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”.)