LitCrawl 2020
Phase One: 6pm - 6.45pm.
Come along and read to us your fave kids book and be in to win.
Poets offer incantations for a very strange year.
Tayi Tibble, Chris Tse and Anahera Gildea analyse astrological lit personalities.
Acclaimed writer Lloyd Jones shares passages from High Wire with live music by Andrew Laking and Nigel Collins.
Elizabeth Knox talks about the journey of her hugely successful novel, The Absolute Book.
Kate Camp talks about her latest collection with Vancouver-based editor and fellow poet, Kevin Connolly.
Tara Black, Pip Adam and Sam Orchard talk about writing relationships.
Writers talk about what books have comforted & inspired in 2020.
Celebrate the 2020 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry .
Airini Beautrais and Breton Dukes talk about their brilliant new short story collections.
Phase Two: 7.15pm - 8pm.
Writers Nadine Anne Hura, Emily Writes, Emma Espiner and Laura O’Connell Rapira talk about online conversation.
NZ’s POC poets, essayists, and performers riff on the number one human emotion that inspires most music, art, and their own personal writing.
Marty Smith celebrates the life of her friend Paul, with readings and music.
Join HG Parry and Philippa Swan for a conversation about their adventuresome novels.
Celebrate the seventh issue from a glorious Wellington-made journal.
Celebrate Jackson Nieuwland’s poetry collection, I Am A Human Being.
Celebrate 10 issues with one of Aotearoa’s most vibrant lit journals. Image: Rebecca Hawkes, for issue 10.
Phase Three: 8.30pm - 9.15pm.
Writers talk about battling the fear demons that get in the way of productivity.
Celebrate indie publisher Compound Press with a mini-fest of Compound’s authors.
Jehan Casinader talks with Charlotte Graham-McLay about this moving memoir.
Stasis journal kept us going over lockdown — let’s celebrate it!
Spoken word poetry to blow your mind. Curated by Te Hā.
The seventh annual Nick-Bollinger-hosted songwriter session in LitCrawl, with Dominic Hoey (aka Tourettes)
What does it mean to write from within a diaspora?
Creative couples confess the secrets of living and making stuff together.