Caroline Barron Author
Ripiro Beach
Auckland Writers Festival: Friday 13th May: 2.30pm: Life Lessons: Hanya Yanagihara (acclaimed U.S. author) in conversation with Anne Kennedy.
“Friendship is ungovernable and indeterminable. It allows a great expansiveness. And that can be terrifying for people.” – Hanya Yanagihari
Friday 13 May: 1pm: Crime Stories with Ian Austin (UK), Paula Hawkins (ZWE), Ben Sanders (NZ) and Elsbeth Hardie (NZ). Introduced by Rachael King.
“It’s not even his line. He stole it from Henry Miller. Everything she has is second hand”. – Paula Hawkins, from A Girl on a Train
Friday 13 May: 11.30am: Fifty Shades of Grey Matter: Julian Baggini (UK philosopher) in conversation with Graeme Hill.
Free will is to have enough of a consciousness to be self-governing, to be responsive to arguments or a consensus. That’s all we need. It is not absolute responsibility.
My definition of writerly heaven? A dozen of us in a room with Booker Prize-winning author, Ben Okri. His 10 Truths About Writing changed my world. Maybe they’ll change yours too?
Hurrah! A profile page on the University of Auckland website (thanks Jonathan Burgess):
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-students-and-graduates/postgraduate-students-3/caroline-barron.html
I am now half-way through my Master in Creative Writing at the University of Auckland. The goal: finish the novel by mid-November. 85,000 words. I’m 30,000 in and it feels like I’m just hitting my stride; after a year or more of research and thinking about Evelyn and Morgan, my two protagonists, I know exactly who they are and can hear their thoughts in my mind as I write. It’s like everything before has been pressure on the ocean, and now the wave is finally visible from the shore. The sand under my feet feels good and during the five weeks between semesters, I’m grabbing my surfboard, baby.
Before seeing Tim Winton at the Auckland Writers Festival, if I’d seen him walking down the street I’d have pegged him as an aging surfer dude. And maybe tried to sell him drugs. Not really. But apparently that often happens to him.
“Most people expect clever symmetry in life. But most people die mid-sentence” – Tim Winton.
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