Writers on Mondays – Writing off the Map: Anna Jackson and Rachel O'Neill
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Two adventurous writers discuss their genre-defying works that blend poetry, essays, music, and queer joy in uncharted literary territory.
Mon 25 Aug 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
Rongomaraeroa, the marae, Level 4
Free event with museum entry
Anna Jackson and Rachel O'Neill explore uncharted territory with their latest genre-defying works.
Nina Mingya Powles calls Anna Jackson's Terrier, Worrier 'a remarkable and playful book on language, anxiety, poetry, and the strangeness of being a person'. Somewhere between diary and poetic essays, it takes Jackson's work into previously unexplored territory.
Equally off the charts is filmmaker, writer, and artist Rachel O’Neill’s Symphony of Queer Errands, a delightfully riotous musical fantasia and an irreverent ode to queer joy.
Chris Price will pilot the conversation between these adventurous voyagers in unknown seas.
Left: Anna Jackson. Right: Rachel O'Neill. Photos by Ebony Lamb Photographer