Otago Daily Times: Arts

Making things up might be called telling lies, but if you write it down you are being an author, according to Leonie Agnew. Charmian Smith talks to the College of Education children's writer in residence.

''The race'', Hannah Kidd (Milford Galleries)

Hannah Kidd is getting a lot of much-deserved attention for her impressive sculptures.

Murder, drunkenness, theft and bigamy are just some of the bad behaviour exhibited by characters in Jane Austen's early writing, and she behaves badly too, on occasion. Charmian Smith talks to Jocelyn Harris and Terry MacTavish about ''Women Behaving Badly'', their Austen readings.

Gigs Alibi, the Octagon. • Fridays, from 10.30pm: Hemi and Bede.

''A Singular Occasion'', Sue Hawker (Milford Galleries Queenstown)

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