Name: Authors Gina Butson & Michelle Duff in conversation 📚
Start: 2025-09-18T08:00:00+12:00
Location: 137 Jackson Street, Petone, New Zealand 5012

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Join us in Schrödinger's Books for a discussion between two exciting contemporary voices in New Zealand literature - Gina Butson ('The Stars are a Million Glittering Worlds,' Allen & Unwin) and Michelle Duff ('Surplus Women,' Te Herena Waka University Press).
Gina Butson has worked as a lawyer and as an advisor in the public sector. She completed her MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) in 2023. In 2024 she won the Salient Creative Writing competition and was Highly Commended in the Sargeson Prize. She has been awarded a 2026 residency at the Robert Lord Writers Cottage.
Michelle Duff is an award-winning journalist and writer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington. She was the winner of the 2023 Fiction Prize from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She is recognised in Aotearoa for her in-depth reporting and feature writing in outlets such as Stuff, New Zealand Geographic and 1News, and globally in The Guardian, The Melbourne Age and The Sunday Times.