Friday 2 August, 6:30 - 8:00pm
The Atrium, Wintec
Free Event, no registration required.
Join Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod as she chairs a fiction panel with multi award-winning panellists Emily Perkins and Anna Smaill.
Free parking is available in Ward and Nisbet Streets and in the Wintec parking building accessed through Ward St. Either use the car parking building lift on Nisbet St to get to the Atrium level or walk up the steps on the side of the building visible from the corner of Anglesea and Ward Streets. Free parking is available on campus but avoid where resident or hostel parking only is stipulated. Look out for our Hamilton Book Month flag banners.
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Poppies Hamilton will have the authors’ books for sale and signing.
Fiction Panel
Author
Emily Perkins is an award-winning writer from Wellington whose most recent novel Lioness (Bloomsbury, 2023) won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Other books include the Women’s Prize longlisted The Forrests, the winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction Novel About My Wife, and Not Her Real Name.
She also writes for theatre, film and television.
Emily is a member of the Folio Academy, an Arts Foundation Laureate, and a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature.
Author
Anna Smaill is the author of Bird Life (Scribe, 2024). Her first novel The Chimes was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won best novel in the World Fantasy Awards in 2016. Born in Auckland, she has spent several years in Japan and the United Kingdom, and holds a PhD from the University of London. She lives on Wellington’s south coast with her husband, novelist Carl Shuker, and their two children.
​Photo: Ebony Lamb
​Photo: Ebony Lamb
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Elizabeth (Libby) Kirkby-McLeod is the author of several books including a poetry collection and the children’s series Eugene’s Island. She also edited Lit: Stories from Home (OneTree House, 2021). She speaks regularly about writing for radio and at events, and works part-time as a staff reporter for Radio New Zealand. Elizabeth has a new epistolary novel (written in the form of letters) coming out with Cuba Press soon. She is an active member of the New Zealand Society of Authors, producing the NZSA Oral History Podcast series.
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​Photo: Hans Hockey
Emily Perkins
Author
Emily Perkins is an award-winning writer from Wellington. Her most recent novel is Lioness (Bloomsbury, 2023). Other books include the Women’s Prize longlisted The Forrests, Novel About My Wife, winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction, and Not Her Real Name.
She also writes for theatre, film and television.
Emily is a member of the Folio Academy, an Arts Foundation Laureate, and a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature.