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The Featherston Booktown Podcast
The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival is where we celebrate books, storytelling and ideas, and the artefact and craft of the book.
Join NZ Herald Columnist Shane Te Pou and Booktown volunteer Phil Quin for a series of enlightening and entertaining discussions with some of the featured guests from the Festival.
The Festival takes place from 10 -12 May 2024 in Featherston, Aotearoa - New Zealand.
The Featherston Booktown Podcast
Booktown | Bookten Gala Night: Ten Out of Ten
For 10 years, Featherston Booktown has featured the best of this country’s literary talent. Our gala night birthday party gathered 10 of the hundreds of writers who’ve yarned and shared with us so generously. Each one read from work – published or unpublished – that they think best expresses them and what they want to say to the world. Anything goes!
The 10 out of 10 were: Noelle McCarthy • Chris Tse • Carl Shuker • Shayne P Carter (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) • Dame Fiona Kidman • Victor Rodger • Roger Steele • Lars Mytting • Marilyn Waring • Selina Tusitala Marsh. Chaired by Featherston Booktown’s Peter Biggs.
Recorded at the 2025 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival.