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2024 Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture & Sargeson Prize

19 Oct, 2024

Join us for the 21st annual Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture on Saturday, 19 October at the University of Waikato.

This year we are delighted to welcome esteemed poet and academic Selina Tusitala Marsh as our guest speaker. She will present a lecture entitled “I Really Dig Frank: A Pasifika Poet-Scholar’s Led-By-Line Praxis of Connection,” which will explore how her indigenous practice as both a poet and educator fosters connections with the land and the memories of those who have passed.

Selina Tusitala Marsh

Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh (ONZM, FRSNZ), acclaimed performer and author, is the former Commonwealth Poet and New Zealand Poet Laureate. In 2019 she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to poetry, literature and the Pacific community.  In 2020 Selina was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. A Professor in the English Department at the University of Auckland, and recently appointed as the Co-Director of the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation (CAST), Selina is the author of three critically acclaimed collections of poetry, and an award-winning graphic memoir series called Mophead. She’s been burying and digging up poems from Manhattan to Maui.

Sargeson Prize

The winners of the 2024 Sargeson Prize short story competition, one of New Zealand’s most lucrative short story awards, will also be revealed. The Sargeson Prize, sponsored by the University of Waikato, was conceived by writer Catherine Chidgey, and this year’s chief judge is Harriet Allan. The competition received more than 1,300 entries and offers a prize pool of $15,000, with the overall winner receiving $10,000. The winning stories will be published by Newsroom in its literary section, ReadingRoom.

Light refreshments are served from 5pm.

Who

The University of Waikato

When

19 Oct, 2024
5:45PM

Where

Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, University of Waikato
Knighton Road
Hillcrest
Hamilton

Ticket Info

Free

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