New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa

Natalie Haynes presents Honour Among Thebes

The History of Theatre has never been so much fun. Writer and comedian Natalie Haynes presents Honour Among Thebes, a lively tour through the early Greek Tragedies and Comedies, from the first performance by Thespis to the raucous sex-strike of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, via the great tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and...
Natalie Haynes presents Troy Story

BBC presenter, writer and comedian Natalie Haynes takes on the Trojan War. Based on her latest novel, A Thousand Ships, Natalie’s hour of 'Troy Story’ steers you through the stories of the women at the heart of the greatest conflict in ancient literature. Settle in for a wild ride from divine...
Joshua Tepania & The Miracle Goatherders

Poetry Live Presents: Joshua Tepania & The Miracle Goatherders Tuesday 23rd July at 8pm Guest Poet: Joshua Tepania I was born and raised in Auckland city. I left school and I couldn’t read so I taught myself how to read by reading comic books for three years. My two main poetic inspirations are Tupac...
Taking the Sting out of Editing

Date: 9:30am (for a 10am start) – 3pm, Saturday 23 November 2019 Location: Waikanae Baptist Church, Te Moana Road, Waikanae Faculty: Catherine Robertson Cost: $86.25 including lunch To register contact: kirsten@kahini.org There are two types of writers: those who claim to enjoy the editing process, and the other ninety-nine per cent who know the rest are liars....
Listening to the Waves

Date: 9:30am – 4pm, Saturday 19 October 2019 and 9:30am – 4pm, Saturday 2 November 2019 Location: Waikanae Baptist Church, Te Moana Road, Waikanae Faculty: Lynn Jenner Cost: $172.50 including lunch To register contact: kirsten@kahini.org A workshop for writers of prose (fiction, memoir, essays or other non-fiction) What if you thought of your sentences as waves and your...
How to Speak Your Truth Without Being a Slave to It and the Power of What If

Date: 10am-3pm, Saturday 24 August 2019 Location: Waikanae Baptist Church, Te Moana Road, Waikanae Faculty: Victor Rodger Cost: $86.25 including lunch To register contact: kirsten@kahini.org Sometimes it is necessary to leave the absolute truth behind in order to follow the story. Sometimes we need to let go of the reality of our experiences, to let go of...
This Hostile Place: Carl Shuker and Lawrence Patchett

Lawrence Patchett’s first novel The Burning River is a work of fictional futurology set in a version of New Zealand where a plastic miner who survives by alliances and trade is swept into a perilous inland journey with new companions. In Carl Shuker’s novel A Mistake, a gifted female...
Flight across Worlds: Elizabeth Knox and Craig Cliff

Elizabeth Knox’s new novel The Absolute Book is set in London, Norfolk, the Wye Valley, and Auckland, as well as in the hospitals and train stations of Purgatory. Old acts of revenge return with force, as three people are driven towards a reckoning felt in more than one world....
Short Sharp Script 2: Circa Theatre

More exciting work in progress from the second group of IIML scriptwriters, at Circa Theatre. This week the spotlight falls on work from David Mamea, Helmut Marko, Monica Pausina, Sophie Scott, and Rachael Stokes. Introduced by Ken Duncum.

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Ray Grover values pragmatism on the latest NZSA Oral History Podcast episode
18 July 2019
“It’s rough justice we are after.” -Ray Grover In the late 1950’s Ray Grover was part of a small circle of Wellington writers that included Maurice Gee, Fleur Adcock and James K. Baxter. Shortly after publishing his first novel, Another Man’s Role in 1967, Ray joined PEN NZ and quickly
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A wealth of literary talent at Writers on Mondays
16 July 2019
16 July 2019 Popular readings series Writers on Mondays returns to Wellington from 22 July, featuring a stunning array of local, national, and international writers. _________________________________________________ Presented by Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) in conjunction with Te Papa Tongarewa, the series runs each Monday from
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Government Making Plans –
11 July 2019
Encouraging signs for transformation of the sector By Keri Malthus Making plans The Government has put a firmer timeframe around its planning to transform the creative sector. In a statement to The Big Idea, a spokesperson for newly-appointed Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford says the Government will begin to develop
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