Fiction Panel
Come and join panellists Emily Perkins and Anna Smaill in conversation with chair Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod. Poppies Bookshop will have books available.
Join Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod as she chairs a fiction panel with multi award-winning panellists Emily Perkins and Anna Smaill.
Emily Perkins is an award-winning writer from Wellington whose most recent novel Lioness (Bloomsbury, 2023) won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Other books include the Women’s Prize longlisted The Forrests, the winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction Novel About My Wife, and Not Her Real Name.
She also writes for theatre, film and television.
Emily is a member of the Folio Academy, an Arts Foundation Laureate, and a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature.
Anna Smaill is the author of Bird Life (Scribe, 2024). Her first novel The Chimes was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won best novel in the World Fantasy Awards in 2016. Born in Auckland, she has spent several years in Japan and the United Kingdom, and holds a PhD from the University of London. She lives on Wellington’s south coast with her husband, novelist Carl Shuker, and their two children.
Free parking is available in Ward and Nisbet Streets and in the Wintec parking building accessed through Ward St. Either use the car parking building lift on Nisbet St to get to the Atrium level or walk up the steps on the side of the building visible from the corner of Anglesea and Ward Streets. Free parking is available on campus but avoid where resident or hostel parking only is stipulated. Look out for our Hamilton Book Month flag banners.
Poppies Hamilton will have the authors’ books for sale and signing.
Who
Hamilton Book Month
When
2 Aug
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Where
The Atrium, Wintec
Tristram Street
Hamilton Central
Hamilton
Ticket Info
Free