WRITERS & READERS WEEK OPENS!

Writers & Readers Week got off to a great start last night with over a thousand people in the audience at the Town Hall for Opening Address speaker, environmentalist Tim Flannery.  A post-show function hosted by Mayor Celia Wade Brown in the Council Chambers provided the perfect setting for the visiting writers to meet and mingle, ahead of a packed weekend of literary excitement featuring Germaine Greer, Denise Mina, Alan Hollinghurst and Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo.  With sessions at just $18 (excl bkg fees) or $10 for students, Writers & Readers Week runs until Wednesday 14 March.  View the full programme.   Footnote: Very interesting five page story by Charlotte Grimshaw in March issue of METRO headed Me & Germaine Greer. Worth a read. Town Hall Talks speakers Tim Flannery and Germaine Greer chat at the Writers and Readers Week opening function. Image: Robert Catto