The Marlborough Book Festival is an annual readers and writers festival held in July in Marlborough, New Zealand. Listen to our podcasts to hear discussions with our featured writers, as they explain the challenges and the highlights of creating their various works and their lives as writers. more

Welcome to The Creative Midwife Show! I'm your host, Kerryn Trisha, creative midwife, organiser of ideas, writer, editor, and writing coach. On the show I take you behind the scenes of writing my book and bring you guests to share their experience writing, editing, and publishing their book babies. more

Casual conversations with prominent and influential New Zealand Authors.How did they become a writer, what inspires them, influences them and where does their writing journey take them next?The first series features Canterbury authors Kathleen Gallagher, Gavin Bishop and James Norcliffe.Series two: Helen Lowe and Heather McQuillan with more to follow.Presented and Produced by Stephanie Frewen, made with assistance from the Christchurch City Council and Creative Communities Scheme, and also Edition Audiobooks - www.editionaudiobooks.com edition@editionaudiobooks.com - working with authors and publishers in New Zealand and beyond to create Audiobooks and Ebooks.Contact: theauthorstale.nz@yahoo.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

Take a look at how our city is embracing its City of Literature status with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature director Nicky Page. more

Experts take an idea from fiction and see how it stands up IRL.