ADVENTUROUS

Word
Christchurch Festival 2018

29 August – 2 September

Featuring: Helen Clark, Denise Mina, A.J. Finn, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Ted Chiang, Catherine Chidgey, Tom Scott, Hollie McNish, Hera Lindsay Bird, Omar Musa, Juno Dawson, Paula Morris, Charlotte Grimshaw, Diana Wichtel, Lloyd Jones, Philip Hoare and many, many more...

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Featuring

An Evening with Lee Child

Friday, 23 November, 2018 7:00 pm

WORD Christchurch, in association with Penguin Random House New Zealand, is excited to announce An Evening with Lee Child on Friday, 23 November.

Guest Programmer: Tusiata Avia

We are excited to welcome Tusiata Avia to the festival as guest programmer. Read her welcome message, and links to her sessions here.

It’s a Wrap!

Thousands flocked to events in Christchurch this week to celebrate words in all their forms at the WORD Christchurch Festival. The festival, with a theme of ‘adventurous’, drew a bigger audience than ever before, with attendance well in excess of 15,000, a whopping 25% increase from the previous record set by the 2016 festival.

Kaveh Akbar: Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Tuesday 6 November 6:30 pm

WORD Christchurch, in association with LitCrawl Wellington, is proud to present Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar for an evening of poetry and conversation with Erik Kennedy.