Featherstone Booktown weekend
Escalator Press is to be the featured publisher at the Featherston Booktown weekend event (12th – 14th May) with presentations from all three of last year’s authors.
Escalator Press is to be the featured publisher at the Featherston Booktown weekend event (12th – 14th May) with presentations from all three of last year’s authors.
Rob Hack has continued to promote his poetry book Everything is Here in readings and is ‘appearing’ frequently at his local Paekakariki cafe with book held high wearing beret and ironic gaze. (Paekakakariki is about 45km north of Wellington) As… Continue Reading
Kate Carty’s Run Thomas Run is currently being serialised on Nine to Noon, Radio NZ. It’s very good timing for this novel, given that Iraq (Mosul) is constantly in the news at the moment with military action to reclaim the… Continue Reading
Over the summer it was great to see LJ Ritchie’s Like Nobody’s Watching listed in the top ten books for the Hooked on NZ Books He Ao Ano summer reading & reviewing challenge. Hooked on NZ Books asked readers to… Continue Reading
Rob Hack’s first collection of poems, Everything Is Here, explores his relationship to his Rarotongan heritage and the places where his family lived while growing up. Rob spoke with award-winning poet Chris Tse about the intricacies of writing poetry and… Continue Reading
Hayden Frost and L.J. Ritchie’s podcast Never Repeats mentioned as one of the best local film podcasts on Radio NZ: (http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/201822072/new-zealand-film-podcasts).
Escalator new title Like Nobody’s Watching by L J Ritchie is second on the Unity Wellington bestseller list this week.
Helen Waaka’s book Waitapu is announced as a finalist in the Nga Kupu Ora Book Awards.
Helen Waaka (Ngāti Whātua, Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Torehina) will be appearing on Sunday 11/9 at ‘Going West Books and Writers Festival’ in conversation with Sue Orr and Paula Green.
Read Helen Waaka’s post written by Grant Brookes NZNO president about the Indigenous Nurses conference in Auckland.