W.F. Stubbs

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Warwick Stubbs is the author of 'The Tasman Journey', a book of poetry and prose that covers his time living in Motueka which eventually saw him moving into his car and living on the side of the Motueka River. The Tasman Journey has been distributed around the North Island to numerous bookshops including Muirs, Macleods, Bruce McKenzie, Schrödinger's, Page & Blackmore, and several Paper Plus stores in between.

His second book in print is 'Two Left Feet', another book of poetry and prose, this time focussed on the narrative of a relationship as two people in love travel around the South Island in an L300 van. Two Left Feet has been reviewed at NZ Booklovers, and featured as part of an interview with Maggie Tweedie on RNZ's Culture 101 programme.

Warwick's first two novels 'I am the Local Atheist' and 'Auralye on a Harp' are availble on Amazon. His third novel is projected to be completed in the near future.

While the first two novels are Contemporary Fiction, based in New Zealand (Invercargill, and an unspecified Eastern area of the North Island respectively), the third novel develops a ficitonal 'place', rather than a 'world'. While other novels in the works range from Fantasy to Science Fiction and build fullscale worlds, Stubbs has no particular genre leanings and will pursue an idea as long as it has value to the themes he feels need to be explored in greater detail.

He is involved in both the Nelson STEM Writers and Motueka WHAM writing groups, and has edited and contributed to STEMS's second book of collected writings "Lunchbook 2".

 

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Skills:

  • Editing
  • Freelance Writing
  • Novelist
  • Proofreading
  • Public Speaking

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Top of the South

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The Tasman Journey

Poetry and Prose by W.F. Stubbs

Two Left Feet

‘Miss Sherlock’ – a welcoming spirit, but also an enigma of possibilities. At times heart-breaking, at times impressionistic, but always honest, and impassioned with the desire to find answers, Two Left Feet takes the reader on a literary journey from the sunny hills of Tasman, to summer rain in Central Otago, down to Invercargill and back up again to the sandfly-ridden West Coast, as two travellers explore the struggles and joys of a close-knit relationship in an L300 van while exploring the landscape of Te Waipounamu.

“A brilliant book. … there are so many beautiful scenes. There’s a real grounding sense of discovery in Two Left Feet, and that’s what Stubbs captures so well in his writing.”

- Maggie Tweedie, RNZ, Culture 101

 

Presented in snapshots of poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction, this candid but heartfelt adventure comes together with illuminating and unforgettable prose.