Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival

About Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival

2025 Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival is curated with the theme of Ahi Kā - keeping the home fires burning, our festival celebrates the literary spirit of Ōtepoti Dunedin, a UNESCO City of Literature. We would like to extend our thanks to Mana Whenua ki Ōtākou, me Puketeraki, the Hone Tuwhare Trust, Otago Access Radio, and all of our generous supporters for helping make these podcasts possible.

Publisher

Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jun 2019

Latest episode

13 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

60 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Nov 2025

   Ahi Kā - The Long Burning Fire (Pōwhiri)

   Chaired by Kiringāua Cassidy and Nadia Wesley-Smith, writers and guests gathered at Ōtākou Marae to share stories about and around the home fire. Nourish your wairua by listening to acclaimed writers as they, in turn, stoke the long-burning fire of ahi kā.

2. 

   13 Nov 2025

   Ahi Kā - The Long Burning Fire (Panel)

   Chaired by Kiringāua Cassidy and Nadia Wesley-Smith, writers and guests gathered at Ōtākou Marae to share stories about and around the home fire. Nourish your wairua by listening to acclaimed writers as they, in turn, stoke the long-burning fire of ahi kā.

3. 

   13 Nov 2025

   The Book of Guilt: In Conversation with Catherine Chidgey

   Acclaimed novelist Catherine Chidgey and OAR FM's Jeff Harford explore fiction's power to illuminate the shadows of human nature. In The Book of Guilt, Chidgey crafts a spine-chilling vision of alternate 1979 England, where children are classified by their worth to society. This haunting yet oddly comforting novel asks the questions we'd rather avoid: who deserves to belong, and who gets to decide?

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