Sonic Gardens For The Wild

Award-winning writer and editor Tracey Slaughter joins emerging and established local voices, to bring colourful creative work from literary journals Mayhem and Poetry Aotearoa Alive, with dramatic staging by One Question Theatre.

🗓 Sat 21 Feb 2026, 5:45pm–6:45pm
📍 Festival Hub - Grassroots Trust Stage, Hamilton Gardens

Presented as part of HAMLIT, Hamilton Arts Festival Toi Ora ki Kirikiriroa, thanks to Grassroots Trust, Hamilton City Council, Creative Communities Scheme and Poppies Book Store

*Some seating provided

Tracey Slaughter

Tracey Slaughter's latest works are the poetry collection The Girls in the Red House are Singing (2024) and the short fiction collection Devil's Trumpet (2021), both from Te Herenga Waka University Press. Her work has won numerous international awards including the 2024 Moth Short Story Prize, the 2024 ABR Calibre Essay Prize, and the Manchester Poetry Prize 2023. She lives in Kirikiriroa and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Waikato and is the editor of literary journal Mayhem and Poetry Aotearoa.

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