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Learn to Write Good creative writing classes
Best Selling author (Iceland, Poor People With Money), poet and playwright Dominic Hoey has been running his Learn to Write Good creative writing classes since 2015, teaching hundreds of students around the country. The courses explore tips and techniques learned from 30 years of writing prose, poetry, theatre and...
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StartWrite Writing Sample & Synopsis Assessment Programme
StartWrite Writing Sample and Synopsis Assessment Service - for writers who want to get an appraisal for part of their work. Writers can send in a piece of writing, up to 6,000 words (for poetry up to 20 pages), and a one page synopsis.
The NZSA Writing Sample and Synopsis...
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Choose your module
Writing craft, the business of writing, marketing and selling your book... Whether you’re starting out, mid-career or established, our NZSA Writer Toolkit has something for everyone. Available to do in your own time, on your phone, tablet, iPad or computer.
The Writer Toolkit is our professional development offering, with multiple...
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NZSA Mentor Programme 2023 - open for applications
For Writers! Apply now to be mentored by an established writer, poet, playwright.
The NZ Society of Authors Mentor programme 2023 seeks applications from writers looking for professional development, a safe space to discuss their work, intellectual community, role models, accountability and substantive feedback.
The NZSA Mentor Programme is designed to give...
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NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2023 - open for applications
Award for fresh writing with a 'unique and original vision'
The NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize celebrates the life and work of the writer Laura Solomon. As set by Laura, the main criteria for the exciting prize is for new writing with a ‘unique and original vision’. Published and...
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Courage Day Event - Wellington
NZSA Wellington branch invites you to Courage Day event - 21 November 2022
Courage Day - International Day of the Imprisoned Writer
With guest speakers Merhawi Woldemichael. Eritrean/NZ writer and former refugee.
Amnesty International and a selection of writers reading letters.
Monday 21 November 5.45pm to 7.15pm, St Peter’s, 211 Willis St, Te...
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Courage Day Event - Dunedin
Doors open 5pm (with UBS book table)
5.30 Penelope Todd welcome/ introduction
First set of readings (in this order):
Carolyn McCurdie
David Eggleton
Jacinta Ruru
Rakibul Hasan Khan
Open mic segment -- 15-20 minutes of sharing from audience
Second set of readings (in this order):
Claire Beynon
Emma Neale
Philip Temple (with closing comments)
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Courage Day Book Launch - Wellington
NZSA member Paul Diamond's book Downfall will be launched on Courage Day, in Wellington, in association with the Lesbian Gay Archives of NZ (LAGANZ); Chris Brickell’s book of James Courage’s diaries, will also be available at the National Library store during the launch.
Where: National Library of NZ, 70 Molesworth...
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Courage Day/ Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2022 event - Hamilton
“People say that writers are pretty powerless: we don’t have an army, we don’t have a bureaucracy. But if that were true, then why would writers be arrested?...
Because the …word is powerful.”
— John Ralston Saul
Courage Day/ Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2022
An evening of solidarity with imprisoned writers
Where:...