Other Voices: Uncovering Women's Narratives - NEW DATE - 23 May 2024

Come and join us for Other Voices: Uncovering Women's Narratives, an engaging 'in conversation' panel event with award-winning Tauranga poet Lee Murray and acclaimed poet and playwright Renee Liang, hosted and moderated by Tauranga Girls' College students in the school library. Examining the untold stories of Aotearoa women and celebrating the launch of Murray's poetry collection Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud, this vibrant in-person event will feature poetry readings from our speakers as well as by talented student poets. Don't miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and be a part of a powerful conversation. Book sales available. Free event. All welcome!

Kindly sponsored by Tauranga Creative Communities, Tauranga Girls' College, and The Cuba Press.

Lee Murray is a third-generation Chinese New Zealander and multi-award-winning author, poet and anthology editor, who lives in the Bay of Plenty. She was awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement for Fiction 2023 and in 2020 she was made an Honorary Literary Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Authors in their Waitangi Day Honours. She’s won five Bram Stoker Awards, awarded by the international Horror Writers Association. Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud won Lee the 2023 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for a work with 'unique and original vision'.

Renee Liang is a poet, playwright, paediatrician, medical researcher and essayist. She is the Asian Theme Lead and a named investigator on landmark longitudinal study Growing Up In NZ. As an established writer, Renee has collaborated on visual arts works, film, opera and music, produced and directed theatre works, worked as a dramaturge, taught creative writing and organized community-based arts initiatives such as New Kiwi Women Write, a writing workshop series for migrant women, and The Kitchen, a new program nurturing stories in local kitchens. Her work The Bone Feeder, originally a play, later adapted into an opera, was one of the first Asian mainstage works to be performed in NZ. Renee has written, produced and toured eight plays. In 2018 she was appointed a Member of the NZ Order of Merit for services to the arts, and won Next Woman of the Year for Arts and Culture.