Thursday, May 19, 2011

Sydney Writers Festival - work to be done by Creative NZ?



I see and hear quite a few NZ'ers amongst the audiences which is more than one can say for NZ authors on stage! The only link with NZ authorship I can see in the whole Festival are the sister-authors of Goodbye Sarajevo, one of whom lives in Auckland, but of course the book is published in the UK by Bloomsbury so hardly a NZ title.
Perhaps Creative New Zealand should be lobbying the SWF for a bit more NZ author representation, after all every literary Festival I go to in NZ has Aussie authors present.

2 comments:

jelsie said...

Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional winner Craig Cliff is appearing several times at the festival.

FSS said...

Couldn't agree more! Thank you very much for the brief chat before the Finkler event, so glad I could spot you in the crowd! Enjoy the rest of the festival.