The writer this Monday at the City Gallery in Wellington (1-2pm, free) is Fiona Farrell. Fiona is an incredibly prolific poet, novelist and playwriter. Her novel The Hopeful Traveller was runner-up for the 2002 Montana Deutz Medal and was nominated for various other international prizes, and her autobiographical fiction Book Book (a 2005 Deutz Medal finalist) is based on her Oamaru childhood.

In 2006 she will spend six months in southern Ireland as one of the inaugural recipients of the Rathcoola Residency to work on a novel titillatingly titled Mr Allbone’s Ferrets.

Chris Price will chair the chat.