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October 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 236: Claire Mabey (Verb Festival)

Welcome to episode 236 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, 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 […]
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August 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 272 – Litcrawl, Wellington, 2018

Litcrawl is Wellington’s coolest (best) literary event, a spectacular, jam-packed with ideas and showcases – and in 2018 I was lucky to be asked to be part of one of the events. Lucky. And shitting myself. Why not both?  The event was called Lit-Sync For Your Life and it featured three readers – I was […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), Event, Gig, Lip-Snych, Lit Crawl, Lit-Sync for Your Life, LitCrawl, Literature, Live Gig, Performance, Performer, Pip Adam, Poetry, Read, Reading, Short Story, Show, Simon Sweetman, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 272, Stubs: # 272 – Litcrawl, Tayi Tibble, Wellington, Writing ·

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August 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 180: Jerome Chandrahasen

Welcome to episode 180 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  Now – as you probably know, 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. Jerome Chandrahasen is a Wellington-based comedian (well, “The Hutt”). I […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, Festival, LitCrawl, Live, Luke Wright, Luke Wright - Poet: Reading at Meow, May 13, Monday, NZ, Poem, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poetry Reading, Preview, Readers, Show, Tour, UK, Verb, Wellington, Writers, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, Festival, https://www.loemis.nz/, June, June 14-22, LitCrawl, Loemis, Maruaroa o Takurua, Pirate & Queen, Preview, Preview: Lōemis 2019, Wellington, Wgtn, Winter Solstice, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged *****, If You Could Read My Mind…I Wouldn’t Have Needed to Write This, Lit-Sync for Your Life, Lit-Sync For Your Life: LitCrawl 2018, LitCrawl, Short Story, Short Story: Sit Down Young Stranger, Sit Down, Sit Down Young Stranger, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Young Stranger ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Books, Bunny Holiday, Caroline, Chris Tse, Drag, Harlie Lux, Lip-Snych, Lit-Sync for Your Life, Lit-Sync For Your Life: LitCrawl 2018, Lit-Synch, LitCrawl, Litcrawl 2018, Literary Realness, Music, Pip Adam, Podcast, Poem, Reading, RuPaul's Drag Race, Songs, Story, Tayi Tibble, True d’Heaux, Wellington, Wgtn, Writing, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Book, Books, Chat, Conversation, David Long, Eleanor Catton, Essay, Essays, Fergus Barrowman, Interview, Kirsten, Le Petite Chocolat, LitCrawl, Literarture, Literary Manager, McDougall, Novel, Novella, Podcast, Poem, Poetry, Process, Publicist, Publicisty, Short Stories, Short Story, Simon, Simon Sweetman, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 89 – Kirsten McDougall, T Leaf T, Tess, The Invisible Rider, The Luminaries, Victoria University Press, VUP, Wellington, Wgtn, Write, Writer, Writing, Yeastie Boys ·

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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 […]
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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 […]
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