Writers in Wineries

Writers in Wineries

Hastings Literary Festival 2007
Saturday March 10 and Sunday March 11

Night of Pleasure with Te Mata Estate
Saturday 10 March, 8pm in the Assembly Hall, Hawke's Bay Opera House
Featureing Lloyd Jones author of Gilmore's Diary, Splinter, Swimming to Australia, Biografi, Here at the end of the world we learn to dance, Paint Your Wife, The Book of Fame. His latest novel, Mr Pip is enjoying critical acclaim and has been snapped up by the overseas markets.

Jenny Patrick has become best known for her historical fiction and her books The Denniston Rose, and its sequel Heart of Coal are two of New Zealand's biggest selling Novels. Her latest book is Catching the Current. She has also, with husband Laughton Pattrick written a number of songbooks and musical shows and for many years was a successful jeweller.

Kate Camp author of Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars (Poetry),Realia, Beauty Sleep (Poetry), as essay On Kissing. Kate regularly appears on Kim Hill's as a classic book reviewer

Emily Perkins author of Not her Real Name and Other Stories (fiction), Leave Before You Go and The New Girl, Novel About my Wife. She presented the Book Show for TV1 during 2006.

Kevin Ireland. Poet, short story writer, novelist and librettist, Kevin Ireland has been a prolific writer starting with Face to Face in 1963. Literary Cartoons won the New Zealand Book award for history and biography and in 2004 he published his fourth novel Getting Away With It. His latest publication is How to Catch a Fish. He has won many awards and honours including the 0BE and the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry.
Copy to Browser: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/irelandkevin.html

Price $30 a ticket, which is the same price as for previous events.
E-mail artcentre@clear.net.nz (summary from promotional newsletter)

Writers in Wineries