NZSA Auckland Branch event
Friday 4 June
(meet from 5pm, meeting starts 6.15pm)
The Coffee Club, 42 High Street, Auckland CBD (on the edge of Freyberg Square)
The Auckland Branch is excited to host two of our most accomplished and well-known writers, Charlotte Grimshaw and Paula Morris.
Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels and outstanding collections of linked stories, which have been published in New Zealand, the UK and Canada. She has been a double finalist and prize winner in the Sunday Star-Times short story competition, winner of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award, 2008 Montana Book Reviewer of the Year, Qantas Media Award winner, and reviewer of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards. In 2008 her story collection Opportunity won New Zealand’s premier Montana Award for Fiction or Poetry; one of only two short story collection to ever do so. In 2019, Grimshaw’s novels The Night Book and Soon were adapted into television series The Bad Seed. She will be talking about her new memoir, The Mirror Book, with Paula Morris.
Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whatua) was born in Auckland in 1965. She is the award-winning author of short stories, essays and novels, and convenes the Master of Creative Writing programme at the University of Auckland. Paula sits on the Māori Literature Trust, Mātātuhi Foundation, and NZ Book Awards Trust, and is the founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature. Appointed an MNZM in the 2019 New Year Honours, she has appeared in festivals around and world and been awarded numerous residencies, including the 2019 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship.
Meeting Location
Our meeting will be held in The Coffee Club, 42 High Street, Auckland CBD (on the edge of Freyberg Square) – they are staying open late just for us!
We don’t require a koha but instead encourage everyone to buy drink and food which suits your budget and dietary requirements. Please support their business as they are allowing us to use the space for no cost.
Parking is available just up the road in the Victoria St carpark and The Coffee Club is an easy walk from the train or ferry.
2021 Auckland Branch AGM
The June meeting will begin with our AGM. As an incorporated society it is important that we continue to meet our statutory requirements. As a branch we also must abide by the NZSA constitution. For this reason we will be voting to accept or reject:
Please email the branch if you have any questions about these documents.
In April we called for nominations for branch positions. The incumbents (Weng Wai Chan, Chair; Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod, Secretary; Drazen Milosevic, Treasurer) re-stood and no other nominees were received, so the incumbents shall automatically be appointed and no election or vote shall be necessary.
This process should take only a short part of the meeting, and NO OTHER GENERAL BUSINESS will be added to the evening’s agenda for June.
Final Note: The Auckland Branch works to create meetings which are inclusive and welcoming. The meetings aim to be a great introduction to NZSA for new members as well as a place of community for all. For this reason:
- the business part of the meeting is kept brief and finer points about the running of the branch are managed at committee level. No new business is added to the agenda on the night.
- all members are expected to act in a professional, appropriate manner.
Thank you from all members.