NZSA Northland News May 2023

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EVENTS:

Branch meeting

Thursday 11 May 2023 at 6.30 pm, via Zoom.

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

POETS@ONEONESIX

Thursday 25 May 2023, 5.30 pm – 7.30 pm, 116 Bank Street, Whangārei

OPPORTUNITIES:

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.

Special Event

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/

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling

Published by Patricia Fenton

“The way we were” I began my teaching career in New Zealand and later worked in international schools around the globe before being appointed to the International Baccalaureate with responsibility for authoring curriculum and professional development publications. In recent times, I’ve combined my passion for writing and education to produce my first novel, Beyond the Rimu Grove. My aim was to capture and communicate “The way we were.” I’m now working on my second novel entitled War Bride. It’s a fictionalized account of the life of my late mother-in-law, Pru Fenton who met and married her Kiwi soldier in Cirencester, England in 1942.

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