2025 media snippets!

July 13, 2025

‘Guilt, Murder and Laughs at WORD Christchurch’ – line-up announcement in The Press.

A rundown of our Māori and Pasifka sessions in The Press

Duncan Sarkies on The Joy Of Discovery – an interview on RNZ’s Culture 101

Learn more about Love At First Line: A Poetry Dating Show with Chris Tse on RNZ’s Saturday Morning show.

A brilliant article on Charlotte Wood in Your Weekend: On Changing Your Life

Power, purpose and the gift of midlife: Petra Bagust and Niki Bezzant in Metropol

Writer Rachel Paris’ favourite things from Your Weekend.

Duncan Sarkies and Catherine Chidgey in the August edition of 03 Magazine

Kate De Goldi on the pleasures of reading: in The Press and on Radio New Zealand (RNZ)

Kate De Goldi on books being critical to our wellbeing in the AI age in Metropol

Steve Braunias on his latest book about the Polkinghorne trial on RNZ.

Books + Publishing share their picks of the WORD Christchurch Festival 2025 line-up

Plains FM Bookenz radio interviews with Catherine Chidgey, Duncan Sarkies and Kiran Dass

RNZ’s Saturday Morning Playing Favourites with WORD’s Kiran Dass

New Zealand Geographic feature about Rosemary Baird’s The Middle of Nowhere

The Press covers some of the more joyous events in the festival

WORD Programme Director Kiran Dass on Creativity on the Toi Ōtautahi website

Christchurch Council City Libraries coverage