Inaugural New Zealand Post Book Awards Festival to celebrate top authors and poets
The finalists for the 2013 New Zealand Post Book
Awards were announced in July - with the winners, including the supreme winner,
to be announced at a ceremony in Auckland on 28 August.
The New Zealand Post Book Awards Festival will build
on the success of the National Poetry Day event, which has celebrated New
Zealand poetry and poets since 1998. The Festival expands that
celebration to include fiction and non-fiction authors.
National Poetry Day itself – which takes place during
the Festival on 16 August – will feature 57 wide-ranging poetry events;
including Poetry Flashmobs in Nelson, a poetry street performance with visual
projections in Whanganui, and pavement poetry event ‘Chalking Station Square’
in Newmarket, Auckland.
There will also be 9 hometown events during the
Festival in bookstores around New Zealand, featuring finalists in the fiction,
non-fiction and poetry categories.
For a full list of Festival and Poetry Day events, visit www.booksellers.co.nz/festival
For a full list of Festival and Poetry Day events, visit www.booksellers.co.nz/festival
Festival coordinator Siobhan Harvey says the week-long festival will be a huge celebration of New Zealand writers and writing and its on-going ability to connect with individuals and communities the length of the country.
“This year there really is something book and
poetry-themed on offer for everyone. This series of events reaches out to
people; where age or geographical location isn't a barrier.
“That's the biggest buzz in being New Zealand Post
Book Festival coordinator, seeing literature of all kinds, including poetry
happen everywhere,” Siobhan Harvey says.
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