20 Nov 2025

The Writer’s Festival #12

From The Reading, 7:00 am on 20 November 2025

The Writer's Festival #12 for 10:45am Tue 14 July 2020 The Oceania Writer's Festival is over and as all the writer's pack up and chart their new course, we are left to wonder what will become of Rae and Kyla Mahon? Here's Judith Gibson and Nigel Collins reading the final instalment of 'The Writer's Festival' by Stephanie Johnson. IN: MUSIC (0:10) 'Rae was escaping.. For half an hour tops. . . . OUT: . . . .Wang laughs too, and they slap each other on the back.' MUSIC (0:08) DUR: 14:22 You have been listening to 'The Writer's Festival' by Stephanie Johnson read by Judith Gibson and Nigel Collins. It was adapted by Carol Dee from the book published by Vintage. And our readings were recorded by Phil Brownlee and produced by Duncan Smith for RNZ National. BRIEF TRAIL: A wise and witty novel that explores the contemporary phenomenon of the public face (or even celebrity status) of the writer. MUSIC DETAILS Swing Easy (Tony Kinsey) Tk.37 on the PM Album: 'Small Group Jazz' [Chappell CHAP 282] INTERACTIVE: BOOK: The Writer's Festival by Stephanie Johnson Published by Vintage (22 Apr 2015) [ISBN-978-1775537984]

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