Unity Books and
the City Gallery Book Club warmly welcome you to
Tuatara Open Late: Book Club
with Emily Perkins
with Emily Perkins
Thursday 3rd March 7.30pm
City Gallery Wellington
Koha Entry
City Gallery Book Club returns with host Emily Perkins
and her panel of writers Pip Adam, Megan Dunn and Damien Wilkins. They discuss
Writers Week and influence.
The exhibition Julian Dashper & Friends is a show
about conversations: between the local and international, between artists,
between friends. Taking their cue from the exhibition, City Gallery Book Club
host Emily Perkins and her party of writers and readers looks at how writers
influence each other, focussing on some of the featured authors in Writers Week.
Speakers
Emily Perkins
Emily Perkins’ books include Not Her Real Name and
Other Stories, Novel About My Wife and The Forrests. She
is an Arts Foundation Laureate. Emily hosted TVNZ7’s books programme The Good
Word and is a co-convenor of the MA in Creative Writing at Victoria
University’s International Institute of Modern Letters.
Megan Dunn
Megan Dunn received an MA in Creative Writing from the
University of East Anglia in 2006, graduating with distinction. Her art writing
has appeared in a number of publications including Art News, Circuit,
Eyecontact, Metro, New Zealand Books and The Listener.
Pip Adam
Pip Adam's work has appeared in Sport, Glottis,
Turbine, The Lumiere Reader, Hue & Cry, Landfall
and Blackmail Press.
She completed a manuscript for a full-length work based on the creative component of her PhD which became her novel I am Working on a Building, published by Victoria University Press.
She completed a manuscript for a full-length work based on the creative component of her PhD which became her novel I am Working on a Building, published by Victoria University Press.
Damien Wilkins
Damien Wilkins is the Director of Victoria
University's International Institute of Modern Letters.
He is the author of ten books, including the novels The Miserables, and Nineteen Widows Under Ash.
He is the author of ten books, including the novels The Miserables, and Nineteen Widows Under Ash.
Unity Books will be on-site selling books
For more information, please visit the City
Gallery website here.
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