Master in Creative Writing Readings featuring Albert Wendt

5pm-7pm
Wednesday 5 April 2017
Four Seasons, corner Wellesley St and Mayoral Drive, WH Building
AUT City Campus

The second Masters of Creative Writing (MCW) Readings features students and alumni of AUT's Centre for Creative Writing masters programme. Siobhan Harvey and Michael Giacon will MC, and readers represent the classes of 2015 and 2016. The range of genres includes memoir, poetry, fiction, graphic novel, YA, fantasy, noir and more. 

Guest Reader: 

Maualaivao Albert Wendt is considered internationally as one of Aotearoa’s and the Pacific’s major novelists and poets. His latest books are: From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden (poetry), Ancestry (short stories), and Breaking Connections (novel). He is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland, and lives with his partner, Reina Whaitiri, and their cat Manoa, in Ponsonby, Auckland.

 

Readers: 

Alexandra Balm
Megan Welch
Belinda Acyrigg
Alexandra Fraser
Maxi Quy
Maris O'Rourke
Lincoln Jaques
Dee O'Hagan
Siobhan Harvey

There will be a cash bar, and the readings will begin at 5.30pm. This is a free event, please RSVP to Farina Ibnul - farina.ibnul@aut.ac.nz