Ahead of Writers & Readers, Mimi Pond talks to Guy Somerset about her two fictionalised graphic memoirs of her days as a waitress in a California diner in the 1970s.

ARTicle spoke to Jonathan Howard of the acclaimed King’s Singers ensemble. They will be joined on stage by our internationally renowned choir Voices New Zealand at Michael Fowler Centre on 10 March.

The New Zealand Festival has selected 12 motivated secondary school students throughout the greater Wellington region to become Student Ambassadors for the 2018 Festival season.

Eight lives and three worlds collide in this thought-provoking play written by Hone Kouka and directed by poet and writer Mīria George. Take a behind-the-scenes look at this new work through our video story with the creative team and cast.

Guy Somerset returns to ARTicle for a chat with Writers & Readers–bound Scottish performer, poet and “general doer of things” about game-making, spoken word and the appeal of a Chill Out Corner away from the crowd.

Seasoned New Zealand Festival goer and Culture Club supporter Mary Hancock has some great tips for making the most of your 2018 Festival experience.

Ursula will be a guest at 2018 Writers & Readers in Wellington, 8–11 March. Her sessions include a conversation about her writing with Lydia Wevers and a session on word fun for young readers with Nick Earls and Kate De Goldi.

New Zealand’s current Poet Laureate, Pasifika poet-scholar, runner, kick-boxer, Commonwealth Poet (2016) and mother of three Selina Tusitala Marsh is clearly an expert multi-tasker.

In this era of third wave feminism and #MeToo, Ernest Hemingway’s relentless brand of machismo might seem hopelessly antiquated. Or maybe not, argues David O'Donnell, ahead of the celebrated stage adaptation of The Sun Also Rises.