WHO’S THAT GIRL?: KATE CAMP AND NOELLE MCCARTHY

For one year in 1986, Kate Camp kept a daily diary. In her new book Leather & Chains, she writes back to that 13-year-old self. Encountering the pages from the distance of 40 years, Kate finds iconic ‘80s touchstones, swaggering bravado, vulnerability, and the linguistic fireworks of the proto-writer. Noelle McCarthy’s new book, Stakes, brings her Irish Catholic girlhood obsession with Dracula into collision with the world of the 2020s, 'MeToo', and the horrors emerging from Irish soil. These two memoirists join Kate Duignan for a conversation about hungry girls, and the ones who get invited through the door.Writers on Mondays is presented by the International Institute of Modern Letters and The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The 2026 series will run from 12.15—1.15 pm each Monday from 6 July to 28 September at Te Papa and Circa Theatre, with two special evening sessions at Meow. Admission is free and all are welcome. The series is supported by the Letteri family.The full programme can be viewed here: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters/about/events/writers-mondays Come celebrate Aotearoa writers with us at Writers on Mondays – we look forward to seeing you there.