“If I set things down on a page and put words to the feelings, I feel more in control,” wrote Fiona Farrell in an email to her friends a week after the February earthquake in Christchurch. “Everything will have to be reconfigured, reimagined; our internal maps of the place will have to be redesigned.”

Five writers with strong Canterbury links — Fiona Farrell, Joanna Preston, Tusiata Avia, Carl Nixon and Charlotte Randall — reflect on their experiences and on how the reimagined landscape of the city and its surroundings will emerge within their writing.

Presented by Christchurch Writers Festival in association with Christchurch Arts Festival.