Headlining Victoria University of Wellington’s
International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) 2016 season are
award-winning New Zealand authors Anne Kennedy, Patricia Grace and Jenny
Bornholdt.
Director of IIML Professor Damien Wilkins
says the combination of new voices and established writers in Writers on Mondays is wonderful.
“This series is a brilliant fixture on the
literary calendar and it’s free!”
The Writers on Mondays programme
runs from 11 July to 26 September. Sessions are from 12.15-1.15pm at Te Papa in
Te Marae (Level 4), except for Short Sharp Script 1 & 2, which are at Circa
Theatre.
The programme kicks off in style with the
innovative and genre-bending 2016 Victoria University of Wellington Creative
New Zealand Writer in Residence Anne Kennedy in
conversation with Pip Adam about the times Kennedy has written in and about,
and how different
genres require a writer to use time in different ways.
The following Monday, Arts Foundation Icon
Patricia Grace joins accomplished writer for screen and stage Briar Grace-Smith
for a look into the career of this deeply subtle, moving and
subversive writer.
Next, Sue Orr, novelist and short story
writer, and Tracey Slaughter, whose debut short story collection Deleted Scenes for
Lovers has
just been published, join Damien Wilkins in a discussion about what it is to
write New Zealand stories.
On
8 August we move from page to the stage when Ken Duncum chairs a discussion
with Nina
Nawalowalo and Victor Rodger, two of the country’s most exciting
and accomplished theatre makers.
We celebrate the release of
critically-acclaimed poet Jenny Bornholdt’s Selected Poems on 15 August
when she is joined by fellow poet James Brown to talk about how she went from
accidental poet to Arts Foundation Laureate and beyond.
August wouldn’t be the same without
National Poetry Day (26 August). Writers on Mondays starts the festivities
early with the annual Best New Zealand Poetry reading on 22 August. Best New
Zealand Poems 2015 editor John Newton chairs this lively session.
September
sees our annual showcase of work from the current cohort of writers in the
Master of Arts in Creative Writing Programme at Victoria University’s
International Institute of Modern Letters. We begin with page writers then move
to Circa Theatre where actors perform dynamic new work by participants in the
MA scriptwriting workshop.
The full 2016 Writers on Mondays
programme can be viewed and downloaded from the IIML’s website. Admission is free
and all are welcome.
Writers on Mondays is presented by
Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters with the Museum
of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and additional support from Circa Theatre.
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