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The Earth Cries Out – Book Launch
BOOK LAUNCH IN NELSON You are invited to celebrate Bonnie Etherington’s debut novel The Earth Cries Out on Tuesday 21 March, 5.30 pm at Page & Blackmore Booksellers, 254 Trafalgar Street, Nelson. Dark things happen but the touch is light in Bonnie Etherington’s fresh, different and exquisitely-written debut novel. After the accidental death of five-year-old […]
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Writing Cli-fi – With Climate Change Novelist Katherine Dewar
Writing Cli-fi – Discussion with new climate change novelist Katherine Dewar 2pm Friday 17th March, Grass by the cafe, Corban Estate Arts Centre, 426 Great North Rd, Henderson, 0612 In writing her acclaimed debut novel ‘Ruby and the Blue Sky’, West-Auckland based author and activist Katherine Dewar predicted a flood, linked feminism and climate change pre-Trump and learned […]
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Day one: Oral History Research – Wellington
The Essentials of Oral History research – This is Day One 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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ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 2017
Australian Book Review welcomes entries in the 2017 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, one of the world’s leading prizes for an original short story. We are seeking stories of between 2,000 and 5,000 words, written in English. Stories must not have been previously published or be on offer to other prizes or publications for […]
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Calibre Essay Prize 2017
Australian Book Review welcomes entries in the eleventh Calibre Essay Prize. Calibre is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new essay and it is now worth a total of $7,500. We are seeking essays of between 3,000 and 7,000 words on any non-fiction subject. Calibre is open to anyone in the world who […]
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Abstracting Oral History – Auckland
Abstracting Oral History To be held in the National Library Building, Stanley Street, Parnell, Auckland. Saturday and Sunday 10 & 11 June 2017 8.45am-1pm $180 ($140) Limit: 8 This enrolment form has further details of this and the previous two workshops. Please complete it and return either electronically to: ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz (any format) or post to: […]
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Day Two: Oral History Research – Auckland
The Essentials of Oral History research – This is Day Two of a two day course To be held in the National Library Building, Stanley Street, Parnell, Auckland. Day one: Introduction to Oral History Saturday 18 March 2017 8.45am-4.30pm Day Two: Recording Seriously Saturday 8 April 2017 8.45am-4.30pm Participation in day one is a prerequisite […]
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Day one: Oral History Research – Auckland
The Essentials of Oral History research – This is Day One of a two day course To be held in the National Library Building, Stanley Street, Parnell, Auckland. Day one: Introduction to Oral History Saturday 18 March 2017 8.45am-4.30pm Day Two: Recording Seriously Saturday 8 April 2017 8.45am-4.30pm Participation in day one is a prerequisite […]
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Women’s Short Fiction Competition 2017 – Short Story
1st Prize: £2,000 Plus two optional extras: a week’s writing retreat at Gladstone Library, and a day with an editor at Virago Press. Three other finalists will each receive £100. All four winning stories will be published in the June issue of Mslexia. Judge: Deborah Levy Fee: £10 per story Closing date: 20 March 2017 COMPETITION RULES FAQs […]
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THE AIREY NEAVE MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE
The Airey Neave Trust is delighted to announce the inauguration of an annual Airey Neave Memorial Book Prize (the “Neave” Prize) which is very generously being sponsored, for the next three years, by Pool Reinsurance Ltd, the Government backed terrorism reinsurance scheme. The Neave Prize will be awarded annually to the work of non-fiction which […]
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Suzie Lennox on Bodysnatchers
Suzie Lennox on Bodysnatchers When: Thursday 30 March, 6.30pm Where: Epsom Library Cost: Free, bookings are essential. Horror and medicine are chillingly intertwined in new true crime history Bodysnatchers. Suzie Lennox travelled the length and breadth of Britain to dig up the untold stories of the ‘resurrection men’ – opportunists who exhumed corpses to sell […]
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Rants in the Dark
Rants in the Dark: From one tired mama to another When: Wednesday 1 March, 11.30am – 12.30pm Where: Devonport Library Cost: Free From one tired mama to another. Emily Writes, parenting columnist for news website The Spinoff, has compiled her hilarious and heart-warming observations of childcare together in this must-read volume for Kiwi parents. Rants […]
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