Blogs about: Auckland Writers And Readers Festival
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Anthony’s Index to the Festival
Ten Memorable Sessions An hour with Loretta Napoleoni The New Zealand Listener Opening Night An hour with Sarah Hall Where do underpants come from? An hour with J.M.Coetzee An ho… more →
Palmerston North City Library
My weekend
tinasteirokelly wrote 6 months ago: I’ve just had the most awesome weekend in a long time! I volunteered at the Auckland Writers a … more →
Anthony’s Index to the Festival
pncl wrote 1 year ago: Ten Memorable Sessions An hour with Loretta Napoleoni The New Zealand Listener Opening … more →
Anthony’s Sunday at the Festival
pncl wrote 1 year ago: An hour with Anne Enright Given my previous comments about the ‘hour with ….” Format, this sessi … more →
Anthony’s Auckland Day Three
pncl wrote 1 year ago: An hour with Simon Montefiore This was a scintillating hour with a most acclaimed historian who … more →
Philippa: You Know when you're done with a story when.....
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pncl wrote 1 year ago: Favourite short stories from the Pro’s (AND ONES TO READ AND RE-READ WHEN I GET HOME!) Anne … more →
Philippa on Day Four - some kernels (and emotional truths)
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pncl wrote 1 year ago: I woke at 4am with my head full of voices. Here are some of the louder ones: “It is always th … more →
Genny's thoughts on Saturday
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pncl wrote 1 year ago: More poetry!! Checked out the open mike session running from 10am -2pm. Penny Ashton from poetry Ido … more →
Philippa’s Saturday thus far
pncl wrote 1 year ago: I am starting to feel just a little “spacey” this afternoon as I settle down to update y … more →
Pauline’s Random thoughts on Saturday:
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pncl wrote 1 year ago: Most poignant moment of the festival so far was seeing Heath Ledger’s face and hearing his distincti … more →
5 Books Rebecca Will Read When She Gets Home
pncl wrote 1 year ago: 1. God of Speed – Luke Davies, After a seedy/saucy reading from his book about Howard Hughes, … more →
Finally some of our team Photo's
pncl wrote 1 year ago: See we do exist Philippa and one of her poetry heroes, Karlo Mila Philippa’s Friday Catchup P … more →
Pauline on Junot Diaz
pncl wrote 1 year ago: A surprising theme that has emerged over the last couple of days is the number of authors who have h … more →
Philippa on day 2 (Friday)
pncl wrote 1 year ago: Innocence and Experience 3 world class authors – all of whom have written beautifully crafte … more →
Pauline’s Friday report back:
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pncl wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday’s session started with an author, Heather O’Neill, using her unhappy childhood experiences … more →
10 Things Rebecca Learnt Today
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pncl wrote 1 year ago: 1. Pauline, Genny and Philippa have matching purple suitcases. Anthony and I do not. 2. N … more →
Genny’s thoughts
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pncl wrote 1 year ago: 710pm Here I am sitting in a slightly shabby kebab place grabbing a quick bite to eat before the fin … more →
Philippa on Day One
pncl wrote 1 year ago: We started with a “biggie” – the Canadian writer Heather O’Neill. Not a great session for numbers ( … more →
Pauline’s Comments on Day One:
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pncl wrote 1 year ago: The definite highlight for me was the session I almost didn’t go to. I had to decide between “Histor … more →
General comments on event management
pncl wrote 1 year ago: It was disappointing to attend two events that were spoilt to some extent by sound difficulties. Sur … more →
