Home › ›Elisabeth Easther Elisabeth Easther New Zealand Elisabeth Easther is a journalist, a playwright and an actor. Her first novel Seed was published in 2026 by Penguin Random House, and she is now working on a second, while writing for magazines and newspapers to pay the bills.InstagramLinkedInImage: Babiche Martens Events at WORD Letters Out Loud Thursday, 3 September 8:00pm – 9:15pm Papers past, read by some of our favorite voices in the festival including Elisabeth Easther and Ariana Tikao (Kāi Tahu). A special night of The Black Monk: Charlotte Grimshaw Friday, 4 September 2:00pm – 3:00pm One of our most celebrated writers returns with a part psychological thriller, part family saga, The Black Monk, Charlotte Grimshaw’s first Risky Women Friday, 4 September 8:00pm – 9:30pm Our much-loved storytelling session is back and promises to be as revealing and inspiring as ever. Brilliant wāhine talk about when they too
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