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Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency
Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency Applications for the three month 2016 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency at the University of Hawai‘i are invited. The residency is available to mid-career or senior New Zealand writers of Pacific heritage to work on a project exploring Pacific identity, culture or history. One award valued at NZ$30,000 […]
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PLAYWRIGHTS ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND (INC)
10-Minute Play Competition 2016 Adjudicator: Angie Farrow Proudly sponsored by PLAYMARKET Enquiries and submissions to: playwrightsnz@gmail.com Website: newzealandplaywrights.wordpress.com RULES: The competition is for scripts suitable for performing on stage with a playing time between 7 and 10 minutes. The entrant must be a member of PANZ. Membership is open to any person who is a long-term resident […]
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Howick Little Theatre presents An Evening with Justin Eade
To promote our first major play – Central Otago Man – which runs from 27 February to 19 March, with both evening performances and matinee sessions, we are bringing the playwright, Justin Eade to the Theatre, to talk about his career and about the play. The director of our production Alex Gleed will also be […]
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Atlas – new medical literary journal call for submissions
Atlas is a recently established medical literary journal, both online and in print, that hopes to encourage thought and open discussion on the ascientific and creative aspects of medicine and the human body. The journal takes its name from the atlas, the first vertebra in the body. Supporting the skull, the atlas allows the head to nod yes. […]
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NELSON & GOLDEN BAY LIVE POETS
NEXT MEETINGS OF NELSON AND GOLDEN BAY LIVE POETS The June meetings of the Live Poets Societies feature guest poet Jeffrey Paparoa Holman from Christchurch. Holman has published seven volumes of poetry as well as history and memoir. Live Poets’ spokesman Mark Raffills says of Holman, ‘A raw-bones poet, he brings the reality of hard […]
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LIVE POETS IN NELSON AND GOLDEN BAY
The next meetings of both the Nelson and Golden Bay Live Poets feature guest poet David Eggleton to start another fabulous year of poetry events in the region. David Eggleton is a poet, writer, recording artist, arts journalist and film maker. He has had seven books of poems and a book of short fiction published, […]
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Marlborough Writers monthly meeting
Marlborough Writers meet on the third Tuesday of the month in Blenheim, and at present are holding early evening meetings at Fairweathers, 36 Scott Street, Blenheim. They get together at 5 pm to discuss any business and to share their writing on a new topic every month. Visitors are welcome. For more information contact Dot Scott, dotscot@kinect.co.nz, […]
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Silver Fern Press Haiku Competition
?Put your summer thinking hats on and dream up something that depicts a moment of Life in New Zealand. Write a Haiku a day or perhaps one a week, then gather your favourites, make your own shortlist and enter your favourite one, two or few. Whether you like to write while sitting out on the […]
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Open Studio Day at New Zealand Pacific Studio
New Zealand Pacific Studio is hosting an open day to its five-acre residency centre for the arts. The historic Normandell House, built in 1911, serves as the centre of the facility and is surrounded by extensive woodland gardens that are beautiful in any season. NZPS, a non-profit residency centre for the arts, offers seven unique work-spaces for […]
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Ema Saiko Poetry Fellowship
The Ema Saiko Poetry Fellowship, facilitated by the New Zealand Pacific Studio, is a three week residency in rural Wairarapa. The Ema Saiko Fellow will be in residence for three weeks at the historic Kaiparoro/Normandell House, working in the garden-facing Saiko studio. The purpose of the Ema Saiko Poetry Fellowship is to encourage the writing of poetry […]
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RAK Mason Writing Fellowship
The New Zealand Pacific Studio invites applications for a three week residency at its multi-cultural artists’ residency centre in rural Wairarapa. The 2016 RAK Mason Fellow will be in residence for three weeks at the historic Kaiparoro/Normandell House in the Wairarapa and would work in the garden-facing Mason Room. The purpose of this RAK Mason Fellowship is to encourage […]
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Book Launch – Wellington
Goethe-Institut, Royal Society of New Zealand and Victoria University Press warmly invite you to a reading and book launch event for Transit of Venus / Venustransit 6pm on Tuesday 23 February at the Royal Society (auditorium), 11 Turnbull St, Thorndon, Wellington. The event will include a short screening of the Transit of Venus Poetry Exchange documentary, a video […]
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