• From Guandong to Aotearoa – ongoing

    NZ Chinese Voices: An Oral History Exhibition by Sue Gee Auckland Libraries Celebrates Chinese New Year J T Diamond Reading Room & Gallery, Waitakere Library, Henderson Six remarkable NZBC (New Zealand Born Chinese) talk about their lives. Born in Eketahuna, Rotorua, Tamaki Makaurau & Manaia, Taranaki, they trace their ancestral roots to Guangdong, South China, previously […]

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  • Au Contraire 2016 – Short Story Competition

    2016 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Award Judge: Phillip Mann Arthur C. Clarke-nominated author of the world-building classic The Disestablishment of Paradise. Pre-judging by award-winning editing team, Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray. Prize: NZ$400, story publication, and a selection of print books to be awarded at Au Contraire 2016 Details: Entry is free, but entrants […]

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  • 2016 Beginner’s Guide to Screenwriting

    Busting to write for the big screen but not sure where to start? Come join me for this popular two-day screenwriting workshop and find out! Beginner’s Guide to Screenwriting is designed for you. It demystifies the nuts and bolts of screenwriting – in two days you will learn everything you need to know to start writing your screenplay. Got the […]

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  • THE PROVERSE PRIZE

    THE PROVERSE PRIZE 2016 IS NOW OPEN FOR ENTRY! Honorary Advisors: Bahamian poet Marion Bethel, UK linguist and lexicographer David Crystal, UK translator Margaret Clarke, Canadian poet and academic Jonathan Hart, Swedish linguist Björn Jernudd, Hong Kong University Librarian Peter Sidorko, Singapore poet Edwin Thumboo, Czech novelist translator and poet Olga Walló. Judges: Anonymous, appointed […]

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  • THE PROVERSE PRIZE

    THE PROVERSE PRIZE 2016 IS NOW OPEN FOR ENTRY! Honorary Advisors: Bahamian poet Marion Bethel, UK linguist and lexicographer David Crystal, UK translator Margaret Clarke, Canadian poet and academic Jonathan Hart, Swedish linguist Björn Jernudd, Hong Kong University Librarian Peter Sidorko, Singapore poet Edwin Thumboo, Czech novelist translator and poet Olga Walló. Judges: Anonymous, appointed […]

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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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