Murder, mystery and unspeakable secrets laid bare in Writers on Mondays
The 2013 WoM programme begins on 15 July.
A vast astrological murder mystery by rising star Eleanor Catton and the stories and award-winning 'anti-memoirs' of Scottish writer Janice Galloway headline the 2013 season of Writers on Mondays (15 July-30 September), the annual literary event series presented by Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML).
Read and download the full Writers on Mondays 2013 programme.
Wellington audiences will get a first look at The Luminaries, the extraordinary follow-up to Eleanor Catton's much-praised début The Rehearsal, before she flies off to launch the Granta edition in London. We are invited inside the moving but unsentimentally rendered childhood and adolescence of Janice Galloway in This is Not About Me and All Made Up (Scottish Book of the Year, 2012), and into the dark side of Scotland that's revealed in her short fiction.
The season starts on 15 July as we introduce Carl Shuker, winner of the 2006 Prize in Modern Letters, whose return to New Zealand to take up the 2013 Creative New Zealand/Victoria University Writer-in-Residence position coincided with the release of his latest book, Anti Lebanon, a cross-genre political thriller and horror novel set in the Arab Spring.
Next Kate Camp unpacks the suitcase of poems she brought home from her 2013 residency in Berlin; then two exciting new writers Emma Martin and Amy Head offer their take on the art of contemporary short fiction in conversation with Emily Perkins. We present some of the Best New Zealand Poems in our popular annual reading to mark National Poetry Day. Dave Armstrong guides us on an expedition into the blogosphere with Wellington bloggers Giovanni Tiso (Bat Bean Beam) and Danyl McLauchlan (The Dim-Post), who has recently taken the 'old school' route of publishing a novel, Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley.
In September the series looks to the New Zealand literature of the future with a tour of début poetry collections by three diverse new-generation poets – Ashleigh Young, Therese Lloyd and Amy Brown – and four samplers of work in progress from the current MA workshops of the IIML.
IIML Director Damien Wilkins says, 'The wonderful combination of new voices and established writers makes this series a brilliant fixture on the literary calendar.'
Writers on Mondays events run from 12.15-1.15pm at The Marae, Level 4, Te Papa except for:
Short Sharp Script 1 & 2: Circa Theatre, Mon 23 and 30 September, 12.15-1.15 pm
Admission is free, all are welcome. Writers on Mondays is presented by Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and additional support from Circa Theatre. Janice Galloway's visit is jointly funded by the IIML and the Melbourne Writers' Festival.
For further information contact Chris Price, chris.price@vuw.ac.nz, tel: +64-4-463 6854.