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The Going West literary weekend Landfall in Unknown Seas is fast approaching. Sunday morning will see two new voices, Craig Cliff and Tanya Moir, reveal and interrogate their work and share their aspirations with novelist and reviewer Tina Shaw.

The Going West literary weekend Landfall in Unknown Seas is fast approaching. Sunday morning will see two new voices, Craig Cliff and Tanya Moir, reveal and interrogate their work and share their aspirations with novelist and reviewer Tina Shaw. In A Man Melting, Craig Cliff tackles all the big questions of life birth, infancy, adolescence, violence, parenthood, death in fresh and intriguing ways. Tanya Moir reshapes the familiar with her first novel La Rochelle’s Road and seamlessly blends historical fact and fiction with satisfying results.

Craig Cliff was born in Palmerston North in 1983. After living in Australia and Scotland he returned to New Zealand in 2009. His collection of short stories, A Man Melting, was named as one of the top books of 2010 by The Listener and Sunday Star Times and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book award. He lives in Wellington and writes a fortnightly column for The Dominion Post about juggling his double life as a public servant and emerging writer.

Tanya Moir has worked as a radio copywriter, print journalist and television commercial director in New Zealand, and as a television promo producer in Rome and London, where career highlights included promoting Sex & the City to the Saudi Arabian market. Born and raised in Southland, she has gradually worked her way north, and now divides her time between Auckland’s wild west coast and Banks Peninsula in Canterbury.

Tina Shaw is the author of five literary novels: Birdie, Dreams of America, City of Reeds, Paradise, and The Black Madonna. She held the University of Waikato Writer-In-Residence in 2005, the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency, Germany (2000-01), and the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship, Auckland in 1999. Since 2005, Tina has been publishing in the children’s educational market, and for young adults. Her 2009 novel, About Griffen’s Heart (Longacre Press), was named a Storylines Notable Book for 2010 and was shortlisted for the 2010 LIANZ Children’s Book Awards.