-
Launch | No One Home by Keith Westwater
Launch | No One Home by Keith Westwater | In-store Thursday 26th April, 6-7:30pm Join Unity Books & Makaro Press for the launch of NO ONE HOME: A BOYHOOD MEMOIR IN LETTERS AND POEMS by Keith Westwater Thursday 26th April, 6-7:30pm In-store at Unity Books Wellington, 57 Willis St. No one home The boy he’s […]
Continue reading -
‘THE WAR PRAYER’ CONCERT
As part of the Nelson Fringe Festival, Mark Raffills will be performing Mark Twain’s prose poem ‘The War Prayer’ on Friday 4 May, 5 pm at the Ghost Light Theatre, 146 Bridge Street, Nelson. ‘The War Prayer’ is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervour as motivations for war. When Twain’s publisher rejected […]
Continue reading -
Atlas- a medical literary journal: seeking submissions
Atlas- a medical literary journal: seeking submissions for issue 03 Atlas is a literary journal encouraging critical thought and creativity in medicine. Atlas offers an alternative to the usual scientific discourse that surrounds our bodies. It hopes to shift our medical conversations away from the rigid and prescriptive, to a literary form that accommodates our […]
Continue reading -
Compound Press presents Minarets Issue 8
Compound Press presents Minarets Issue 8 Autumn 2018 Edited by Erena Shingade Illustrations by Harry Moritz Launch at 7pm, Saturday 28 April at the Compound Press headquarters, 5c 55-57 High Street. Minarets Issue 8 presents the freshest new writing from a mix of emerging and established New Zealand poets, alongside contributions from two international poets. […]
Continue reading -
Writing Garlands of Stories
Date: 10 am – 4 pm, Saturday 5 May 2018 Location: Toi P?neke, 61/69 Abel Smith St, Te Aro, Wellington In this workshop with acclaimed Samoan writer Sia Figiel, the physical and metaphysical merge as the ancient Samoan concept of su’ifefiloi, or sewing of garlands is used to bridge oral storytelling to the act of […]
Continue reading -
Landfall Essay competition 2018 – closes July 31
Landfall Essay Competition In 1997 Landfall celebrated its 50th anniversary. To mark the occasion, then editor Chris Price launched the Landfall Essay Competition, sponsored by Otago University Press. From 2009, the competition has been an annual award. The purpose of the competition remains as it was at the outset: to encourage New Zealand writers to think aloud about New […]
Continue reading -
Playmarket – Playwrights Association of NZ One Act Play annual competition
Playwrights Association of New Zealand (Inc) PANZ ONE ACT PLAY COMPETITION 2018 Adjudicator: Gary Henderson Enquiries and submissions to: playwrightsnz18@gmail.com Entries are invited from Members of the Playwrights Association of New Zealand to enter the PANZ One Act Play Competition. Entries must have a playing time of between 30 and 50 minutes. RULES: Only members […]
Continue reading -
Playmarket – Children’s and Young Adult Playwriting Competition
PLAYS FOR THE YOUNG COMPETITION Playmarket is searching for the best new plays to inspire and excite young audiences. Let your imagination run riot! It could be an original story or an adaptation of a classic tale, hilarious or heartfelt. It could be a play for adults to perform to children or a play […]
Continue reading -
Turning the Page: AGM Workshop Opportunities
Saturday 26 May 2018: 1pm – 5pm Ellen Melville Centre, Auckland City Enjoy an afternoon of stimulating and informative workshops, presentations and panel discussions. With the choice of nine events over three time slots there is much to inspire, encourage and challenge. This event, hosted by the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Society of […]
Continue reading -
Turning the Page: NZSA AGM and Development Weekend
May 25 – 26 2018 Auckland A chance to meet other members, take part in shaping the direction of NZSA for the year ahead and participate in stimulating and informative workshops, presentations and panel discussions. Hosted this year in Auckland there are a range of events for all. REGISTER HERE Friday May 25, 6-8.30pm Registration […]
Continue reading -
WRITERS AT LUNCHTIME
WRITERS AT LUNCHTIME The next Writers at Lunchtime meeting takes place on Wednesday 7 August, 11.30 am to 1.30 pm. The guest speaker at 12.30 pm will be Karen Stade, talking about her upcoming book, Driven by the Wind: the Memoir of Captain Henry Rose. The book is based on the memoir of Captain Henry […]
Continue reading -
National Writers Forum September 21-23, 2018
NZSA National Writers Forum Friday September 21 – Sunday September 23, 2018 The National Writers Forum 2018 is the key biennial event run by the NZ Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa, that brings together writers, editors, publishers and practitioners from across the literary arts sector and writing communities to […]
Continue reading
