NZSA Auckland Branch Monthly Meeting

Friday 2 July

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 thrilled to welcome one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most popular and best-selling children’s authors Stacy Gregg, to be our guest speaker in July.

Stacy Gregg (Ngāti Mahuta/Ngāti Pukeko/Ngāti Maru/Taharoa) is HarperCollins NZ’s third best-selling children’s author of all time after David Walliams and Dr Seuss. Stacy’s series and standalone novels have sold millions worldwide and been adapted for film and television. An eight-times finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Stacy’s popularity with young readers has seen her win the popular-vote Children’s Choice Award at the NZ Book Awards a record three years running for her standalones including The Princess and the Foal, The Girl Who Rode The Wind and The Island of Lost Horses.

Stacy is an incredibly hardworking writer, this year alone she has written a new six-book illustrated junior fiction series, Spellbound Ponies, published by HarperCollins UK, has created a new picture book series, In or Out, focusing on a dysfunctional cat/dog relationship, also with HCUK. Her television writing includes an hour-long episode for the celebrated rugby drama Head High on TV3, and a yet-to-be-announced TV pilot commissioned for TVNZ. Stacy is currently working on a feature film adaption of her series Pony Club Rivals, alongside a novel based around her childhood in Ngāruawāhia. She is currently also a full-time student in the level 3/4 full immersion Maori unit at Te Wananga ō Aotearoa.

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.

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.