Sir Bob Harvey on the unique festival that attracted NZ s biggest literary names stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Thursday, 1 July 2021, 9:51 am
Going West Festival’s 26th season is dialing it up,
offering four multi-media Saturday evening events featuring
Aotearoa’s finest writers of prose, poetry and music once
a month from August.
Launching on Saturday 14 August,
the richly layered new-format offers something for everyone
with a love of reading and ideas.
“Going West
Festival is 25 years old this year. We want to demonstrate
our commitment to the next quarter century with a fresh
programming approach. There will be live music, oratory,
performance and kōrero taking place, as well as pop up
performances and installations, on multiple stages, with
Te Pou Theatre – Rangatahi Season presents MANIAC (on the Dance Floor) Written
by Natasha Lay More
Thursday, 3 August 2017, 9:35 am | Te Pou
Te Pou, Auckland’s Māori Home of Theatre, is proud to announce the details of
their innovative development programme. Four Māori playwrights have been selected
to workshop their original scripts in this ground-breaking programme unlike anything . More
Wednesday, 19 July 2017, 2:56 pm | Te Pou The Home of Māori Theatre Te Pou Comes Alive for the Return of Kōanga Festival
Te Pou Theatre presents KŌANGA FESTIVAL 1 – 17 September In association with Going
West Festival More
Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 12:21 pm | Te Pou
Can you share a piece of good advice you ve received about writing? Make all your characters as smart as possible - Mark Leidner. Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else is going to.
What advice do you give to writers starting out? Don t be afraid to try on different voices, copy, steal. Nothing is original, not really.
What kind of books do you like to read for enjoyment I only read for enjoyment. I read a lot of humour, 20th century crime-fiction, fantasy, people like Elizabeth Jane Howard and Elizabeth Strout. I m a children s bookseller, so I read a lot of middle-grade books about magic and art heists too. Non-fiction - particularly science. Interesting biographies.
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