LitCrawl 2020
Phase One: 6pm - 6.45pm.
Airini Beautrais and Breton Dukes talk about their brilliant new short story collections.
Acclaimed writer Lloyd Jones shares passages from High Wire with live music by Andrew Laking and Nigel Collins.
Elizabeth Knox talks about the journey of her hugely successful novel, The Absolute Book.
Poets offer incantations for a very strange year.
Writers talk about what books have comforted & inspired in 2020.
Tayi Tibble, Chris Tse and Anahera Gildea analyse astrological lit personalities.
Tara Black, Pip Adam and Sam Orchard talk about writing relationships.
Come along and read to us your fave kids book and be in to win.
Celebrate the 2020 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry .
Kate Camp talks about her latest collection with Vancouver-based editor and fellow poet, Kevin Connolly.
Phase Two: 7.15pm - 8pm.
Join HG Parry and Philippa Swan for a conversation about their adventuresome novels.
Marty Smith celebrates the life of her friend Paul, with readings and music.
NZ’s POC poets, essayists, and performers riff on the number one human emotion that inspires most music, art, and their own personal writing.
Writers Nadine Anne Hura, Emily Writes, Emma Espiner and Laura O’Connell Rapira talk about online conversation.
Celebrate the seventh issue from a glorious Wellington-made journal.
Celebrate Jackson Nieuwland’s poetry collection, I Am A Human Being.
Celebrate 10 issues with one of Aotearoa’s most vibrant lit journals. Image: Rebecca Hawkes, for issue 10.
Phase Three: 8.30pm - 9.15pm.
Spoken word poetry to blow your mind. Curated by Te Hā.
What does it mean to write from within a diaspora?
Celebrate indie publisher Compound Press with a mini-fest of Compound’s authors.
Writers talk about battling the fear demons that get in the way of productivity.
Stasis journal kept us going over lockdown — let’s celebrate it!
Jehan Casinader talks with Charlotte Graham-McLay about this moving memoir.
The seventh annual Nick-Bollinger-hosted songwriter session in LitCrawl, with Dominic Hoey (aka Tourettes)
Creative couples confess the secrets of living and making stuff together.