Media + Events

2026

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New Zealand Opera School

Interview

Museum Concert Review

Review of Great Opera Moments

 

2025​

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At the Bay

Interview with Lola Elvy

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Writers on Mondays

Panel with Chris Tse, Gregory Kan, Jiaqiao Liu, and Nina Mingya Powles

 

Wairarapa Word Festival

Recital of music and poetry

Interview in The Post about the event

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International Page and Stage

Online poetry reading

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Festival of Flash

Online Panel: Books that Connect: From Short Story to Experimental

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Mad Diva Promotion

NZ Herald The Best Books of 2025

Feature on NZ Poetry Shelf

Interview on Bookenz

Speech by Chris Tse

Reading at Crushes

Interview on Write Spot

Interview on 95bFM

Interview on Wellington Access Radio

Article in The Post

Launch events in Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin, and Christchurch

 

The Post

Interview on creativity

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Wai-te-Ata Press

Panel on Encounter

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New Zealand Opera School

Great Opera Moments Performance review

Chapel performance review

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2024​

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Encounter

Interview on RNZ National's Culture 101

Panel at BATS Theatre

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LitCrawl 2024

Reading at Starling: Shapes in the Silence

 

Shine On Katherine Mansfield documentary series

Featured episode

 

SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music

Interview for their Meet the Composer series

 

RNZ National

Interview on Jesse Mulligan's Bookmarks

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Enjoy Contemporary Art Space

Reading poems for Bad Apple's Mixtape collection

 

Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2023

Reading at Te Papa's Rongomaraeroa

 

The Spinoff

Interview for their Art Work series

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Re: News

Interview about being a young artist

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Hector 

Review by Hannah Patterson

Reflection on the show published by Bad Apple

Interview on Wellington Access Radio 

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3-7 on RNZ Concert

Interview with Bryan Crump

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5ever books

Reading at the launch of Everything that Moves, Moves Through Another

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Satellites

Artist profile

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Mythos

Launching Mythos: An audio-visual anthology of art by young 

New Zealanders, March 12th

Article on the Victoria University website

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Panel discussion with Aroha Witinitara, Jackson McCarthy, and

Kassandra Wang at Unity Books, March 27th

 

2023

 

Wellington Museum

Giving a talk and reading a poem about ancestor Chung Chun Ying

 

Verb Festival 2023

Debuting the new composition 'Three Spells' and reading poetry

at the Spoiled Fruit book launch, November 9th

 

Wai-te-Ata Press

Performing original song cycles 'What We Owe To Each Other' 

and 'Chinese Colours' at the press's Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration

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Wellington Access Radio, B-Side Stories

Talking about In Blind Faith and other projects with Lewis Thomson

and Hazel Perigo-Blackburn

Part 1, Part 2

 

Hala Wellington

Performing original songs for lyre, piano and voice,July 27th

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Cud-Chewing Country: NZ Poets and Composers in Concert
Article by Pippi Jean about the compositions

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The Dowse

Spellcasting: Poetic Responses to Sisterly

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Symposia Magazine

Issue 1 Zine Launch and readings at Good Books, June 4th

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Poetry at Pegasus

Poetry reading alongside young poets Jackson McCarthy, Amelia Kirkness, and Zia Ravenscroft, May 26th

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Auckland Writer's Festival

Reading and panel discussion at Mythbusters: An Ode to Joy

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New Zealand Geographic

Creative profile/interview

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Creatif Kate Shows

Original Lyre songs at Sexy Sunday Shenanigans, January 29th

Original Lyre songs at Homo-ween, October 28th

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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden

Poetry reading at Katherine Manfield's centenary 

Performing lyre songs at the house's 35-year celebration

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2022

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LitCrawl 2022
Mad Heart: Sappho’s Fragments in Song
Radical Possibilities of the Mind, Body and Senses: A Poetry Showcase

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samesame but different Festival 2022
Panel of queer poets discussing new releases, September 23rd

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City Gallery Wellington
Poetic responses to Glen Hayward’s exhibition ‘Wish You Were Here’ for Tuatara Open Late

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In Blind Faith at BATS Theatre, August 2022
Stuff article
Personal reflection published by Stuff

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Queer Af Festival 2022
Reading at Poetry and Pie

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TEDxYouth@Paparangi 2022
Speech about historical narratives 

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Creatif Kate shows
Original Lyre songs at Booth's Bawdy Bordello, November 18th

Original Lyre songs at Sexy Sunday Shenanigans, May 29th
Neurodiverse Poetry Night, May 19th

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anomalia
Q&A with Good Books for anomalia, 26 April 2022
anomalia launch party at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, April 22nd

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2021

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Thistle Hall Lightbox, 10-31 December 2021
Original poem + collage

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LitCrawl 2021
Reading at Introducing: We Are Babies
Reading at Sweet Mammalian Issue 8

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Verb Festival 2021
Surrealist Sisters – poetic responses to Te Papa’s surrealism exhibit

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In Blind Faith at Wellington High School
Stuff article

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CubaDupa 2021
Guest reader for Hit Me Baby One More Rhyme

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2020

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LitCrawl 2020
Reading at Starling Turns 10