2016 THE RE[a]D BOX: Saturday - Uplit
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2016 THE RE[a]D BOX: Saturday

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BWF’s beloved reading series is back! Immerse yourself in the work of some truly remarkable writers as they share their writing in this beautiful and intimate riverside space.

Seating in The Red Box is limited, unreserved, and first in best dressed – so get in early on the day to see your favourite Festival artists. 

10:00am Gregory O’Brien  

10:45am Karen Pickering  

11:30am Alexei Sayle

12:15pm Shane Rhodes 

1:00pm Emma Viskic  

1:45pm Emily Maguire  

2:30pm Shelley Davidow  

4:00pm Toni Jordan


Please note: Shane Rhodes and Alexei Sayle have swapped reading times since the BWF program went to print. Times listed above are correct.


Sat 10 Sep 2016

Duration 7 hours

Event concluded
Gregory O’Brien

Gregory O’Brien

Gregory O’Brien is a Wellington-based writer and painter whose recent collection of poems, Whale Years, traces his recent travels in the Pacific region. As well as writing poetry, essays and non-fiction books, O’Brien was curator at City Gallery Wellington between 1997 and 2009. During this time he wrote or co-wrote books about artists including Colin McCahon, Ralph Hotere, Fiona Hall, Rosalie Gascoigne and Noel McKenna. In 2012 O’Brien was awarded a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. 

Toni Jordan

Toni Jordan

Toni Jordan is the author of four novels. The international bestseller Addition was a Richard and Judy Bookclub pick and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin award. Fall Girl was published internationally and has been optioned for film, and Nine Days was awarded Best Fiction at the 2012 Indie Awards, shortlisted for the ABIA Best General Fiction award, and named in Kirkus Review’s Top 10 Historical Novels of 2013. Toni has been widely published in newspapers and magazines. Her latest novel is Our Tiny, Useless Hearts.

Emma Viskic

Emma Viskic

https://twitter.com/EmmaViskic

Emma Viskic is a professional musician and author of the critically acclaimed 2015 crime novel, Resurrection Bay. She has won two of Australia’s premier crime fiction short story awards: the Ned Kelly S. D Harvey Award, and the New England Thunderbolt Prize. Her short-form fiction has appeared in Review of Australian Fiction and Award Winning Australian Writing 2014 and 2015. She lives in Melbourne and divides her time between writing, performing and teaching. 

Alexei Sayle

Alexei Sayle

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Alexei Sayle was born in Liverpool and moved to London in 1971 to attend Chelsea Art School. After years of stand-up comedy, television, sitcoms, films and even a hit single, he published his first highly acclaimed collection of short stories. Barcelona Plates was followed by The Dog Catcher, two novels, Overtaken and The Weeping Women Hotel, and a novella, Mister Roberts. The first volume of Alexei’s memoirs is Stalin Ate My Homework.

Shelley Davidow

Shelley Davidow

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Shelley Davidow grew up in South Africa. The award-winning author of 40 books published on four continents, she writes across genres. She has lived and worked in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the USA and Australia, her fifth (and final) continent. She lives on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast with her husband and son.

Emily Maguire

Emily Maguire

https://twitter.com/EmMaguire

Emily Maguire is an author and social commentator whose latest book, An Isolated Incident, was published in 2016. She is also the author of the novels Taming the Beast, an international bestseller and finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Kathleen Mitchell Award, The Gospel According to Luke, Smoke in the Room, and Fishing for Tigers. Her articles and essays on sex, religion and culture have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, The Big Issue and the Griffith Review. 

Karen Pickering

Karen Pickering

https://twitter.com/ThatPickering

Karen Pickering is a feminist organiser and writer based in Melbourne. She’s the editor of Doing It, a sex-positive anthology from UQP. She’s the creator and host of Cherchez la Femme, a live feminist talkshow of current affairs and pop culture that has toured nationally, and she cofounded Girls On Film Festival and SlutWalk Melbourne.

Shane Rhodes

Shane Rhodes

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Shane Rhodes is the author of five books of poetry including his most recent X (which created poetry from Canada’s post-confederation treaties), and Err (a finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award). His poetry has won an Alberta Book Award, two Lampman-Scott Awards, the P. K. Page Founder’s Award for Poetry and a National Magazine Gold Award. Shane is the poetry editor for Arc, Canada’s national poetry magazine, and is the 2013 Queensland Poet-in-Residence.

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