This year, the festival is online due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The festival is billed as:
AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL WAITUHI O TĀMAKI We are excited to announce our online 2020 Winter Series, featuring a star-studded writer line-up which includes Bernardine Evaristo, Ann Patchett, Neil Gaiman, Barbara Ewing, Richard Ford, Elizabeth Knox, Robert Macfarlane, Philippe Sands, Lisa Taddeo, Ian Wedde, Alan Bollard, Chanel Miller, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Simon Armitage, Maggie O’Farrell, Deborah Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Caroline Barron, Amy McDaid, Anthony Byrt and more.
Commencing at 9am on May 3rd and running live once a week for 13 weeks, three writers including at least two from the 2020 programme will chat with series host Paula Morris, read from their work and answer audience questions.
Each episode will stream live and free-to-view on the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and will then be uploaded to our website: http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/look-and-listen/videos/
Featured books available for purchase: https://tinyurl.com/y7864lms
The first episode featured Barbara Ewing, Alan Bollard and Booker prize winner Bernardine Evaristo