Verb Readers and Writers Festival 2024 Programme is Live!

By Ōtepoti He Puna Auaha | Dunedin UNESCO City Of Literature | Posted: Friday Sep 27, 2024

Don't miss Writing for Your Life featuring our very own Barbara Else

Welcome to a conversation about the transformational powers of writing. Kathryn Heyman (Australian author of Fury; and longlister for the Orange Prize.) and Barbara Else (Laughing at the Dark) join Mia Gaudin to talk about writing their memoirs, how they mapped experience and wrote both themselves and their readers into a life changing journey. 

‘I laughed and laughed, and I cried and cried. It’s got everything in it except a murder.’ — Lesley Graham, soprano (and totally unbiased sister) on Laughing at the Dark

‘A masterful work, a personal and literary triumph … searing, thrilling and redemptive … This book is a demonstration of how courage and fury and words can save you. They can make you the heroine of your own story.’ — Anna Funder, Miles Franklin Prize-winning author on Fury.

A discounted ‘Ticket + book’ bundle is available for a copy of Fury by Kathryn Heyman, or, Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else. If purchased, your book can be collected from Unity Books, 57 Willis Street, Wellington in advance of the festival, or at the event from Unity's book table.

Book your spot here: Writing for Your Life — Verb Wellington and check out the rest of the programme here: Verb Wellington