Podcast appearances and mentions of Paula Morris

The Reread: where we once a month invite someone to reread a book they've only read once, long ago. And then, once they've finished it, they come on here and reflect on the experience of re-reading it - because everybody reads a book differently, and how you read and interpret a book can change according to who you are at the time. For our Reread this month, we're talking to award-winning novelist, short story writer, essayist and editor Paula Morris, who has reread Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.

One of New Zealand's most successful filmmakers Lee Tamahori discusses his past experiences that guided the making of The Convert. A homage to New Zealand's brutal history The Convert is a collision of violence, masculinity, and colonisation that premiered internationally at the Toronto International Film Festival. Paula Morris delves into the mind of Lee to pick apart the origins of this film including addressing its controversial story themes and ideologies.   This talk was held live in October 2023 at the Capitol Cinema in Auckland.   ----more---- Lee Tamahori has an extraordinary body of work not limited to Once Were Warriors, Mulholland Falls, Along Came A Spider, Die Another Day, and more recently Mahana aka The Patriach.  ----more---- This talk contains Explicit Language and mentions domestic violence and sexual assault. These themes and topics could be upsetting for some listeners. Discretion is advised.  ----more---- This podcast is brought to you thanks to generous support from the New Zealand Film Commission, Foundation North, Images & Sound, White Studios and The Capitol Cinema.   ----more---- The voiceover was recorded by Jamie Irvine, and the music is by Podington Bear.   You can read more about these speakers at our website www.script-to-screen.co.nz 

Interviews with NZ writers and poets, visiting authors from around the world and news of local events

E whai ake nei, coming up on the show today:  Frances speaks with Paula Morris, editor of HIWA, about a new anthology of contemporary Maori short stories out of Auckland University Press.  Liam also had a yarn with Erica Stretton about National Poetry day, taking place on and around next Friday, August 25th.  Frances also speaks with Imogen Taylor about her show ‘murmurs' opening at Michael Lett this evening   Plus, a stacked art guide to finish things off - make sure you go to the 95bFM Record Fair tomorrow and help keep the b afloat! ⛵⛵

An exciting new book is out today from one of Afternoon's favourite guests and incredible author, Paula Morris. Hiwa: Contemporary Maori Short Stories is a unique anthology.

Paula Morris discussed with Julie Janson and Cassandra Pybus, the idea that History is written by the victors. But when such accounts are challenged, who then gets to define history in the context of a shared past?  

In this episode, we examine The Resilience Initiative, a model of foundation-initiated capacity-building work on behalf of grantee organizations that has sought to help progressive nonprofits tackle the mounting political, economic, and health crises that have impacted organizations in recent years.  The Resilience Initiative has developed a highly-responsive approach that is increasingly focused on the well-being of nonprofit people and organizations. You'll hear from the two top-notch consultants who have consecutively led this effort - Janet Nami McIntyre and her predecessor Paula Morris. This episode explores practices of talent-investing that relate to the key concept of Responsiveness. These practices are: Ask and Respond; Go All-In; and Offer Custom Solutions. To learn about the Eight Practices of Talent-Investing, listen to Episode One of this season. All resources and links mentioned in the show can be found on our episode show notes page or at fundthepeople.org/ftp_podcast. Find all the episodes of this podcast plus our blog, toolkit and other resources on our website, fundthepeople.org.

A deep dive into the life of Robin Hyde, aka Iris Wilkinson, exploring her contribution to New Zealand literature, her travels, motherhood and her life in Auckland, including her relationships, homes, and the time she spent in Whau Lunatic Asylum (later Carrington Hospital and now the Unitec campus). Hyde's story is told by author Paula Morris, with archival photographs curated by Haru Sameshima. In 2020 the two worked together to produce the book Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde. We apologise for the slightly distorted audio quality of this item.

Four quite different books all received top prizes in the Ockham Book Awards in Auckland last night. They included a meaty history about the New Zealand Wars; a book on fashion in Aotearoa from 1840 to 1910; and poetry evoking Vikings, astronauts and angels. Fiction won the day, in the form of a book called Kurangaituku, by Wellington novelist and playright Whiti Hereaka. New Zealand Book Awards Trust member Paula Morris spoke to Susie Ferguson.

The shortlists for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. That's four books in four categories -- fiction, poetry, general nonfiction and illustrated nonfiction -- chosen from 40 longlisted titles. Once again this year, small presses and academic publishers dominate the shortlist, this despite our commercial publishers being responsible for a lion's share of new books. All but three of the shortlisted titles are by women. New Zealand Book Awards Trust spokesperson Paula Morris spoke to Susie Ferguson.

Join Alison and Ineka in the Literary Lounge where they've been reading about the lives of families from all over the world. Heartbreaking dilemmas sometimes lead to desperate acts in these stories, but there is always hope. Books mentioned in this episode of Books and Beyond can be borrowed and requested via the Auckland Libraries catalogue: A Clear Dawn: new Asian voices from Aotearoa New Zealand / ed. Paula Morris and Alison Wong published 2021 / Adult Non-Fiction (NZ): https://bit.ly/3sdFsbS My brilliant life / Ae-ran Kim ; translated from Korean by Chi-Young Kim published 2021 / Adult Fiction: https://bit.ly/3haRA78 Hard like water / Yan Lianke ; translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojasv published 2021 / Adult Fiction: https://bit.ly/3p9S6X9 A Children's Bible / Lydia Millet / published 2020 / Adult Fiction: https://bit.ly/3JMKGRz

In the New Zealand Society of Authors Summer Encore Series, well known NZSA authors introduce you to some of their favourite episodes from the NZSA podcast. This week, Graci Kim, author of the instant US bestseller, 'The Last Fallen Star' (A Gifted Clans Novel 1), introduces you to her favourite episode: the panel discussion ‘Making it in the international market' from the 2018 National Writers Forum. The panel features Paula Morris, Tracey Farr, and David Ling. Learn more about Graci and her book at: https://www.gracikim.com/ More about NZSA at: authors.org.nz/

Welcome to the New Zealand Society of Authors Summer Encore Series, where we've asked well known NZSA authors to introduce you to some of their favourite episodes from the NZSA podcast so far. This week, Rosetta Allan, author of the recently released ‘Crazy Love' along with several other novels and poetry collections, introduces you to her favourite episode: Paula Morris' 2020 Janet Frame Memorial Lecture. Learn more about Rosetta and her new book ‘Crazy Love' at: https://rosettaallan.com/ More about Paula Morris: https://www.paula-morris.com/ More about the Janet Frame Lecture: https://authors.org.nz/janet-frame-lectures/ More about NZSA at: https://authors.org.nz/

Our guest is author Paula Morris, who joins us from Auckland to discuss the novel The Godwits Fly (1938) and the life of its author Iris Wilkinson AKA Robin Hyde. In recent years, Iris Wilkinson's writing has been rediscovered and restored to the canon of New Zealand literature, where it occupies a place alongside Katherine Mansfield's; The Godwits Fly is her highly autobiographical novel spanning the years 1910-28. Also this week, John has been captivated by Neurotribes, Steve Silberman's fascinating study of neurodiversity, while Andy revels in the forensic detail of Glenn Frankel's new book Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic. For more information visit backlisted.fm. Please support us and unlock bonus material at https://www.patreon.com/backlisted. This episode wouldn't have happened without Rachael King or WORD Christchurch Festival: https://wordchristchurch.co.nz. Thanks Rachael!

Today Anna Rankin looks at the latest from writer, Paula Morris, "On Coming Home."

Writing Home: An Antidote to Feeling Stranded is a collection of videos the Nelson Arts Festival has commissioned from Kiwi writers living here and overseas. Paula Morris speaks about the experience of documenting her idea of home.

Shock among New Zealand's literary community over a $500,000 grant to a website.Narrative Muse has been given the cash from the $374 million Cultural Sector Innovation Fund.The site promises to match people's personalities with stories in book, TV and movie form.When a customer buys through links on the site, it may earn an affiliate commission.Author Paula Morris told Andrew Dickens everyone's shocked.“Why isn't Creative New Zealand involved in this process? Why is it people at the Ministry who are doing directly?”LISTEN ABOVE

With ruthless wit and compelling insights gained as a writer and writing teacher, Paula Morris argues that the skilled use of language is a more powerful ally for writers than ideas or feelings. She draws on persuasive examples of technique grounded in human experience. Paula (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua) is an acclaimed novelist, memoirist, short story writer and creative writing teacher. An insightful and incisive interviewer, she has been the face of the 2020 Auckland Writers Festival and its COVID-19-mandated shift online. She is a writer of powerful opinion pieces, and the author of the story collection Forbidden Cities (2008); the essay On Coming Home (2015); and seven novels, including Rangatira (2011), fiction winner at both the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards and Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards. Her most recent book is an essay and story collection, False River (2017). Paula teaches creative writing at the University of Auckland and is the founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature.

Three exceptional writers join consummate chair Paula Morris on screen, for a live-in-venue audience, to talk about and read from their latest work and answer your questions. Today's line-up includes Chilean literary legend Isabel Allende with 'The Soul of a Woman', a meditation on power and feminism; UK-based Ockham NZ Book Awards shortlisted poet Mohamed Hassan with his debut collection 'National Anthem'; and Chinese-American writer and teacher Yiyun Li with her brilliant new novel 'Must I Go'. AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL WAITUHI O TĀMAKI 2021

Three exceptional writers join consummate chair Paula Morris on screen, for a live-in-venue audience, to talk about and read from their latest work and answer your questions. Today's line-up includes expat Miro Bilbrough with her memoir of a 1970s childhood in a Marlborough Sounds commune 'In The Time of the Manaroans'; US fiction doyenne Marilynne Robinson with latest novel 'Jack'; and Booker-prize-winning Glaswegian novelist Douglas Stuart with 'Shuggie Bain'. AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL WAITUHI O TĀMAKI 2021

Three exceptional writers join chair Paula Morris on screen, for a live-in venue audience, to talk about and read from their latest work and answer your questions. Today's line-up includes Irish actor and memoirist Gabriel Byrne with 'Walking With Ghosts'; Melbourne-based Māori crime writer JP Pomare with latest thriller 'Tell Me Lies'; and the London-based Caribbean Costa Book of the Year author Monique Roffey with 'The Mermaid of Black Conch'. AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL WAITUHI O TĀMAKI 2021

Claire Mabey reviews Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly, Tranquility & Ruin by Danyl Mclauchlan and A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Alison Wong and Paula Morris.

Finalists for the country's top book prizes are out this morning. Sixteen works have made it on to the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist list for fiction, poetry, illustrated non-fiction and general non-fiction. Awards trustee Paula Morris spoke to Corin Dann.

Writer and associate professor Paula Morris, who is the director of Auckland University's Master of Creative Writing talks to Jesse about novelists tackling books set in the 'now'.

Interviews with NZ writers and poets, visiting authors from around the world and news of local events

31 October 2020 | WORD Christchurch Spring Festival Presented by Milford Asset Management Join MC Joe Bennett for this outrageous festival institution guaranteed to entertain and provoke. Is it the end of the world as we know it? Arguing for or against are The Spinoff editor Toby Manhire, satirist Tom Scott, novelist Paula Morris, comedian Guy Williams, scientist Dr Siouxsie Wiles, and te reo expert Dr Hana O’Regan. A raucous night of argument and repartee is guaranteed!

Sir Bob Harvey is a Westie to the core. He's a successful writer, historian, politician, environmental campaigner, film guy, advertising gun, surf life-saver and co-founder of the Going West Writers Festival.  In this address from the opening of the 2013 Going West Writers Festival, Sir Bob pays homage to the West coast and the role that this landscape, and the books he loves, have played in his extraordinary life, a life given over in large part to the service of his community. If the previous episode of this series celebrated the Bogan Westie stereotypes of the TV show Outrageous Fortune, this episode celebrates all the many other facets of West Auckland.  The former Waitakere City is also home to free thinkers, artists, writers and readers and one of the oldest literary festivals in the country. Sir Bob Harvey, recently described on RNZ by Paula Morris as “the mayor of everything”, has lived all these things as a true Westie renaissance man. Much of the detail from this talk made it into his 2014 biography Wild Westie: the incredible life of Bob Harvey by Hazel Phillips.

Leilani Tamu reviews Ko Aotearoa TÄtou: We Are New Zealand. An anthology edited by: Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris and James Norcliffe with art editor David Eggleton. Published by Otago University Press.

Leilani Tamu reviews Ko Aotearoa TÄtou: We Are New Zealand. An anthology edited by: Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris and James Norcliffe with art editor David Eggleton. Published by Otago University Press.

This podcast was recorded at the 2020 Janet Frame Memorial Lecture, given by the NZSA President of Honour 2020-2021, Paula Morris. The prestigious position of NZSA President of Honour is bestowed on a senior writer and long-serving member in recognition of their contribution to writing and writers and the literary arts sector in Aotearoa. Paula Morris holds senior roles across the book industry and is generous in her mentoring and support for writers. She champions diverse voices and has many mentoring roles across groups of emerging and developing writers.

Novelist Paula Morris takes us on a road trip with photographer Haru Sameshima to rediscover writer Robin Hyde.

Paul Diamond reviews Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde by Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima. This book is published by Massey University Press.

Paul Diamond reviews Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde by Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima. This book is published by Massey University Press.

Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our first episode explores Dispossession and Betrayal: Recovering the Erased history of First Nations. Indigenous writers, Madison Shakespeare and Lisa Chaplin, discuss with Maori writer and academic, Dr Paula Morris, why Aboriginal history has been suppressed, what is needed to remedy the omission, and how historical fiction can play a role in ensuring past injustices and cruelties aren’t forgotten or repeated. Full details of the speakers are available in our News & Interviews tab on our website.

With ruthless wit and compelling insights gained as a writer and writing teacher, Paula Morris argues that the skilled use of language is a more powerful ally for writers than ideas or feelings. She draws on persuasive examples of technique grounded in human experience.  Paula (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua) is an acclaimed novelist, memoirist, short story writer and creative writing teacher. An insightful and incisive interviewer, she has been the face of the 2020 Auckland Writers Festival and its COVID-19-mandated shift online. She is a writer of powerful opinion pieces, and the author of the story collection Forbidden Cities (2008); the essay On Coming Home (2015); and seven novels, including Rangatira (2011), fiction winner at both the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards and Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards. Her most recent book is an essay and story collection, False River (2017). Paula teaches creative writing at the University of Auckland and is the founder of the http://www.anzliterature.com (Academy of New Zealand Literature).

The 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are taking place tonight and this year absolutely everyone is invited! The ceremony started at 6pm and is being broadcast live on Youtube. We catch up LIVE with Paula Morris, one of the judges straight after the winners have been announced.

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.Book newsWomen’s Prize for Fiction shortlist -- the Prize’s 25th year. The shortlist was announced on the Women’s Prize for Fiction social channels:Dominicana by Angie CruzGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoA Thousand Ships by Natalie HaynesThe Mirror and the Light by Hilary MantelHamnet by Maggie O’ FarrellWeather by Jenny Offill#BookshopsAreBack!!Newsroom has a list of retailers around the country.Ockhams Out LoudThe 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards was to be the first event of Festival week and will now be broadcast via the #theockhams YouTube channel.In the lead up over the next few weeks, you can listen to each of the finalists reading from their shortlisted work, with one added each day until the winners are announced at the online ceremony on the evening of Tuesday 12 May. Take a look, and subscribe for updates.Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online SeriesIncludes Bernardine Evaristo, Lisa Taddeo, Amy McDaid, Anthony Byrt and more.9am on May 3rd and running live once a week for 13 weeks.Three writers including at least two from the 2020 programme will chat with series host Paula Morris, read from their work and answer audience questions.Watch via live the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website.BookBound 2020An 'antiviral' online literary festival, already in progress until 3 May 2020.Includes a number of New Zealand authors, including Freya Daly Sadgrove, Pip Adam Becky Manawatu & Renée, who join literary talent such as Max Porter and Emma Glass from around the world.The festival is raising money for a number of charities, and events are free on the BookBound 2020 YouTube channelVerb CommunityVerb Community members will ensure artists are paid for their work, help create content and experiences and lots of other good stuff. In return, they'll get access to the Verb Community hui where you can feed your ideas into what they do, discounts on ticketed events and festival sessions, and again lots of other good stuff!They launch alongside three new pieces of writing by Sinead Overbye (a reading list on love in isolation), Victor Rodger (love and quite a bit of sex), and essa may ranapiri (gender and language).Book reviewsKD: White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff DyerLK: Torpor by Chris KrausJT: Aue by Becky ManawatuNot booksKD: Record shops!LK: Home Cooking: a podcast from Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway to help you figure out what to cook (and keep you company) during the quarantine. Thanks to Papercuts listener David for the recommendation!Circus of Books on Netflix -- the charming and sometimes heartbreaking story of a middle-class Jewish family who ran a hardcore gay porn bookstore from the eighties up till the time of filming.JT: Brideshead Revisited (1981 TV series)The TBR PileKD: In the Fold and The Temporary by Rachel Cusk, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia LaingLK: You'll enjoy it when you get there: the stories of Elizabeth Taylor, I'm working on a building by Pip Adam, Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno, Fake Baby by Amy McDaid (out June)JT: Ripiro Beach by Caroline Barron (Bateman), Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino (4th Estate). Tennis Lessons by Susannah Dickey (DD)Also mentioned:Green Girl by Kate... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) brings you this special edition of NZSA Live! featuring content from the 2018 National Writers Forum. This episode features a discussion on making it in the international market with Paula Morris, David Ling and Tracy Farr. Like the music? Buy the track from NZ pianist Justin Bird: https://justinbird.bandcamp.com/track/bourree-fantasque-emmanual-chabrier

New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) brings you this special edition of NZSA Live! featuring content from the 2018 National Writers Forum. This episode features Dr Anita Heiss in discussion with Paula Morris about carving a path in a fairly monocultural literary landscape and nurturing indigenous literature. Like the music? Buy the track from NZ pianist Justin Bird: https://justinbird.bandcamp.com/track/bourree-fantasque-emmanual-chabrier

English food writer and journalist Nigella Lawson started work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, going on to become the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times before embarking on a career as a freelance journalist. She has now become one of the world’s most loved food writers and broadcasters and is the author of numerous award-winning books including How to Eat, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, Nigella Bites and most recently At My Table. Chaired by Paula Morris. Supported by Penguin Random House

A special event with internationally acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy. Arundhati Roy catapulted to fame with her debut novel The God of Small Things which won the 1997 Booker Prize. Since then she has published more than 18 books including Booker-longlisted second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017) and major works of non-fiction such as Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, The End of Imagination and, now, My Seditious Heart, an upcoming single volume collection of her political essay writing over 20 years. Chaired by Paula Morris.

The Canadian novelist and screenwriter Patrick deWitt is an amusing stylist of the highest order who credits his liking for “inane comedic dialogue” to early and sustained exposure to Monty Python. He has written four novels: Ablutions; The Sisters Brothers, which was made into a film; Undermajordomo Minor; and his latest French Exit, at times “a miniaturist work of howling nihilism” (The New Yorker). DeWitt satirises the wealthy 1%, specifically a Manhattan socialite – infamous for finding the body of her husband in their bedroom and promptly heading to the ski fields for R&R – and her adult son Malcolm as they up sticks for Paris, in relatively impoverished circumstances. deWitt discusses his work and motivations with Paula Morris. Supported by Canada Council for the Arts.

The Going West Festival keynote 2018 Sir Graeme Douglas Orator key note address was by Paula Morris. https://soundcloud.com/auckland-libraries/sets/going-west-writers-festival-1 In this extract Paula shares with the audience her thoughts and recommendations for drawing out the most creative writing practice. She shares the work of coached secondary school students published as Write Here, Write Now! Photo credit: Paula Morris, 14 Sept 2018, Going West Writers Festival, Photographer Liz March.

A line-up of Māori writers join forces with multi-instrumentalist Kingsley Melhuish for a night of storytelling interwoven with music, inspired by the new book Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold. Imagine a sensual retelling of Tāne’s creation of Hine, Māui as a beleaguered sports star, or an Aotearoa where whakapapa is downloaded via app. Join Whiti Hereaka (who edited Pūrākau with Witi Ihimaera), Kelly Joseph, Nic Low, Tina Makereti, Paula Morris, and Regan Taylor (reading for Vancouver-based David Geary) for an hour of mythic magic.

Award-winning hip-hop artist, social entrepreneur and writer Akala will talk with Paula Morris about his bestselling debut Natives, a searing, modern polemic on race and class in the British Empire. His memoir reflects on growing up poor, mixed race and politicised in Britain during the 1980s and ’90s and offers a nuanced historical treatise that The Guardian has lauded as “the kind of disruptive, aggressive intellect that a new generation is closely watching”. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

A special Oceania themed Literary Salon hosted by Damian Barr in the penthouse of New Zealand House to coincide with the major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. Joining Damian for this special Salon are five leading voices from the Pacific...Māori writers Witi Ihimaera, Tina Makereti and Paula Morris and Pasifika poets David Egglegon and Karlo Mila, all of whom tell stunning Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Damian Barr, award-winning writer, journalist, presenter and salonnière is now an honorary New Zealander by virtue of the fact that on his most recent visit to the country he made headlines and engaged in friendly Twitter exchange with NZ Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern*. *She expressed concern over his dislike of New Zealand cheese. More on the writers... Witi Ihimaera is one of New Zealand’s greatest modern writers; in 1974 he became the first Māori author to publish a novel, and four of his books including Whale Rider have been made into feature films. Tina Makereti’s latest novel The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke tells the story of young Māori man who becomes a ‘living exhibit’ at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, in 1846. Paula Morris is the author of eight novels. Her most recent book False River is a collection of stories and essays around the subject of secret histories. David Eggleton, poet, writer, reviewer and editor published a new poetry collection Edgeland in 2018. He has won a number of awards including, uniquely among NZ poets, the London Time Out Street Entertainer of the Year (1985). Pasifika poet, Karlo Mila, who represented Tonga at the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, has a new poetry collection coming in 2019. Supported by Creative New Zealand with thanks to the New Zealand High Commission and Black Estate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join two writers whose innate sense of curiosity produces insightful works of fiction and essay. Paula Morris’s accolades include the New Zealand Post Book Award for her novel, Rangatira, and her latest book, False River, gathers a bouquet of internationally acclaimed short stories and essays. Tina Makereti’s first book Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings is a favourite of book clubs and her new novel, The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke, like Rangatira, grapples with the challenging subject of Māori exhibited in Victorian England. Both are outspoken and energetic advocates for books and writers, especially Māori and Pasifika writers. They talk to writer Nic Low.

In 2003, Robin Robertson challenged some of the world’s finest writers to open up and share their stories of embarrassment for the collection, Mortification: Writers’ Stories of their Public Shame. The result was both horrifying and hilarious.We gave four New Zealand writers, Jarrod Gilbert, Paula Morris, Steve Braunias and Megan Dunn, the same challenge, and invited them to read their stories aloud, alongside Irvine Welsh* (via prerecorded video), who contributed to the original book. This session will have strong language and is not for the faint of heart or easily offended. We recommend you buy a stiff drink beforehand. *Please note that due to personal circumstances, Irvine Welsh will no longer be able to attend WORD Christchurch Festival in person. For more information please see our announcement here.

A gala reading at the shop, featuring Alex Taylor, Makyla Curtis, Megan France, Kim Tairi, Cybonn Ang, Craig Foltz, Rachel O’Connor, Gina Cole, Tom Romeo, Sophie van Waardenberg, Paula Morris, Lisa Samuels and Josie Shapiro.

Presented by Milford Asset Management Join MC Joe Bennett for this outrageous festival institution guaranteed to entertain and provoke. This year we give you a stellar international line-up, with Scottish crime writer Denise Mina, comedian Michele A’Court and and satirist David Slack on one side, and novelist Paula Morris, cartoonist Tom Scott and American thriller writer/editor Daniel Mallory aka A. J. Finn on the other. A raucous night of argument and repartee is guaranteed!

Anna and Paula talk about Laura Ingalls Wilder, dying parents and weaving.

Anna and Paula discuss fiction and non-fiction, the bright-line test and what one starts with when one sits down to write (part 1 of 2)

The writing of Witi Ihimaera (Te Aitanga-a-Mahāki, Tūhoe, Te Wha nau-ā-Apanui) has touchd generations of readers. The first Māori writer to publish both a book of short stories and a novel, he has since written more than 30 books for adults and children, as well as screenplays, scripts, essays and libretto. Born in Gisborne, Ihimaera worked in the diplomatic service through the 1970s and 1980s, eventually taking up the position of Professor of Creative Writing at The University of Auckland. His bestknown novel is The Whale Rider, made into the award-winning film. Other novels adapted for the screen include Nights in the Garden of Spain, Bulibasha and Medicine Woman. He is the recipient of numerous awards including: Book of the Year at the New Zealand Book Awards; an inaugural Star of Oceania Award from the University of Hawaii; a laureate award from the New Zealand Arts Foundation; the Toi Māori Maui Tiketike Award; the premiere Māori arts award Te Tohu Tiketike a Te Waka Toi; and the Premio Ostana International Award. He is a Distinguished Companion of the Order of New Zealand. Beyond the prizes, Ihimaera is a respected voice on Māori, Pacific and indigenous affairs, and advocates compellingly for Māori artists, as well as for Māori and New Zealand literature. Salute his remarkable achievements in an hour chaired by Paula Morris.

Norwegian literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgård leapt to notice with his arresting cycle of six autobiographical novels My Struggle (Min Kamp), described by The Paris Review as “extreme in its candor, by turns earnest and satiric, attentive to the minutiae of postmodern family life”. His latest works are a contemplative four-volume series named after the seasons and inspired by the birth of his daughter, and Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game co-written with Fredrik Ekelund, about football and more. Knausgård is also an informed speaker on Edvard Munch and Dante and the author of A Time for Everything. The book world’s man of the moment joins Paula Morris in conversation. Supported by Norwegian Literature Abroad.

Lincoln in the Bardo is the long-awaited genre-busting first novel from Syracuse University professor George Saunders, a multi-faceted writer with a back catalogue of acclaimed short stories and widely considered to be one of the best contemporary writers working today. At the dawn of the Civil War Abraham Lincoln is grieving the death of his 11-year-old son Willie, who is trapped in a transitional realm – in Tibetan culture the “bardo”. In New Zealand for the first time, Saunders talks with Paula Morris about his work and life, and some of its weirder moments. AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL 2017

As a writer and advocate Dame Fiona Kidman has contributed an astonishing amount to NZ literature. Born in Hawera in 1940, she has published more than 30 works – fiction, non-fiction, short stories, poetry, plays – and has been a script writer, radio producer, journalist and librarian. She has won several national and international awards, holds both an Order of the British Empire and a NZ Order of Merit for services to literature, and is the recipient of a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. From her first novel, A Breed of Women (1979) through to two books in 2016 – the novel All Day at the Movies and the poetry collection This Change in the Light – her ability to delve deeply into character and subject so illuminating the ordinary and the extraordinary, is evident. Kidman has also dedicated herself to the literary community: she has been a national president of PEN (NZ) and of the NZ Book Council, and a founding trustee of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Known and respected for her warmth, humour and insight, Dame Fiona Kidman is our 2017 Auckland Writers Festival Honoured New Zealand Writer. Chaired by Paula Morris. AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL 2017

In Paul Beatty’s Man Booker Prizewinning novel, The Sellout, the hero – a grower of artisanal marijuana and water melons – attempts to reintroduce slavery and segregation in his LA neighbourhood. Beatty’s savage satire, reflecting as is does the hypocrisies of contemporary America, often reads like reportage. Join one of America’s most exuberant and tuned-in voices, poet, editor and author of three previous novels in a discussion with Paula Morris. Supported by the Embassy of the United States of America AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL 2017

Auckland Writers Festival 2016 The transcendent, unclassifiable novel The Book of Strange New Things is award-winning Michel Faber’s eighth, and his declared last. A pastor is sent to a far-off planet. His job description? "Minister (Christian) to indigenous population". It’s a dystopian tale of love and faith that reviewers have observed is intent on making us kinder. Don’t miss this profound writer on what it is to be human. Faber talks with Paula Morris.

Auckland Writers Festival 2016 Jane Smiley arrives in NZ flush with the success of her Last Hundred Years trilogy – an investigation of American identity through the Midwestern Langdon clan, from the 1920s to the 2020s. Be prepared for a wide-ranging conversation with Paula Morris. Smiley’s back catalogue includes an essay on knitting, Why Bother?, a novel on the horse-racing business, Horse Heaven, and the Pulitzer-winning King Lear-inspired A Thousand Acres. Supported by Ponder & See.

Auckland Writers Festival 2015 Not long ago Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri caused a stir, writing in the Guardian that black and African writers should “not be expected to write about slavery, poverty or racial injustice. The greatest literature comes not from the heaviest subjects but from freedom of thought.” Okri has written many poetry, essay and short story collections, as well as ten novels including his Booker-winningThe Famished Road. His recent novel The Age of Magic is imbued with what Okri dubs “dream logic”, as well as with sensibility and imagination as he charts the journey of a group of documentary film makers on their way to film a piece on happiness in Arcadia, Greece. He speaks with Paula Morris.