Library a permanent Writers' Festival
After months of planning, The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival is drawing near. A wealth of authors will visit the city early next month. Get your tickets from the Central Library - the ticket desk is located in the foyer by the main entrance and is open 10:00am to 4:00pm Monday to Saturday. Some events are sold out and others are filling fast, so make sure get in before it's too late.
Christchurch City Libraries will be interviewing authors, attending sessions and posting audio content throughout the festival. Make our blog your first port of call - you can read about individual sessions and have your say about any of the events on offer. Visit the website for our festival home page, with links to author profiles, in-depth interviews and audio content.
Your library's blog and website is a living thing - new content is being added all the time. They are a permanent writer's festival - whatever time of year or the weather!
Festival Co-ordinators Morrin Rout is a well-known in the book scene in Christchurch. She spared us a few minutes of her time to tell us about putting the programme together and give us insight into her passion for reading and tireless work to promote books and authors.
Mike Crean on the art of feature writing
With a great deal of attention grabbed by the fiction writers at festivals, it's timely to look at some of the great non-fiction writing talent in our own back yard. In the first of a series of interviews with senior writers from The Press, Richard Liddicoat discusses the art of the feature with Mike Crean.
Carl Nixon is most famous for his Rocking Horse Road novel, which started life as a short story - serialised in The Press. He answered some questions about his writing career ahead of The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival.
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This week in Christchurch history
What interesting things happened in Christchurch this week? Find out with the help of the Christchurch Chronology on the library website.
- August 24, 1857
Evans Pass road over the Port Hills opens.
- August 25, 1920
First flight over Cook Strait (Christchurch to Trentham) by Captain Euan Dickson in a Canterbury Aviation Company plane.
- August 26, 1939
Official opening of City Council’s pensioner housing project in Barnett Avenue, Sydenham; the first local body pensioner housing in New Zealand.
- August 26, 1986
The worst lamb loss for a decade in Canterbury due to a wet cold August, costs farmers $2.8 million.
- August 28, 1890 "Great maritime strike" (the first of New Zealand’s 3 major waterfront strikes) spreads to Lyttelton.
- August 31, 1959
Princess Margaret Hospital opens.
- August 31, 1974
Death of Prime Minister Norman Kirk, MP for Sydenham. He had earlier been MP for Lyttelton, and Mayor of Kaiapoi.
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Next week: New beginnings
Spring time is the time for new beginnings, so if it's a clear out of the garage, a new hobby or class, or a complete life change you're after, make sure you read next week's edition. |
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