• My Elephant is Blue – Melinda Szymanik Book Launch May 30

    Posted on 21 April 2021

    May 30 Time Out Bookshop 432 Mt Eden Rd,  Mt Eden, Auckland Refreshments will be served. All welcome to attend the launch of My Elephant is Blue, by Melinda Syzmanik and illustrated by Vasanti Unka.      

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  • National Flash Fiction Day – Northland

    Posted on 20 April 2021

    National Flash Fiction Day celebration in Kawakawa There will be a flash fiction workshop starting at 1pm, afternoon tea, presentation of the Northland Trophy, open mic, finishing around 3.30pm. Sunday 27 June, at the Te Hononga hub in the Hundertwasser Memorial Park, Kawakawa, 1pm to 3.30pm.

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  • Best-selling author and publisher James Russell: Creative Book Marketing

    Posted on 20 April 2021

    NZSA Auckland Branch meeting Friday 7 May Meet from 5pm, meeting starts 6.15pm The Coffee Club, 42 High Street, Auckland CBD (on the edge of Freyberg Square) James Russell is a best-selling writer, with sales of almost 100,000 in New Zealand and a further 70,000 sold overseas in four languages. The author of the self-published […]

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  • Ghosts by Siobhan Harvey – Book launch

    Posted on 19 April 2021

    Otago Uni Press invite you to the launch of Ghosts Siobhan Harvey   Far from dead, our ghosts live within us always … Poet Siobhan Harvey’s latest collection is about migration, outcasts, the search for home, and the ghosts we live with, including the ones who occupy our memories, ancestries and stories. It begins in […]

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  • Inaugural NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize shortlist announced

    Posted on 9 April 2021

    Five writers have been shortlisted for an award that celebrates fresh writing with a ‘unique and original vision‘. NZSA congratulates shortlisted writers Joanna Aitchison, Tom Baragwanath, James Norcliffe, Lizzie Harwood, and Wes Lee. 89 applications were received and the shortlist judging panel of Tina Shaw and Ruby Porter commented: ‘We saw an inspiring range of […]

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  • A Clear Dawn – launch at Unity Books Wellington May 27

    Posted on 8 April 2021

    Auckland University Press & Unity Books invite you to celebrate the launch of A CLEAR DAWN: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa Edited by Paula Morris and Alison Wong. MAY 27  6pm Unity Books Wellington 57 Willis St, Wellington Central   Note: Date is different to invite – books were delayed, as was the launch event.

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  • RICHMOND WRITING GROUP

    Posted on 8 April 2021

    RICHMOND WRITING GROUP The Richmond Writing Group is for adults with an interest in writing – whether you’re just thinking about starting to write something, you’re a published author, or somewhere in between. The group meets on the third Tuesday of the month, 1 – 3 pm, in the Constance Barnicoat Room at Richmond Library. […]

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  • AUTHOR TALK BY JEAN GORMAN: INTRODUCTION TO THE CRUSADES

    Posted on 8 April 2021

    AUTHOR TALK BY JEAN GORMAN: INTRODUCTION TO THE CRUSADES Everyone is welcome to Richmond Library on Thursday 15 April, 5.30 pm, to hear Jean Gorman share her knowledge of The Crusades. Jean Gorman, the Secretary of NZSA Top of the South branch, is the well- known author of the Lionheart Chronicles, historical novels set during […]

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  • Rush! Rush! Book launch April 10

    Posted on 6 April 2021

    Where:  Dorothy Butler Children’s Book Shop Three Lamps,  Ponsonby When:  Saturday 10th April at 4.30pm Meet author and poet Elena de Roo at the launch of Rush! Rush! Books will be available for sale and signing Published by One Tree House www.onetree-house.com

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  • Book Launch of Gaps in the Light at Titirangi Library

    Posted on 1 April 2021

    Tuesday 20 April 6.30pm at Titirangi Library You are invited to the launch of Iona Winter’s new work – Gaps in the Light Gaps in the Light uses form in innovative ways to express deeply the experience of loss and joy in ways I can’t remember reading anywhere else. Nothing is binary here – everything feels […]

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  • Call for submissions for poetry anthology

    Posted on 31 March 2021

    ‘Up Flynn Road, across Cook Strait, through the Magellanic Cloud…’ the title of our planned poetry anthology is taken from the poem Meditations upon walking a Dog by Dean Ballinger. We are looking for unpublished travel poems that take the reader on journeys into the immediate neighbourhood, within New Zealand, overseas but also into imaginative spaces, […]

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  • Between the Lines: Central Hawke’s Bay Readers & Writers Festival

    Posted on 26 March 2021

    Money, crime, immigration, aroha, gardening and plays. Poets and self-pub workshopping. An eclectic mix of visiting celebs and local speakers will entertain the second Festival. 20th – 23rd May Book your tickets now: https://www.betweenthelines.nz/

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