9-14 May 2017
Welcome to
the Dunedin
best-selling/
aspiring/frustrated
Writers & avid/
lapsed/skim
Readers Festival.
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Kia ora
koutou katoa
Welcome to Dunedin – a
UNESCO City of Literature
and proud host of the
Dunedin Writers & Readers
Festival 2017.
Dave Cull
Mayor of Dunedin
Dunedin has long been a
magnificent example of a
small city that lives, breathes
and connects through its
people, its culture and its
intense love of literature. The
enhanced recognition brought
about by our designation
as a UNESCO City of
Literature in 2014 gives us
tremendous opportunities for
all sorts of literary initiatives,
relationships and events. It
also enables us to credibly
engage with readers, writers,
publishers and booksellers
from around the world.
The Dunedin Writers and
Readers Festival celebrates
those connections and allows
us to demonstrate all that
nurtures and inspires creative
minds in our city – from our
world-renowned university to
our stunning built and natural
environments.
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The organising committee
have again gathered
together a top-class array of
international and local guests
and this year’s programme
promises to enhance, affirm
and celebrate everything
we value about our literary
heritage and its future.
I welcome you to Dunedin
to experience all of this for
yourself. Enjoy the festival
and enjoy your time in our
wonderful city.
Claire Finlayson
Programme Director
Kia ora koutou, good bookkeen people of Otepoti and
elsewhere. The Dunedin
Writers & Readers Festival
has an embarrassment of
literary riches lined up for you
this May. We’re gathering
over 80 writers, illustrators,
performers and chairfolk
together for 36 events:
workshops, panel sessions,
poetry readings, theatrical
doings, book launches, and
those nutritious solo-author
immersion sessions where
you get to spend an hour
leaning against the mind of a
favourite writer.
We wooed some of our
authors from afar: Ian Rankin,
Stella Duffy, John Lanchester,
Hannah Kent, MJ Carter and
Rebecca Vaughan. They’ll join
a cracking Kiwi contingent
that includes many 2017
Ockham New Zealand Book
Awards finalists.
There’s something for every
flavour of reader: a dastardly
amount of crime; a flock of
Flying Nuns; a tired mama on
Mother’s Day telling it like it
is; Polynesian existentialism;
a froth of fiction; some literary
metamorphosing; medicine
cuddling the humanities; a
monster and bee lark for the
small ones; a septuagenarian
birthday for a literary
magazine; a trio of edgy
evening sessions curated by
Pirate & Queen; and poets
galore (the Laureates, the
politically peppy, the placefond, a few magpies, and
some rising stars).
On behalf of the Dunedin
Writers & Readers Festival
Trust, thank you for your
continued support. As New
Zealand’s sole UNESCO City
of Literature, we want to grow
that good literary vibe. Come
and help us do so this May.
Your brain will love you for it.
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Events
Tuesday 9 May
Poets on Place
7.00–9.00pm
Saturday 13 May
Knox Church
Pg 6
Tala Tusi: The Teller is the Tale in 4 Tales
9.00–10.00am
The Children’s Room Storytime Session: 10.00–11.00am
Monsters & Bees
Wednesday 10 May
Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 17
Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum Pg 18
Stella Duffy
10.15–11.15am
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 18
Play Reading: Victor Rodger, Uma Lava
11.30am–12.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 19
A Circle of Laureates
12.45–2.45pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 21
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
1.00–2.30pm
Fortune Theatre Studio
Pg 14
Picturing Words & Wording Pictures
3.00–4.00pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 23
Thursday 11 May
Crime Time
3.00–4.00pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 23
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 24
Psst! Looking for a Writing Group?
12.00–1.00pm
Dunedin City Library
Pg 6
Chain Reaction
5.00–6.30pm
Athenaeum Library
Pg 7
Manifesto Aotearoa
7.00–8.30pm
Leviathan Hotel
Pg 7
Glenn Colquhoun: Oral Poetry & Totems 9.30–10.30am
Dunedin City Library
Pg 8
John Lanchester
4.15–5.15pm
Lunchtime Reading: Rising Stars
12.15–12.45pm
Athenaeum Library
Pg 8
How to Have a Beer
5.30–6.30pm
Glenn Colquhoun: Creative Writing Workshop
2.00–4.00pm
Dunedin City Library
Pg 9
Ian Rankin
Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 24
6.45–7.45pmToitu- Otago Settlers Museum Pg 25
Word Balm
5.30–6.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 9
Pirate Sessions #3: Found Poetry
8.00–8.45pm
Pirate Sessions #1: Songwriters
8.30–9.30pm
Athenaeum Library
Pg 10
Pg 26
Pg 27
Friday 12 May
Sunday 14 May
Dunedin City Library
Pg 10
Bill Manhire
9.00–10.00am
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 28
Stella Duffy Workshop:
9.30am–12.30pm
Getting Going, Getting Done
Clarkson Room, Regent Theatre
Pg 13
Hannah Kent
10.15–11.15am
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 28
Lunchtime Reading: The Birds and the Bees 12.15–12.45pm
Athenaeum Library
Pg 13
Mother’s Day Brunch with Emily Writes 11.30am–1.00pm
Scenic Hotel Southern Cross
Pg 29
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
1.00–2.30pm
Fortune Theatre Studio
Pg 14
Zine Scene
3.30–4.30pm
Dunedin City Library
Pg 15
Robert Lord Plaque Unveiling
4.00–4.30pm
Schools Performing Arts Workshop
Gala Showcase: Metamorphosis
9.30am–4.00pm
Dog with Two Tails
Flying Nun at the Cook
9.00–10.30pm
Captain Cook Hotel (upstairs)
Octagon
Pg 15
6pm for 6.30–8.00pm Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum Pg 16
Pirate Sessions #2: The End of the World 8.30–9.30pm
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Leviathan Hotel
Pg 17
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
1.00–2.30pm
Fortune Theatre Studio
Pg 14
It’s Personal 1.30–2.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 30
Catherine Chidgey
2.45–3.45pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 30
Landfall at 70
4.00–5.00pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 33
Book Launch: Charles Brasch Journals
5.00–6.00pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Pg 33
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Tuesday 9 May
7.00–9.00pm
Knox Church
$5
Door sales only
Poets on
Place
Wednesday 10 May
12.00–1.00pm
Psst!
Looking
For a
Writing
Group?
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Wednesday 10 May
5.00–6.30pm
Athenaeum Library
Chain
Reaction
How is poetry informed by
a sense of place? Dunedin
writer Ian Loughran has
curated an evening of poetry,
discussion and music around
this idea. Local poets David
Eggleton, Ian Loughran,
Carolyn McCurdie, Emma
Neale and Sue Wootton will
read new works; Dr Andrea
Insch will share some work
from her award-winning
academic writing on ‘place’;
and Molly Devine (voice) and
Sam Van Betuw (piano) will
perform musical settings of
some of the poems.
Dunningham Suite,
Dunedin City Library
Free
American author Jessamyn
West said: “Writing is a
solitary occupation. Family,
friends, and society are
the natural enemies of the
writer. He must be alone,
uninterrupted, and slightly
savage if he is to sustain and
complete an undertaking.”
Members of a Dunedin writing
group (that has been running
for 24 years) beg to differ.
They’ll offer up tips on how to
sustain the solitary writerly life
and keep rampant savagery
in check; they’ll also launch
their new website and radio
series and explain their aim
of creating a chain of vibrant
writing groups throughout
Otago. Chaired by Kath
Beattie, with panelists Paddy
Richardson, Jenny Powell,
Maxine Alterio, Penelope
Todd, Carolyn McCurdie and
Jane Woodham.
A group book launch to
celebrate a goodly crop of
new publications: Peter Olds’
poetry collection Taking My
Jacket for a Walk (Cold Hub
Press); Paddy Richardson’s
novel Through the Lonesome
Dark (Upstart Press);
Victor Billot’s third volume
of poetry Ambient Terror
(self-published); Huberta
Hellendoorn’s memoir Astride
a Fierce Wind (Ma-karo Press);
and John Gibb’s poetry
collection Waking by a River
of Light (Cold Hub Press).
Wednesday 10 May
7.00–8.30pm
Leviathan Hotel
Manifesto
Aotearoa
Manifesto Aotearoa features
101 new political poems by
New Zealand poets of diverse
cultures, young and old, new
and seasoned, from the Bay
of Islands to Bluff.
In association with
Otago University Press.
Free
Free
Edited by Philip Temple and
Emma Neale, and published
by Otago University Press,
Manifesto explores myriad
contemporary political issues
and social fault lines: from
our degraded environment
to systemically embedded
poverty, from the long, painful
legacy of colonialism to
explosive issues of sexual
consent. This event will
feature short readings from a
number of Manifesto poets.
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Thursday 11 May
9.30–10.30am
Dunningham Suite,
Dunedin City Library
Glenn
Colquhoun:
Oral Poetry
& Totems
Glenn Colquhoun is an
award-winning poet, writer
and doctor. He’ll bring foothigh totems of New Zealand
historical figures with him
to Dunedin and use these to
explore Ma-ori and Pa-kehaoral poetic forms, inspired
by mo-teatea and haka.
He says: “It’ll be like some
sort of poetry tupperware
party.” Year 9–13 students.
$10
per student
Thursday 11 May
2.00–4.00pm
Glenn
Colquhoun:
Creative
Writing
Workshop
Spaces limited,
bookings essential.
Schools should email
[email protected]
to book a place.
Thursday 11 May
12.15–12.45pm
Athenaeum Library
Free
Lunchtime
Reading:
Rising Stars
In association with
Otago Access Radio
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Thursday 11 May
5.30–6.30pm
Dunningham Suite,
Dunedin City Library
$40
When asked how he knows
when a poem is working,
Glenn Colquhoun said: “It’s
like there is a conceit or
irritation that makes me want
to write about something and
I keep going till I think the
poem says what I want it to,
or what it has decided to say
instead. I just keep going until
it gets up off the page and
walks away.” Glenn will share
some of the skills he has
developed in his own writing
and give tips on how to get
your poetry or prose walking
off the page. Participants will
need to provide 15 copies of
a piece of their own creative
writing, such as one or two
poems or a short piece of
prose (500–750 words).
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
$22/$18/$12
Dr David Galler (author of
Things That Matter: Stories of
Life and Death) has said he
learnt more about people and
life from the artists, poets,
and English Department
cohort that he drank beer
with at Dunedin’s Captain
Cook Tavern than he did in
his medical degree training.
We’re bringing him back to
his old stomping ground to
talk about what literature can
do for medicine with Glenn
Colquhoun (doctor, poet
and one of the founders,
alongside David, of the
Medicine Stories Project) and
Sue Wootton (poet, novelist
and co-editor of medical
humanities blog Corpus:
Conversations about Medicine
and Life). Barbara Brookes
(co-editor of Corpus) will chair
the session.
Spaces limited,
bookings essential.
Word
Balm
Bring your lunch to the
Athenaeum to hear original
work by emerging writers
aged 14–18 years who have
featured in Otago Access
Radio’s ‘Profile of 20 Young
Poets’ radio and podcast
series. Introduced by Domi
Angelo-Laloli of Otago Access
Radio.
Sponsored by
Division of Humanities Performing
Arts Fund, University of Otago.
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Athenaeum Library
Entry by koha
Pirate
Sessions #1:
Songwriters
Curated by Pirate & Queen.
Sponsored by
the Department of English and
Linguistics, University of Otago.
Join us for an up-close
acoustic session with three
of Dunedin’s most intriguingly
successful songwriters.
Featuring folk songstress
Nadia Reid (pictured); the
jangly indie songs of Karl
Bray; and a surprise guest!
Hosted by Jeff Harford in the
gently reverberant surrounds
of the Dunedin Athenaeum
and Mechanics’ Institute.
1947—2017
Thursday 11 May
8.30–9.30pm
70 years of Landfall
a p a ne l d i s cu s s i o n
Come and join David Eggleton, Chris Price, Adam Dudding and
Philip Temple in a discussion chaired by Peter Simpson looking back over
70 years of Landfall, Aotearoa’s longest-running journal of arts and letters.
4–5pm Sunday 14 May at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Stay on after the discussion to toast the launch of Charles Brasch Journals:
1945–1957, 5–6pm on Sunday 14 May at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Landfall 233: 70th Anniversary Issue
EDITED BY DAVID EGGLETON
Friday 12 May
9.30am–4.00pm
Schools
Performing
Arts
Workshop
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Dunningham Suite,
Dunedin City Library
$50
per student
This special anniversary issue features
essays by former Landfall editors
and the results of the inaugural
Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay
Competition. As usual, it is also packed
with new writing and art.
Paperback, 215 x 165 mm
208 pp, 16 in colour
ISBN 9780947522520, $30
Charles Brasch Journals, 1945–1957
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY
PETER SIMPSON
Join three of New Zealand’s
top theatre practitioners
– Victor Rodger (Robert
Burns Fellow 2016), Anapela
Polataivao (Best Director,
Auckland Theatre Awards
2016) and Goretti Wickman
(Auckland Theatre Company’s
To Kill A Mockingbird) – for a
unique FCC Acting/Writing/
Directing workshop. Students
will get the chance to speak
Victor’s words, be directed
by Anapela and act alongside
Goretti. Year 13 students.
Spaces limited,
bookings essential.
Schools should email
[email protected]
to book a place.
The second of three volumes of these
fascinating, moving journals covers
the start of Landfall.
Hardback, 245 x 170mm, 660 pp
ISBN: 9781927322284, $59.95
Ashleigh
Can
You
Tolerate
Adam
My
Some
Things
Island
to
Place
Coffin
Child
Hera
Lindsay
Bird
Hera
Lindsay
Bird
Bornholdt
Selected
Sarah
Poems
Laing
Mansfield
and
Me
Victor
Rodger
Black
Faggot
Vincent
And
a
Chidgey
Wish
Jenny
in
O’Sullivan
So
It
Is
Victoria University Press is proud to welcome nine of its
very fine writers to Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
Clarkson Room,
Regent Theatre
$50
Stella Duffy Workshop:
Getting Going, Getting Done
Manhire
Catherine
The
This?
Dudding
Father’s
Bill
Friday 12 May
9.30am–12.30pm
Young
In association with
Museums Aotearoa and the
Auckland Writers Festival.
Friday 12 May
12.15–12.45pm
Lunchtime
Reading:
The Birds
And The
Bees
Novelist, theatre-maker and
short story writer Stella Duffy
has worked in theatre since
the early 1980s. She uses
theatre, improvisation and
devising techniques to help
writers overcome blocks,
develop storylines and
characters, and generally find
the fun in their writing. Come
out from behind the desk and
play – take it back to the desk
and write harder! Spaces
limited, bookings essential.
Athenaeum Library
Free
Bring your lunch to the
Athenaeum to hear Dunedin’s
Ockham New Zealand Book
Award shortlisted authors
read from their work. Emma
Neale’s Billy Bird is a finalist
in the fiction category and
Barbara Brookes’s A History
of New Zealand Women is
shortlisted in the Illustrated
Non-Fiction category.
Introduced by Phillippa Duffy
of University Book Shop.
VUP
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Friday 12 May
1.00-2.30pm
Saturday 13 May
1.00-2.30pm
Fortune Theatre Studio
Tickets from Fortune Theatre
www.fortunetheatre.co.nz
Sunday 14 May
1.00-2.30pm
Friday 12 May
3.30–4.30pm
In association with
the Auckland Writers Festival.
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for the stage by writer/
director Elton Townend Jones
and performed by Rebecca
Vaughan (who plays Jane
and several other characters),
it’s been described by
The Huffington Post as
“Perfection...
Vaughan is
simply sublime.”
Free
Children’s author Kate De
Goldi and author-illustrator
Paul Beavis (of Mrs Mo’s
Monster fame) give hot tips
for keen young authors and
illustrators, and talk about
the tricky-fun business of
finding shiny ideas and
turning them into cracker
stories. They’ll celebrate their
favourite entries to the Gecko
Press Dunedin Schools Zine
Competition, and announce
the winners.
Octagon
Free
Zine Scene
Jane Eyre:
An Autobiography
Those who flocked to
Dalloway (at DWRF 2015)
will want to flock again to
see Rebecca Vaughan in
another one-woman show
by Dyad Productions. Told
through Jane Eyre’s eyes,
Charlotte Brontë’s celebrated
autobiographical novel
shocked the Victorians with
its gothic subversion of
fairytale romance. Distilled
Teen Space,
Dunedin City Library
Friday 12 May
4.00–4.30pm
Robert Lord
Plaque
Unveiling
Robert Lord was a pioneer of
New Zealand playwriting and
a co-founder of Playmarket,
the powerhouse of writing
for theatre in this country.
The unveiling of a plaque
for Robert in the Octagon’s
Writers’ Walk celebrates
his standing as well as his
generosity to other writers
through the establishment
of the Robert Lord Writers’
Cottage in North Dunedin.
Brought to the Festival by the
Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust
and the Dunedin Writers Walk
Advisory Committee, with support
from Playmarket, Fortune Theatre
and AAW Jones Trust.
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Friday 12 May
6.00pm – drinks and nibbles
6.30–8.00pm – event
Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum
Enter at southern end near
Chinese Garden
Gala
Showcase:
Metamorphosis
$39.00
includes welcome drink
and nibbles
In association with the New Zealand
Book Council, the Auckland Writers
Festival and Museums Aotearoa,
with support from the Centre for the
Book at the University of Otago.
Friday 12 May
8.30–9.30pm
Pirate
Sessions #2:
The End Of
The World
Curated by Pirate & Queen.
Sponsored by
the Department of English and
Linguistics, University of Otago.
Six international and national
authors tackle the theme
‘Metamorphosis’. Each will
talk about a book or author
that changed them – gave
them writing wings, knocked
them sideways, wobbled their
moral compass, swallowed
them whole, or sweetly
stretched them. The stellar
line-up: Ian Rankin, Stella
Duffy, John Lanchester,
Hannah Kent, Bill Manhire
and Victor Rodger, with MC
Kate De Goldi.
Saturday 13 May
9.00–10.00am
Tala Tusi:
The Teller is
The Tale in
4 Tales
Leviathan Hotel
Writers get together with
host Victor Billot and share a
mix of theories, essays and
stories about life at the End
of the World, over a beer.
A recent New Yorker article
titled ‘Doomsday Prep for
the Super-Rich’ revealed
that wealthy Silicon Valley
doomsdayers are looking
to far-flung Aotearoa as the
favoured spot in the event
of a cataclysm. Where our
Entry by koha
isolation was once considered
a major flaw, it’s now one of
our greatest assets. But is
it – or will it really be – so safe
down here at the end of the
world? Join us for a close
consideration of our slice of
paradise and its merits … or
lack thereof. Featuring English
student and writer Jean
Balchin; 2017 Burns Fellow
Craig Cliff; Critic editors Lucy
Hunter and Joe Higham; and
Spinoff political editor Toby
Manhire (pictured).
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Free
Pasifika poet and scholar
Selina Tusitala Marsh (who
performed her poem ‘Unity’
for the Queen in 2016) will
deliver the 2016 NZBC
lecture. Her talk responds,
in part, to the question Witi
Ihimaera pitched during his
2015 lecture: What New
Zealand will our writers write
into existence? With her
customary warmth, humour
and verve, Selina will discuss
the relationship between our
stories, ourselves and the fate
of our literature.
In association with
the New Zealand Book Council.
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Saturday 13 May
10.00–11.00am
The
Children’s
Room
Storytime
Session:
Monsters
& Bees
In association with the Children’s
Room at the University Book Shop.
Saturday 13 May
10.15–11.15am
Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum
Free
Bring your mini-monsters
and budding bees to this
monsterishly buzzy storytime
session with author-illustrator
Paul Beavis and Dunedin
writer Raymond Huber.
The fuzzy blue monster in
Paul’s picture books Mrs
Mo’s Monster and Hello
World! won him the Russell
Clark Award for Illustration
in 2015, and Raymond’s
Flight of the Honey Bee was
a finalist in the 2014 NZ Post
Book Awards. Don your
best monster/bee gear, and
come along for some vibrant
storytelling, face-painting
and crafts (with prizes for
Best Dressed Monster and
Boldest Bee).
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
$22/$18/$12
On witnessing the force of
Stella Duffy’s energy, Kim Hill
told her “They should hook
you up to the national grid”.
Stella’s a non-stop creative
whirlwind: she’s written
15 novels (published in 16
languages), over 60 short
stories, and 11 plays, and has
won a swag of awards. She’s
also a theatre director and the
co-director of Fun Palaces,
the international campaign
for the full democratisation of
all culture, and received the
OBE for services to the Arts
in 2016. Born in the UK, Stella
grew up in Tokoroa, studied
in Wellington, and has lived
in London for 30 years. She’ll
chat about her diverse doings
with Paddy Richardson.
Saturday 13 May
11.30am–12.30pm
Play
Reading:
Victor
Rodger,
Uma Lava
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Free
“Jesus Christ, a tapa cloth.”
So begins Robert Burns
Fellow 2016 Victor Rodger’s
Polynesian-hued adaptation
of Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous
play No Exit/Huis Clos. Three
strangers, who hate each
other’s guts, find themselves
in a small, uncomfortable
and increasingly hot room.
To quote Sartre, “hell is other
people” – in this instance,
quite literally. Uma Lava
will be read by Anapela
Polataivao, Goretti Wickman,
Siale Tunoka and Simon
O’Connor.
Stella
Duffy
In association with Museums
Aotearoa and the Auckland
Writers Festival.
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A Circle Of
Laureates
Saturday 13 May
12.45–2.45pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
A rare treat: nine of the ten
New Zealand Poet Laureates
will gather to read their
work, with Rob Tuwhare
joining them to represent his
late father, Hone Tuwhare.
Twenty years ago, John Buck
of Te Mata Estate Winery
created the Te Mata Estate
Laureate Award; in 2007 the
government took over funding
of a Poet Laureate and vested
responsibility for the Award
with the National Library. This
session of New Zealand’s
poetry elite features Bill
Manhire, Elizabeth Smither,
Brian Turner, Jenny Bornholdt,
Rob Tuwhare for Hone
Tuwhare, Michele Leggot,
Cilla McQueen, Ian Wedde,
Vincent O’Sullivan and
current Laureate CK Stead.
Fergus Barrowman (Publisher,
Victoria University Press) will
MC the event.
$29/$25/$22
In association with the National
Library of New Zealand Te Puna
Ma-tauranga o Aotearoa.
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Saturday 13 May
3.00–4.00pm
Picturing
Words &
Wording
Pictures
To coincide with the Dunedin Writers
& Readers Festival
Freefall
6 May - 1 July 2017
A freeform exhibition exploring narrative & word associated works of art,
imagery, texts and objet de vertu drawn from the Hocken Collections,
Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Special Collections, University of Otago
HOCKEN
Uare Taoka o Hakena
Supporting research since 1910
90 Anzac Ave, Dunedin. Phone +64 3 479 8868
Open Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm. www.otago.ac.nz/hocken
Saturday 13 May
3.00–4.00pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
$22/$18/$12
Dr Seuss said: “Words and
pictures are yin and yang.
Married, they produce a
progeny more interesting
than either parent.” Three
author-illustrators, David Elliot
(whose most recent book
is Snark), Paul Beavis (Mrs
Mo’s Monster, Hello World!),
and Sarah Laing (Mansfield
& Me: A Graphic Memoir),
will discuss the tricky and
triumphant business of
marrying words and pictures.
Chaired by Julia Marshall
(Publisher, Gecko Press).
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
$22/$18/$12
Ian Rankin gave us the
magnificently misanthropic
John Rebus; Stella Duffy was
recently tasked with inhabiting
the skin of Ngaio Marsh’s
famous gentleman detective
Roderick Alleyn to complete
one of the author’s unfinished
novels; and MJ Carter has
anchored her historical crime
novels around Victorian odd
couple Blake and Avery (one
a taciturn special inquiry
agent, the other his posher
subordinate officer). They’ll
discuss detectives and other
dark matters with local crime
writer Vanda Symon.
Crime
Time
In association with Museums
Aotearoa, the Auckland Writers
Festival and Heartland Bank.
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Saturday 13 May
4.15–5.15pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
$22/$18/$12
John Lanchester has been
described as “a kind of
brainy Everyman, a brilliant
communicator”. He’s written
four novels (including the
bestselling Capital), and four
works of non-fiction (among
them Whoops! Why Everyone
Owes Everyone and No One
Can Pay, an explanation
of the 2007–2010 global
financial crisis, and How
To Speak Money: What the
Money People Say – And
What It Really Means). He
also contributes to both the
London Review of Books and
the New Yorker. John will be
in conversation with Toby
Manhire.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
$22/$18/$12
Saturday 13 May
6.45–7.45pm
Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum
$25/$22/$18
John
Lanchester
In association with the Auckland
Writers Festival and sponsored by
the Otago Daily Times.
Saturday 13 May
5.30–6.30pm
How To
Have a Beer
In association with the Auckland
Writers Festival.
Supported by NHNZ.
Alice Galletly fell in love
with beer while writing her
Beer For a Year blog (during
which she drank and wrote
about 365 different beers
in 365 days). This formed
the basis of her recent book
How To Have a Beer. Michael
Donaldson will soon publish
the second edition of his 2012
book Beer Nation: The Art and
Heart of Kiwi Beer. He is also
the author of The Big Book
of Home Brew: A Kiwi Guide,
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Ian
Rankin
a regular beer columnist for
Fairfax Media, and editor of
the magazine The Pursuit of
Hoppiness. Alice and Michael
will talk about how to have a
beer, what makes a good/bad
beer, and how best to judge
65 beers in a day without
ending up passed out under
the table. Chaired by laundrybased home brewer Jesse
Mulligan. (Emerson’s beer and
other beverages available for
purchase from 5.00pm.)
When Ian Rankin wrote
Detective Sergeant John
Rebus into life in Knots and
Crosses in 1987, he didn’t
expect him to grouch his way
into the public’s heart and
become one of crime fiction’s
most beloved characters (he
actually tried to kill him off
in an early draft of that first
novel). Thirty years on, this
irascible old rogue still thrives,
busier than ever in his socalled retirement. Ian will talk
about his latest bestselling
Rebus novel, Rather Be The
Devil, and life at the top of
one of fiction’s most popular
genres, with fellow Scotsman
and crime writer, Professor
Liam McIlvanney.
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Saturday 13 May
8.00–8.45pm
Pirate
Sessions
#3: Found
Poetry
Curated by Pirate & Queen.
Sponsored by
the Department of English and
Linguistics, University of Otago.
Dog with Two Tails
Entry by koha
Like hunter-gatherers armed
with pens, paper and acute
observation skills, six Dunedin
writers have composed poetry
collected from the fabric of
the city. Come along and fill
up on a diet of found poetry
foraged for you by some of
our finest. Majella Cullinane,
Laura Borrowdale, Jenny
Powell, Richard Reeve, Craig
Cliff and Lynley Edmeades
(pictured) have created new
works from ‘found’ lines
in Dunedin. Followed by
live music by Bulletproof
Convertible.
NOW WITH
SIX CHAPTErS.
Saturday 13 May
9.00–10.30pm
Captain Cook Hotel
(upstairs)
$25/$22/$18
Flying Nun
At The Cook
In his memoir In Love With
These Times: My Life With
Flying Nun Records, Roger
Shepherd said of the Cook:
“It was a terrible dive. Some
remember it fondly, but
mostly what I remember
is the incredibly sticky bar
top.” We return Roger to the
refurbished (and less sticky)
Cook to talk Flying Nun
matters with Graeme Downes,
Robert Scott, Francisca Griffin
and Roy Colbert. There will be
music, too, of course. Chair
Grant Smithies will seek to
keep them all in line.
330mL SIX-PACKS
NOW AVAILABLE
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Sunday 14 May
9.00am–10.00am
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
$22/$18/$12
Bill Manhire once told a
friend, “I do very good
sadness.” Some Things To
Place in a Coffin is his first
new collection of poetry in
seven years. It promises a fair
few sombre tones (includes
an elegy for his close
friend Ralph Hotere, and a
sequence commissioned for
the centenary of the Battle
of the Somme). He’s also
just published a sequence of
riddles set to music called Tell
Me My Name (in collaboration
with composer Norman
Meehan, singer Hannah
Griffin, and with photographs
by Peter Peryer). Bill – who
grew up in small pubs in
Otago and Southland – will
talk about sadness, riddles
and everything in between
with Jolisa Gracewood.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
$22/$18/$12
Sunday 14 May
11.30am–1.00pm
Scenic Hotel
Southern Cross
$45
(includes bubbly
and light brunch)
Bill
Manhire
Sunday 14 May
10.15–11.15am
Hannah
Kent
“I am in awe of Kent’s gifts as
a storyteller.” So said Paula
Hawkins, author of Girl on the
Train. She wasn’t the only one
wowed by Australian author
Hannah Kent. Her bestselling
debut Burial Rites (a “dark
love letter to Iceland”) won
universal acclaim and a
bunch of awards, and has
been translated into 28
languages. Her second novel
The Good People (another
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beautifully eerie work, set
against the fairy lore of
nineteenth-century rural
Ireland) saw her popularity
soar even further. Majella
Cullinane will seek to find
out how Hannah won such
novelistic poise, and what
draws her to these darker
pockets of historical fiction.
Mother’s Day
Brunch with
Emily Writes
Celebrate Mother’s Day over
shared platters and bubbly
with the fallible, funny and
forthright Emily Writes. Her
recently published book
Rants in the Dark: From One
Tired Mama to Another has
been described as “one of
the most side-splitting tales
of parental privations and
attendant trauma you will
read.” Emily will discuss the
tough and tender moments
of parenting with Sunday
magazine columnist, and
fellow knackered mum, Leah
McFall.
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Sunday 14 May
1.30–2.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
$22/$18/$12
Four frank writers and an
hour of revealing chat. Poet
Hera Lindsay Bird shot to
prominence last year with the
release of her eponymous
poetry collection; Ashleigh
Young won a devoted
readership with her volume
of personal essays, Can You
Tolerate This?; Sarah Laing
laid bare her life alongside
that of a literary luminary in
Mansfield & Me: A Graphic
Memoir; and Adam Dudding
tackled the tricky business
of fathoming his father in
My Father’s Island. Chair
Charlotte Graham will quiz
the four about mining the
personal.
Sunday 14 May
2.45–3.45pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
$22/$18/$12
Catherine
Chidgey
In 2003, the Listener named
Catherine Chidgey the best
writer in New Zealand under
the age of 40. Her fourth
highly acclaimed novel, The
Wish Child, centres around
two children caught up in
the machinations of Nazi
Germany, and has been
shortlisted for the Ockham
New Zealand Book Awards.
Emma Neale (fellow Ockham
shortlister for Billy Bird) will
chat to Catherine about
the tug of Germany, her
meticulous novelist’s craft,
and the rigours of putting a
new novel on the shelves after
a 13-year hiatus.
It’s
Personal
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If you don’t
like the
branding for
the Writers
& Readers
Festival,
don’t contact
BrandAid.
Sunday 14 May
4.00–5.00pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Landfall
at 70
Founded in 1947, Landfall
created a space for New
Zealand literature and culture
in a radically different time.
What is its role now? What
can Landfall offer the struggle
of ‘memory against forgetting’
in an epoch of alternative
facts? How can a literary
journal perform the essential
role of critically examining our
public and inner lives at a time
when humanist and liberal
traditions are increasingly
under threat? Panelists David
Eggleton, Chris Price, Philip
Temple and Adam Dudding
will attempt to pin Landfall
down under the steering hand
of Peter Simpson.
In association with
Otago University Press.
Explore Dunedin’s
stories at one of
New Zealand’s most
innovative museums
University of Otago
Proud to support the
Dunedin Writers and
Readers Festival 2017
Sunday 14 May
5.00–6.00pm
Book
Launch:
Charles
Brasch
Journals
OPEN 7 DAYS | FREE ENTRY | FREE WIFI
10am – 5pm
31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin
P (03) 477 5052
www.toituosm.com
For more information
about our activities,
see our blog:
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Free
Free
Join Otago University Press
in launching this second
volume of journals by one
of New Zealand’s most
distinguished cultural figures.
Selected and introduced by
Peter Simpson, the journals
cover the period from 1945
to 1957 and include frank
descriptions of New Zealand
arts figures and personal
relationships, and musings on
poetry.
In association with
Otago University Press.
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Other Bookish Attractions
Moving ‘Write’
Along: Literary
Walking Tours
Hocken
Exhibition:
Freefall
Small Books:
Otago Polytechnic
School Of Design
Join Beverly Martens (owner
of Dunedin Literary Walking
Tours) for an hour-long guided
central city walk exploring key
sites in Dunedin’s rich literary
history, plus see examples
of quirky new literary
projects which underpin (and
celebrate!) our UNESCO City
of Literature status.
A freeform exhibition
exploring narrative & wordassociated works of art,
imagery, texts and objets de
vertu drawn from the Hocken
Collections, Dunedin Public
Art Gallery and Special
Collections, University of
Otago. Curated to coincide
with Dunedin Writers &
Readers Festival, this
exhibition combines some
of the city’s most celebrated
New Zealand and European
art works, ranging in date
from the 14th to the 21st
century, by artists such as
Jacopo del Casentino, Robin
White, Colin McCahon, Ralph
Hotere and Joanna Paul, with
a selection of significant texts
from the Hocken’s holdings,
and University of Otago
Special Collections.
Students in their second year
of study of Communication
Design were asked to design
and print a small book as
part of their project research
into print production and
prepress. The task involved
writing the text, providing
the illustrations, designing
the layout for the pages and
cover, followed by printing,
bind and trimming. The work
was undertaken within our
in-house print production
room, using a Risographic
printing press.
11.00am and 2.00pm daily,
tours run Wednesday 9 May–
Sunday 14 May
Meeting point: the Robbie
Burns statue in the Octagon
$20 per person.
Bookings essential:
www.literarytours.nz/events or
phone/text 027 44 44 788
Hocken Gallery, Uare Taoka o
Ha-kena, 90 Anzac Ave
Open Monday to Saturday,
10.00am–5.00pm
Exhibition runs Saturday 6
May–Saturday 1 July
Dunedin’s oldest
literary establishment
and proud
supporters of the
Dunedin Writers &
Readers Festival.
Check the website for details of literary
events throughout the year.
www.dunedinathenaeum.org.nz
Library open
Monday – Friday 10am to 5pm,
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Dunedin City Library
Exhibition runs Monday 1 May–
Monday 15 May
is
Dunedin Schools
Zine Competition
Gecko Press and the Dunedin
Writers and Readers Festival
invited Dunedin schools to
take part in a zine competition
for Years 5–8 (ages 9–12).
Selected entries will be
displayed at Dunedin City
Library for the duration of the
festival, and winners will be
announced by judges Kate De
Goldi and Paul Beavis at an
event on Friday 12 May.
To the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival
Dunedin City Library,
Teen Space
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Monday 15 May
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Image Credits
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Hannah Kent: Lauren Bamford
Athenaeum: UNESCO City of
Literature
Sarah Laing: Grant Maiden
Bill Manhire: Grant Maiden
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Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The Octagon
Hera Lindsay Bird: Russell Kleyn
Emma Neale: Graham Warman
Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Place
Charles Brasch: Clifton Firth
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Nadia Reid: Eb Lamb
MJ Carter: Roderick Field
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Athenaeum Library, 24 The Octagon
Roger Shepherd: Alistair Guthrie
Catherine Chidgey: Fiona
Pardington
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Regent Theatre, The Octagon
Emily Writes: Christopher Tse
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Ashleigh Young: Russell Kleyn
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Leviathan Hotel, 27 Queens Gardens
Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens
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Fortune Theatre, 231 Stuart Street
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Knox Church, 449 George Street
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Captain Cook Hotel, 354 Great King Street
David Elliot: Deane Patterson
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A Circle of Laureates: Mark Beatty
Adam Dudding: Lawrence Smith
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11 Scenic Hotel Southern Cross, 118 High Street
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Thanks
Dunedin Writers and
Readers Festival gratefully
acknowledges support from:
Index by
Author/
Performer
With thanks to our
major sponsors:
Many thanks to additional
sponsors and supporters:
Department of English and
Linguistics, University of Otago
Megaphone Productions
Emerson’s Brewery
Pirate & Queen
Victoria University Press
Penguin Random House
Centre for the Book at the
University of Otago
Freemasons New Zealand
In addition to our sponsors, the
trustees wish to thank all of the
following who have helped make
the Dunedin Writers & Readers
Festival 2017 a reality:
Division of Humanities
Performing Arts Fund
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Geoffrey Anderson (Anderson
and Paul), Matt Anderson (Otago
Daily Times), Domi AngeloLaloli (Otago Access Radio),
Mary Arnesen, Bart Barkman
(Megaphone Productions),
Victor Billot (Otago University
Press), Clare Bulmer (Emerson’s
Brewery), Kathryn Carmody
(New Zealand Book Council),
Lynda Cullen (Dunedin Public
Art Gallery), Sharon Dell (Hocken
Collections), Phillippa Duffy
(University Book Shop Otago),
Jacob Edmond (Department
of English and Linguistics),
Jennifer Evans (Toitu- ), Tony Eyre
(JW Smeaton Ltd), Catriona
Ferguson, Kirsten Glengarry
(Toitu- ), Dr Katherine Hall, Bernie
Hawke (Dunedin City Council),
Matthew Holdridge (Otago Daily
Times), Su Ikin (Dunedin Public
Libraries), Peter Ireland (National
Library of New Zealand), Tammy
Jackman (Dunedin City Council),
Luke Johnston (BrandAid), Liz
Knowles (Dunedin City Council),
Rachel Lawson (Gecko Press),
Ian Loughran, Cam McCracken
(Dunedin Public Art Gallery), Sarah
McDonald (Scenic Hotel Southern
Cross), Liam McIlvanney (Centre
for Irish and Scottish Studies),
Julia Marshall (Gecko Press),
Beverly Martens (Dunedin Literary
Walking Tours), Kay Mercer
(Dunedin Public Libraries), Greg
Menzies (Emerson’s Brewery),
John and Bridgette More
(Haywards Auction House), Kyle
Murdoch (NHNZ), Penny Neilson
(Toitu- ), Robyn Notman (Hocken
Collections), Anne O’Brien
(Auckland Writers Festival), Sharon
O’Loughlin (Enterprise Dunedin),
Lesley Paris (Otago Access
Radio), Cara Paterson (Dunedin
City Council), Amie Richardson
(Profile Media), Shef Rogers
(Department of English and
Linguistics), Rachel Scott (Otago
University Press), Chris Szekely
(National Library of New Zealand),
Phillipa Tocker (Museums
Aotearoa), Brenda Thom (Thom
Law), Pete Williamson (Enterprise
Upholstery), Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb
(University Book Shop Otago)
We are also hugely grateful to
our fantastic team of volunteers –
thank you all so much.
Festival People
Patron: Lynley Hood
Programme Director:
Claire Finlayson
Event Coordinator:
Katherine Quill
Trustees
Alexandra Bligh (chair)
Annie Villiers
Bridget Schaumann
Nicky Page
Vanessa Manhire
Publicist
Amie Richardson
Profile Media Ltd
Official Bookseller
University Book Shop (Otago)
Exclusive Travel Partner
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Alterio, Maxine
Angelo-Lolali, Domi
Balchin, Jean
Barrowman, Fergus
Beattie, Kath
Beavis, Paul
Billot, Victor
Bird, Hera Lindsay
Bornholdt, Jenny
Borrowdale, Laura
Bray, Karl
Brookes, Barbara
Carter, MJ
Chidgey, Catherine
Cliff, Craig
Colbert, Roy
Colquhoun, Glenn
Cullinane, Majella
De Goldi, Kate
Devine, Molly
Donaldson, Michael Downes, Graeme
Dudding, Adam
Duffy, Stella Edmeades, Lynley
Eggleton, David
Elliot, David
Galler, David
Galletly, Alice
Gibb, John
Gracewood, Jolisa
Graham, Charlotte
Griffin, Francisca
Harford, Jeff
Hellendoorn, Huberta
Higham, Joe
Huber, Raymond
Hunter, Lucy
Insch, Andrea Kent, Hannah Laing, Sarah
Lanchester, John Leggot, Michele
Loughran, Ian
McCurdie, Carolyn
McFall, Leah
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McIlvanney, Liam
McQueen, Cilla
Manhire, Bill
Manhire, Toby
Marsh, Selina Tusitala
Marshall, Julia
Mulligan, Jesse
Neale, Emma
O’Connor, Simon
Olds, Peter
O’Sullivan, Vincent
Polataivao, Anapela
Powell, Jenny
Price, Chris
Rankin, Ian Reeve, Richard
Reid, Nadia Richardson, Paddy
Rodger, Victor Scott, Robert
Shepherd, Roger
Simpson, Peter
Smither, Elizabeth Smithies, Grant
Stead, CK
Symon, Vanda
Temple, Philip
Todd, Penelope
Tunoka, Siale
Turner, Brian Tuwhare, Rob
(for Hone) Vaughan, Rebecca van Betuw, Sam
Wedde, Ian
Wickman, Goretti
Woodham, Jane
Wootton, Sue
Writes, Emily
Young, Ashleigh
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Biographies of all authors and
performers can be found on our
website.
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9-14 May 2017
A celebration
of crime,
dysfunction,
heartbreak,
and other
things people
write about.
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