Newsletter September 2022

Events:

NZSA Northland Branch Meeting

Thursday 8 September 2022 at 6.30 pm, by Zoom

Secretary, Trish Fenton, will send the Zoom link with the agenda.

POETS@ONEONESIX

Thursday 15 September 2022, 5.00 pm – 7.30 pm, 116 Bank Street, Whangārei

Please keep your mask on unless reading your poems, and maintain 2m distancing.

Whangarei Fringe Festival 2022

INTANGENTIAL TWO at ONEONESIX

Sunday 2 October, 5.30 to 7pm, entry by koha

Poetry, music, song, and visual art with Piet Nieuwland, Matt Kelly, Olivia Macassey,

Arthur Fairley, Maggie Buxton and June Pitman-Hayes

Inaugural Labour Weekend Writing Event

Nova Scotia Junction (Old National Bank), Waipu

Lindy Davis (author, journalist and creative writer) is proposing an annual Labour Weekend Writer’s Festival, starting with 2022, in Waipu. It would include:

• readings
•  Q & A panel
•  author engagement with workshops
• book sales
• and possibly a wine/cheese evening that creates an opportunity for writers in the Northland region to come together.

If you’d like to contribute to this inaugural event, please contact:

lindyonbeach[at]gmail.com

NEW PUBLICATIONS:

Congratulations, Debby Cureen!

“Break All My Falls” is a collection of anecdotes and fictional stories that capture the struggles in life when we find ourselves no longer in the black or the white, nor even the ordinary of the everyday life that we set out to live.

They are stories that are easily relatable, with a mix of revenge, laughter, loss, fresh beginnings and the occasional happy ending.

“Break All My Falls” weaves redeeming lines of grace through all the characters’ stories, with a reassurance that while we don’t always get the happy ending we longed for, we do find out that resolution and closure – even renewal – will come in many different forms.

Copies are $20.00. Contact Debby at: debcurreen@gmail.com

Congratulations, Sherryl Clark!

Already struggling to juggle co-running the local pub along with her new childcare responsibilities for her orphaned niece, Judi does not need her life to become any more complicated. Yet, as usual, complications arrive in spades: she starts receiving threatening, late-night phone calls before discovering one of her employees, Kate, shot dead.

Judi finds herself caught up in a murder investigation, as well as the hunt for Kate’s fourteen-year-old daughter, who has been missing since the murder. Add in the uncertainty of her relationship with Melbourne-based D.S. Heath and the fact that her estranged mother’s nursing home keeps urging her to visit, and Judi might finally be at breaking point.

A fast-paced thriller set in the Australian outback, Mad, Bad and Dead is perfect for fans of BBC One’s The Tourist. It’s the third in the Judi Westerholme series, published by Verve Books UK.

RRP $24.99. Available at the moment via Amazon, Book Depository and The Nile online.

Podcast

Dear fellow NZSA members

The Author’s Tale podcast hosted by Stephanie Frewen (NZSA Canterbury) presenting casual chats with fabulous New Zealand authors is now featuring the award-winning poet and novelist James Norcliffe, a Canterbury NZSA member.

The podcast is available on most podcast platforms and don’t forget to subscribe or follow for free, to make sure you don’t miss future episodes. You can also listen to previous chats with Kathleen Gallagher, and with Gavin Bishop whose book, Atua: Māori Gods and Heroes has recently won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award, the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction, and the Russell Clark Award for Illustration.
https://shows.acast.com/the-authors-tale

Kind regards
Steph Frewen (NZSA Canterbury)

Kōrero/Conversations

Upsurge Festival proudly presents a weekend of thought-provoking and engaging sessions with local writers and some well-known names from around the country.

• Join Dame Fiona Kidman as she talks about her latest memoir So Far, For Now,and how her childhood in Kerikeri and Waipu has shaped her life;
• Enjoy an intimate hour with award-winning author Charlotte Grimshaw as she shares stories about growing up in a famous literary family – from her brave and explosive The Mirror Book;
• Welcome back Upsurge’s favourite poet and GP Glenn Colquhoun, joined by former doctor and award-winning writer Jared Wiremu Kane (Ngāpuhi) as they read and talk about their work, and discuss being a doctor in the health system;
• Northland novelist Lauren Roche chats with Upsurge co-director and fellow schoolmate Dave Armstrong about her incredible life journey from teen prostitute to medical doctor, and her new novel Mila and the Bone Man, set in Puketi Forest;
• Wellington-born and Whangārei-based writer Ataria Sharman chats with Waitangi curator Chanel Clarke (recipient of the prestigious Auckland War Memorial Museum Award) about coming back home to Northland, and her award-nominated young person’s novel Hine and the Tohunga Portal.
• Local stone wall aficionado and author Kate Ballard shares her extensive knowledge about stone walls in Kerikeri and Kaikohe, and their associated historic stories, with Heritage New Zealand’s Bill Edwards.

Saturday 24th – Sunday 25th September

11.00am | 1.00pm | 3.00pm

Plough and Feather, Kerikeri. Visit the website for individual session dates, times and tickets

www.upsurgefestival.co.nz

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Scarce, sir … mighty scarce.”

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