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Slam Champ Sandwich/nzywf 2022
What does it take to be a slam champ? What are the strange anecdotes and stories? And what is it like to compete with the country’s best of the best? Our country's finest slam champions - Nathan Joe (Chinese-Kiwi), Sara Hirsch, Eric Soakai, and Emer Lyons share their winning poems and spill the hot behind the scenes tea of what goes on during slam off. Past winners gossip and rant about what makes such a community-driven but competitive sport so enticing.
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With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
True Crit/nzywf 2022
Earlier this year, Metro Arts editor, Lana Lopesi wondered “where all the bad reviews have gone” as the once highly valued art writing website The Lumiere Reader slowly disappeared from the internet, leaving only a gentle footprint. In this panel, art critics across different mediums - Stacey Kokaua-Balfour (Ngāti Arerā ō Rarotonga, Ngāti Pāmati, Pākehā), with Sinead Overbye (Te Whānau a Kai, Ngāti Porou), Samuel Te Kani (Ngāpuhi, Tainui, Ngāti Porou), and Josiah Morgan (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto)- discuss the very nature of criticism. Who or what is criticism for? Who should critique who? And is Aotearoa too small for robust criticism?
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With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Dirty Talk/nzywf 2022
James Joyce’s perverse love letters reveal that the terms ‘literary genius’ and ‘smut peddler’ are far from mutually exclusive. What do Aotearoa’s new generation of young writers - Josiah Morgan (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto), Samuel Te Kani (Ngāpuhi, Tainui Ngaphui and Ngāti Porou), Emer Lyons, and Rebecca Hawkes - have to say about the fine line between erotic and profane?
Content Warning: Recommended for ages 16 and up. Listen Here With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Content Warning: Recommended for ages 16 and up. Listen Here With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Otago Poetry Slam/nzywf 2022
Open to slam poets of any age, with the winner being sponsored to represent Otago at the National Slam. The competition will be conducted in accordance with the rules of the National Slam, and poets may be required to read up to three poems.With your MC Sara Hirsch (Motif Poetry) and calibration poet Eric Soakai.
Presented in association with Motif Poetry. Listen Here With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Presented in association with Motif Poetry. Listen Here With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
You, Me, Her and The Sea/nzywf 2022
As triplet sisters clear the family attic after a shared heartbreak, old memories, buried secrets, and deep-set grudges are forced to the surface. A new drama by local playwright Amy Wright, written for her Honours year at the University of Otago, with the assistance of Amanda Martin.
Presented as a rehearsed reading by Fringe Award winners Late Bloomers Theatre Company. Listen Here With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Presented as a rehearsed reading by Fringe Award winners Late Bloomers Theatre Company. Listen Here With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Playwrights Aft3r 25/nzywf 2022
These playwrights were once young and hungry, ‘before twenty-five,’ and heralded as the future of this country’s playwriting. What happened next, and where are they now? Examining the grey area between ‘emerging’ and ‘emerged’, award-winning playwrights Ben Wilson, Amy Wright, and Nathan Joe (Chinese-Kiwi), who have come through Playmarket’s b425 competition, discuss the realities of being young playwrights in contemporary Aotearoa.
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With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Climate Poetry Here and Now/nzywf 2022
Climate change poetry is hot hot hot. With No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand recently published by AUP and the UNESCO Cities of Literature combining forces for The Heat is On: Young Writers on the Climate Crisis, is there a single bigger issue for young writers today? Rebecca Hawkes chairs a panel discussion with readings, featuring Shima Jack, Zinnia Hansen, and Sinead Overbye.
Zinnia Hansen joins us via video call thanks to the Seattle and Dunedin Cities of Literature.Rebecca Hawkes joins us thanks to Auckland University Press. Listen Here With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Zinnia Hansen joins us via video call thanks to the Seattle and Dunedin Cities of Literature.Rebecca Hawkes joins us thanks to Auckland University Press. Listen Here With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Getting Our Feet Wet: Storytelling for Sea-Level Rise/nzywf 2021
In the face of rising sea levels, how do we engage our writing practice with the world around us? In this hybrid conversation/workshop, researcher Zoë Heine is joined by Hana Pera Aoake, Jordan Hamel, Robyn Maree Pickens and Kerry Lane to discuss their practice.
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Made possible with the generous support of Auckland University Press. With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Made possible with the generous support of Auckland University Press. With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Authentic and Accessible /nzywf 2021
Playwright Dan Goodwin takes participants through the ins and outs of writing mental health and disability theatre. What is ‘accessible’ theatre? How do we make work which is genuinely ‘authentic’? Deconstruct what it means to weave accessibility into narrative and ground our stories in the communities they emerge from.
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With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Under the Glass: A Starling Celebration/nzywf 2021
Join Louise Wallace (Starling co-editor), in conversation with Erin Gourley and Molly Crighton ( the two writers who undertook their Starling micro-residencies in the Otago Museum during the festival). Guests will be treated to both a performance and a lively discussion about what it means to be a young writer today.
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With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Playing with the Trouble: Writing Gender and the Body/nzywf 2021
How does society place limitations on the way we live in our bodies? How might we resist and refuse this through writing? In this reading and kōrero, Emma Barnes, Whina Pomana, Hana Pera Aoake, and Kerry Lane discuss writing, fluidity, gender, and bodies.
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With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Rua: Two/nzywf 2021
This NZYWF marks two whirlwind years since the launch of the Ōtepoti Writers Lab – making it high time for a birthday party! We invite you to a showcase extravaganza of writing in different formats, from prose to performance poetry and beyond.
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Made possible with the generous support of the Ōtepoti Writers Lab.
With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Otago Poetry Slam/nzywf 2021
Open to slam poets of any age, with the winner being sponsored to represent Otago at the National Slam. The competition is conducted in accordance with the rules of the National Slam, and poets may be required to read up to three poems. With your MC Jordan Hamel (2018 National Slam Champion) and calibration poet Emer Lyons.
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Made possible with the generous support of Morning Magpie. With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.
Made possible with the generous support of Morning Magpie. With special thanks to Otago Access Radio.