Another
stimulating line-up of new fiction, poetry, scriptwriting and nonfiction
returns to Wellington as part of the popular annual Writers on Mondays
series.
Beginning
in mid-July and presented by Victoria University of Wellington's International
Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) in conjunction with Te Papa, the series’
special international guest for 2014 is United Kingdom based novelist,
publisher, translator, poet and anthologist, Michael Schmidt.
Michael’s
illustrious career includes founding Carcanet Press and editing the world-class
literary journal PN Review.
In
conversation with poet, painter and essayist Greg O’Brien, Michael will discuss
his latest work, a history of fiction simply called The Novel: A Biography.
Writers on Mondays events run from 12.15–1.15pm, each Monday from 14 July until 29
September at Te Papa, The Marae, Level 4. Admission is free.
Writers on Mondays is presented by Victoria University’s International Institute of
Modern Letters with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and National
Poetry Day. Michael Schmidt’s visit is funded by the New Zealand Centre for
Literary Translation at Victoria University.
The full 2014 Writers on Mondays programme appears below, but can
also be viewed online: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/about/events/writers-mondays
Writers
on Mondays
2014 Programme
12.15–1.15 pm, The Marae, Level
4, Te Papa
14
July
News
Pigs: Tim Wilson
We’re
pleased to welcome journalist and novelist Tim Wilson to Wellington.
Wilson turned to fiction after his stint as US correspondent for TVNZ, and his
first novel Their Faces Were Shining was a finalist in the 2011 NZ Post
Book Awards. In this session, he will read from his raucous new novel News
Pigs and explore the boundaries of satire, fact and fiction with fellow
broadcaster, writer and TV presenter Richard Langston. Join us for what
promises to be a highly entertaining session.
21
July
Tree,
Horse, Human: Three New Poets
‘We
all sift through the drift of inheritance to find what is magnetic, useful and
active,’ writes Rachel O’Neill. Personal and family histories rub up
against the wider domains of science, politics, pop and digital culture in the
work of Maria McMillan (Tree Space), Rachel O’Neill (One
Human in Height) and Marty Smith (Horse with Hat). The
authors of three new poetry collections read from their work and reflect on the
process of writing, collating and finally seeing that first full-length book
materialize with chair Therese Lloyd.
28
July
The
Astonishing Geoff Cochrane
Geoff
Cochrane's latest book, Astonished Dice, is a collection of his
published short stories. Showcasing Cochrane’s compressed, fragmentary style
and dark-edged humour, Astonished Dice is an important addition to the
catalogue of this major talent. Join us as he discusses his fiction with
publisher and friend Fergus Barrowman.
4
August
Waha
| Mouth: Hinemoana Baker
Join
us to hear 2014 Victoria University/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence
Hinemoana Baker in conversation with Chris Price. With a new book of
poems, waha | mouth, freshly released in July, Baker is currently
working on a book about her own experiences of involuntary childlessness and
her father’s traumatic childhood experiences in a Nelson orphanage. She will
discuss how retelling her father’s story is a way to acknowledge the painful
past, and to move on with grace.
11
August
New
Zealand at War: Kate Hunter & Kirstie Ross
Te
Papa Press’s publication Holding on to Home is a ‘powerfully human and
compelling illustrated history of New Zealand’s war experience’ that tells the
stories of real New Zealanders at war from battlefront to home front through
the objects they held dear. The authors, historians Kirstie Ross and Kate
Hunter, will discuss their research journeys and the discoveries they made
along the way. Paul Diamond will chair this event.
18
August
Best
New Zealand Poems 2013
What
better way to anticipate National Poetry Day* than with a line-up of nine of
the best? Come along to hear Kate Camp, Mary-Jane Duffy, Dinah
Hawken, Anna Jackson, Therese Lloyd, Greg O’Brien, Rachel
O’Neill, Chris Tse and Ashleigh Young read their poem selected
for the annual online anthology Best New Zealand Poems, plus a favourite
NZ poem. The editors of this year’s selection, Professors Mark Williams
and Jane Stafford, will introduce the poets.
(*National
Poetry Day is on 22 August)
25
August
From
Sprint to Marathon: Craig Cliff and Tina Makereti
In
2010, Writers on Mondays showcased the debut short-story collections of two
dynamic new writers: Craig Cliff and Tina Makereti. We pair these two writers
again to discuss their second books—Cliff’s The Mannequin Makers, and
Makereti’s Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings. Makereti’s novel has been
described as ‘generous’ and ‘unshrinking’ and Cliff’s as ‘engaging and deadly
smart’. Chair Kate Duignan asks how these two writers made the switch
from short story to novel, what were the different challenges presented by both
genres, and what are they working on now?
1
September
Literary
Lives: Michael Schmidt
In
association with the NZ Centre for Literary Translation, we're proud to present
Mexican-born Anglophone man of letters Michael Schmidt. A poet,
novelist, translator and anthologist, Schmidt is also founder/publisher of two
of the UK's most illustrious and globally-minded poetry outlets, Carcanet Press
and PN Review, and has for many years been Professor of Poetry at
Glasgow University. Following his compendious Lives of the Poets (1998),
Schmidt has just published an equally comprehensive and engaging look at how
the novel made the modern world. The Novel: A Biography has been
hailed as 'brilliant, intimate, assured, and almost unflaggingly interesting' (The
Atlantic). Chaired by Gregory O’Brien.
8
September
The
Next Page 1
A
wonderful opportunity to hear a fresh mix of poetry and prose by this year’s
intake of writers at the Masters in Creative Writing Programme at Victoria
University. Brandy Scott, Freya Sadgrove, Luke Elworthy, Ines Almeida,
Rebecca Nash, Rebecca Hunt, Gina-Marie Aburn, Bernie Coleman, Lucy Bailey,
and Craig Gamble are introduced by Chris Price.
15
September
The
Next Page 2
Part
2 of these always popular sessions features readings from Patrick Hunn, Ben
Egerton, Rupa Maitra, Faith Wilson, Alison Burdett, Anahera Gildea, Georgia Godwin,
Juliet Allnatt, Max Chapnick and Doug Dillaman. The writers are
introduced by Emily Perkins.
22
September
A
Survivor’s Guide to Scriptwriting
Join
us for a panel discussion with three experienced scriptwriters for stage and
screen. Peter Cox created and wrote the indie hit TV series The Insiders
Guide to Happiness as his MA thesis in 2005 and has worked in television ever
since. Kelly Marshall, in NZ to share her expertise with the 2014 MA
Script workshop, has an extensive and award-studded background in writing and
directing for television in the UK. All-round scriptwriting guru Dave
Armstrong (whose play Rita & Douglas enjoyed a sold-out run at
Circa earlier this year) has won the Chapman Tripp Theatre Award three times,
and worked on many hit TV series. They compare notes on the highs and lows of
the scriptwriter’s life with chair William Brandt.
29
September
A
Home in this World
In his
new memoir The Grass Catcher, Ian Wedde writes, ‘We are all
at home in places constructed as narratives, and in selves who act like
characters in those narratives.’ Helena Wísniewska Brow’s
Adam-Prize-winning Give Us This Day chronicles her father’s exile as one
of the Polish orphans who arrived in NZ in 1944, and in her memoir How
Does it Hurt?, adapted from her PhD in Creative Writing, Stephanie de
Montalk imaginatively explores the internal exile of the chronic pain
sufferer. Join these three memoirists for a conversation about home, exile, and
character in creative nonfiction, chaired by Harry Ricketts.
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