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Christmas Auction and Graeme Lay Short Story Competition Announcement!
Friday 6 December at 6.15 pm
Christmas Auction and Graeme Lay Short Story Competition Announcement
On 6 December the Auckland Branch will be holding our end of year event with our famous fundraising auction! There will be some amazing marquee items to bid on and lots of fun ones too. An...
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Combined Book Launch: Ngā Kupu Waikato and Scoria
Join us at the combined book launch of Ngā Kupu Waikato and Scoria.
Ngā Kupu Waikato, an anthology of Waikato poetry edited by Vaughan Rapatahana from Waikato Press
Scoria; Short Prose from the Cinder Cone by Jac Jenkins and Kathy Derrick and Pavlova Press.
Where: At the Book Inn, 420 Kamo Road, Whangarei
When:...
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Authors Talk: To My Father
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Glen Eden Library
12 Glendale Road, Auckland
Kirsten Warner and Elizabeth Kirkby- McLeod have written provocative books about fathers and trauma that push the boundaries.
The Sound of Breaking Glass, winner of best first book at the Ockham Awards, is a novel about the daughter...
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[NZSA Wgtn] Courage Day Event @ Vic Books, 6pm, Mon 11 November
The Day of the Imprisoned Writer (known locally as Courage Day) is observed on 15 November each year. It recognises writers who defend the right to free speech, and those who suffer oppression and are killed and/or imprisoned for their work.
Locally, Courage Day is named after James Courage, a...
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NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grant + Residency Now Open for Applications
NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grant + Residency Now Open for Applications
Applications are now open for a $5000 research grant and residency for writers wishing to work on a project that will utilise the resources of the Auckland Museum Library as part of the manuscript’s development. The grant also...
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Writing sample and synopsis assessments - subsidised for NZSA members -assessments still available
StartWrite Writing Sample and Synopsis Assessment Service - for writers who want to get an appraisal for part of their work. Writers can send in a piece of writing, up to 6,000 words (for poetry up to 24 pages), and a one page synopsis. Comic / Graphic novelists need...
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The 78th World Science Fiction Convention — CoNZealand — Wellington
The 78th World Science Fiction Convention—CoNZealand—is coming to Wellington from 29 July to 2 August 2020. Over 2,000 fans, publishers, and speculative fiction writers will descend on New Zealand. Members will be able to vote on, and attend, the Hugo Awards for best science fiction and fantasy works of 2019. New...
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CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award 2019 has been won by Christchurch writer Rebecca Macfie
Rebecca Macfie has won the $25,000 Writers’ Award for her biography of Helen Kelly – the first woman to lead the New Zealand labour movement.
“Helen Kelly modernised the union movement and took a special interest in improving worker health and safety. The biography is in the capable hands of...
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Editing Course- FREE for Auckland Members
Editing Your Writing
10am - 12pm, 30 November
Elizabeth Yates Room
Ellen Melville Centre
Sue Copsey has worked as an editor for more than 25 years. She was a senior editor at Dorling Kindersley in London, before moving to New Zealand where she has freelanced for publishers including Pearson, New Holland and Huia....
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