NZSA Northland News June 2023

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EVENTS:

Branch meeting

Thursday 8 June at 7.30, via Zoom.

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

POETS@ONEONESIX

Thursday 15 June 2023, 5.30 pm – 7.30 pm, 116 Bank Street, Whangārei

 NATIONAL LIBRARY ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS – NORTHLAND

If you’re interested in oral history training and can attend both workshops (to be held a month apart later in the year), contact Deb Jowitt debjowitt@gmail.com

Attendance on both days is required and places will be limited.

NATIONAL FLASH FICTION DAY – NORTHLAND CELEBRATION

CONGRATULATIONS!

We are proud to announce that NZSA Northland member, Janine Williams, has been nominated in this year’s New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

Janine’s novel, Holding the Horse is a finalist in the NZSA Best First Book Award category. 

In rural New Zealand just after World War II we meet 14-year-old Sid, who wants to be a jockey. But Dad has come back from the war with PTSD and Mum has to hold the family together. This tightly woven novel deftly depicts family dynamics and tensions as Sid pursues his dream despite many challenges.

NATIONAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION

Run by Northland Branch NZSA (PEN Inc)

Sponsored by The Northern Advocate & Pavlova Press

PRIZES:

First Place $500

Second place $100

Third Place $50

All three stories will be published in The Northern Advocate and on their website over the summer holiday period, as well as on the Northland Branch website.

Judges

Diana Menefy and Eddie Williams

RULES:

– Open to NZ residents 17 years and over.

– Stories must be original and not previously published in print or online.

– Entry fee $15 for one story, $25 for two, $30 for three. (GST incl.)

– Word limit 1500 words.

– Theme: “Journeys”.

– Emailed entries only.

– Opens 1 July, closes 30 September 2023

For conditions and entry form email tfenton11[at]gmail.com

Sharing NZSA Northland Branch news and events:

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“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Margaret Mead

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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