• HOOPLA 2017 Christchurch

    What’s better than a booklaunch? How about three launches in one? Join M?karo Press on May 11th to celebrate the launch of three new poetry collections: Johanna Emeney’s Family History, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman’s Dylan Junkie and Elizabeth Morton’s Wolf.

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  • HOOPLA 2017 Auckland

    What’s better than a booklaunch? How about three launches in one? Join M?karo Press on May 11th to celebrate the launch of three new poetry collections: Johanna Emeney’s Family History, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman’s Dylan Junkie and Elizabeth Morton’s Wolf.

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  • Koror?reka: The Ballad of Maggie Flynn – Touring

    AOTEAROA BARES ITS EPIC HISTORY THROUGH REAL ACCOUNTS OF NEW ZEALAND HEROINES Red Leap Theatre presents Koror?reka: The Ballad of Maggie Flynn Written by Paolo Rotondo Directed by Julie Nolan “There’s a tale in my bones, fighting to be told” Delving into the lawless outpost of 1800s Russell, Koror?reka – The Ballad of Maggie Flynn […]

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  • Creative New Zealand quick response grant

    Quick Response Grants help New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to create and distribute their work. Decisions take five weeks and typically one in four or five applications gets funded. Online applications open six weeks before the closing date. Amount: Up to $7,500 Closing date: 3 Nov 2017 Find out who got funded recently […]

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  • Bringing out the book in you 2

    Drop-in sessions to consult with Freelance editors Jenny Argante and Shona-Ellen Barnett on any writing project you have in mind, or an actual work in progress, fact or fiction, prose of poetry. SPECIAL GUESTS: Father and daughter team, Tony and Kat Walsh, who together run Oceanbooks, a self-publishing service and online bookshop for Kiwi writers. […]

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  • Bringing out the book in you 1

    Drop-in sessions to consult with Freelance editors Jenny Argante and Shona-Ellen Barnett on any writing project you have in mind, or an actual work in progress, fact or fiction, prose of poetry. SPECIAL GUEST: John Stuart Reynolds, Auckland-based novelist and author of Uncommon Enemy and Robyn Hood, Outlaw Princess and a useful guide on Writing […]

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  • For King and Country

    NZ Pacific Studio in conjunction with The Friends of ANZAC Memorial Bridge . . . invite you to our ANZAC performance. NZ Pacific Studio 2017 ANZAC Bridge Fellow, Christine Yardley, is presenting a concert of songs, music and poetry that inspired courage and bravery in our soldiers who fought in the Great War “FOR KING […]

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  • For King and Country

    NZ Pacific Studio in conjunction with The Friends of ANZAC Memorial Bridge . . . invite you to our ANZAC performance. NZ Pacific Studio 2017 ANZAC Bridge Fellow, Christine Yardley, is presenting a concert of songs, music and poetry that inspired courage and bravery in our soldiers who fought in the Great War “FOR KING […]

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  • LitCrawl Wellington

    LitCrawl is happening again in Wellington, November 10-12, 2017. Welcome to the brand new LitCrawl Extended series! Come to City Gallery, immerse yourself in writers and ideas and make an entire weekend of it. Unless otherwise stated, tickets for Extended sessions are $15, or $18 if you want to give LitCrawl extra support. LitCrawl Extended […]

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  • 2017 Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day Celebrations

    Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2017 hits New Zealand on the 25th of August. We’re unleashing the power of poetry with around a hundred events and a bunch of great poetry competitions. More Registrations are now open (deadline 24 May) The new 2017 calendar will launch in August. For an idea of what has gone […]

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  • The Proverse Prize

    The Proverse Prize is an annual international competition for an unpublished publishable book-length work of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry, established in 2008. It is open to all who are at least eighteen years old on the date they sign the entry form and without restriction of nationality, residence or citizenship.  Its objectives are: To encourage excellence and / […]

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  • Book Launch of Five Strings by Apirana Taylor – Auckland

    Launch of Five Strings by Apirana Taylor – Auckland 6–7.30pm, Wednesday 17 May, Auckland Central City Library, Lorne St, Auckland City Anahera Press invites NZSA members to the launch of Apirana Taylor’s new novel. Five Strings will be launched by Witi Ihimaera. Refreshments will be served. All welcome.

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