Join award-winning playwright Gary Henderson for a hands-on workshop exploring how to shape a seed of an idea into compelling theatre on Saturday, 14 March 2026
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Join acclaimed poet Anne Kennedy for a practical workshop exploring how character, story and voice can shape narratives within poetry on Sunday 12 April.
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Award-winning author and poet Dominic Hoey joins Mark Easterbrook for the third in our Within These Walls series — an intimate late-afternoon conversation about writing, class, and the stories that shape us. Saturday 19 April 2026.
Read MoreOn Sunday 29 March journalists Simon Wilson and Paula Penfold join Within These Walls for the second in our series of intimate late-afternoon conversations, in discussion about truth, power, and journalism today
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On Saturday 28 February author Catherine Chidgey, opens Within These Walls — a series that brings together intimate late-afternoon conversations with writers and journalists, alongside a programme of creative writing workshops.
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Thank you to those who joined us in the glade at Piha for the poetry writing exploration and making your mark in The Listening Sand on Sunday 2 November 2025
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Going West celebrates Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu), our new New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2025-2028
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Roll up your sleeves and loosen your imagination for a one-of-a-kind cartoon workshop with acclaimed illustrator and cartoonist Anna Crichton on 30 August 2025.
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Join us at Shadbolt House for The Art of the Shortest Story—a hands-on workshop with award-winning flash fiction writer Jack Remiel Cottrell on Sunday, 13 July 2025.
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Going West is excited to welcome Dominic Hoey—bestselling author, poet, and experienced writing teacher—to Shadbolt House for a new series of weekly creative writing workshops on Tuesday evenings.
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We're thrilled to welcome Richard back for another Creative Nonfiction workshop at Shadbolt House, 14 June 2025, 10am - 12pm.
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In 2024, we completed approximately a third of the work required to restore the property’s structural integrity. We are now preparing to launch the next significant stage of work needed to establish the house as a full writers’ residency.
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This Easter weekend Richard Pamatatau delivers the very first workshop to be held at Shadbolt House with a focus on Creative Non Fiction. 19 April 2025, 10:30 am to 2:00 pm
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May the season be celebratory, reflective, peaceful and restorative and filled with great reads from the bounty of books produced by Aotearoa writers during the year.
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The Going West Trust and the Shadbolt family celebrate Shadbolt house receiving a Category 1 historic place listing.
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Our dedicated archivist, with support from the Auckland Library Heritage Trust and Lotteries Heritage, has completed the marathon effort of archiving the Going West festival audio collection for 1996 – 2019.
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The House Within, just premiered in Wellington, holds a delicate lens to the fascinating life and work of one of Aotearoa’s literary treasures, Dame Fiona Kidman.
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Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga has confirmed Maurice Shadbolt House and Studio in Titirangi as a Category 1 historic place.
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Going West is still busy!
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