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  • My art inspiration: Kasia Pol

    With Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr and Anna Marbrook, Project Designer Kasia Pol is one third of the Creative Team behind A Waka Odyssey. Here she shares how Aotearoa's unique landscape inspires her.
  • This reading life: Chris Tse

    Chris is the author of How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, which won the 2016 Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry. He has a new book out early next year and will be part of Writers and Readers at New Zealand Festival in March.
  • Five questions for Pirate and Queen

    The Spinoff described them as "the royal couple of making fun and exciting literary things happen", and from 10-12 November Pirate and Queen (aka Claire and Andrew) are back with a fourth LitCrawl weekend for Wellington.
  • My literary inspiration: Megan Dunn

    Megan, a former Borders book shop employee and mermaid enthusiast, credits Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 as the literary inspiration behind her new book, Tinderbox.
  • My art inspiration: Faith Wilson

    Earlier this year Faith spent time at a writers residency in Manitoba, Canada, run by Chris Kraus.

    Kraus is the author of I Love Dick, and a recent biography of Kathy Acker.
  • Barber Shop Chronicles: A Play List

    Fresh from a sell-out run at London's National Theatre, New Zealand Festival will bring Inua Ellams' play to the TSB Arena in Wellington from 24 Feb - 4 March.
  • My art inspiration: Gemma Peacocke

    Gemma's commission, Pacific, sets to music the words of famous New Zealand peace campaigners, and premieres at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul on 16 September.
  • Three picks from Occulture: The Dark Arts exhibition

    Curator Aaron Lister discusses three stand-out works from City Gallery Wellington's new Occulture: The Dark Arts exhibition.
  • Five Questions for Charlotte Yates

    The singer-songwriter remembers gossip and wordplay with poet Hone Tuwhare as she prepares for a 10th anniversary performance of the New Zealand Festival concert she created in tribute to him.
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