Upcoming events.
LitCrawl After Party
Join the coven-themed LitCrawl After Party, featuring the amazing 5ever X Nag; a human-powered book factory that also spins vinyl.
Hit Me Baby One More Rhyme: Phase 3
CANCELLED: We’re very sorry that due to COVID 19 restrictions this event is cancelled (almost all other LitCrawl events are still going ahead).
Promising Young Women
Novelists Jacqueline Bublitz (Before You Knew My Name) and Sally J Morgan (Toto Among the Murderers) talk about their acclaimed first novels with Maggie Tweedie.
Songwriters
Ida Lune join Kirsten Johnstone for the eighth annual songwriters chat at Alistair’s.
Minarets
Launching Minarets 12, a special issue of poetry from Aotearoa and Singapore co-edited by Gregory Kan and Hao-Guang Tse.
Why Does Magic Matter?
What kind of research is involved in creating a witchy character and magical world?
Cheese Rolls for Southern Souls
Shuffle into your Swanndri, crack open your thermos, chip the ice off your windshield and take a roadtrip through Te Waipounamu.
Bad Diaries Salon: SPELL
For this year’s coven-themed festival we welcome writers Melody Thomas, Kate Camp, Maeve Hughes and Rebecca K Reilly. Hosted by Tracy Farr.
What We Talk About When We Think About the Future
Five writers share work that reflects where our minds may go when we contemplate the next moments, days, years.
Hit Me Baby One More Rhyme: Phase 2
CANCELLED: We’re very sorry that due to COVID 19 restrictions this event is cancelled (almost all other LitCrawl events are still going ahead).
Strange Houses
Emily Perkins and Joy Holley talk about their new work, and the appeal of transformation and mystery in fiction as well as in life.
Hunting for Hyde
Writers Paula Morris and Gregory Kan have been influenced by the life and writing of Robin Hyde. IMAGE: from the Literary Coven Cards, by Sarah Laing.
Sweet Mammalian
Join us for the launch to celebrate a lineup of glorious poets whose words are hot off the press in the new issue.
Atua Wāhine
Hear from contributors to Atua Wāhine, a collective of wāhine Māori writers and their responses to Atua Wāhine from Papatūānuku to Hineahuone, all the way down to their grandmothers.
Art writing: who is it for, where is it going?
Art writers Arihia Latham (Te Ara Hikoi columnist The Dominion Post) and Maya Neupane (Salient) and Hamish Petersen (HAMSTER) discuss the future they see for art writing.
Faith in the Age of the Pandemic
Join Dr Hirini Kaa (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu and Rongowhakaata), Ian Harris, and writer Danyl Mclauchlan for a conversation about the place for faith at a time of global crisis.
LitCrawl Quiz
LitCrawl Quiz with RNZ’s Rob Kelly replaces Greta & Valdin (cancelled due to COVID travel restrictions… though a podcast is coming!)
I Am In Bed With You
Emma Barnes and Johanna Knox talk to Sinead Overbye about dispelling dominant sexual narratives with their writing.
Kurangaituku: Whiti Hereaka
Go behind the scenes to learn how Whiri Hereaka crafted her latest novel, Kurangaituku.
Starling: Teach Me To Say The Future
A quickfire line-up of writers from the pages of Starling, an online journal publishing the best poetry and prose by New Zealand writers under 25.
Fertile Ground: Gardens & Growth
Isa Pearl Ritchie and Elizabeth Knox discuss gardens in literature and in life.
Introducing: We Are Babies
Pōneke’s new indie publishing baby on the block introduces their first four authors.
Hit Me Baby One More Rhyme
CANCELLED: We’re very sorry that due to COVID 19 restrictions this event is cancelled (almost all other LitCrawl events are still going ahead).
Kāore te kūmara: The Kūmara does not
Six writers wrestle with the authority of the bio. Curated by Te Hā o Ngā Pou Kaituhi Māori.
Political Fiction
Kiran Dass talks with Sue Orr (Loop Tracks) and Kirsten McDougall (She’s A Killer) about politics in fiction.
Draw My Card
Writers respond to Tarot Cards drawn for them by guest curator Joy Holley.