Literary Festivals

A blog dedicated to news, reviews and thoughts on literary festivals around the world. Book Festivals, Readers Festivals, Writers Festivals, Literary Festivals, the names and forms are diverse. Disclosure: I served on the Steering Committee of the Singapore Writers Festival 2005. Enjoy!

Sunday, June 05, 2005

A Festival presenter makes the news - Auckland

A controversial presenter at a Festival is news, at least according to STUFF which describes itself as "New Zealand's leading news and information website". Not afraid to name names, this article blasts broadcaster Kim Hill's performance at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, which had at least one audience member standing up to protest, and one author refusing to go on to Kim's radio show the next morning. The chemistry with a couple of the guests clearly wasn't great, and Hill kept mispronouncing one author's name. Famously upbeat science writer Simon Singh didn't seem to mind: "I thought she was great, she made it fun. The whole thing would have been a lot more boring without her." The story ends "Festival manager Jill Rawnsley refused to comment." A wise policy Jill!

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