Join author and expatriate Helen Bones for a fresh look at the received wisdom that New Zealand writers in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries had to leave colonial shores to find success. In this talk, entitled ‘”Throwing up the Sponge”: New Zealand writers and the Expatriate Myth’, Bones will draw on her new book, The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand writers and the colonial world (Otago University Press, 2018). What did it mean to be a New Zealand writer? What was the relationship between New Zealand and wider colonial and transnational networks? Join us on Tuesday 13 March at 5.30pm in Castle D Lecture Theatre to find out more.

This talk is also sponsored by Otago University Press. Copies of The Expatriate Myth will be available to purchase at the event for a special price of $30.00, cash only.

Dr Helen Bones is a New Zealander living in Australia, where she teaches history and researches with the Digital Humanities Research Group at the University of Western Sydney.