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May 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Luke Wright – Poet: Reading at Meow, Wellington, Monday, May 13, 2019
Verb Wellington is bringing poet Luke Wright to the capital city this coming Monday, May 13. I’ve just recently finished reading Luke Wright’s volume The Toll – and it contains six or seven of the very best poems I’ve ever read. Which is a phenomenal strike-rate. He has aspects of Stewart Lee and Roger McGough to his […]Archive
April 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Preview: Lōemis 2019
Pirate & Queen, the people behind Wellington’s wondrous Litcrawl bring back the Lōemis festival. It’s happening in, around and right through the heart of Wellington from 14 – 22 June, 2019. The festival brings 18 beautifully crafted events spread over nine days at venues across Wellington, leading up to Maruaroa o Takurua, the winter solstice. Lōemis 2019 contains an entirely new […]Archive
November 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: Sit Down Young Stranger
(aka: If You Could Read My Mind…I Wouldn’t Have Needed to Write This…) Some endings are too hard to take, he said, right at the start.Archive
November 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Lit-Sync For Your Life: LitCrawl 2018
This Saturday (November 10) I’ll be part of Lit-Sync For Your Life – which is part of LitCrawl 2018. LitCrawl is a series of literary events in Wellington across November 8-11 (you can check out my recent podcast with the event’s co-creators to get the full run-through of this year’s program). Lit-Sync For Your Life […]Archive
October 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 139 – Claire and Andrew talk LitCrawl 2018
Welcome to episode 139 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as well as the usual platforms (this site, Soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library to access each new episode; or via Anchor/FM you can […]Archive
September 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Litcrawl 2018: Program Announced
Litcrawl is back for 2018 – Wellington’s coolest little literary festival is now five. This year there’ll be the classic Saturday night crawl and the full program is extended out to included events over four days rather than the usual two-to-three… Journalists, poets, songwriters, novelists, memoirists, essayists, cartoonists, storytellers…almost any and all type of writer and writing […]Archive
November 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 89 – Kirsten McDougall
Welcome to episode 89 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Here I had a chat with Kirsten McDougall. She is a writer, publicist and literary manager. We discuss her various roles and talk about her two books, The Invisible Rider and Tess. The Invisible Rider is a 2012 release, […]Archive
October 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 86 – Claire Mabey & Andrew Laking (Pirate & Queen)
Welcome to episode 86 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This is a conversation with Claire Mabey and Andrew Laking (aka Pirate & Queen), they are event organisers, and the co-creators/directors of Wellington’s coolest little literary festival, Litcrawl. We talk about their backgrounds (Claire’s a book-nerd and has worked […]Archive
October 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Litcrawl 2017: Bringing It All Back Home
Litcrawl takes place over the weekend of November 10-12 in various venues across Wellington. And one of the sessions I’m most looking forward to is Bringing It All Back Home, part of the first phase of the crawl, 6pm at MEOW on Saturday, November 11. This session is about the greatest songwriter of the modern […]Archive
September 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Litcrawl 2017: Program Announced
Litcrawl is the little Wellington writing festival that could. In fact it did. And still is. Here we are now nearing its fourth iteration – Litcrawl 2017 will run across November 10-12 and will feature local, national and international names in literature. As with previous years the festival seeks to create boutique events, to place […]Archive
November 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman