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The Ngaio Marsh Awards, in association with Hutt City Libraries, invites booklovers to a thrilling event featuring five Kiwi novelists. 2024 Ngaios winner Jennifer Lane will chair a fun and fascinating panel with Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning writer Andi C Buchanan, past Ngaios Best First Novel finalist Kim Hunt, prolific cosy mystery author Rodney Strong, and Wellington schoolteacher and historical thriller writer Stephen Tester.
It'll be a criminally good conversation about creating memorable characters and compelling storylines, the importance of setting, and exploring real-life issues through page-turning fiction.
WHEN: Wednesday 2 April 2024
WHERE: War Memorial Library, 2 Queens Drive, Lower Hutt
WHEN: 6pm for a 6.30pm panel discussion
This is a free event.
Andi C Buchanan is an award-winning author, short story writer, and editor living among the streams and fault lines of the Hutt Valley. They won a Sir Julius Vogel Award for FROM A SHADOW GRAVE, a genre-blending novella inspired by the real-life murder of Phyllis Symons during the construction of the Mt Victoria tunnel in 1930. Recently, they also contributed a futuristic mystery story to the DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER 2 anthology.
Jennifer Lane is a Wellington short story writer and novelist who was born in rural Australia but has now spent more of her life in Aotearoa. Her debut ALL OUR SECRETS won a Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel, and Jennifer also contributed to crime and thriller anthology DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER 2. Her novel MIRACLE won the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Kids/YA.
Kim Hunt is a Kapiti Coast writer whose short stories have been published in a variety of anthologies and literary journals. She has a Masters in Creative Writing and previously worked as a band roadie, DJ, tiler, horticulturalist and women’s refuge worker. Her debut THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD introduced NSW park ranger Cal Nyx and became a Ngaios Best First Novel finalist. The sequel was longlisted for Best Novel. Kim's latest novel is THE FREEZER.
Rodney Strong is a Porirua author who left his day job in 2016 to follow his lifelong dream of being a writer. He has since published more than a dozen books for children and adults, including five Ghostly Hitchhiker mysteries, and six Silvermoon Retirement Village mysteries starring 98 year old retired con artist Alice Atkinson, the latest of which is RUBIES AND REVENGE.
Stephen Tester is a history teacher, author, and former criminal and family lawyer. He runs the Social Science Faculty at Wellington College, which has one of the largest history departments in the country. When he is not binge-watching television shows, Stephen loves reading about history and travelling the world. KISS OF DEATH is his debut novel, an historical thriller and set in Wellington at the close of the Second World War and the global outbreak of the Spanish flu.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
War Memorial Library, 2 Queens Dr, Hutt Central, Lower Hutt 5010, New Zealand,Lower Hutt, New Zealand
