Burns Fellowship 60th Anniversary

Lunch Time Reading Session

As part of the Burns Fellowship 60th Anniversary celebrations, former and current Burns Fellows gathered in the University of Otago Link to read extracts of their novels, short stories, poetry, scripts, non-fiction and theatrical texts.

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From Book to Film

As part of the Burns Fellowship 60th Anniversary celebrations, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society organised a panel discussion.

In the programme you are about to hear, former Burns Fellows join Chris Prentice, Associate Professor from the University of Otago Department of English and Alistair Fox, Emeritus Professor of English, for a discussion on the topic From Book to Film – Adapting New Zealand Literature to the Screen.

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Tribute to Absent Fellows

The programme you are about to hear, Tribute to Absent Fellows, is brought to you by the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival, in association with the University of Otago English Programme’s Burns Fellowship 60th anniversary celebrations.

What follows is a salute to the 17 Burns Fellows no longer with us –  with friends, whanau and colleagues of Absent Fellows taking the podium to read in their honour.

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