What’s Coming Up…
Poetry is taking a front seat on the “What’s Coming Up” front here “…on Anything, Really” over the next few weeks.
Firstly I have some great poets lined up for the Tuesday Poem feature including:
- Tuesday 21, Sarah Jane Barnett with a poem from her new-out collection, A Man Runs Into A Woman
- Tuesday 28, my fellow 2012 Ursula Bethell Resident in Creative Writing (University of Canterbury) David Eggleton; the poem is from his collection Time of the Icebergs
- Tuesday 4 September, the featured poet will be Karen Zelas, whose debut collection, Night’s Glass Table is being launched at the Christchurch Writers’ Festival — Night’s Glass Table won the Interactive Publications Best First Book Award 2012.
Still on the poetry front, I shall be interviewing Rhian Gallagher, winner of this year’s New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry, for her collection Shift, on Women on Air, Plains 96.9 FM, this coming Saturday — and hope to feature the podcast link here, soon time after that.
And of course there’s the Christchurch Writers’ Festival itself, starting just a few sleeps away on Thursday 30 August and running through until September 2 — and I shall be appearing on the “Why YA” panel with John Boyne and Jane Higgins, compered by James Norcliffe. You can find out more here.
You may recall I interviewed Juliet Marillier on SF Signal late last month, here — all going well I should be featuring an interview with Juliet again on the Supernatural Underground on 1 September, this time specifically focusing on her new YA novel, Shadowfell.
And my next SF Signal “Fun With Friends” interview is also in the wings. This month of shall be chatting with fellow NZ speculative fiction author and poet, Tim Jones.
In and around all that I shall of course be blogging, tweeting, trying to keep up with my reading — and most important thing of all, writing Daughter of Blood, The Wall of Night Book Three. I suspect it’s time for another update on that soon — and I’m aware that I also haven’t done a review of my six-month writer-in-residency stint yet. All to come… (Isn’t it great to have Things To Look Forward To. 😉 )
I look forward to your next contribution to SF Signal. 🙂
Me, too!:) Thank you, Paul.