Join the acclaimed novelist and Robin Hyde chronicler Paula Morris on 23 November to explore the Auckland city of this extraordinary, elusive and trailblazing writer.
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Join us in the glade at Piha for a poetry writing exploration and then make 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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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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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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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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