November 2023

Queenstown Writers Festival chair Tanya Surrey is still coming down from the high of another successful festival. Here’s her wrap-up of this year’s event. After months of meetings, phone calls, emails to publishers and efforts to source peonies for the stage, the Queenstown Writers Festival came together last weekend. We called it a “mini festival” […]

Queenstown Writers Festival co-founder Tanya Surrey sat down for a chat with our feature guest for the 2023 festival. It was a sunny morning in Wellington when I arrived at the home of New Zealand filmmaker, Dame Gaylene Preston to discuss the Queenstown Writers Festival. As we sat and talked about the world of film,

We’re not 100% sure about this, but there’s a very good chance that Cristina Sanders is the busiest and most energetic person we know. We dragged her out of the wild outdoors – she’s a trail runner, a sailor, a whitewater rafter, a photographer, a traveller – for long enough to answer a few questions.