Events

On Thursday April 23rd, my story ‘False River’ – shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award – will be read at an event at Foyles Book Shop in London. You can buy a ticket from the Foyles web site. The actor reading the story is Gary Dourdan, of CSI fame. I’ll be in London all that week, to attend the two nights of readings at Foyles, as well as the awards ceremony itself.

There’s a very nice story here, initiated by the University of Auckland (where I’ll be teaching creative writing from March 2015) about my upcoming residencies at the Brecht House in Denmark and Bellagio in Italy. Really looking forward to both.

I’m going to be teaching at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival later this month, which means a stretch of hot weather, I hope. It’s ten years since I lived in Iowa City, and I’m always really happy to go back. My novel class there is full, but I think there are still spaces available on my weekend course. I’m also giving a public lecture, in their Eleventh Hour speaking series. It’s an American version of my “Imperial World: the Politics of International Book Prizes” talk. The talk takes place at the University of Iowa, Biology Building East, Room 101, at 11 AM on Thursday, June 19th.

Witi Ihimaera and I are working with the London-based kapa haka group, Ngati Ranana, to do something quite special at the ANZ festival in late May. There’s a link to our event here. If you’re in London, please come along to see us read/perform on May 31st, in King’s College Chapel.