Events:
Branch Meeting
Thursday 27 April 2023 at 6.30 pm, via Zoom.
Secretary, Trish Fenton will send the Zoom link with the agenda.
POETS@ONEONESIX
Thursday 20 April 2023, 5.30 pm – 7.30 pm, 116 Bank Street, Whangārei
OPPORTUNITIES:
MICRO MADNESS
A free competition open to international writers. For stories up to 100 words. The competition opens April 01. This year’s judges are the critically acclaimed writers Kathy Fish and Mikaela Nyman.
Questions? Email us: info@nationalflash.org
The 2023 NFFD competition is open!
Send your best 300 words
Submissions open through 30 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.
Ff Fast Fibres Poetry 10: call for submissions
Fast Fibres Poetry this year has an open theme.
We invite poets with a strong Northland connection to submit 3 of your best poems. Please include a two-line biographical statement.
Deadline: 10 June 2023. Email submissions to: fastfibres@live.com
Each poem should be single spaced and typed in 12 pt Times New Roman. Poems must be submitted together in a single Word document, with your name in the filename. PDFs and handwritten submissions will not be considered.
Whangārei Library Flash Fiction Group
If you are interested in writing, sharing and generally having fun with flash and micro fiction, this is the place to be.
The Whangārei Library Flash Fiction Group meets from 11am-12.30pm in the May Bain Room, 1st Floor, Central Library, on the first Tuesday of each month.
During meetings, members read their flash or micro to the group, followed by discussion and constructive feedback.
For more information on membership, contact Dianne Cullen-Smith diannesmith.nz@gmail.com
Sharing NZSA Northland Branch news and events:
– Share with us on our Facebook Pages for NZSA Northland
Facebook page (public) and Facebook group (private).
– Submit your news, including events, awards, recent publications and book launches, to: northlandauthors[at]gmail.com for inclusion in our monthly newsletter.
Free for financial members. 50 cents per word for non-members.
Check for further updates on: https://northlandauthors.co.nz/
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde
Northland Branch 