Huge thanks to everyone who joined us in person and online on Tuesday at the National Library to hear from 2023 Randell Cottage residents Rachel O’Neill and Caroline Laurent, in conversation with trustee Francis Cooke.
Please join us on Tuesday 21 November at the National Library – or via zoom link if you’re unable to attend in person.
You are invited to the Annual General Meeting of Friends of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust to be held on: Thursday 1 June 2023, at 12 noon in Room 4 of the Alliance Française, Level 3, Dominion Bldg, Victoria St. Wellington.
Rose Lu, our NZ writer-in-residence, joined in a warm and open conversation with Randell Cottage Trustee Francis Cooke, at the National Library on 23 September 2022, hosted by the Friends of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust.
Join Rose in this event hosted by the Friends of Randell Cottage as she talks about her work — her 2019 essay collection All Who Live on Islands and her new book — at the National Library at 12:10 this Friday, 23 September.
The Randell Cottage Open Day is 30 October this year as part of Wellington Heritage Week 2022. From 1-4pm enjoy the cottage and garden and listen to readings from past writers-in-residence.
Paddy Richardson has announced that her new book, By the Green of the Spring is due in bookshops in mid-August. Paddy was Randell Cottage’s Creative New Zealand writing fellow for 2019, while she worked on this new novel.
This year is the centenary of the publication of Katherine Mansfield’s third collection of short stories, The Garden Party and Other Stories. The collection includes some of Mansfield’s best-known and most-loved stories, such as ‘At the Bay’, ‘The Garden Party’ and ‘Miss Brill’. But what about the other twelve?
Current Randell Cottage resident Rose Lu will read ‘The Lady’s Maid’ as part of the Katherine Mansfield House winter series. Local writers are asked to choose one of the lesser-known stories from the collection to read out loud and chat about on a Sunday afternoon. You can read the story in advance and come with your own thoughts and questions, or come along and discover the story for the first time and see what it makes you think and feel in the moment.
Sunday 7 August 2022
15:00–16:00
Katherine Mansfield House & Garden, 25 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand
More information, including attending by zoom, is available on the Katherine Mansfield website.
