Posted May 21, 2026
Join us for an evening of dark tales. Writers Marie Connolly, Liam Mcllvanney and Wendy Parkins will be reading. Followed by a panel discussion chaired by Fiona Farrell.
Marie Connolly
Liam McIlvanney teaches at the University of Otago and is the author of five crime novels, most recently The Good Father.
Wendy Parkins is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction who lives in Dunedin. She won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel in 2025 for The Defiance of Frances Dickinson (Affirm Press, 2024) and her memoir, Every Morning, So Far, I’m Alive was published in 2019 (Otago UP). She is currently working on a second historical novel, based on a Dickens character from Dombey and Son, in which a woman on the run from her past finds her way to 1850s Dunedin. Wendy is a former Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Kent, UK, and is also the Chair of the Otago / Southland branch of the NZ Society of Authors.
Thursday 18th June 2026
Come for 5pm with a 5.30pm start
Refreshments provided.
All welcome.
