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The Pacific Games Council says the Tongan government needs to stick the contract it has signed relating to the hosting of the 2019 Games. Audio

In front of a Wellington audience, composer Ross Harris, film-maker Louis Sutherland and poets Geoff Cochrane and Bill Manhire discuss differences and similarities in their approaches to creativity… Video, Audio

Pip Adam writes about a female engineer, and human beings' desire to build tall structures in I'm Working on a Building (VUP), while Brandy Wehinger helps us to understand the loneliness of a new… Audio

Christchurch writer Carl Nixon doesn't give much away about what's fact and what's fiction in his latest novel, The Virgin and the Whale; and Adrienne Jansen talks about the 20th anniversary of the… Audio

Jo Randerson brings us 'Tales from the Netherworld' and a name to remember, Kerry Donovan-Brown, who's won the 2012 Adam foundation Prize for Creative Writing. Audio

this hill, all it's about is lifting it to a higher level by Vaughan Gunson. Audio

Rosemary Wildblood's novel Pentimento. Audio

Poet Ashleigh Young whose collection is called Magnificent Moon... and novelist John Sinclair who sets his story about a violin prodigy in 20th century China in The Phoenix Song. Both are Victoria… Audio

Christchurch poet Karen Zelas, whose first collection, Night's Glass Table, won an Australian Publishing Prize. Audio

Riemke Ensing, who's one of the contenders for the Lauris Edmond poetry prize being announced on Sunday at the Christchurch Writers Festival. Audio

Ruth Todd is a stalwart of the Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival - which returns after a four year hiatus due to the earthquakes. Audio

Wellington-based author Catherine Robertson has been writing at breakneck speed. She's just released her second book The Not So Perfect Life of Mo Lawrence only a year after her debut novel, The Sweet… Audio

Journalist Bianca Zander, who can now add novelist to her CV with the publication by Penguin of The Girl Below. Audio

The recipient of this year's Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, Emma Neale, on her winning collection, The Truth Garden. Audio

Christchurch poet Jeffrey Paparoa Holman whose new collection Shaken Down 6.3 looks at the impacts and aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes. It's published by Canterbury University Press. Audio

Our featured writers are visiting haiku authority, American Jim Kacian, and Mary Edmond-Paul, who talks about her latest book about writer and journalist Robyn Hyde. Audio

Children's illustrator and writer, David Elliot, in conversation with John McIntyre from The Children's Bookshop. Audio

Melbourne-based New Zealand writer Julian Novitz takes us into the minds of three teenage misfits in his dark new novel, Little Sister. Audio

Novelist and short story writer Witi Ihimaera celebrates his debut, 40 years ago, the short story collection 'Pounamu Pounamu'. Audio

Versatile British writer Geoff Dyer talks about yoga, not writing a book on D H Lawrence, and why he's inspired by the cult Russian film 'Stalker'. Audio

Our featured writer is debut novelist Sacha de Bazin, who's tried to set the record straight about Minnie Dean, remembered in the history books as a baby killer and the only woman to be executed in… Audio

Aleksandra Lane moved to New Zealand from war-torn Serbia as a teenager in the mid 1990s. Her poetry talks about her life there, the realities of war on communities, and adjusting to life in a new and… Audio

Madeleine Tobert a Scot now living in New Zealand who's created a remote Pacific Island on which to set her debut novel, The Sea on Our Skin, published by Hodder and Stoughton. Audio

Rachel Bush's book of poetry is filled with more than just nice pretty things. She explores themes of birth, aging, flora and fauna, alongside the unexpected. Audio

Traces of Red: Television ratings have dropped and glamorous television journalist Rebecca Thorne has lost her edge. In a bid to save her flailing career she begins to dig into the case of a convicted… Audio