This Sat­ur­day lit­er­a­ture lovers will be run­ning from venue to venue hop­ing to catch their favourite writ­ers at Lit­Crawl 2016. Based on the con­cept of a pub crawl but with more words (and (maybe?) few­er drunk­en stum­bles) the event is in its third year. There are 18 venues for the crawl this year plus the After Par­ty at the Para­mount. Direc­tors Claire Mabey and Andrew Lak­ing urge Welling­to­ni­ans to map their crawl in advance and to arrive ear­ly. “The very con­cept of Lit­Crawl makes you want to be in — at least — two places at once.  The pro­gramme is divid­ed into three parts between 6 and 9.30pm, so every­one can plan to enjoy a min­i­mum of three ses­sions. Remem­ber the upside of not get­ting into one means you can quick­ly race off to anoth­er” Mabey says.

The six events in Part one fea­ture: sto­ries on the theme of meta­mor­pho­sis; “some writ­ing loose­ly organ­ised along non-het­ero­sex­u­al lines across gen­ders and expe­ri­ences”; unseen Welling­ton; BWB Texts authors inter­view­ing each oth­er; writ­ers wildest dreams; writ­ing about fam­i­ly and being a par­ent.

Part Two’s six events include: live for­mat chat­ting and car­toon­ing with the Tobys; fresh writ­ing by writ­ers under 25; poet­ry in lan­guages from around the world; med­i­cine and poet­ry; four dis­abled writ­ers read from their pub­lished works (this ses­sion will be sign inter­pret­ed); the books writ­ers read.

And the final six events of Part Three present: choic­est para­graphs from essays; pure poet­ry in per­for­mance; the offline launch of a new online jour­nal called 4th Floor; singer-song­writ­ers in per­for­mance; expe­ri­ences of dis­lo­ca­tion and mar­gin­al­i­sa­tion.

Entry to all the events is by dona­tion. (The Lit­Crawl team rec­om­mend $5 per event as this allows them  to keep it “ambi­tious and free”.)