# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Mid-WInter Dark Tales
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us in our cosy old library for a Mid-Winter Dark Tales reading. 

Writers Marie Conolly, Liam McIlvanney and Wendy Parkins will be reading from their work. 

Followed by a panel discussion chaired by Fiona Farrell.



All welcome. 

Refreshments provided.

Come for 5pm snacks with a 5.30pm start. 


Marie Connolly has been an academic for over thirty years in university and government settings. An expert in child welfare she has published extensively, including twenty scholarly books, and has travelled the world undertaking research into child protection systems. She has published six story books in the Our Backyard series of travel books for children. ' Dark Sky' is her first murder mystery.
 

Liam McIlvanney teaches at the University of Otago and is the author of five crime novels, most recently The Good Father.


Wendy Parkins is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction who lives in Dunedin. She won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel in 2025 for The Defiance of Frances Dickinson (Affirm Press, 2024) and her memoir, Every Morning, So Far, I’m Alive was published in 2019 (Otago UP). She is currently working on a second historical novel, based on a Dickens character from Dombey and Son, in which a woman on the run from her past finds her way to 1850s Dunedin. Wendy is a former Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Kent, UK, and is also the Chair of the Otago / Southland branch of the NZ Society of Authors.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/dunedin/mid-winter-dark-tales/200030259975622
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Business
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Dunedin
- **state**: OT
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: 23 The Octagon, Dunedin Central. 9016, Dunedin, New Zealand 9016
- **lat**: -45.8747
- **long**: 170.50372
- **full address**: 23 The Octagon, Dunedin Central. 9016, Dunedin, New Zealand 9016, New Zealand

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: Mid-WInter Dark Tales
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/ad68273565137c74497ca0446c7a9f8c4eb291087a4f01be9b918bc0ef2ca492-rimg-w1200-h1697-dcfef4d7-gmir?v=1781745681

## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Mid-WInter Dark Tales being held?
  - **A:** Mid-WInter Dark Tales takes place on Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 06:30 pm at 23 The Octagon, Dunedin Central. 9016, Dunedin, New Zealand 9016, New Zealand.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Mid-WInter Dark Tales?
  - **A:** Mid-WInter Dark Tales is organized by Athenaeum Library & Mechanics Institute - Dunedin.

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