Festival Newsletters

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Thursday, Sep 20, 2007

Thank you to all those who took the time to enter our last ezine competitions. The why fall in love competition inspired the following comment:

'Because it's beautiful'
'Coz it's worth it'
'Because you can'
... 'Why not?'

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Tuesday, Sep 18, 2007

Go in the draw to win over 2000 pages of good times by helping us improve our website. The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival Website Survey has been designed for you to write as much or as little as you like. We won't ask you to fill in too many boxes, but would love your comment in helping us and our brilliant website sponsors, McGovern Online, in making our website better still. The 2000 plus, page prize is divided into 5 fantastic Books:

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Friday, Sep 14, 2007

Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip has made it through to the The Man Booker Prize shortlist, and if that's not enough, the book is leading the pack as the bookies’ favorite, ahead even of Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach.

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Wednesday, Sep 12, 2007

Taking unexpected turns, Lucky Bastard is a powerful novel in three acts. The work of prizewinning writer and acclaimed film director, Peter Wells, the book centres around decorated war hero Captain Eric Keeling. A Japanese prisoner of war and, later, investigator of Japanese war crimes, Keeling ages to become an alcoholic with a broken first marriage, and dysfunctional relationships with his two grown children.

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Sunday, Sep 09, 2007

Following a major renovation of the historic Signalman's House, the Michael King Writers' Centre was officially opened in May 2007. The writers' centre offers, among other services to writers, a stipend for a writer-in-residence, who is funded to live in the house and use the studio. 

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Wednesday, Sep 05, 2007

Hutia te rito o te harakeke, kei hea ra te komako e ko, ki mai koe ki ahau he aha te mea nui o tea o. Maku e ki atu, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

If you tear out the heart of the flax bush where shall the bell birds eat? If you ask me what is most important I shall always reply, tis people, tis people, tis people.

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Monday, Sep 03, 2007

Polish pulp fiction writer, Krystian Bala, was sentenced to 25 years in jail this month for his role in a grisly case of abduction, torture and murder, a crime that he then used for the plot of a bestselling thriller. In the novel, the villain gets away with kidnapping, mutilating and murdering a young woman. In real life, however, Bala got his comeuppance, even though it was seven years after the disappearance of the advertising executive whose murder confounded detectives until they read the book.

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Thursday, Aug 30, 2007

Win a copy of Douglas Lilburn – His Life and Music (winner of the Montana Book Awards, Biography section) by Philip Norman. Simply email aucklandwriters@xtra.co.nz with Lilburn Competition as the subject heading, by 5th September and go in the draw. Good luck!

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Thursday, Aug 30, 2007

Going West Books & Writers Festival 2007 will run for the weekend of Friday 14th – Sunday 16th September, at the Titirangi War Memorial Hall. Features include Friday evening, where Tony Simpson will give the keynote address examining the development of cuisine and our domestic culture, renowned author and poet Sam Sampson will read from his work and the highly acclaimed Helen Medlyn will perform.

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007

Biography Through Bookplates
Former Auckland Museum Librarian, bookplate expert and ex-Libris Society member, Ian Thwaites will give a lecture on bookplates to coincide with the Pictorial Gallery Bookplate exhibition. Bookplates, especially of the armorial or heraldic kind, have been with us for many centuries, but between 1900–1950 there was a revival of interest with the advent of the pictorial bookplate. This period was known as the ‘Golden Age of Bookplates’ when they became items that were widely created, studied, enjoyed and collected.