BRINGING THE FESTIVAL TO YOU EVERY SUNDAY
3 MAY - 26 JULY 2020
9:00-10:00AM
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In a pre-Covid world, we would have been presenting our 20th Auckland Writers Festival this week - the Aotea Centre would have been overrun with kids for our three-day Schools Programme, we would have been welcoming over 200 writers to our city and our stages, gearing up for tomorrow's Gala Night and sharing a week of words, ideas, conversation and good times with you all.
However... we hope that the next episode of our Winter Series will bring a little of that Festival magic to you at home this weekend. With the imminent move to Level Two, you can even join your Festival friends and watch the livesteam together on Sunday morning - see you then!
Our 13-week Winter Series is livestreamed every Sunday morning 9-10am via Facebook and YouTube. You can also catch up on the video or podcast (and many more) at anytime via our website, SoundCloud or iTunes.
Every week we feature three writers including at least two from the 2020 programme, and some extra surprise guests. They will chat with host Paula Morris, read from their work and answer audience questions. We look forward to seeing you again on Sunday with Becky Manawatu, Chanel Miller and Robert Macfarlane.
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EPISODE THREE: STREAMING SUNDAY 17 MAY
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BECKY MANAWATU (Aotearoa New Zealand)
Becky Manawatu (Ngāi Tahu) is the winner of both the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction and the Best First Book Award Fiction at the 2020 Ockham NZ Book Awards with her debut novel Auē. The judges wrote, “Auē is a mere pounamu: raw life polished to a sheen that’s beautiful and warm but at the same time a blade with a keen edge". A journalist and writer, Becky works as a reporter for The News in Westport. Her story Abalone was longlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
CHANEL MILLER (United States)
2019 Time Next 100 honoree and literature graduate Chanel Miller (pseudonym Emily Doe) is a writer and artist. Her New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir, Know My Name sparked a nation-wide discussion in the US about the treatment of sexual assault survivors by both colleges and the court system. It was listed as a 2019 notable book by New York Times Book Review, Time, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and NPR.
ROBERT MACFARLANE (England)
Robert Macfarlane is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language. Described by The Wall Street Journal as “the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation,” his many books include the award-winning Landmarks, The Old Ways, and The Lost Words, with several adapted for TV by the BBC. A Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2017 he received The EM Forster Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Underland: A Deep Time Journey is his most recent book.
HOSTED BY: PAULA MORRIS (Aotearoa New Zealand)
Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua) is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. The 2019 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow, she teaches creative writing at The University of Auckland, sits on the Māori Literature Trust and is the founder of the Academy of NZ Literature.
Watch the livestream, 9-10am every Sunday:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/akwrfest
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AKwritersFESTIVAL
Or catch up later on our website:
AWF videos: http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/look-and-listen/videos/
AWF podcasts: http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/look-and-listen/podcasts/
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This series provides an opportunity to champion New Zealand and international books that were to feature at our now-cancelled May Festival, and we encourage you to buy directly via our bookshop partner, and please continue to support NZ writers, publishers and booksellers in these tough times.
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CATCH UP ON EARLIER EPISODES
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Our first two episodes have featured: barrister and professor Philippe Sands on his new book The Ratline, Lisa Taddeo on her non-fiction bestseller Three Women and former NZ Poet Laureate Ian Wedde discussing The Reed Warbler, actor and writer Barbara Ewing with her about-to-be-published memoir One Minute Crying Time, former Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard with Economists At War and Booker Prize joint winner Bernardine Evaristo on Girl, Woman, Other. If you missed the livestream events, you can catch up as a video or podcast on via our website.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2020 WINNERS
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The 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards were livestreamed last night, with recognition of the following writers, book and publishers: Westport writer Becky Manawatu won this year’s $55,000 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards’ Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for her first novel, Auē (Makaro Press). Another first-time author, Dunedin’s Straitjacket Fits frontman Shayne Carter, won the General Non-Fiction Award for his work, Dead People I Have Known (Victoria University Press). Wellington writer, editor and publisher Helen Rickerby won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry for her collection How to Live (Auckland University Press). Three Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa curators Stephanie Gibson, Matariki WIlliams and Puawai Cairns won the Illustrated Non-Fiction Award for their work Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance.
Four MitoQ Best First Book Awards were presented to Becky Manawatu for Auē (Mākaro Press); Shayne Carter for Dead People I Have Known (Victoria University Press); Jane Arthur for Craven (Victoria University Press) and Chris McDowall and Tim Denee for We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa (Massey University Press).
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OUR WINTER SERIES IS PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:
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WITH THANKS TO OUR MAJOR FESTIVAL PARTNERS
FOR THEIR ONGOING SUPPORT:
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