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BESOTTED – A NEW MUSICAL SHOW FOR NELSON
BESOTTED – A NEW MUSICAL SHOW FOR NELSON Besotted is a deliciously delusional opera by Top of the South branch member Michelanne Forster. What happens when an opera lover is struck by De Clerambault’s Syndrome, (popularly known as erotomania)? Besotted. A play about delusion, drama, passion, and plumbers. Besotted is a fifty-minute comic opera written to show off the […]
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Creative Hub Charity Fund-Raiser
Creative Hub Charity Fund-Raiser 6.30pm to 9.30pm, 22 Aug All welcome – tickets on sale now Venue: THE FRESH FACTORY, 6/10 Nikau S, Eden Tce, Auckland / Tamaki Makaurau A fantastic night of great speakers, food and wine, raffles, silent auctions and live auctions with awesome items you help the next generation of story-tellers fro Aotearoa. […]
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2019 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS Copy
ENTRIES NOW OPEN FOR 2019 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS The New Zealand Book Awards Trust has announced that submissions are now open for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, which promote excellence in and provide recognition for, the best books published annually. Adult books published between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018 will be considered for the 2019 awards. There are two submission […]
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2019 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS
2 AUGUST 2018 ENTRIES NOW OPEN FOR 2019 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS The New Zealand Book Awards Trust has announced that submissions are now open for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, which promote excellence in and provide recognition for, the best books published annually. Adult books published between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018 will be considered for […]
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The OutStanding Short Story Competition – deadline
The OutStanding Short Story Competition is Australia’s premier creative writing event for the LGBTQIA+ community of Australia and New Zealand. Our 2018 competition is currently open and closes at midnight on 1 September 2018. We accept short stories relevant to the LGBTIQA+ community, on the theme “Next Big Thing”. Our competition is FREE to enter, […]
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kiss me hardy issue #2 – submission deadline
kiss me hardy issue #2 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS kiss me hardy is a Nelson-based platform for creative writing, experimental literature and visual arts. The journal began as a publishing opportunity to showcase the works of NMIT creative writing and arts students. You can see issue #1 here. In 2018, we’re opening up submissions to emerging […]
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Ng? Kupu Waikato: An anthology of Waikato poetry – submission deadline
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Ng? Kupu Waikato: An anthology of Waikato poetry. Submission closing date is 31 August, 2018. Open to anyone who has lived in the Waikato region for at least one year. No more than five poems, please. Preferably NOT previously published, although this is not hard and […]
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Creative Hub Charity Fund-Raiser
Creative Hub Charity Fund-Raiser … 6.30pm to 9.30pm, 22nd August 2018 All welcome – buy tickets below! Venue: THE FRESH FACTORY, 6/10 Nikau Street, Eden Terrace, Auckland / Tamaki Makaurau A fantastic night of great speakers, food and wine, raffles, silent auctions and live auctions with awesome items you help the next generation of story-tellers […]
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Adam Dudding: In Conversation
Adam Dudding is a successful reporter and author whose book, My Father’s Island: A Memoir, won the E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction 2017 (Adam’s father, Robin Dudding, was a famous NZ literary editor). Join Adam as he discusses his book, his father, NZ literary magazines and much more with fellow […]
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Readers and Writers Festival for the West Coast
Readers and Writers Festival for the West Coast The inaugural Blackball Readers and Writers Festival will be launched at Labour Weekend, running from midday Saturday 20th to Sunday evening. Part of the transition of the Coast from extraction, the festival uses the underground mine as a model to apply to literature. Thus there will be a tunnelling […]
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Divine Muses XV Reading
Divine Muses XV Reading will be held on National Poetry Day, 24 August 2018. The Divine Muses Readings were established by Siobhan Harvey in 2004 to coincide with National Poetry Day. Now in its fifteenth year the evening provides an opportunity to hear leading New Zealand poets read their own poetry. Riemke Ensing – Siobhan Harvey – Dr […]
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Book launch, Tama Pitara by Trish Gray
Nau mai, haere mai! Join Trish Gray for the launch of her new children’s picture book, Tama P?tara (Bug Boy), illustrated by Katherine Hamilton. Tama P?tara is a children’s picture book aimed at readers aged 8 to 10, written in Te Reo M?ori with an English translation plus a glossary. Tama P?tara will be launched at Trentham School Library on Friday […]
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