Verb Festival is an annual writers festival in Wellington, New Zealand. They celebrate Aotearoa writers with international guests. Verb Festival features the famous LitCrawl on Saturday 9 November: 25 events in 3.5 hours in 25 venues. Learn more here.
The 2019-2020 Writers Read Concordia season emphasizes the local, the influencers, the activist, the transformative, the conversation and the collaborative impulses. Writers Read Concordia presents writer Margaret Christakos in conversation with Sina Queyras. Learn more here.
Opening with a panel discussion on literary event curation, this event will feature Margaret Christakos, Deanna Radford, Danielle St. Amour and Jason Camlot, facilitated by Klara du Plessis. It will focus on different contemporary and historical strategies for literary event curation, while also incorporating a visual arts curatorial perspective for …
The world premiere screening of this fascinating documentary on the renowned poet and novelist behind The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments is followed by an onstage conversation with directors Nancy Lang and Peter Raymont, interviewed by Carol Off. Learn more here.
The C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference focuses on women-identifying writers from all genres and all experience levels, from journalism to mass market books to literary endeavors, and beyond. The goal is to provide a space for camaraderie, connection-making, and inspiration, and while women-identifying writers are the only presenters at the …