Episode Playlist
How to transition from emerging to ‘emerged’( 0:51:45)
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What does it mean to be ‘established’ when you feel like you’re just starting out?
In this panel, playwright and journalist Sam Brooks will chair a panel with author Iona Winter and poet Devon Webb on what it means to move to a different phase of your writing life, what opportunities stop appearing and how it changes your approach to your craft.
This event contains some strong language that may not be suitable for all audiences.
This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (13th - 15th September 2024)
Published: 1/10/2024 9:15:00 a.m.
Starling Micro Residency Panel Discussion( 0:59:11)
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Starling is an online literary journal showcasing the best new poetry and prose from young New Zealand writers.
Join Louise Wallace and Francis Cooke, Starling Editors, in conversation with Ada Duffy, Margo Montes de Oca and Maddie Ballard, the three young writers who’ve been undertaking a micro-residency in Ōtepoti as part of the 2024 NZ Young Writers Fest.
You’ll be treated to both a performance and a lively discussion about what it means to be a young writer today, navigating writing and publishing in Aotearoa, and the writers’ residency experience.
This event contains strong language that may not be suitable for all audiences.
This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (13th - 15th September 2024)
Published: 1/10/2024 9:00:00 a.m.
Everything Pressing, Everything Pertinent - Writing and Reading in Solidarity( 0:51:48)
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Leaning into the visceral, dynamic potential of multi-medium expression for community-building and activism, this short panel equips taiohi with skills to write and read for the progression of movements and causes close to their hearts.
Join NZ Young Writers Fest 2024 Guest Curator Ruby Macomber and Helena Mayer, Frances Pavletich and Grace Cowley as they talk about the movements close to them and how they engage with and create texts to support their activism.
This event contains some strong language that may not be suitable for all audiences.
This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (13th - 15th September 2024)
Published: 1/10/2024 8:45:00 a.m.
Journalism as an Act of Community Building( 1:18:48)
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Interviews, profiles, reviews, essays. At a grassroots level, can these build communities?
Join journalist Jamiema Lorimer, Critic Te Ārohi editor Nina Brown and Pantograph Punch kaiwāwahi and NZ Young Writers Fest’s 2024 Young Writer in Residence Sherry Zhang for a panel discussion on culture journalism, its responsibility in representing communities, and how meaning is transformed through different forms and platforms.
This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (13th - 15th September 2024)
Published: 1/10/2024 8:30:00 a.m.
Te Ao Kāi Tahu - Writing the whenua and whakapapa of Te Waipounamu( 0:57:40)
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The land holds our stories.
In conversation with Tessa Patrick, Kāi Tahu writers Rauhina Scott-Fyfe and Iona Winter explore the vast and intergenerational perspectives of this land, its history, and its future, and how writers — regardless of their whakapapa — can delve deeper into this whenua within their work.
This kōrero is for anyone seeking to understand a unique way of telling stories with curiosity and fervent intent.
This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (13th - 15th September 2024)
Published: 1/10/2024 8:15:00 a.m.
Moana Speaks from the South( 1:1:37)
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‘We sweat and cry salt water so we know the ocean is really in our blood’ (Teaiwa, 2017).
Writers of Te Moana-Nui-a Kiwa swim with their words; our narratives are embodied, visceral and deeply intertwined with our senses of self.
In this panel discussion, NZ Young Writers Fest 2024 Guest Curator Ruby Macomber talks with Emele Ugavule, Zech Soakai and Stacey Kokaua about what it means to be geographically separated from the heartbeat of their whenua but to write in proximity to whakapapa, and to (re)imagine the moana through the beauty and complexity of contemporary diasporic identities.
They also explore creative techniques that keep their bodies and narratives in conversation.
This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (13th - 15th September 2024)
Published: 1/10/2024 8:00:00 a.m.
Storytelling Unplugged: finding common ground through podcast narratives( 1:0:7)
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Podcasting is an innovative storytelling technique and a creative entry point for some of today’s most important conversations. We join poet and playwright Vira Paky as she chats with Thabiso Sibanda and Kii Small from the Unpack and PhD: Unpacked podcasts about how to create thought-provoking audio content and the potential of podcasts to amplify voices and ignite change. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (21st - 24th September 2023)
Published: 29/09/2023 11:30:00 a.m.
I Identify As An Imposter( 1:0:26)
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The arts are gradually becoming more diverse, but many acclaimed writers of the literary canon are still of the old-white-man persuasion. Given the lack of representation in the field, it can be hard for emerging young authors – especially people of colour and gender diverse folk – to dare to dream of successful careers. We join poet and writer Naomii Seah, NZYWF Young Writer in Residence Ruby Macomber, Isla Huia and Vira Paky as they discuss their creative journeys and the road to overcoming imposter syndrome. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (21st - 24th September 2023)
Published: 29/09/2023 11:15:00 a.m.
Calling Community From The Page: Art and Activism( 0:53:33)
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Creative writing is often positioned on the periphery of activism, community-building and mobilisation. However, relational writers cannot create in isolation. NZYWF Young Writer in Residence Ruby Macomber, Carl Naus and others discuss the necessity of creative communities for social change. They explore how creative writing can be a call to action, and the importance of equitable and accessible creative opportunities to amplify the experiences of marginalised voices. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (21st - 24th September 2023)
Published: 29/09/2023 11:00:00 a.m.
Stick It To The Man: the power of street postering( 0:48:24)
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For centuries, street posters have served as a powerful tool for causes of all kinds. This panel discussion explores how the humble poster has ignited social and political movements. Festival Guest Curator and Rat World founder and editor-in-chief Jennifer Cheuk chat with Ōtepoti creatives Jamiema Lorimer, Piupiu Maya Turei and Jörg Bendt about how posters create dialogue within communities. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (21st - 24th September 2023)
Published: 29/09/2023 10:45:00 a.m.
Writing Across Disciplines( 1:2:49)
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What is writing? Who is a writer? Drawing on their interdisciplinary backgrounds, writer and performer Josiah Morgan, poet and musician Isla Huia, comedian Janaye Henry, and playwright and journalist Sam Brooks unpack the multifaceted dimensions of storytelling across genre borders. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (21st - 24th September 2023)
Published: 29/09/2023 10:30:00 a.m.
Prescriptions and Prose: where medicine and creativity meet( 0:58:9)
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Ōtepoti is Aotearoa’s only UNESCO City of Literature and is home to one of the top medical schools in the country. Is this an unlikely combination, or are there deeper connections between medicine, writing and creativity? We join festival Guest Curator and Rat World founder and editor-in-chief Jennifer Cheuk as she examines this topic with doctor Libby Whittaker and doctors-in-training Olivia Wright and Will Pudney, all of whom are writers. They explore how language and creativity influences medical practice, and what it means to be a creative in the professional world of STEM. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (21st - 24th September 2023)
Published: 29/09/2023 10:15:00 a.m.
The One Work That Defines You( 0:52:54)
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A play, a song, a joke, a story – there’s always one work that comes to mind when you think of a writer. We join playwright Sam Brooks, comedians Abby Howells and Janaye Henry, and
poet Claudia Jardine as they chat about what it means – and how it feels – to have an audience come back to a single piece of work that may be long in a writer’s rearview mirror. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (21st - 24th September 2023).
Published: 29/09/2023 10:00:00 a.m.
Otago Poetry Slam( 0:45:46)
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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 and calibration poet Eric Soakai. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (29th October - 2nd November 2022)
Published: 27/10/2022 2:00:00 p.m.
Climate Poetry Here and Now( 1:2:24)
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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 and Zinnia Hansen. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (29th October - 2nd November 2022)
Published: 18/10/2022 3:40:08 p.m.
Playright After 25( 1:1:59)
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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, who have come through Playmarket’s b425 competition, discuss the realities of being young playwrights. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (29th October - 2nd November 2022)
Published: 18/10/2022 3:38:48 p.m.
You, Me, Her and The Sea( 0:44:53)
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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. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (29th October - 2nd November 2022)
Published: 18/10/2022 3:38:14 p.m.
Dirty Talk( 1:16:1)
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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, Essa May Ranapiri, Samuel Te Kani, and Rebecca Hawkes - have to say about the fine line between erotic and profane? This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (29th October - 2nd November 2022)
Published: 18/10/2022 3:35:41 p.m.
True Crit( 0:51:40)
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In this panel, art critics across different mediums - Mya Morrison-Middleton, Sinead Overbye, Essa May Ranapiri, and Samuel Te Kani - discuss the very nature of criticism. Who or what is criticism for? Who should critique who? And is Aotearoa too small for robust criticism? This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (29th October - 2nd November 2022)
Published: 18/10/2022 3:34:15 p.m.
Slam Champ Sandwich( 1:4:33)
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Our country's finest slam champions - Nathan Joe, Sara Hirsch, and Eric Soakai 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. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (29th October - 2nd November 2022)
Published: 18/10/2022 3:32:05 p.m.