Wai Word - The Art of Farming - Tim Saunders

Wairarapa Word & Wairarapa Library Service present The Art of Farming with Tim Saunders

17 June, Saturday, 3pm
Reading & Conversation with John Horrocks & Book-signing - Nau mai Haere mai - Koha

18 June, Sunday, 12.30pm
Nature Writing Workshop - Limited space - Book your seat: events.waiword@gmail.com

Tim Saunders farms 290 hectares of sheep/beef/cropping land in the Manawatu & has authored This Farming Life and Under a Blue Sky & many short stories & poems.
Tim believes art & farming can co-exist harmoniously and that writing has proven to be a therapeutic way of processing the many challenges of farm life.
Tim will read from his books & chat with author John Horrocks who in the past farmed sheep & beef in Mikimiki.

Tim Saunders
His first book, This Farming Life, was published by Allen & Unwin in August, 2020. His second book, Under a Big Sky, was published in August, 2022. His stories and poems have been published in Landfall, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Headland, Flash Frontier, Broadsheet, Best Small Fictions, Turbine|Kapohau, and takahē. He won the 2018 Mindfood Magazine Short Story Competition, placed third in the 2019 and 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Awards, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

John Horrocks
John's links to the Wairarapa come from his years on a sheep and beef farm north of Masterton. Much of that time was the subject of his first book of poetry, Raw Places. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he worked as a researcher and campaigner for Friends of the Earth and is still writing on subjects related to environmental health. Another long-standing obsession – with crime fiction – led in 2020 to his novel, Dark Empire, which is set in Wellington (and also in locations near Featherston and a farm north of Masterton). At present, he is part of a group that is making a short film about Katherine Mansfield’s “At the Bay”. It will be launched on July 2, in Days Bay, where he now lives.

Supported by Almo's Books, Carterton Creative Communities and Carterton Events Centre

Coordinated by Wairarapa Word, a free monthly writers' series since 2012