For a taste of all things wordy, pop in to and about the characterful spaces of New Regent Street. Featuring local and national talent in sessions on body horror, life writing, poetry, science fiction, and more.
FIKA Writers at Fiksate Gallery
FIKA Writers is a collective of Ōtautahi-Christchurch Pasifika creatives. FIKA meets regularly to give energy to the practice of storytelling through writing, poetry, prose, and performance. Through collaboration and exchange, FIKA maintains a sense of oral tradition and works to strengthen the voices of Pasifika peoples within Waitaha-Canterbury. Featuring Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i (emcee), Morghan Ariki Bradshaw, Sarah Maindonald, Jess Marama, Ana Mulipola, Stephanie Oberg, Danielle O’Halloran-Thyne, Isla Reeves, Dietrich John Soakai, and Siobhan Kahu Tumai.
Metamorphoses at Youngs Jewellers
In this spooky special (it’s Halloween, after all), local and national writers come together to share their stories of body horror. Featuring Erin Harrington (emcee), Laura Borrowdale, Jess Fiebig, Rebecca Nash, essa may ranapiri, and Freya Daly Sadgrove.
Cold Hub Connections at Twenty-Seven Steps
Cold Hub Press, a small press based in Lyttelton, specialises in publishing Aotearoa-New Zealand poets, as well as international poetry in bilingual editions, with a particular focus on Latin-American poets. Since 2010, Cold Hub has produced twenty-eight volumes of poetry, biography, and memoir, as well as fifty poetry chapbooks. Featuring Roger Hickin (emcee), John Allison, Victoria Broome, and Wayne Seyb, and renditions of works by Ernesto Cardenal, Blanca Castellón, Dan Davin, Ruth France, R. A. K. Mason, Joaquín Pasos, and Carlos Martínez Rivas.
Canterbury Poets Collective at Café Stir
Since its inception over thirty years ago, the Canterbury Poets Collective has fostered the poetry scene in Ōtautahi-Christchurch. CPC events serve multiple aims: to nurture and develop new poets, to showcase established poets, to bring the best poets from around Aotearoa-New Zealand to audiences in Christchurch, and to provide affordable, welcoming opportunities for people to see and hear poetry of all kinds. Featuring John Allison (emcee), David Gregory (emcee), Marisa Cappetta, Jeni Curtis, David Eggleton, Bernadette Hall, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Helen Mongillo, James Norcliffe, and Annabel Wilson.
The Meaning of Life at The Institution
Some times are mundane, other times are strange and unprecedented, sometimes things are less clear-cut. In this life-writing special, local and national writers reflect on all things life as they know it. Featuring Mary McCallum (emcee), Caroline Barron, Lil O’Brien, Eamonn Marra, Rebecca Nash, Rebecca Priestley, Renée and Sandra Arnold.
Catalyst 17 Launch at The Last Word
Catalyst is a literary arts journal edited by Doc Drumheller and published by the Republic of Oma Rāpeti Press. The journal is now enjoying its seventeenth year of publishing and has gained a reputation as being one of the most daring and innovative journals in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Featuring Doc Drumheller (emcee), Ciarán Fox, Bernadette Hall, Erik Kennedy, Melanie McKerchar, and Annabel Wilson.
Monsters in the Garden at Rollickin’ Gelato
This otherworldly special celebrates the publication of Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa-New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy and other works by local sci-fi and fantasy writers. Featuring Elizabeth Knox (emcee), Pip Adam, Octavia Cade, A. J. Fitzwater, Nod Ghosh, Owen Marshall, and Kirsten McDougall.
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