6:30PM – 8PM, WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER
This workshop will focus on writing for young adults, with a particular focus on point of view/voice and plotting. This will incorporate some exercises so have your pen and paper or laptop ready!
Eileen Merriman’s first young adult novel, “Pieces of You”, was published in 2017, and was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and a Storylines Notable Book. Since then, a stream of novels for adults and young adults have followed. She has received huge critical praise, with one reviewer saying: ‘Merriman is an instinctive storyteller with an innate sense of timing.’ In addition to being a regular finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Merriman was a finalist in the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel and Moonlight Sonata was longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Editions of some of her young adult novels have been released in Germany, Turkey and the UK and three have been optioned for film or TV, including the Black Spiral Trilogy.
Her other awards include runner-up in the 2018 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and third in the same award for three consecutive years previously. She works as a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital.
Fee: NZSA Members – $35. (Non-members – $65)
- Bookings close at 2pm on the day prior to the workshop or when workshop reaches capacity.
- If you are unable to make the live event, all attendees can access a recording of the Webworkshop to view for one month after it is aired live.