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9-14 May 2017

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Welcome to the Dunedin best-selling/aspiring/frustrated Writers & avid/lapsed/skim Readers Festival.

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Kia ora koutou katoa

Claire Finlayson Programme Director

Kia ora koutou, good book-keen people of O- tepoti and elsewhere. The Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival has an embarrassment of literary riches lined up for you this May. We’re gathering over 80 writers, illustrators, performers and chairfolk together for 36 events: workshops, panel sessions, poetry readings, theatrical doings, book launches, and those nutritious solo-author immersion sessions where you get to spend an hour leaning against the mind of a favourite writer.

We wooed some of our authors from afar: Ian Rankin, Stella Duffy, John Lanchester, Hannah Kent, MJ Carter and Rebecca Vaughan. They’ll join a cracking Kiwi contingent that includes many 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalists.

There’s something for every flavour of reader: a dastardly amount of crime; a flock of Flying Nuns; a tired mama on Mother’s Day telling it like it is; Polynesian existentialism; a froth of fiction; some literary metamorphosing; medicine cuddling the humanities; a monster and bee lark for the small ones; a septuagenarian birthday for a literary magazine; a trio of edgy evening sessions curated by Pirate & Queen; and poets galore (the Laureates, the politically peppy, the place-fond, a few magpies, and some rising stars).

On behalf of the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Trust, thank you for your continued support. As New Zealand’s sole UNESCO City of Literature, we want to grow that good literary vibe. Come and help us do so this May. Your brain will love you for it.

Dave Cull Mayor of Dunedin

Welcome to Dunedin – a UNESCO City of Literature and proud host of the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival 2017.

Dunedin has long been a magnificent example of a small city that lives, breathes and connects through its people, its culture and its intense love of literature. The enhanced recognition brought about by our designation as a UNESCO City of Literature in 2014 gives us tremendous opportunities for all sorts of literary initiatives, relationships and events. It also enables us to credibly engage with readers, writers, publishers and booksellers from around the world.

The Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival celebrates those connections and allows us to demonstrate all that nurtures and inspires creative minds in our city – from our world-renowned university to our stunning built and natural environments.

The organising committee have again gathered together a top-class array of international and local guests and this year’s programme promises to enhance, affirm and celebrate everything we value about our literary heritage and its future.

I welcome you to Dunedin to experience all of this for yourself. Enjoy the festival and enjoy your time in our wonderful city.

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EventsTuesday 9 May

Poets on Place 7.00–9.00pm Knox Church Pg 6

Wednesday 10 May

Psst! Looking for a Writing Group? 12.00–1.00pm Dunedin City Library Pg 6

Chain Reaction 5.00–6.30pm Athenaeum Library Pg 7

Manifesto Aotearoa 7.00–8.30pm Leviathan Hotel Pg 7

Thursday 11 May

Glenn Colquhoun: Oral Poetry & Totems 9.30–10.30am Dunedin City Library Pg 8

Lunchtime Reading: Rising Stars 12.15–12.45pm Athenaeum Library Pg 8

Glenn Colquhoun: 2.00–4.00pm Dunedin City Library Pg 9 Creative Writing Workshop

Word Balm 5.30–6.30pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 9

Pirate Sessions #1: Songwriters 8.30–9.30pm Athenaeum Library Pg 10

Friday 12 May

Schools Performing Arts Workshop 9.30am–4.00pm Dunedin City Library Pg 10

Stella Duffy Workshop: 9.30am–12.30pm Clarkson Room, Pg 13 Getting Going, Getting Done Regent Theatre

Lunchtime Reading: 12.15–12.45pm Athenaeum Library Pg 13 The Birds and the Bees

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography 1.00–2.30pm Fortune Theatre Studio Pg 14

Zine Scene 3.30–4.30pm Dunedin City Library Pg 15

Robert Lord Plaque Unveiling 4.00–4.30pm Octagon Pg 15

Gala Showcase: Metamorphosis 6pm for 6.30–8.00pm Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum Pg 16

Pirate Sessions #2: The End of the World 8.30–9.30pm Leviathan Hotel Pg 17

Saturday 13 May

Tala Tusi: The Teller is the Tale in 4 Tales 9.00–10.00am Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 17

The Children’s Room Storytime Session: 10.00–11.00am Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum Pg 18

Monsters & Bees

Stella Duffy 10.15–11.15am Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 18

Play Reading: Victor Rodger, Uma Lava 11.30am–12.30pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 19

A Circle of Laureates 12.45–2.45pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 21


Picturing Words & Wording Pictures 3.00–4.00pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 23

Crime Time 3.00–4.00pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 23

John Lanchester 4.15–5.15pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 24

How to Have a Beer 5.30–6.30pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 24

Ian Rankin 6.45–7.45pm Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum Pg 25

Pirate Sessions #3: Found Poetry 8.00–8.45pm Dog with Two Tails Pg 26

Flying Nun at the Cook 9.00–10.30pm Captain Cook Hotel Pg 27 (upstairs)

Sunday 14 May

Bill Manhire 9.00–10.00am Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 28

Hannah Kent 10.15–11.15am Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 28

Mother’s Day Brunch with Emily Writes 11.30am–1.00pm Scenic Hotel Pg 29 Southern Cross


It’s Personal 1.30–2.30pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 30

Catherine Chidgey 2.45–3.45pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 30

Landfall at 70 4.00–5.00pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 33

Book Launch: Charles Brasch Journals 5.00–6.00pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery Pg 33

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Poets on Place

How is poetry informed by a sense of place? Dunedin writer Ian Loughran has curated an evening of poetry, discussion and music around this idea. Local poets David Eggleton, Ian Loughran, Carolyn McCurdie, Emma Neale and Sue Wootton will read new works; Dr Andrea

Insch will share some work from her award-winning academic writing on ‘place’; and Molly Devine (voice) and Sam Van Betuw (piano) will perform musical settings of some of the poems.

Tuesday 9 May7.00–9.00pm

Knox Church

Psst! Looking For a Writing Group?

American author Jessamyn West said: “Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.” Members of a Dunedin writing group (that has been running for 24 years) beg to differ. They’ll offer up tips on how to

sustain the solitary writerly life and keep rampant savagery in check; they’ll also launch their new website and radio series and explain their aim of creating a chain of vibrant writing groups throughout Otago. Chaired by Kath Beattie, with panelists Paddy Richardson, Jenny Powell, Maxine Alterio, Penelope Todd, Carolyn McCurdie and Jane Woodham.

Wednesday 10 May12.00–1.00pm

FreeDunningham Suite, Dunedin City Library

$5 Door sales only

Chain Reaction

A group book launch to celebrate a goodly crop of new publications: Peter Olds’ poetry collection Taking My Jacket for a Walk (Cold Hub Press); Paddy Richardson’s novel Through the Lonesome Dark (Upstart Press); Victor Billot’s third volume of poetry Ambient Terror (self-published); Huberta Hellendoorn’s memoir Astride a Fierce Wind (Ma-karo Press); and John Gibb’s poetry collection Waking by a River of Light (Cold Hub Press).


Athenaeum Library Free

Manifesto Aotearoa

Manifesto Aotearoa features 101 new political poems by New Zealand poets of diverse cultures, young and old, new and seasoned, from the Bay of Islands to Bluff.

Edited by Philip Temple and Emma Neale, and published by Otago University Press, Manifesto explores myriad contemporary political issues and social fault lines: from our degraded environment to systemically embedded poverty, from the long, painful legacy of colonialism to explosive issues of sexual consent. This event will feature short readings from a number of Manifesto poets.

In association with Otago University Press.


Leviathan Hotel Free

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Glenn Colquhoun: Oral Poetry & Totems

Glenn Colquhoun is an award-winning poet, writer and doctor. He’ll bring foot-high totems of New Zealand historical figures with him to Dunedin and use these to explore Ma-ori and Pa-keha- oral poetic forms, inspired by mo-teatea and haka. He says: “It’ll be like some sort of poetry tupperware party.” Year 9–13 students.

Spaces limited, bookings essential.

Thursday 11 May9.30–10.30am

Dunningham Suite, Dunedin City Library

$10 per student

Word Balm

Dr David Galler (author of Things That Matter: Stories of Life and Death) has said he learnt more about people and life from the artists, poets, and English Department cohort that he drank beer with at Dunedin’s Captain Cook Tavern than he did in his medical degree training. We’re bringing him back to his old stomping ground to talk about what literature can

do for medicine with Glenn Colquhoun (doctor, poet and one of the founders, alongside David, of the Medicine Stories Project) and Sue Wootton (poet, novelist and co-editor of medical humanities blog Corpus: Conversations about Medicine and Life). Barbara Brookes (co-editor of Corpus) will chair the session.

Thursday 11 May5.30–6.30pm

Dunedin Public Art Gallery $22/$18/$12

Schools should email [email protected] to book a place.

Glenn Colquhoun: Creative Writing Workshop

When asked how he knows when a poem is working, Glenn Colquhoun said: “It’s like there is a conceit or irritation that makes me want to write about something and I keep going till I think the poem says what I want it to, or what it has decided to say instead. I just keep going until it gets up off the page and walks away.” Glenn will share some of the skills he has

developed in his own writing and give tips on how to get your poetry or prose walking off the page. Participants will need to provide 15 copies of a piece of their own creative writing, such as one or two poems or a short piece of prose (500–750 words).




$40

Sponsored by Division of Humanities Performing Arts Fund, University of Otago.

Lunchtime Reading: Rising Stars

Bring your lunch to the Athenaeum to hear original work by emerging writers aged 14–18 years who have featured in Otago Access Radio’s ‘Profile of 20 Young Poets’ radio and podcast

series. Introduced by Domi Angelo-Laloli of Otago Access Radio.



In association with Otago Access Radio

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Pirate Sessions #1: Songwriters

Join us for an up-close acoustic session with three of Dunedin’s most intriguingly successful songwriters. Featuring folk songstress Nadia Reid (pictured); the jangly indie songs of Karl Bray; and a surprise guest!

Hosted by Jeff Harford in the gently reverberant surrounds of the Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics’ Institute.


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Schools Performing Arts Workshop Join three of New Zealand’s

top theatre practitioners – Victor Rodger (Robert Burns Fellow 2016), Anapela Polataivao (Best Director, Auckland Theatre Awards 2016) and Goretti Wickman (Auckland Theatre Company’s To Kill A Mockingbird) – for a unique FCC Acting/Writing/Directing workshop. Students will get the chance to speak Victor’s words, be directed

by Anapela and act alongside Goretti. Year 13 students.


Friday 12 May9.30am–4.00pm


$50 per student

Curated by Pirate & Queen.Sponsored by the Department of English and Linguistics, University of Otago.

Schools should email [email protected] to book a place.

1947—201770 years of Landfall

a paneldiscussion

Charles Brasch Journals, 1945–1957SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY PETER SIMPSONThe second of three volumes of these fascinating, moving journals covers the start of Landfall.Hardback, 245 x 170mm, 660 pp ISBN: 9781927322284, $59.95

Landfall 233: 70th Anniversary IssueEDITED BY DAVID EGGLETONThis special anniversary issue features essays by former Landfall editors and the results of the inaugural Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition. As usual, it is also packed with new writing and art.Paperback, 215 x 165 mm 208 pp, 16 in colour ISBN 9780947522520, $30

Come and join David Eggleton, Chris Price, Adam Dudding and Philip Temple in a discussion chaired by Peter Simpson looking back over 70 years of Landfall, Aotearoa’s longest-running journal of arts and letters. 4–5pm Sunday 14 May at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Stay on after the discussion to toast the launch of Charles Brasch Journals: 1945–1957, 5–6pm on Sunday 14 May at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

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Stella Duffy Workshop: Getting Going, Getting Done

Novelist, theatre-maker and short story writer Stella Duffy has worked in theatre since the early 1980s. She uses theatre, improvisation and devising techniques to help writers overcome blocks, develop storylines and characters, and generally find the fun in their writing. Come out from behind the desk and play – take it back to the desk and write harder! Spaces limited, bookings essential.

Friday 12 May9.30am–12.30pm

Clarkson Room, Regent Theatre

$50

Lunchtime Reading: The Birds And The Bees

Bring your lunch to the Athenaeum to hear Dunedin’s Ockham New Zealand Book Award shortlisted authors read from their work. Emma Neale’s Billy Bird is a finalist in the fiction category and Barbara Brookes’s A History of New Zealand Women is shortlisted in the Illustrated

Non-Fiction category. Introduced by Phillippa Duffy of University Book Shop.

Friday 12 May12.15–12.45pm


In association with Museums Aotearoa and the Auckland Writers Festival.

Ashleigh YoungCan You Tolerate This?

Adam DuddingMy Father’s Island

Bill ManhireSome Things to Place in a

Coffin

Catherine ChidgeyThe Wish Child

Hera Lindsay BirdHera Lindsay Bird

Jenny BornholdtSelected Poems

Sarah LaingMansfield and Me

Victor RodgerBlack Faggot

Vincent O’SullivanAnd So It Is

Victoria University Press is proud to welcome nine of its very fine writers to Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival

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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Those who flocked to Dalloway (at DWRF 2015) will want to flock again to see Rebecca Vaughan in another one-woman show by Dyad Productions. Told through Jane Eyre’s eyes, Charlotte Brontë’s celebrated autobiographical novel shocked the Victorians with its gothic subversion of fairytale romance. Distilled

for the stage by writer/director Elton Townend Jones and performed by Rebecca Vaughan (who plays Jane and several other characters), it’s been described by The Huffington Post as “Perfection... Vaughan is simply sublime.”

Friday 12 May1.00-2.30pm

Saturday 13 May1.00-2.30pm

Sunday 14 May1.00-2.30pm

Fortune Theatre Studio Tickets from Fortune Theatre www.fortunetheatre.co.nz

Zine Scene

Children’s author Kate De Goldi and author-illustrator Paul Beavis (of Mrs Mo’s Monster fame) give hot tips for keen young authors and illustrators, and talk about the tricky-fun business of finding shiny ideas and turning them into cracker stories. They’ll celebrate their

favourite entries to the Gecko Press Dunedin Schools Zine Competition, and announce the winners.


Teen Space, Dunedin City Library

Free

Robert Lord Plaque Unveiling

Robert Lord was a pioneer of New Zealand playwriting and a co-founder of Playmarket, the powerhouse of writing for theatre in this country. The unveiling of a plaque for Robert in the Octagon’s Writers’ Walk celebrates his standing as well as his generosity to other writers through the establishment of the Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage in North Dunedin.


Octagon Free

In association with the Auckland Writers Festival.

Brought to the Festival by the Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust and the Dunedin Writers Walk Advisory Committee, with support from Playmarket, Fortune Theatre and AAW Jones Trust.

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Gala Showcase: Metamorphosis

Six international and national authors tackle the theme ‘Metamorphosis’. Each will talk about a book or author that changed them – gave them writing wings, knocked them sideways, wobbled their moral compass, swallowed them whole, or sweetly stretched them. The stellar line-up: Ian Rankin, Stella Duffy, John Lanchester, Hannah Kent, Bill Manhire and Victor Rodger, with MC Kate De Goldi.

Friday 12 May6.00pm – drinks and nibbles 6.30–8.00pm – event

Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum Enter at southern end near Chinese Garden

$39.00 includes welcome drink and nibbles

Pirate Sessions #2: The End Of The World Writers get together with

host Victor Billot and share a mix of theories, essays and stories about life at the End of the World, over a beer. A recent New Yorker article titled ‘Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich’ revealed that wealthy Silicon Valley doomsdayers are looking to far-flung Aotearoa as the favoured spot in the event of a cataclysm. Where our

isolation was once considered a major flaw, it’s now one of our greatest assets. But is it – or will it really be – so safe down here at the end of the world? Join us for a close consideration of our slice of paradise and its merits … or lack thereof. Featuring English student and writer Jean Balchin; 2017 Burns Fellow Craig Cliff; Critic editors Lucy Hunter and Joe Higham; and Spinoff political editor Toby Manhire (pictured).


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Tala Tusi: The Teller is The Tale in 4 Tales Pasifika poet and scholar

Selina Tusitala Marsh (who performed her poem ‘Unity’ for the Queen in 2016) will deliver the 2016 NZBC lecture. Her talk responds, in part, to the question Witi Ihimaera pitched during his 2015 lecture: What New Zealand will our writers write

into existence? With her customary warmth, humour and verve, Selina will discuss the relationship between our stories, ourselves and the fate of our literature.

Saturday 13 May9.00–10.00am

Dunedin Public Art Gallery Free

In association with the New Zealand Book Council, the Auckland Writers Festival and Museums Aotearoa, with support from the Centre for the Book at the University of Otago.

Curated by Pirate & Queen.Sponsored by the Department of English and Linguistics, University of Otago.

In association with the New Zealand Book Council.

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The Children’s Room Storytime Session: Monsters & Bees

Bring your mini-monsters and budding bees to this monsterishly buzzy storytime session with author-illustrator Paul Beavis and Dunedin writer Raymond Huber. The fuzzy blue monster in Paul’s picture books Mrs Mo’s Monster and Hello World! won him the Russell Clark Award for Illustration

in 2015, and Raymond’s Flight of the Honey Bee was a finalist in the 2014 NZ Post Book Awards. Don your best monster/bee gear, and come along for some vibrant storytelling, face-painting and crafts (with prizes for Best Dressed Monster and Boldest Bee).


Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum Free

Stella Duffy

On witnessing the force of Stella Duffy’s energy, Kim Hill told her “They should hook you up to the national grid”. Stella’s a non-stop creative whirlwind: she’s written 15 novels (published in 16 languages), over 60 short stories, and 11 plays, and has won a swag of awards. She’s also a theatre director and the co-director of Fun Palaces,

the international campaign for the full democratisation of all culture, and received the OBE for services to the Arts in 2016. Born in the UK, Stella grew up in Tokoroa, studied in Wellington, and has lived in London for 30 years. She’ll chat about her diverse doings with Paddy Richardson.



Play Reading: Victor Rodger, Uma Lava

“Jesus Christ, a tapa cloth.” So begins Robert Burns Fellow 2016 Victor Rodger’s Polynesian-hued adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous play No Exit/Huis Clos. Three strangers, who hate each other’s guts, find themselves in a small, uncomfortable and increasingly hot room. To quote Sartre, “hell is other

people” – in this instance, quite literally. Uma Lava will be read by Anapela Polataivao, Goretti Wickman, Siale Tunoka and Simon O’Connor.

Saturday 13 May11.30am–12.30pm


In association with the Children’s Room at the University Book Shop.

In association with Museums Aotearoa and the Auckland Writers Festival.

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A Circle Of Laureates

A rare treat: nine of the ten New Zealand Poet Laureates will gather to read their work, with Rob Tuwhare joining them to represent his late father, Hone Tuwhare. Twenty years ago, John Buck of Te Mata Estate Winery created the Te Mata Estate Laureate Award; in 2007 the government took over funding of a Poet Laureate and vested responsibility for the Award with the National Library. This session of New Zealand’s

poetry elite features Bill Manhire, Elizabeth Smither, Brian Turner, Jenny Bornholdt, Rob Tuwhare for Hone Tuwhare, Michele Leggot, Cilla McQueen, Ian Wedde, Vincent O’Sullivan and current Laureate CK Stead. Fergus Barrowman (Publisher, Victoria University Press) will MC the event.

Saturday 13 May12.45–2.45pm


In association with the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Ma-tauranga o Aotearoa.

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Picturing Words & Wording Pictures Dr Seuss said: “Words and

pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.” Three author-illustrators, David Elliot (whose most recent book is Snark), Paul Beavis (Mrs Mo’s Monster, Hello World!), and Sarah Laing (Mansfield & Me: A Graphic Memoir),

will discuss the tricky and triumphant business of marrying words and pictures. Chaired by Julia Marshall (Publisher, Gecko Press).



Crime Time

Ian Rankin gave us the magnificently misanthropic John Rebus; Stella Duffy was recently tasked with inhabiting the skin of Ngaio Marsh’s famous gentleman detective Roderick Alleyn to complete one of the author’s unfinished novels; and MJ Carter has anchored her historical crime novels around Victorian odd couple Blake and Avery (one a taciturn special inquiry

agent, the other his posher subordinate officer). They’ll discuss detectives and other dark matters with local crime writer Vanda Symon.



In association with Museums Aotearoa, the Auckland Writers Festival and Heartland Bank.

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Supporting research since 1910

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To coincide with the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival

Freefall 6 May - 1 July 2017

A freeform exhibition exploring narrative & word associated works of art, imagery, texts and objet de vertu drawn from the Hocken Collections,

Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Special Collections, University of Otago

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John Lanchester

John Lanchester has been described as “a kind of brainy Everyman, a brilliant communicator”. He’s written four novels (including the bestselling Capital), and four works of non-fiction (among them Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay, an explanation of the 2007–2010 global

financial crisis, and How To Speak Money: What the Money People Say – And What It Really Means). He also contributes to both the London Review of Books and the New Yorker. John will be in conversation with Toby Manhire.



How To Have a Beer

Alice Galletly fell in love with beer while writing her Beer For a Year blog (during which she drank and wrote about 365 different beers in 365 days). This formed the basis of her recent book How To Have a Beer. Michael Donaldson will soon publish the second edition of his 2012 book Beer Nation: The Art and Heart of Kiwi Beer. He is also the author of The Big Book of Home Brew: A Kiwi Guide,

a regular beer columnist for Fairfax Media, and editor of the magazine The Pursuit of Hoppiness. Alice and Michael will talk about how to have a beer, what makes a good/bad beer, and how best to judge 65 beers in a day without ending up passed out under the table. Chaired by laundry-based home brewer Jesse Mulligan. (Emerson’s beer and other beverages available for purchase from 5.00pm.)



In association with the Auckland Writers Festival and sponsored by the Otago Daily Times.

Ian Rankin

When Ian Rankin wrote Detective Sergeant John Rebus into life in Knots and Crosses in 1987, he didn’t expect him to grouch his way into the public’s heart and become one of crime fiction’s most beloved characters (he actually tried to kill him off in an early draft of that first novel). Thirty years on, this irascible old rogue still thrives,

busier than ever in his so-called retirement. Ian will talk about his latest bestselling Rebus novel, Rather Be The Devil, and life at the top of one of fiction’s most popular genres, with fellow Scotsman and crime writer, Professor Liam McIlvanney.


Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum $25/$22/$18

In association with the Auckland Writers Festival. Supported by NHNZ.

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Pirate Sessions #3: Found Poetry Like hunter-gatherers armed

with pens, paper and acute observation skills, six Dunedin writers have composed poetry collected from the fabric of the city. Come along and fill up on a diet of found poetry foraged for you by some of our finest. Majella Cullinane, Laura Borrowdale, Jenny Powell, Richard Reeve, Craig

Cliff and Lynley Edmeades (pictured) have created new works from ‘found’ lines in Dunedin. Followed by live music by Bulletproof Convertible.


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Curated by Pirate & Queen. Sponsored by the Department of English and Linguistics, University of Otago.

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Flying Nun At The Cook

In his memoir In Love With These Times: My Life With Flying Nun Records, Roger Shepherd said of the Cook: “It was a terrible dive. Some remember it fondly, but mostly what I remember is the incredibly sticky bar top.” We return Roger to the refurbished (and less sticky) Cook to talk Flying Nun matters with Graeme Downes, Robert Scott, Francisca Griffin and Roy Colbert. There will be music, too, of course. Chair Grant Smithies will seek to keep them all in line.


Captain Cook Hotel (upstairs)

$25/$22/$18

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Bill Manhire

Bill Manhire once told a friend, “I do very good sadness.” Some Things To Place in a Coffin is his first new collection of poetry in seven years. It promises a fair few sombre tones (includes an elegy for his close friend Ralph Hotere, and a sequence commissioned for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme). He’s also

just published a sequence of riddles set to music called Tell Me My Name (in collaboration with composer Norman Meehan, singer Hannah Griffin, and with photographs by Peter Peryer). Bill – who grew up in small pubs in Otago and Southland – will talk about sadness, riddles and everything in between with Jolisa Gracewood.

Sunday 14 May9.00am–10.00am


Hannah Kent

“I am in awe of Kent’s gifts as a storyteller.” So said Paula Hawkins, author of Girl on the Train. She wasn’t the only one wowed by Australian author Hannah Kent. Her bestselling debut Burial Rites (a “dark love letter to Iceland”) won universal acclaim and a bunch of awards, and has been translated into 28 languages. Her second novel The Good People (another

beautifully eerie work, set against the fairy lore of nineteenth-century rural Ireland) saw her popularity soar even further. Majella Cullinane will seek to find out how Hannah won such novelistic poise, and what draws her to these darker pockets of historical fiction.

Sunday 14 May10.15–11.15am


Mother’s Day Brunch with Emily Writes

Celebrate Mother’s Day over shared platters and bubbly with the fallible, funny and forthright Emily Writes. Her recently published book Rants in the Dark: From One Tired Mama to Another has been described as “one of the most side-splitting tales of parental privations and attendant trauma you will read.” Emily will discuss the tough and tender moments of parenting with Sunday magazine columnist, and fellow knackered mum, Leah McFall.

Sunday 14 May11.30am–1.00pm

Scenic Hotel Southern Cross

$45 (includes bubbly and light brunch)

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It’s Personal

Four frank writers and an hour of revealing chat. Poet Hera Lindsay Bird shot to prominence last year with the release of her eponymous poetry collection; Ashleigh Young won a devoted readership with her volume of personal essays, Can You Tolerate This?; Sarah Laing laid bare her life alongside

that of a literary luminary in Mansfield & Me: A Graphic Memoir; and Adam Dudding tackled the tricky business of fathoming his father in My Father’s Island. Chair Charlotte Graham will quiz the four about mining the personal.

Sunday 14 May1.30–2.30pm


Catherine Chidgey

In 2003, the Listener named Catherine Chidgey the best writer in New Zealand under the age of 40. Her fourth highly acclaimed novel, The Wish Child, centres around two children caught up in the machinations of Nazi Germany, and has been shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Emma Neale (fellow Ockham shortlister for Billy Bird) will chat to Catherine about the tug of Germany, her meticulous novelist’s craft, and the rigours of putting a new novel on the shelves after a 13-year hiatus.



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Landfall at 70

Founded in 1947, Landfall created a space for New Zealand literature and culture in a radically different time. What is its role now? What can Landfall offer the struggle of ‘memory against forgetting’ in an epoch of alternative facts? How can a literary journal perform the essential role of critically examining our public and inner lives at a time when humanist and liberal traditions are increasingly under threat? Panelists David Eggleton, Chris Price, Philip Temple and Adam Dudding will attempt to pin Landfall down under the steering hand of Peter Simpson.



Book Launch: Charles Brasch Journals

Join Otago University Press in launching this second volume of journals by one of New Zealand’s most distinguished cultural figures. Selected and introduced by Peter Simpson, the journals cover the period from 1945 to 1957 and include frank descriptions of New Zealand arts figures and personal relationships, and musings on poetry.




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Join Beverly Martens (owner of Dunedin Literary Walking Tours) for an hour-long guided central city walk exploring key sites in Dunedin’s rich literary history, plus see examples of quirky new literary projects which underpin (and celebrate!) our UNESCO City of Literature status.

11.00am and 2.00pm daily, tours run Wednesday 9 May–Sunday 14 May

Meeting point: the Robbie Burns statue in the Octagon

$20 per person. Bookings essential: www.literarytours.nz/events or phone/text 027 44 44 788

Moving ‘Write’ Along: Literary Walking Tours

A freeform exhibition exploring narrative & word-associated works of art, imagery, texts and objets de vertu drawn from the Hocken Collections, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Special Collections, University of Otago. Curated to coincide with Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, this exhibition combines some of the city’s most celebrated New Zealand and European art works, ranging in date from the 14th to the 21st century, by artists such as Jacopo del Casentino, Robin White, Colin McCahon, Ralph Hotere and Joanna Paul, with a selection of significant texts from the Hocken’s holdings, and University of Otago Special Collections.

Hocken Gallery, Uare Taoka o Ha-kena, 90 Anzac Ave

Open Monday to Saturday, 10.00am–5.00pm

Exhibition runs Saturday 6 May–Saturday 1 July

Hocken Exhibition: Freefall

Students in their second year of study of Communication Design were asked to design and print a small book as part of their project research into print production and prepress. The task involved writing the text, providing the illustrations, designing the layout for the pages and cover, followed by printing, bind and trimming. The work was undertaken within our in-house print production room, using a Risographic printing press.

Dunedin City Library

Exhibition runs Monday 1 May–Monday 15 May

Small Books: Otago Polytechnic School Of Design

Other Bookish Attractions

Gecko Press and the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival invited Dunedin schools to take part in a zine competition for Years 5–8 (ages 9–12). Selected entries will be displayed at Dunedin City Library for the duration of the festival, and winners will be announced by judges Kate De Goldi and Paul Beavis at an event on Friday 12 May.

Dunedin City Library, Teen Space

Exhibition runs Monday 1 May–Monday 15 May

Dunedin Schools Zine Competition

Dunedin’s oldest literary establishment and proud supporters of the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival.

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Library open Monday – Friday 10am to 5pm, 23 the Octagon.

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Tickets

Events presented with three admission prices are for Waged / Concession (beneficiaries, retirees, etc.) / Students (with ID).

Unless otherwise indicated all tickets are available through TicketDirect. Service fees will apply.

By internet: www.ticketdirect.co.nz

By phone: 0800 4 TICKET or 0800 224 224 or 03 477 8597

In person: Regent Theatre box office, or any TicketDirect outlet

www.ticketdirect.co.nz

Please note: Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival reserves the right to alter without notice any advertised schedule of artists or events. No refunds. No exchanges. Tickets are subject to availability. We recommend booking in advance to avoid disappointment. Please note that space is lmited so admission cannot be guaranteed for free events.

A Circle of Laureates: Mark Beatty

Athenaeum: UNESCO City of Literature

Hera Lindsay Bird: Russell Kleyn

Charles Brasch: Clifton Firth

MJ Carter: Roderick Field

Catherine Chidgey: Fiona Pardington

Adam Dudding: Lawrence Smith

David Elliot: Deane Patterson

Hannah Kent: Lauren Bamford

Sarah Laing: Grant Maiden

Bill Manhire: Grant Maiden

Emma Neale: Graham Warman

Nadia Reid: Eb Lamb

Roger Shepherd: Alistair Guthrie

Emily Writes: Christopher Tse

Ashleigh Young: Russell Kleyn

Service feesInternet – $1.50 per ticket

Box office – $2.50 per ticket

Call centre – $3.50 per ticket

Pickup fee – $5 per transaction

Courier delivery – $7 per transaction

Rural courier delivery – $9 per transaction

A credit card charge will apply to all credit card transactions.

Image Credits

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Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The Octagon

Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Place

Athenaeum Library, 24 The Octagon

Regent Theatre, The Octagon

Leviathan Hotel, 27 Queens Gardens

Toitu- Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens

Fortune Theatre, 231 Stuart Street

Knox Church, 449 George Street

Captain Cook Hotel, 354 Great King Street

Dog with Two Tails, 25 Moray Place

Scenic Hotel Southern Cross, 118 High Street

University Book Shop, 378 Great King Street

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Many thanks to additional sponsors and supporters:

Department of English and Linguistics, University of OtagoMegaphone ProductionsEmerson’s BreweryPirate & QueenVictoria University PressPenguin Random HouseCentre for the Book at the University of OtagoFreemasons New Zealand

In addition to our sponsors, the trustees wish to thank all of the following who have helped make the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival 2017 a reality:

Geoffrey Anderson (Anderson and Paul), Matt Anderson (Otago Daily Times), Domi Angelo-Laloli (Otago Access Radio), Mary Arnesen, Bart Barkman (Megaphone Productions), Victor Billot (Otago University Press), Clare Bulmer (Emerson’s Brewery), Kathryn Carmody (New Zealand Book Council), Lynda Cullen (Dunedin Public Art Gallery), Sharon Dell (Hocken Collections), Phillippa Duffy (University Book Shop Otago), Jacob Edmond (Department of English and Linguistics), Jennifer Evans (Toitu- ), Tony Eyre (JW Smeaton Ltd), Catriona Ferguson, Kirsten Glengarry (Toitu- ), Dr Katherine Hall, Bernie Hawke (Dunedin City Council), Matthew Holdridge (Otago Daily Times), Su Ikin (Dunedin Public Libraries), Peter Ireland (National Library of New Zealand), Tammy Jackman (Dunedin City Council), Luke Johnston (BrandAid), Liz Knowles (Dunedin City Council), Rachel Lawson (Gecko Press), Ian Loughran, Cam McCracken (Dunedin Public Art Gallery), Sarah McDonald (Scenic Hotel Southern Cross), Liam McIlvanney (Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies),

Alterio, Maxine 6Angelo-Lolali, Domi 8Balchin, Jean 17Barrowman, Fergus 21Beattie, Kath 6Beavis, Paul 15, 18, 23Billot, Victor 7, 17 Bird, Hera Lindsay 30Bornholdt, Jenny 21Borrowdale, Laura 26Bray, Karl 10Brookes, Barbara 9, 13Carter, MJ 23 Chidgey, Catherine 30Cliff, Craig 17, 26 Colbert, Roy 27 Colquhoun, Glenn 8, 9 Cullinane, Majella 26, 28De Goldi, Kate 15, 16Devine, Molly 6Donaldson, Michael 24Downes, Graeme 27Dudding, Adam 30, 33Duffy, Stella 13, 16, 18, 23Edmeades, Lynley 26Eggleton, David 6, 33Elliot, David 23Galler, David 9Galletly, Alice 24Gibb, John 7Gracewood, Jolisa 28 Graham, Charlotte 30Griffin, Francisca 27Harford, Jeff 10 Hellendoorn, Huberta 7Higham, Joe 17Huber, Raymond 18Hunter, Lucy 17Insch, Andrea 6Kent, Hannah 16, 28Laing, Sarah 23, 30Lanchester, John 16, 24Leggot, Michele 21Loughran, Ian 6McCurdie, Carolyn 6McFall, Leah 29

McIlvanney, Liam 25 McQueen, Cilla 21Manhire, Bill 16, 21, 28Manhire, Toby 17, 24 Marsh, Selina Tusitala 17Marshall, Julia 23Mulligan, Jesse 24Neale, Emma 6, 7, 13, 30O’Connor, Simon 19 Olds, Peter 7O’Sullivan, Vincent 21Polataivao, Anapela 10, 19Powell, Jenny 6, 26Price, Chris 33Rankin, Ian 16, 23, 25Reeve, Richard 26 Reid, Nadia 10 Richardson, Paddy 6, 7, 18Rodger, Victor 10, 16, 19Scott, Robert 27Shepherd, Roger 27Simpson, Peter 33Smither, Elizabeth 21Smithies, Grant 27Stead, CK 21Symon, Vanda 23Temple, Philip 7, 33Todd, Penelope 6Tunoka, Siale 19Turner, Brian 21Tuwhare, Rob (for Hone) 21Vaughan, Rebecca 14 van Betuw, Sam 6Wedde, Ian 21Wickman, Goretti 10, 19Woodham, Jane 6Wootton, Sue 6, 9Writes, Emily 29 Young, Ashleigh 30

Biographies of all authors and performers can be found on our website.

Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival gratefully acknowledges support from:

Julia Marshall (Gecko Press), Beverly Martens (Dunedin Literary Walking Tours), Kay Mercer (Dunedin Public Libraries), Greg Menzies (Emerson’s Brewery), John and Bridgette More (Haywards Auction House), Kyle Murdoch (NHNZ), Penny Neilson (Toitu- ), Robyn Notman (Hocken Collections), Anne O’Brien (Auckland Writers Festival), Sharon O’Loughlin (Enterprise Dunedin), Lesley Paris (Otago Access Radio), Cara Paterson (Dunedin City Council), Amie Richardson (Profile Media), Shef Rogers (Department of English and Linguistics), Rachel Scott (Otago University Press), Chris Szekely (National Library of New Zealand), Phillipa Tocker (Museums Aotearoa), Brenda Thom (Thom Law), Pete Williamson (Enterprise Upholstery), Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb (University Book Shop Otago)

We are also hugely grateful to our fantastic team of volunteers – thank you all so much.

Festival PeoplePatron: Lynley Hood

Programme Director: Claire Finlayson

Event Coordinator: Katherine Quill

TrusteesAlexandra Bligh (chair)Annie VilliersBridget Schaumann Nicky PageVanessa Manhire

PublicistAmie Richardson Profile Media Ltd

Official Bookseller University Book Shop (Otago)

Exclusive Travel Partner helloworld Dunedin

Division of HumanitiesPerforming Arts Fund

With thanks to our major sponsors:

Thanks Index by Author/Performer

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