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Selwyn Writers’ Salon
Calling Selwyn Writers! Announcing the launch of the Selwyn Writers’ Salon with Joanna Preston, meeting monthly (first Tuesday, April to November) to get together, share work-in-progress, talk books and the business of writing, debate, argue and listen to guest writers as they give you a peek behind the scenes at whatever they’re currently working on. […]
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Jump-Start the Muse
During April, with a nod to NaPoWriMo, Joanna Preston will be offering a five week poetry writing class. The focus is on getting you writing, with lots of different exercises, and the chance to discuss your drafts as we go. There will be rhyming and non-rhyme, forms, free verse, almost certainly a good swirl of silliness. A […]
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Book Launch – Auckland
Papawai Press and Friends of the Takapuna Library invite you to the launch of Hugh Major’s “From Monkey to Moth: an imaginal evolution” ~ charting a path from rational, patriarchal thinking and materialist values to feminine principles of imagination, holism and the power of the inner self. Also, a performance of Carol-Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife by […]
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MOTUEKA MUSIC GROUP: ‘KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND HER MUSIC’
The next concert from the Motueka Music Group on Tuesday 22 March features cellist Joseph Spooner and pianist Kathryn Mosley performing as the Spooner Mosley duo. Their concert ‘Katherine Mansfield and her music’ explores music linked to this celebrated New Zealand author. Katherine Mansfield’s cello teacher while in London was Arnold Trowell, the NZ virtuoso […]
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NELSON LIVE POETS
NELSON LIVE POETS Nelson Live Poets meet on the third Tuesday of the month at the On Inn, which is in the basement underneath the Inn Between Backpackers, 335 Trafalgar Street, on the east side of the cathedral. Their next meeting is on Wednesday 18 April, starting at 7.30 pm. This will be an open […]
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Book Launch – Auckland
Book Launch for Into the World, the sequel to Ted Dawe’s Into the River This novel will be launched by Wendy Tighe-Umbers at Time Out Bookstore. Wendy owns Time Out and organised the launch of Thunder Road, Ted Dawe’s first novel, in 2003. 6pm, Tuesday 15th March Upstairs at Time Out Bookstore 432 Mt Eden Road, Mount […]
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BOOK LAUNCH AT JESTER HOUSE CAFE, TASMAN
Come along to Jester House in Tasman on Sunday 20 March at 3pm for the launch of children’s book Rusty the Dusky Dolphin by Rosa Friend. Nibbles and refreshments will be available, and all children are very welcome! Rosa Friend is an illustrator and designer from Nelson. For the past two years she has been […]
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NORTHWRITE 2016 COMPETITION FOR NORTHLAND WRITERS
Northland writers are being invited to enter the NorthWrite 2016 Competition and win registration and attendance at a national writers’ conference worth up to $700. The one-off competition is being run by the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Northland branch and is open to any writer who is 18 years and over and resident […]
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Garden Party Book Launch
Plans are well underway for the ‘Garden Party Book Launch’ Of ‘the story ‘The Doll’s House’ on the front lawn of Katherine Mansfield’s Birthplace at 25 Tinakori Road on Friday at 5 p.m. All Wellington Branch Members (and friends) are invited. Only a few came last time but they said they had a good time, […]
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The New Zealand Poetry Society’s Annual International Poetry Competition
The New Zealand Poetry Society’s Annual International Poetry Competition closes 31st May 2016 The New Zealand Poetry Society’s annual International Poetry Competition, Verse and Haiku, is now under way, including Open and Junior Sections for both forms. The Open Junior and Haiku Junior sections are for students who are 17 years of age or younger on […]
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Michael King Writers Centre – celebrating 11 years!
Join us to celebrate 11 years as New Zealand’s pioneer writers’ centre. Since the centre was set up, we have had 37 writers in residence, well over 110 visiting writers and thousands of people have visited the historic house or attended one of our literary events. Several thousand students of all ages have taken part […]
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Fast fibres poetry 3 Call for submissions
Northland poetry We, the Fast Fibres Poetry Collective, are producing a third chapbook of poetry to display the talents of Northland poets under the title Fast Fibres Poetry 3. We invite poets with a strong connection to Northland, born here, live here, lived here, to contribute up to three poems for the chapbook. Please include […]
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