Events:
NZSA Northland AGM
Saturday 11 March 2023, at 2.00 pm
Venue: The Butter Factory, 8 Butter Factory Lane, Whangārei 0110
NZSA Northland Branch Meeting
Venue: The Butter Factory, following the AGM.
Both meetings will also be accessible via Zoom.
Secretary, Trish Fenton, will send the Zoom link and directions to the venue with the agenda.
POETS@ONEONESIX
Thursday 23 March 2023, 5.30 pm – 7.30 pm, 116 Bank Street, Whangārei
FLASH FICTION WORKSHOP
Whangarei Library Flash Fiction Group (WL3.30Flash) are funding the workshop led by Kathy Derrick and Jac Jenkins from sales of their collection, You Might Want to Read This, published in November 2021. (Details of workshop below.)
Numbers are limited. Please contact: WhangareiLibrary3.30Flash@gmail.com to enrol.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations to NZSA Northland member and poetic maestro, Piet Nieuwland on the publication
of his new poetry collection.
All poems included in the poetry collection successfully explore the deepest emotions of the soul. It is quite remarkable that the poet has discarded the obsolete or worn-out phraseology. The poems are endowed with intense imagination, dreamy grace and subtle suggestion.
It’s available on Amazon for $20
Or directly from: pietn@outlook.com or 027 4805548
Check out this interview too on Northland Artists Conversation, thanks to Mark Kelly
Book Launch – New Date
Mila and the Bone Man by Lauren Roche
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 | 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM
Come along to the May Bain Room at the Whangārei Library and meet local author Lauren Roche at the launch of her novel Mila and the Bone Man.
Lauren will talk about her move from medicine into writing, give tips on being published, and will read excerpts from Mila and The Bone Man and her next book, Songs to Sing to the Dying.
Signed books will be for sale: $37.00 each. Cash sales only.
Free entry
Limited spaces – prior registration required
Register for this event
https://www.wdc.govt.nz/library/Whats-on/Events/Event-registration
OPPORTUNITY:
The 2023 NFFD competition is open!
Send your best 300 words
Submissions open through 15 April
The 2023 judges for the national competition are the award-winning poets and storytellers Airini Beautrais and David Eggleton.
More about this year’s judges, and how to enter, can be found on the NFFD Competition page.
More about the 2023 international youth competition later this month.
MICRO MADNESS
A free competition open to international writers. For stories up to 100 words. This competition opens April 01. This year’s judges are the critically acclaimed writers Kathy Fish and Mikaela Nyman.
Questions? Email us: info@nationalflash.org
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Kirsten McDougall, author – quoting her husband, a musician.
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