NZYWF 2024_Programme_FINAL_DIGITAL

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SUPPORTERS & PARTNERS

MAJOR SPONSORS

ROBERT LORD

WRITERS

COTTAGE

TRUST

Tukua atu te hiku o te taniwha ki tana

wai e rere nei – Release your hold on

the tail of the taniwha so that it may

roam free in the flowing water.

Guided by one of my favourite

whakataukī, my curatorship for this

year’s NZ Young Writers Fest (NZYWF)

aimed to honour the various ways we

arrive on the page, stage and screen:

the big feelings, the villages beside

us, the narratives passed and those

that will persist long after us.

My arrival at the page was in response

to immense grief. Seven years later,

writing is still one of the few practices

where I feel inextricably human —

loss, joy, fear, love, love, love. I invite

attendees to this year’s festival to

really lean into that last one! Loosen

your grip on the products of your

creative endeavours and celebrate the

messiness of the process, the unlikely

connections, and the mana in your own

narrative whakapapa.

Ngā mihi nui ki Ngāi Tahu for holding

each creative who has made this

kaupapa possible.

Enjoy the 2024 NZ Young Writers Fest!

Mauri ora,

Ruby Macomber (Rotuma, Ngāpuhi)

NAU MAI, HAERE MAI

FROM GUEST CURATOR

RUBY MACOMBER

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