story Prize 2020 and the Bridport Prize 2014. those around us, and the greater world we are Madi Williams (Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Koata) is a a part of. PhD student at the University of Canterbury, Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) is a where she researches the boundaries of writer, musician, taonga pūoro practitioner and Te Maire Tau is the Director of the Ngāi history and the inclusion of Indigenous and music therapist living in Pōneke. Her first book Tahu Research Centre at the University of non-Western perspectives in Aotearoa New Tōku Pāpā explores the relationship between Canterbury. Te Maire belongs to Ngāi Tahu, the Zealand and South Pacific histories. Her new fathers and daughters, and how Māori transmit principal tribe of the South Island and is the book is Polynesia 900 – 1600. cultural and historical understandings through Ūpoko (head) of Ngāi Tūāhuriri. parenting. Marlon Williams (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Tai) is an Karuna Thurlow (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi acclaimed singer-songwriter and actor Dietrich Soakai has been involved in the spoken Tahu, Te Aitanga a Mate, Te Whānau a Apanui) whose last album Make Way For Love won word scene since 2011, when he joined the South is a te reo teacher and second-generation Album of the Year at the NZ Music Awards, Auckland Poets Collective, and has performed learner who now works for the Mātauraka and the APRA Silver Scroll award. He has sold at numerous festivals worldwide. He currently is Mahaanui team at Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. out tours around the world, and had roles in writing a book of poetry and facilitates Spoken productions including True History of the Kelly (Te Whānau ā Apanui/Ngāti Porou) Word workshops across the country. Tayi Tibble Gang and Sweet Tooth. is a writer based in Te Whanganui a Tara. Her Darren Solomon (Kāi Tahu: Kāti Huirapa, first book, Poūkahangatus ( 2018), won the Laura Williamson is a Canadian writer, Kāi Te Rakiamoa, Kāti Hinematua) works for Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry Award. songwriter and poet based in Central Otago. Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu in the language Her most recent collection, Rangikura, was She is the editor of the print magazine 1964: revitalisation team Kotahi Mano Kāika. He holds published by Victoria University Press in June mountain culture / Aotearoa. She co-wrote a Masters in Māori and Indigenous leadership, 2021. ‘The Blue Moments Project’ song and spoken and as a second-language learner himself, word cycle and her book The Bike and Beyond: is a writer and musician of Kāi is well placed to provide guidance to those Ariana Tikao Life on Two Wheels in Aotearoa New Zealand is Tahu descent. She writes waiata, poetry and starting their te reo journey. out now as part of the BWB Text series. creative non-fiction exploring themes relating Tā (Sir) Mark Wiremu Solomon KNZM (Ngāi to her Kāi Tahu identity and mana wahine, Annabel Wilson is a writer and teacher from Tahu, Ngāti Kurī) served as kaiwhakahaere of often drawing upon historical kōrero from her Wānaka, but currently lives in Lyttelton. Her Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, the tribal council of ancestors. poetry has been widely published and her Ngāi Tahu, from 1998 until 2016. Founder of the plays widely performed. Annabel’s first book, is 19 years of age, of Samoan Iwi Chairs Forum, he stepped down as deputy Okirano Tilaia Aspiring Daybook, won the NZ Mountain Book descent, and was born and raised in chair of the Canterbury District Health Board in and Film Festival Best Fiction award and was Christchurch. He is studying a BA majoring late 2020. long-listed for the Ockham Book Awards. in Political Science and minoring in Human Daisy Speaks is a youth advocate and Services at the University of Canterbury. Alison Wong co-edited A Clear Dawn: New proud descendant of Sāmoan orators. A He is the vice-chair of PYLAT (Pacific Youth Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand, the specialist-generalist, she straddles the cultural, Leadership And Transformation) which is first anthology of creative writing by Asian government, community and educational a charitable trust that looks to empower New Zealanders. An award-winning novelist, worlds. Poetry helps her to make sense of and and encourage Pasifika young people to she also writes poetry and memoir. She moves navigate the tensions between them. Daisy is a participate in all worlds. back and forth across the Tasman. trustee of WORD Christchurch.

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E Wen Wong was born in Kuala Lumpur and moved to New Zealand with her family at the age of two. She is an avid environmentalist and founder of plastic pollution organisation P.S. Our Beaches. In 2020 she was head girl of Burnside High School.

Emily Writes is author of the best-selling parenting books Rants in the Dark and Is It Bedtime Yet? Rants in the Dark is now a play that tours the country and Emily has a popular newsletter: Emily Writes Weekly.

Julie Zarifeh trained extensively in the area of Clinical Psychology, focusing on adjustment to life’s inevitable adversities. Despite experiencing significant loss and tragedy, she has intentionally and intuitively managed to apply the New Zealand Mental Health Foundation’s ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ model to her own life with immensely positive and productive outcomes, as outlined in her book Grief on the Run.

Jeffrey Zhao graduated from Central Conservatory of Music, the highest level of music in China, and obtained a postgraduate diploma in performance from Tianjin Conservatory of Music. He has held solo concerts in China, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand, and organised dozens of cultural and musical events. He now teaches at UC School of Music.

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1 The Piano 4 Christchurch Art Gallery Te 9 Little Andromeda 156 Armagh Street Puna o Waiwhetū Level 1, 134 Oxford Terrace Philip Carter Family Concert Cnr Worcester Boulevard and

Hall Montreal Street 10 Scorpio Books The Box Philip Carter Family Auditorium 120 Hereford Street

Tūranga 5 Centre of Contemporary Art 2 11 St Paul’s Trinity Pacific 60 Cathedral Square, Central (CoCA) Presbyterian Church Christchurch 66 Gloucester Street 45 Fitzgerald Ave The Faraway Near, TSB Space Spark Place 6 New Regent Street 12 Charles Luney Auditorium Foundation Cafe Various Venues St Margarets

The Arts Centre 3 James Hay Theatre 7 13 Linwood Library Christchurch Town Hall 2 Worcester Street Eastgate Shopping Centre 86 Kilmore Street 20 Buckleys Road Pūtaringamotu / Deans Bush 8 16 Kahu Road, Riccarton

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THE PIANO CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY ST PAUL’S TRINITY PACIFIC TE PUNA O WAIWHETŪ PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH TŪRANGA NEW REGENT STREET OTHER JAMES HAY THEATRE LITTLE ANDROMEDA

SATURDAY 17 JULY FRIDAY 27 AUGUST

3pm Andy Griffiths TV – Starring You! 10am Mary Holm: Your Money

11am Peripatos* in Pūtaringamotu (workshop) FRIDAY 20 AUGUST 11.30am How to Write a Killer Plot 6pm The Living Mountains 12pm Magazine-in-residence: Takahē

1pm How to Write a Poem TUESDAY 24 AUGUST 1pm Taken Places: Sense of Place & Body in the Short Story 5.30pm Book Launch: Atua by Gavin Bishop 1.30pm Her Say at Linwood Library

WEDNESDAY 25 AUGUST 2pm War and Peace

2.30pm Being Pākehā: Claudia Orange and Alison Jones 5.30pm Mark Solomon: Mana Whakatipu 4pm Three Minutes of Fame 6pm Bill Hammond: Across the Evening Sky Launch Book Launch 4pm Kura Reo - Māori Language Class

7.30pm Tautitotito Whenua: Reciprocal Songs 5.30pm Matt and Sarah Brown: She is not your Rehab of the Land 6pm The Faraway Near: Helen Macdonald

6pm Landlording THURSDAY 26 AUGUST 6pm New Regent Street Pop-Up Festival 12pm Magazine-in-residence: Takahē 8pm The Faraway Near: Eliot Higgins 4pm Kura Reo - Māori Language Class 8pm Confluence 5pm Rail:Lines 8pm Word Gala: This Place You Return to Is Home 6pm Melani Anae: Fifty Years of the Polynesian 9.30pm Ray Shipley’s Late Night Poetry Hour Panthers

6pm A Cabinet of Curiosities: Tiny Lectures on the Weird and Wonderful

6.30pm Chop the Mop

6.30pm Te Piki Tāwhaki: The Ascent of Tāwhaki

8pm Adventurous Women

8pm Te Piki Tāwhaki: The Ascent of Tāwhaki

50 WORD Festival 2021 *Service fees apply CALENDAR

SATURDAY 28 AUGUST SUNDAY 29 AUGUST

8am Over the Teacups with Sarah Ferguson, 10.30am Parenting in the Anthropocene Duchess of York 10.30am Patricia Grace: From the Centre 9.30am He Waiata Hou: Indigenous Writers Wānaka 10.30am Karlo Mila: Poetry Workshop 10am Remembering Helen Kelly 10.30am Stephanie Johnson: The Doctor Will See You Now 10am Cut to the Bone 11am Speed Date a Speculative Fiction Author 10am Turning over stones: Investigative Journalism 12pm Matariki and Star Lore Masterclass 12pm A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa 10.30am The Faraway Near: Backlisted 12pm Magazine-in-residence: Takahē 10.30am The Great WORD Story Hunt 1.30pm Unsettling Stories 11.30am Charlotte Grimshaw: The Mirror Book 1.30pm Margaret Mahy Memorial Lecture: Ben Brown 11.30pm Megan Dunn: Things I Learned at Art School 1.30pm Editing your own work(shop) 11.30pm After the Tampa 2.30pm How to Write for Younger Readers 12pm Magazine-in-residence: Takahē 3pm Not Calm Before the Storm: Climate Change Now 12.30pm The Faraway Near: Hari Kunzru 3pm Her Say 1pm Tranquility & Ruin 4pm Takahē Magazine-in-Residence Launch Party 1pm Sue Kedgley: Fifty Years a Feminist 4pm Kura Reo - Māori Language Class 1pm Alison Wong: Memoir Workshop 6pm Kā Wai o Tahu: Marlon Williams, Ariana Tikao, 2.30pm The Faraway Near: Tommy Orange Ruby Solly 2.30pm Wit World 7pm Christchurch Poetry Slam Finals 2.30pm Helen Clark:The Big Issues

2.30pm Adapting Avia

4pm Rick Gekoski: Rare Books and Rare People

4pm Kura Reo - Māori Language Class

4pm The Next Generation

4.30pm The Faraway Near: Ava Homa & Behrouz Boochani

5.30pm Kā Wai o Tahu: Ngāi Tahu’s Legal Action over Water

6pm Funnier and Weirder

6pm David Mitchell & Tiny Ruins: If I were a story and you were a song

6.30pm The Faraway Near: A. C. Grayling

7.30pm Live from Edinburgh International Book Festival: Ian Rankin

7.30pm Bad Diaries Salon: Near

8.30pm The Faraway Near: Notes from an Apocalypse

9pm The Stardust Cabaret

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