7 Apr 2019

Readers and Writers but not as we know it

From Standing Room Only, 12:50 pm on 7 April 2019

The New Zealand Festival's popular Readers and Writers Week is being handed over to a company that's been running a very different kind of literary event.

Clare Mabey and her partner Andrew Laking are behind Wellington's Litcrawl where almost all of the events are free and held in all kinds of venues, from record stores to second hand book shops.  It's part of Welington's Verb Festival.

So with just a year til the next Readers and Writers event in the capital, are they planning to shake things up?

Lynn Freeman talks with Clare Mabey, then invites comment from another Claire - Claire Finlayson, who heads the upcoming Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival opening in May.