Festival Newsletters

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Thursday, Oct 18, 2007

Silo Theatre's latest show The Cut (by playwright Mark Ravenhill, best known for Shopping and F***ing) is now on. The Cut is a morality play that pushes audiences to question their own responses to evil and guilt.

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Thursday, Oct 18, 2007

What an amazing response we've had to the survey competition. Thank you so much to those who took the time to give us your ideas and feedback. The winner of 5 fantastic Books...

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Thursday, Oct 18, 2007

 Doris Lessing, the Persian-born, Rhodesian-raised and London-residing novelist whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her engagement with the social and political issues of her time, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Thursday, Oct 18, 2007

Irish novelist Anne Enright has become the surprise winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, for her novel The Gathering. The underdog, bookies had given Enright odds of 12/1 to win, against favourite and previous winner Ian McEwan, for his novel On Chesil Beach (with the odds of 6/4), and our own Lloyd Jones, for Mister Pip (pitted as the favorite at 2/1).

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Friday, Oct 05, 2007

The highly anticipated second series of The Book Show is back on TV One this Saturday, 9.30am.

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Friday, Oct 05, 2007

Denys Trussell, essayist, poet, environmentalist and author of the biography on the critic and poet A.R.D Fairburn, gives an illustrated insight into the life and the work of this notable New Zealander. Sunday 7th October, 3pm. Free event, at the Auckland Art Gallery - Main Gallery Auditorium. To find out what else is on at the Auckland Art Gallery click here>>

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Friday, Oct 05, 2007

Go in the draw to win over 2000 pages of good times by helping us improve our website. The survey competition ends soon but there's still time.

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Friday, Oct 05, 2007

Carl Nixon named premier winner of the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Awards

Patricia Grace awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Friday, Oct 05, 2007

Bob Dylan's lyrics to be studied in UK schools.
"The schools curriculum could be just what's needed to turn pupils who listen to rock music on to the full range of poetry". Read more on the Times Online>>

By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Wednesday, Oct 03, 2007

Bowl of Cherries is a smart, zany comedy by a first-time novelist who's 90 years old. A few film buffs may recognize the name Millard Kaufman – he was nominated for two screenwriting Oscars in the 1950s: Take the High Ground! and Bad Day at Black Rock – but everybody knows Mr. Magoo, the nearsighted cartoon klutz he created with John Hubley in 1949.