Writers on Mondays

Other Worlds

Pip Adam’s Audition features three giants: Alba, Stanley, and Drew, who are squashed into a spaceship hurtling through space and must talk to keep the spaceship moving. Tīhema Baker’s Turncoat is set on a distant future Earth, colonised by aliens, where Daniel—a young, idealistic human—is determined to make a difference for his people. These works of speculative fiction are exciting, inventive, and compassionate in their exploration of systems of power. Dougal McNeill will talk to Pip and Tīhema about these other worlds in fiction, and the mirror they hold up to our world today.

Writers on Mondays is presented by the International Institute of Modern Letters with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Circa Theatre and Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day.

All welcome and it’s free of charge.