Writers on Mondays series
The International Institute of Modern Letters presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Writers on Mondays – On the road: Gina Butson and Michelle Rahurahu
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Two debut novelists discuss their road-trip stories that explore running away and finding yourself in the world.
Mon 7 Jul 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
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Writers on Mondays – Stories that define us: Michelle Duff and Saraid de Silva
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Two writers explore women's lives across generations and cultures in conversation about the stories that shape us.
Mon 14 Jul 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
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Writers on Mondays – Sand and Sugarcane: Nafanua Purcell Kersel and Mikaela Nyman
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Two poets discuss climate change, resilience, and political poetry from Pacific and Nordic perspectives in urgent contemporary voices.
Mon 21 Jul 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
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Writers on Mondays – Making and Mending: Chris Tse, Cadence Chung, Gregory Kan, Jiaqiao Liu, and Nina Mingya Powles
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Four innovative poets discuss how their creative pursuits outside poetry shape and reinvent their latest collections with the New Zealand Poet Laureate.
Mon 28 Jul 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
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Writers on Mondays – Delirious: Damien Wilkins
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Acorn Prize winner Damien Wilkins discusses his acclaimed novel about loss, ageing, and second chances with writer Emily Perkins.
Mon 4 Aug 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
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Writers on Mondays – High Tide: Jennifer Trevelyan and Jenny Pattrick
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
A seasoned novelist and debut author discuss coastal communities under pressure in their latest works about change and survival.
Mon 11 Aug 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
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Writers on Mondays – Ōrongohau: Best New Zealand Poems 2024
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Editor Nick Ascroft introduces a selection of excellent New Zealand poets to read their work in a warm-up for National Poetry Day.
Mon 18 Aug 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
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Writers on Mondays – Writing off the Map: Anna Jackson and Rachel O'Neill
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Two adventurous writers discuss their genre-defying works that blend poetry, essays, music, and queer joy in uncharted literary territory.
Mon 25 Aug 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
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Writers on Mondays – The Conditions of Rapture: Amy Marguerite, Sophie van Waardenberg, and Emma Barnes
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Three poets discuss their extraordinary new collections, whim brim over with feeling and are taut with intellectual curiosity.
Mon 1 Sep 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
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Writers on Mondays – The Satire We Deserve: Brannavan Gnanalingam and Duncan Sarkies
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Two satirical novelists diagnose life in Aotearoa through hilarious and dangerous fiction that prods our political and social wounds.
Mon 8 Sep 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
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