DWRF 2021 Programme

​(You can also download a PDF of the programme booklet here)
Thursday 6 May
Schools' Programme
9.30am – 11am &
​1pm – 2:30pm
Otago Girls' High School
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​Ngā Kete Mātauranga
Māori Scholars at the Research Interface 
5.30pm – 6.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​Free
What Does the Future Hold?
​Gala Showcase
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Toitū Otago Settlers Museum
​$45 & $35 includes welcome drink and nibbles
Friday 7 May
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Workshop:
Self Starters – A Beginner's Guide to Being a Writer
10.30am – 1pm
Otago Pioneer Women's Hall
​$45
Guiding Lights: The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women
CANCELLED
Crossing Genres
2pm – 3pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Crossing Boundaries – Form & Content in Poetry & Storytelling
2.30pm – 3.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​Free
Escaping the Humdrum
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Workshop:
​Lusting For Words – Writing Romance
5pm – 7pm
Otago Pioneer Women's Hall
​$45
Navigating the Stars
Māori Creation Myths
5.30pm – 6.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Women, Past & Present –
What Do They Have to Tell Us About the Future?  
7pm – 8.15pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
At the Drop of a Hat –
Poetry, but not as you know it
8.30pm – 10pm
Dog With Two Tails
​$15
Saturday 8 May
Workshop:
​Seeds of Poetry
10am – 12pm
Otago Pioneer Women's Hall
​$45
Love in the Time of COVID –
A Chronicle of a Pandemic 
9:30am – 10.30am
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Magical Rights
10.30am – 11.30am
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
A New Plaque: Essie Summers
11am
The Dunedin Writers' Walk, Upper Octagon
Free
 Things OK with You?
12pm – 1pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
The Language of Flowers
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Otago Pioneer Women's Hall
​Free
Drawing the World
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​Free
NZ Crime – What's Going On? 
1.30pm – 2.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
The Books that Made Me
2pm – 3pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Rivers, Riptides, and Roads
3pm – 4pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Walking the Heartland
4pm – 5pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Writing Romance in the 21st Century
4.30pm – 5.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
The Wilder Years: Selected Poems
5.30pm – 7pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​Free
Rocketing to Fame
6pm – 7pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Sunday 9 May
Story Time Double Decker Bus
9am – 11.30am
Departs Dunedin Botanic Garden
​Adults $10 & Kids $15
The Historical Novel: Germany
10am – 11am
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Mapping Dunedin's Stories
11.30am – 12.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Free
A Posse of Poets
11:30am – 12.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​Free
Decolonisation – Activating Allies 
1pm – 2pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Writing for Children
1pm – 2pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Free
Politics of Poetry
2.30pm – 3.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Girl in the Mirror
2.30pm – 3.30pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15
Placing Fantasy Inside the Real World
4pm – 5pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
​$20 & $15