6:30pm – 8:30pm, Tuesday 22 October

This Webworkshop explores the art and craft of writing short first-person narratives – either true stories (creative nonfiction) or invented ones (fiction). We’ll discuss excerpts from the work of various Māori writers to inform the way we shape stories and evoke character, setting and situation. The focus is the first-person point of view – the ‘I’ of the story – and its opportunities and challenges. All participants will get a set of exercises to help develop their own work after the class.

Paula Morris MNZM (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Manuhiri, Ngāti Whātua) is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and essayist. Director of the Master of Creative Writing at the University of Auckland, she is the founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature; Wharerangi, the Māori literature hub; and the online Aotearoa NZ Review of Books. She edited the 2023 anthology Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories.

Both hui will include whakawhaungatanga and time to kōrero about the branch with Witi Ihimaera, Te Kaituhi Māori Kaihautū and Perena Quinlivan, Te Mangai Māori ki te Poari o Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa.

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• Please note that the Webworkshop is held on Zoom.
• If you are unable to make the live event, all attendees can access a recording of the Webworkshop to view after it is aired live.