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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 […]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
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
July 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 126 – Helen Heath
Welcome to episode 126 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. I had a chat with Wellington poet Helen Heath. She’s released two volumes of poetry, her first, Graft, was nominated for a science writing award and won Best First Book; her brand new collection, Are Friends Electric is a […]Archive
June 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 122 – Pip Adam
Welcome to episode 122 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Given her proximity to where the podcast takes place – she lives four or five houses down the road from me – it feels like it’s taken forever to get Pip Adam on the podcast. It didn’t take winning […]Archive
June 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Writers on Mondays: July-September 2016
Once again the popular Writers on Mondays sessions by Victoria Univeristy’s International Institute of Modern Letters will take place at Wellington’s Te Papa Museum (Level 4, Te Marae) from 12.15-1.15pm on Mondays from July 11 to September 26. The sessions are free and will feature writers in conversation discussing upcoming and already published works. It’s […]Archive
February 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Better off Read Podcast: Episode 29 – Stranger Music by Leonard Cohen
One of my favourite podcasts to check in on is Better off Read. Hosted by Pip Adam (a great writer) it features authors in conversation around a favourite, formative book. I was honoured to be invited onto the podcast and the latest episode features me in conversation with Pip around the Leonard Cohen book of […]Archive
August 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Pip Adam
Pip Adam is a writer who lives in Aro Valley. Her first novel, I’m Working On A Building, was published by Victoria University Press in 2013. Her first collection of short stories, Everything We Hoped For was also published by Victoria University Press in 2010. Her work has also appeared in Sport, Glottis, Turbine, Landfall, Lumière Reader, JAAM, […]Archive
June 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
SweetMan PodCast: Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
I’ve mulled it over far too long – and yet, as I’m about to start this, about to (finally) start a podcast it’s all very much up in the air (still). But I have to get it started. Or else it won’t…well, start. It hasn’t happened so far – because I haven’t made it happen. […]Archive
January 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman