Emily Perkins & Queenstown Writers Festival Launch

Acclaimed New Zealand author Emily Perkins joins Queenstown Writers Festival for a special conversation to launch their 2024 programme.

Perkins won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards with her critically acclaimed satire of Wellington high society, Lioness.

She will contemplate the unravelling of middle-aged women, class privilege in New Zealand and peeing outside in conversation with journalist and Festival trustee Debbie Jamieson.

Perkins says her novels are influenced by the phrase “every story should contain the facts of blood and money”.

They are funny, critically acclaimed and impossible to put down.

Tickets cover Emily Perkins in conversation, wine, canapés, and an exclusive preview of this year's Queenstown Writers Festival programme. There is also the option to purchase a ticket-book combo and collect your copy of Lioness at the event.

Queenstown Writers Festival is grateful for the support of The Rees Hotel, Two Paddocks Wine, Whitestone Cheese and Bloomsbury Publishing, who have helped make this event possible.

About the Queenstown Writers Festival

Held over three days – from November 1 to 3 at Te Atamira – this year’s festival will be the biggest yet with 20 visiting writers, including non-fiction writers, poets, novelists, children’s writers, Kiwi icons, and literary legends.

In addition to on-stage conversations, there will be writing workshops, a book launch, panel discussions, a writing competition and the return of the popular Sampler Session featuring local writers.