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You’re invited to a bookwarming: the Hope Fault by Tracy Farr
You’re invited to a bookwarming: The Hope Fault by Tracy Farr The Hope Fault is a celebration of the complexities of family: aunties and steps and exes; parents and partners who are missing, and the people who replace them. It’s about life’s fault lines, and the unsettling certainty of uncertainty. Join us to celebrate the arrival of this new member of our […]
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Poets Meet Politics Open Poetry Competition
Poets Meet Politics 2017 International Open Poetry Competition. We will be accepting entries until April 7th, 2017. Click here for more information: www.hungryhillwriting.org/competitions.html We will be awarding a first prize of €500 We are delighted that Cherry Smyth has agreed to judge the competition this year.
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Robert Lord Cottage Residency
Robert Lord’s worker’s cottage in Dunedin is run as a rent-free residency for writers. Applications are now being received for the period late August 2017 to early January 2018. We prefer longer term residencies but please specify your ideal dates. Send a summary of the project you’ll be working on; your reasons for wanting to […]
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PIKIHUIA AWARDS 2017
The Pikihuia Awards is open for submissions. Held every two years to promote M?ori writers and encourage new and diverse M?ori viewpoints and writing in both English and M?ori. There are six categories: Best Short Story Written in English. Best Short Story Written in te reo M?ori Best Short Film Script Best Novel Extract Best […]
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Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award (Otago University Press)
This biennial award is for an original collection of poems, or one long poem, by a New Zealand or Pacific permanent resident or citizen. Individual poems in the collection can have been previously published, but the collection as a whole should be unpublished. Entries are accepted until 31 July of the award year and must […]
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Too Complacent to Hope
We have a busy programme this year starting with this exciting event: Gavin Ellis & Rod Oram in discussion with Guyon Espiner to be held at The Esplanade Hotel in Devonport on Monday, March 20th at 7pm. Tickets are very limited and cost $79. They are available from Paper Plus, Michael King Writers’ Centre and […]
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Manawatu Writers’ Hub: speaker series
The Manawatu Writers Hub meets monthly and features a guest speaker at each event. Watch this space or visit the Branch facebook page for details. All writers, book lovers and friends welcome! Most recent speaker was retired Massey University Professor Emeritus Margaret Tennant, who spoke on matters surrounding research, copyright, contracts, permission to use photographs, […]
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WWI Voices
Inspired by a folder of letters, a notebook and a set of handmade postcards, Anna Mackenzie followed a family story into the trenches and archives of the Great War – and reports back that the First World War ‘won’t let her go’. In this session she will share, in images and words, her journey into […]
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Whanganui Writers gathering
Inaugural meeting of the Whanganui Writers Hub. This came out of a meeting in April with NZSA vice-president and CD Branch delegate Anna Mackenzie and local literary guru Joan Rosier-Jones. Join us at the Rutland Arms at 10am and help set our future path…
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Gisborne Writers Event
Established authors Anna Mackenze (our NC delegate and vice-president of NZSA) and Mary-anne Scott will be speaking about writing, NZSA, CD Branch and more at Muirs Bookshop in Gisborne. This will be an informal gathering for writers of all kinds. Come along and talk about the possibility of setting up a local Writers Hub, specifically […]
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Abstracting Oral History – Wellington
Abstracting Oral History Saturday and Sunday 12 & 13 August 2017 8.45am-1pm Cost: $180 ($140) Limit: 8 This enrolment form has further details of this and the previous two oral history workshops. Please complete and return, either electronically to ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz (any format) or Post to: Alexander Turnbull Library PO Box 12349, Wellington 6144 The venue […]
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Day Two – Oral History Research – Wellington
The Essentials of Oral History research – This is Day Two of a two day course Day one: Introduction to Oral History Saturday 24 June 2017 8.45am-4.30pm Day Two: Recording Seriously Saturday 22 July 2017 8.45am-4.30pm Participation in day one is a prerequisite Cost: $300 for both days ($220 for full time students or community […]
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