Keri Hulme discusses and reads from her unpublished novel BAIT at the Going West festival in Titirangi, 1997.
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Writer Paula Morris and photographer Haru Sameshima follow Robin Hyde through a young city emerging into its own identity.
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Maurice Shadbolt, master storyteller, celebrates the near forgotten lives from New Zealand’s history and the business of writing them to life in both fiction and memoir.
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Appearing at Going West in 2002, Max Cryer talks about New Zealand’s vernacular English and its origins.
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In this address from the opening of the 2013 Going West Writers Festival, Sir Bob Harvey pays homage to the West coast and the role that this landscape, and the books he loves, have played in his extraordinary life.
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Historian Tony Simpson tucks into 19th century colonial food traditions in Aotearoa and its impact on New Zealand’s cuisine and cultural identity.
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Award winning novelist and creator of Tarzan Presley Nigel Cox reflects on what he sees in New Zealand after 5 years away in Berlin.
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Marilyn Waring on the theme of Tracking the Vernacular at the Going West Books and Writers Festival 2002 Gala Night opening.
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Historian Michael King reflects and recollects on what it means to be a White Native of New Zealand, of being a Pākehā now.
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Stephanie Johnson performs a literary satire about neoliberalism, including her parody caricature of tauiwi, the ‘National Party Poet Laureate’ Amanda Tauiwi Reinhardt Carlton.
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Rod Oram like you’ve never heard him before, orating a trans-historical soundscape encapsulating the ecological history of Tāmaki Makaurau.
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Paula Morris, Sir Graeme Douglas Orator, responds to the 2018 Going West theme and puts forward a bold argument for valuing the craft of writing over ideas.
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