IIML Staff and Graduates in Writers Week lineup
Our staff and graduates feature strongly in this year's programme.
Writers Week runs from 7 to 12 March this year, as part of the New Zealand Festival, and once again, Victoria University is a key partner in the event. IIML staff and graduates also have a strong presence in this year's Writers Week lineup.
Events to look out for include a rehearsed reading of scenes from IIML Director Damien Wilkins' latest novel, Max Gate; a live creative writing workshop convened onstage by James Brown; Dave Armstrong reading as part of the lineup for The Curioseum: Collected Stories of the Odd and Marvellous, and chairing a session on New Zealand playwrights and the histories that inspire them; and critic Terry Castle in conversation with Harry Ricketts.
More details are below. You can read the full programme and book tickets on the Writers Week website.
And look out for sessions featuring or hosted by our graduates; among them the Man Booker prizewinning novelist Eleanor Catton (2014 New Zealand Book Council Lecture and Midwives or Meddlers?, journalist Linley Boniface and Commonwealth Short Story Prizewinner Emma Martin (Reading for Readers); poet, essayist and fiction writer Alice Miller (First Published); novelist and first-time children's author Mary McCallum (Dappled Annie and the Tigrish - book launch); and award-winning writer Tina Makereti, who will teach a Māori and Pasifika Creative Writing Workshop at the IIML later this year, in conversation with the poet and novelist Kei Miller(Where We Might Fit) .
Read more about our graduates.
Scenes of Secrets and Disguises five actors read from Arts Foundation Laureate Damien Wilkin’s seventh novel, Max Gate(Victoria University Press, 2013).
Sunday 9 March from 4.45pm, Embassy Theatre
More about Damien Wilkins and the International Institute of Modern Letters
The Exercise Book Live – award-winning poet James Brown and students of the International Institute of Modern Letters workshop prose, poetry and scripts live onstage, with audience interaction.
Friday 7 March from 9.45am, Hannah Playhouse
More about James Brown and CREW 253 Poetry Workshop
Based on a True Story – Playwrights Michelanne Forster, Hone Kouka, Briar Grace-Smith and Stuart Hoar discuss their relationship with and debt to the New Zealand histories that have inspired them, in a session chaired by fellow playwright and television scriptwriter Dave Armstrong.
Wednesday 12 March from 10.45am, Hannah Playhouse
Collected Stories of the Odd and Marvellous –
Dave Armstrong, Joy Cowley, Elizabeth Knox, Antonio Te Maioha, Kyle Mewburn, and Jo Randerson share stories and poems from The Curioseum: Collected Stories of the Odd and Marvellous(Te Papa Press, 2014); a new anthology inspired by the weird and wonderful contents of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum.
Sunday 8 March from 2pm, Te Marae at Te Papa.
More about Dave Armstrong and CREW 351 Television Scriptwriting Workshop
Reviewing the reviewer – critic Terry Castle (London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books), whom Susan Sontag called ‘the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today’, discusses her craft with fellow critic, poet, biographer and reviewer Harry Ricketts.
Sunday 9 March from 10.45am, Embassy Theatre.
More about Harry Ricketts and CREW 257 Creative Nonfiction Workshop.