For 10 years Featherston Booktown has featured the best of this country’s          literary talent. Our gala night birthday party will gather 10 of the hundreds of writers who’ve yarned and shared with us so generously. And now we’ve asked them to bring one
more gift to the table. Each one will read from work – published or unpublished – that they think best expresses them and what they want to say to the world.

Anything goes! 

The 10 out of 10 are: • beloved writer and writer advocate Dame Fiona Kidman
• West Coast fiction sensation Becky Manawatu (Kāi Tahu) • Poet Laureate
Chris Tse • international academic and activist Marilyn Waring • provocative poet
Tusiata Avia • rock icon and writer Shayne P Carter (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) • short story master Owen Marshall • broadcaster and memoirist
Noelle McCarthy • playwright and producer Victor Rodger • poet, illustrator and storyteller  Selina Tusitala Marsh. Chaired by Featherston Booktown’s
Peter Biggs.