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Event 12
Celeste Ng
Fri, 17 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 13
Murray Ball: A Cartoonist’s Life
Fri, 17 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 14
Excommunicated
Fri, 17 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 19
Cancelled: Natalie Haynes: A Very Modern Classicist
Fri, 17 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 20
New Zealand: A Gangster’s Paradise?
Fri, 17 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30am
Event 21
The Creative OE
Fri, 17 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 23
Richard Flanagan
Fri, 17 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 24
The Dictionary People
Fri, 17 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 25
Reunited: Jerry Pinto and Pip Adam
Fri, 17 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 28
Anna Funder
Fri, 17 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 29
Ireland: Small Island, Literary Powerhouse
Fri, 17 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 31
Crime-Writing: Page, Screen and Moving Between
Fri, 17 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 33
Lauren Groff
Fri, 17 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 34
Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager’s Field Guide
Fri, 17 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 35
Writing the New Zealand Man: A New Era
Fri, 17 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 36
Gone by Lunchtime Live!
Fri, 17 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 38
Dan Carter: The Art of Winning
Fri, 17 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 39
Suzanne Heywood: Wavewalker
Fri, 17 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 40
Pacific Non-Fiction Today
Fri, 17 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 41
Sinéad Gleeson and Becky Manawatu
Fri, 17 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 43
Dai Henwood: The Life of Dai
Fri, 17 May 2024
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Event 44
If Not Now, When? Midlife Realisations and Rebellions
Fri, 17 May 2024
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Event 45
Tusiata Avia
Fri, 17 May 2024
8:30pm - 9:30pm
Event 54
Trent Dalton
Sat, 18 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 55
AI: Good or Bad, it’s Here to Stay
Sat, 18 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 57
Writing Across Generations
Sat, 18 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 58
The Ockham NZ Acorn Prize for Fiction 2024 Winner’s Interview: Emily Perkins on Lioness
Sat, 18 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 60
The Year the World Votes
Sat, 18 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 61
Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Tales from a Tokyo Cafe
Sat, 18 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 62
Let’s Get Physical: The Importance of Horny Stories
Sat, 18 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 63
Herstory: Bringing Women of the Past to Life
Sat, 18 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 64
He Māori?
Sat, 18 May 2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Event 66
The Story of Art Without Men
Sat, 18 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 67
How to Survive Te Ara ki te Ora
Sat, 18 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 68
Across the River of Meaning
Sat, 18 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 69
Homegrown Frights
Sat, 18 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 70
Catherine Chidgey and K Patrick: Teacher’s Pet
Sat, 18 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 71
Grave New World: Writing Dystopia Today
Sat, 18 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 72
Fantasy & Romantasy Unwrapped
Sat, 18 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 73
Pacific Arts Aotearoa
Sat, 18 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 76
Still Wanted: A Room of One’s Own
Sat, 18 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 77
Our Land in Colour
Sat, 18 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 81
A Waiata in an Hour He Waiata i te Hāora
Sat, 18 May 2024
5:15pm - 6:15pm
Event 82
The 2023 Booker Prize Winner: Paul Lynch
Sat, 18 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 83
Samantha Shannon
Sat, 18 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 84
Leslie Jamison
Sat, 18 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 85
Why Am I Like This?
Sat, 18 May 2024
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Event 86
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Sat, 18 May 2024
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Event 88
Communal Living
Sat, 18 May 2024
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Event 89
The Singapore Lit Salon
Sat, 18 May 2024
8:30pm - 9:30pm
Event 90
The Art of the Short Story
Sat, 18 May 2024
8:30pm - 9:30pm
Event 98
Bonnie Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry
Sun, 19 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 99
Performing at Your Peak: From the Sports Field to the Writing Desk
Sun, 19 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 100
The Crewe Murders
Sun, 19 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 104
Shashi Tharoor
Sun, 19 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 105
Pulp Friction: The Rise of Book Bans
Sun, 19 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 106
Leadership in High-Pressure Careers
Sun, 19 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30am
Event 108
He Māori?
Sun, 19 May 2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Event 110
Janet Frame at 100
Sun, 19 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 111
The Craft of Making People Care
Sun, 19 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 112
The Madness of Grief
Sun, 19 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 114
Abraham Verghese
Sun, 19 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 115
Damon Salesa: An Indigenous Ocean
Sun, 19 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 117
We Can Be on Other Planets: Māori Speculative Fiction
Sun, 19 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 118
Beef: Writing Asian Female Rage
Sun, 19 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 120
The Long View
Sun, 19 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 122
Rugby League in New Zealand
Sun, 19 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 123
Otherhood
Sun, 19 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 124
Leïla Slimani - Cancelled
Sun, 19 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 124
Jane Campion: A Creative Life
Sun, 19 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Tuesday, 14 May
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Wednesday, 15 May
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Thursday, 16 May
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Friday, 17 May
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Event 12
Celeste Ng
Fri, 17 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 13
Murray Ball: A Cartoonist’s Life
Fri, 17 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 14
Excommunicated
Fri, 17 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
11:00
AM
Event 19
Cancelled: Natalie Haynes: A Very Modern Classicist
Fri, 17 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 20
New Zealand: A Gangster’s Paradise?
Fri, 17 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30am
Event 21
The Creative OE
Fri, 17 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
12:00
PM
01:00
PM
Event 23
Richard Flanagan
Fri, 17 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 24
The Dictionary People
Fri, 17 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 25
Reunited: Jerry Pinto and Pip Adam
Fri, 17 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
02:00
PM
Event 28
Anna Funder
Fri, 17 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 29
Ireland: Small Island, Literary Powerhouse
Fri, 17 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 31
Crime-Writing: Page, Screen and Moving Between
Fri, 17 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
03:00
PM
04:00
PM
Event 33
Lauren Groff
Fri, 17 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 34
Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager’s Field Guide
Fri, 17 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 35
Writing the New Zealand Man: A New Era
Fri, 17 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 36
Gone by Lunchtime Live!
Fri, 17 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
05:00
PM
Event 38
Dan Carter: The Art of Winning
Fri, 17 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 39
Suzanne Heywood: Wavewalker
Fri, 17 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 40
Pacific Non-Fiction Today
Fri, 17 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 41
Sinéad Gleeson and Becky Manawatu
Fri, 17 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
06:00
PM
07:00
PM
Event 43
Dai Henwood: The Life of Dai
Fri, 17 May 2024
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Event 44
If Not Now, When? Midlife Realisations and Rebellions
Fri, 17 May 2024
7:00pm - 8:00pm
08:00
PM
Event 45
Tusiata Avia
Fri, 17 May 2024
8:30pm - 9:30pm
09:00
PM
Saturday, 18 May
08:00
AM
09:00
AM
10:00
AM
Event 54
Trent Dalton
Sat, 18 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 55
AI: Good or Bad, it’s Here to Stay
Sat, 18 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 57
Writing Across Generations
Sat, 18 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 58
The Ockham NZ Acorn Prize for Fiction 2024 Winner’s Interview: Emily Perkins on Lioness
Sat, 18 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
11:00
AM
Event 60
The Year the World Votes
Sat, 18 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 61
Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Tales from a Tokyo Cafe
Sat, 18 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 62
Let’s Get Physical: The Importance of Horny Stories
Sat, 18 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 63
Herstory: Bringing Women of the Past to Life
Sat, 18 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
12:00
PM
Event 64
He Māori?
Sat, 18 May 2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm
01:00
PM
Event 66
The Story of Art Without Men
Sat, 18 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 67
How to Survive Te Ara ki te Ora
Sat, 18 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 68
Across the River of Meaning
Sat, 18 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 69
Homegrown Frights
Sat, 18 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
02:00
PM
Event 70
Catherine Chidgey and K Patrick: Teacher’s Pet
Sat, 18 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 71
Grave New World: Writing Dystopia Today
Sat, 18 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 72
Fantasy & Romantasy Unwrapped
Sat, 18 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 73
Pacific Arts Aotearoa
Sat, 18 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
03:00
PM
04:00
PM
Event 76
Still Wanted: A Room of One’s Own
Sat, 18 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 77
Our Land in Colour
Sat, 18 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
05:00
PM
Event 81
A Waiata in an Hour He Waiata i te Hāora
Sat, 18 May 2024
5:15pm - 6:15pm
Event 82
The 2023 Booker Prize Winner: Paul Lynch
Sat, 18 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 83
Samantha Shannon
Sat, 18 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 84
Leslie Jamison
Sat, 18 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
06:00
PM
Event 85
Why Am I Like This?
Sat, 18 May 2024
6:00pm - 7:00pm
07:00
PM
Event 86
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Sat, 18 May 2024
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Event 88
Communal Living
Sat, 18 May 2024
7:00pm - 8:00pm
08:00
PM
Event 89
The Singapore Lit Salon
Sat, 18 May 2024
8:30pm - 9:30pm
Event 90
The Art of the Short Story
Sat, 18 May 2024
8:30pm - 9:30pm
09:00
PM
Sunday, 19 May
08:00
AM
09:00
AM
10:00
AM
Event 98
Bonnie Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry
Sun, 19 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 99
Performing at Your Peak: From the Sports Field to the Writing Desk
Sun, 19 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
Event 100
The Crewe Murders
Sun, 19 May 2024
10:00am - 11:00am
11:00
AM
Event 104
Shashi Tharoor
Sun, 19 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 105
Pulp Friction: The Rise of Book Bans
Sun, 19 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm
Event 106
Leadership in High-Pressure Careers
Sun, 19 May 2024
11:30am - 12:30am
12:00
PM
Event 108
He Māori?
Sun, 19 May 2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm
01:00
PM
Event 110
Janet Frame at 100
Sun, 19 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 111
The Craft of Making People Care
Sun, 19 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Event 112
The Madness of Grief
Sun, 19 May 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
02:00
PM
Event 114
Abraham Verghese
Sun, 19 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 115
Damon Salesa: An Indigenous Ocean
Sun, 19 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 117
We Can Be on Other Planets: Māori Speculative Fiction
Sun, 19 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Event 118
Beef: Writing Asian Female Rage
Sun, 19 May 2024
2:30pm - 3:30pm
03:00
PM
04:00
PM
Event 120
The Long View
Sun, 19 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 122
Rugby League in New Zealand
Sun, 19 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event 123
Otherhood
Sun, 19 May 2024
4:00pm - 5:00pm
05:00
PM
Event 124
Leïla Slimani - Cancelled
Sun, 19 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event 124
Jane Campion: A Creative Life
Sun, 19 May 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
06:00
PM
07:00
PM
08:00
PM
09:00
PM
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