Keri Hulme discusses and reads from her unpublished novel BAIT at the Going West festival in Titirangi, 1997.
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Poets Serie Barford and Michael Steven deliver their powerful verses at a live Going West event – Shifted Ground – in Titirangi, April 2022.
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Lucy Mackintosh, Richard Shaw and Pita Turei discuss the contested stories and histories of Taranaki and Tāmaki Makaurau with journalist Tania Page.
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Daren Kamali and Karlo Mila live at the Going West gala, 2021.
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Writer Paula Morris and photographer Haru Sameshima follow Robin Hyde through a young city emerging into its own identity.
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Maurice Shadbolt, master storyteller, celebrates the near forgotten lives from New Zealand’s history and the business of writing them to life in both fiction and memoir.
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Poet Paula Green in conversation with creative collaborators Bill Manhire, poet, and Norman Meehan, musician and jazz composer.
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Five leading women meet in the 125th year since the 1893 granting of female suffrage in New Zealand.
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In conversation with Steve Braunias, Diana Wichtel talks of her memoir and the long search for her lost father Ben Wichtel, a Polish Jew, rounded up by the Nazis and who jumped to safety from a train on the way to the Treblinka death camp.
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Appearing at Going West in 2002, Max Cryer talks about New Zealand’s vernacular English and its origins.
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Paula Morris leads a discussion with Simon Wilson, Susanna Andrew and Shamubeel Eaqub on writing true stories, and the demands and possibilities of the essay and creative non-fiction.
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What does it mean to be a writer, a creative person, while also parenting small children? Poet Karlo Mila and writer and cartoonist/illustrator Sarah Laing share their experiences.
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In this address from the opening of the 2013 Going West Writers Festival, Sir Bob Harvey pays homage to the West coast and the role that this landscape, and the books he loves, have played in his extraordinary life.
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The story of the iconic New Zealand television series Outrageous Fortune and the fictional West family of West Auckland at the 2009 Going West Books & Writers Festival.
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Historian Tony Simpson tucks into 19th century colonial food traditions in Aotearoa and its impact on New Zealand’s cuisine and cultural identity.
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Written sounds and spoken language - a discussion on the earliest Māori engagement with writing by Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins
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Allen Curnow reads at Going West in 2001, introduced by Glenn Colquhoun. This was Allen Curnow’s last public performance.
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Award winning novelist and creator of Tarzan Presley Nigel Cox reflects on what he sees in New Zealand after 5 years away in Berlin.
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In the first such history of its kind, Professor of History at Otago University Barbara Brookes, shares the story of her ground-breaking book A History of New Zealand Women, in conversation with Judith Pringle.
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On Going West’s final steam train excursion, television and radio presenter Marcus Lush delivers a witty account of his life-long love affair with rail.
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