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Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival

Words in Winter Mini-Festival

Event outside Festival schedules

Adam Dudding is an Auckland journalist, author and podcaster. His memoir My Father’s Island won the EH McCormick Award for best first non-fiction book at the 2017 Ockham Book Awards, and he was co-creator of the true crime podcast Gone Fishing, which won Best Podcast at the 2019 Radio Awards. His less celebrated CV entries include deckhand, busker, and utterly unsuccessful double-glazing salesman.

Anahera Gildea (Ngāti Tukorehe) is a poet, essayist, short story writer, and ‘artivist’. She has been extensively published in journals and anthologies and her first book was published by Seraph Pres sin 2016. She is the co-editor of Te Whē and is currently undertaking doctoral research at Victoria University of Wellington, developing critical literary theory based on Māori intellectual traditions.

Adam Dudding is an Auckland journalist, author and podcaster. His memoir My Father’s Island won the EH McCormick Award for best first non-fiction book at the 2017 Ockham Book Awards, and he was co-creator of the true crime podcast Gone Fishing, which won Best Podcast at the 2019 Radio Awards. His less celebrated CV entries include deckhand, busker, and utterly unsuccessful double-glazing salesman.

Anahera Gildea (Ngāti Tukorehe) is a poet, essayist, short story writer, and ‘artivist’. She has been extensively published in journals and anthologies and her first book was published by Seraph Pres sin 2016. She is the co-editor of Te Whē and is currently undertaking doctoral research at Victoria University of Wellington, developing critical literary theory based on Māori intellectual traditions.