Thursday, May 28, 2015

From North to South, festival fever lingers

Booksellers NZ - The Read

Anne O’Brien (right), Auckland Writers Festival Director, says this month’s five-day event was “extraordinary”, with unprecedented levels of audience engagement.  
It’s true – the Aotea Centre was humming with throngs of festival ticket holders moving through swarms to get to their next event, using cellphones to find friends between sessions.The 2015 year was up an estimated 15 percent on 2014. “But the real breakthrough was in 2014, where the growth was 55 percent up on the previous event”, she says.

Anne believes it is the Festival ambience that is the big drawcard...

Read on for more from Anne O'Brien, WORD Literary Director Rachael King, Alexandra Bligh from DRWF, and booksellers for each of the festivals.

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