Friday, May 15, 2015

SPECTACULAR OPENING FOR THE AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL

A packed audience  at the Aotea Center last evening left the venue buzzing following the New Zealand Listener Gala Night sell-out event.


A riotous and engaging showcase jump-started three days of public programming. 

Eight writers each deliver a seven-minute true story, propless and scriptless, inspired by the theme Straight Talking.and they were all fabulous in their individual ways.

: NZ comedian and author Michele A’Court; lauded US novelist and short story writer Amy Bloom; The Good Wife star and memoirist Alan Cumming; former Wallaby, sports columnist and author Peter FitzSimons; Australian public intellectual and writer Helen Garner; Waitangi Tribunal member, lecturer and co-author of seminal book Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History Aroha Harris; Melbourne-based New Zealand short story writer Nic Low; and Booker Prize winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri.

A stunning start to what promises to be a wonderful weekend.

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