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Beginners Guide to Screenwriting – Auckland
Please include in your newsletter or web calendar. 2017 Dates Announced Auckland – 18 & 19th February – Earlybird Registration Now Open Christchurch – 4 & 5th March – Earlybird Registration Now Open Wellington – 11 & 12th March – Earlybird Registration Now Open Got a great film idea but not sure where to start? […]
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Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Awards – Nominations Close
The Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Awards recognise excellence and outstanding achievement by Pacific youth in New Zealand. The awards are geared towards giving Pacific youth the opportunity to boost their future potential even higher. Nominations for the 2016 Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Awards are open until 9am Monday 7th November. Early bird entries: Complete your application […]
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Poems in the Waiting Room 2017 Competition
Poems in the Waiting Room is launching its 2017 Poetry Competition. As well as inviting you to participate we would appreciate if you could help spread the word. We would be grateful if you were able to display this poster within your community or share the web one with interested friends. The competition has three […]
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Fish Short Story Contest 2016 – Entries Close
Fish Short Story Contest 2016 Judge: Neel Mukherjee Neel will select 10 stories to be published in the 2017 Fish Anthology. See previous anthologies. 1st Prize: €3,000 2nd Prize: a week in residence at Anam Cara Writers’ Retreat and €300 3rd Prize: €300 Closes: 30 Nov Word limit: 5,000 Results: 17 March 2017 Entry: €20. […]
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Poetry in the Garden 2016
For the love of poetry… CASELBERG TRUST WOULD LIKE TO REMIND YOU OF THEIR GREAT GALA POETRY FUNDRAISING EVENT… The Caselberg Trust warmly invites you to the beautiful Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens Chalet for an afternoon of – 1. POETRY READINGS: The judge’s report by former Poetry Laureate Vincent O’Sullivan and prize-winning poems from the 2016 […]
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Aotearoa Short Film Lab 2017 – Applications Close
Applications are now open for the 2017 Aotearoa Short Film Lab, a prestigious hothouse mentoring scheme for screenwriters and aspiring screenwriters to workshop new ideas for short films. Established in 2010 as a partnership between Show Me Shorts and Script to Screen, the Lab offers six local, and now for the first time this year two international, short filmmakers […]
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Nelson Launching of WEB OF GOLD
BOOK LAUNCH IN NELSON Dot Scott is very well known in the Top of the South branch as she was Chair between 2011 and 2012, and continues to be involved with the Marlborough Writers group in Blenheim. ‘Web of Gold’, her first novel, is set in Charleston on the West Coast in the 1860s at […]
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Blenheim Launching of WEB OF GOLD
Dot Scott is very well known in the Top of the South branch as she was Chair between 2011 and 2012, and continues to be involved with the Marlborough Writers group in Blenheim. ‘Web of Gold’, her first novel, is set in Charleston on the West Coast in the 1860s at the height of the […]
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WRITERS AT LUNCHTIME
WRITERS AT LUNCHTIME The next Writers at Lunchtime meeting is on Wednesday 2 November and features as guest speaker Dana Wensley, who is the PEN (NZ) representative for freedom of speech in New Zealand. Dana will be talking about the demise of freedom of speech, the impact on our daily lives, and how it restricts […]
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Book Launch – Will There Be Puffins?
Book Launch – Wednesday NOVEMBER 2nd Gay Hay and Sarah Harmon are launching their new book- Will There Be Puffins? This a great chance to celebrate with Gay and Sarah at The Children’s Bookshop 6pm. RSVP here please (Gay started her own publishing company Pagebreak and her first two books were finalists LIANZAs and NZ […]
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What Lies Beneath Exhibition Panel
OCTOBER 18th Wellington Central Public Library 6pm-8pm What Lies Beneath Exhibition Panel A panel of amazing children’s authors will be talking about their ANZAC themed books for the current exhibition in the library. Fifi Colston, Glyn Harper, Phillipa Werry, Anna Mackenzie, Maria Gill and Melinda Szymanik RSVP: Adrienne.Hannan@wcc.govt.nz This is a great opportunity to meet, […]
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Spooklaunch of The Ghosts of Moonlight Creek
BOO! You’re warmly invited to the spooklaunch of The Ghosts of Moonlight Creek, on National Bookshop Day, Saturday 29 October, at the Dorothy Butler Children’s Bookshop in Ponsonby, at 2pm.There will be spooky goings-on for the little horrors, our famous ghost cupcakes, prizes to be won, readings and giveaways.DRESS UP AND WIN! The child in the […]
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