Lucy Mackintosh, Richard Shaw and Pita Turei discuss the contested stories and histories of Taranaki and Tāmaki Makaurau with journalist Tania Page.
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Poet Paula Green in conversation with creative collaborators Bill Manhire, poet, and Norman Meehan, musician and jazz composer.
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Five leading women meet in the 125th year since the 1893 granting of female suffrage in New Zealand.
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In conversation with Steve Braunias, Diana Wichtel talks of her memoir and the long search for her lost father Ben Wichtel, a Polish Jew, rounded up by the Nazis and who jumped to safety from a train on the way to the Treblinka death camp.
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Paula Morris leads a discussion with Simon Wilson, Susanna Andrew and Shamubeel Eaqub on writing true stories, and the demands and possibilities of the essay and creative non-fiction.
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What does it mean to be a writer, a creative person, while also parenting small children? Poet Karlo Mila and writer and cartoonist/illustrator Sarah Laing share their experiences.
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Written sounds and spoken language - a discussion on the earliest Māori engagement with writing by Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins
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In the first such history of its kind, Professor of History at Otago University Barbara Brookes, shares the story of her ground-breaking book A History of New Zealand Women, in conversation with Judith Pringle.
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Niki Harré and the Infinite Game: an invitation to live differently
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Greg McGee on his epic novel The Antipodeans, in conversation with journalist David Larsen
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Author Elspeth Sandys talks to Matt Nippert about the search for her cousin, Cultural Revolutionary Rewi Alley.
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For the first time in 150 years, Geoff Norman re-imagines and revises Buller’s Birds of New Zealand, with the exquisitely reproduced water-colours by JG Keulemans, the most renowned ornithological artist of the 19th century.
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This session brings together poet, writer, actor and playwright Peter Bland and poet, blogger, and anthologist Paula Green to traverse the world of childhood, children’s poetry and writing with warmth, wit and word-play.
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In her prizewinning novel Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings Tina Makereti confronts the complexities of cultural heritage, the past and the present, and Moriori, Māori and Pākehā identity.
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Roger Shepherd in conversation with John Campbell discussing Roger’s memoir In Love With These Times: My Life With Flying Nun Records
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Dame Anne Salmond and Moana Maniapoto take to the Going West stage for a kōrero on Salmond’s landmark publication Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds.
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Phillip Mann, described as an Ecological Science Fiction writer, talks writing and ecology and of being absorbed in the landscape
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In her book What Lies Beneath, novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter and playwright Elspeth Sandys shares her voyage into memoir and its complex relationship with memory.
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Fiona Kidman in conversation with Karyn Hay about Albert Black the ‘Milk-Bar Murderer’.
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Jesse Mulligan interviews Steve Braunias about his book, The Man Who Ate Lincoln Road, exploring the fast-food joints on New Zealand’s second busiest road.
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