Auckland Writers Festival

Lovely to come back to Auckland to find that the revised Auckland Writers Festival web site is open and ready for the upcoming festival on May 13th - 17th.

The site includes a full programme - the return of the totally useful My Festival feature, and, of course, all the news that's fit to print. A PDF of the programme can be found, here.

International Guests
Debra Adelaide (Australia); Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria/US); Monica AliM.T. Anderson (US); Stefan Aust (Germany); Tash Aw (Malaysia/UK); Marcus Chown (UK); Richard Dawkins (UK); Martin Edmond (NZ/Australia); George Friedman (US); Kirsty Gunn (NZ/UK); Mohammed Hanif (Pakistan); Hendrick Hertzberg (US); Richard Holloway (Scotland); David Malouf (Australia); Iggy McGovern (Ireland); Mal Peet (UK); Sonya Renee (US); Rhonda Sherman (US); James Surowiecki (US); Judith Thurman (US); Christos Tsiolkas (Australia).

Read biographical notes here »

The McGovern Online connection
And yes - there is a McGovern Online connection - we have been a sponsor of the Festival since 2003. That means scope and design to the web site - as well as providing the content management tools, as well as working with the Festival organisers on maximising the potential of the web.

The design, is based on the programme print design, which comes form our colleagues at Seven.