Thursday 15 May 2008 – Five members of the library team will be in Auckland for 4 days of stimulation from authors, poets, songwriters and more – some names we’re quite familiar with like Tessa Duder and Dave Dobbyn, others that are just as amazing but as yet unknown to us.
J.M. Coetzee, Anne Enright and Kapka Kassabova – they’re just names to me but for my colleagues heading to the Auckland Readers and Writers Festival later on this week they will become faces, voices and memorable experiences as they share their stories on what they write, how they write, why they write…and more.
Anthony, Genny, Pauline, Philippa and Rebecca have some long days and late nights ahead of them, fuelled by coffee and inspiration for the poems, novels, short stories and songs that they’ll be hearing, and hearing about, from the people who wrote them.
Reading an award-winning novel is one thing, but hearing the award-winning novelist tell you his or her story is another experience all together. It will be amazing.
At the end of each day, our Auckland-based library staff will be switching on a computer and sending us their thoughts from the days sessions and their anticipation of the day ahead.
In their first blog entries they tell us what they’re most looking forward to about this year’s Readers and Writers Festival.
