EVENTS:
Branch meeting
Thursday 9 May 2024, at 7.30 pm, via Zoom.
Secretary, Trish Fenton, will send the link with the agenda.
POETS@ONEONESIX
NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE
Thursday 16 May 2024, 5.30 pm – 7.30 pm at Creative Northland, Old Railway Station, Railway Road, Whangarei 0110
Featuring Peter Bakowski, a visiting Australian poet, followed by local poets.
More from Piet Nieuwland:
Check out www.skyislandjournal.com for new poetry, flash fiction and creative non-fiction from all over the place, including here.
And a new publication https://awhiworld.com/portfolio/alternative-reality-gardening-publication/
Plus don’t forget submissions to Fast Fibres Poetry 11 are due 7 June 2024.
JUNE CELEBRATIONS
Welcome to the 2024 celebration of flash fiction in Aotearoa New Zealand!
June 22 is our shortest day of the year — and the day we know and love as National Flash Fiction Day. Since 2012 we have been celebrating the small form with this big competition.
The 2024 competition is closed. Long lists and short lists will come in late May/ early June. Updates: nationalflash.org
June 22nd is National Flash Fiction Day
Come join the celebration!
Dickens Inn Private Function Room
2.30 pm June 22nd 2024
Northland writers will be reading their short, short stories
National and regional winners will be announced
Door prize
Food and drinks available to purchase
Short story, poetry collections & T shirts available to purchase
All welcome, limited space, please RSVP to whangareilibrary3.30flash@gmail.com
CONGRATULATIONS!
NZSA Northland member Anna Williams has recently published another beautiful and poignant novel.
A young woman, Jenny Harwood, is coping with post-natal depression. She has also suffered a tragedy in her early years, due to her parents’ death, so Jenny is struggling with her emotions, thoughts and feelings towards her young baby. Her relationship with her husband and mother-in-law is sometimes fractured, and when a malevolent presence invades Jenny’s life, her very existence, and that of her baby, is threatened.
Availability:
Published: April 2024
Available from: annawilliams.writer@gmail.com
Price: $30.00 (Plus p&p)
COMMUNITY OUTREACH:
Message from Sherryl Clark
Nine boxes and bags of books were recently donated by generous and helpful NZSA Northland members for the prison library at Ngawha Correctional Centre.
Librarian, Sherril McNab, sent a very big thank you to everyone who contributed (and thank you from me as well for helping out). We did a big handover of all the books at Kawakawa Railway Station!
GLOBAL OUTREACH:
CELEBRATING TWO NZSA NORTHLAND MEMBERS
Jon Tucker and Kathryn McFarlane are two of our valued members who spend part of their lives in Northland and part of it having adventures in the big wide world – often whilst afloat! Both are prolific writers who reach out to a global readership.
JON TUCKER’S LATEST PUBLICATION:
Author’s Note:
“This is not specifically an autobiography. Please view it as a smorgasbord of bite-sized offerings which reflect the essence of an unconventional life-voyage. They are a mix of savoury and sweet, ready to be tasted according to your whim. I hope these may sate the appetites of all the readers who hungrily devoured Snow Petrel and requested a back-story.”
Publisher: Storm Bay Books
Available: Indie Bookshops throughout NZ, specialists such as Boat Books,
and as an ebook from online stores internationally.
RRP: $27.00
KATHRYN MCFARLANE WRITES AS KATH FARR
Never Forgot You – Harbour Town Series Book 1
She’s searching for an anchor. He’s clinging to the remnants of a shattered family. Is their seaside encounter the start of a second chance?
Harbour Town, Australia. Liv Donato longs for a path forward. After losing her hand, her husband, and her only child in one devastating car accident, the once-lauded flautist struggles to find any joy in living. But when she returns to the quiet town where she grew up, the last person she expects to run into is the high school sweetheart who broke her heart. Determined to keep her fresh start from getting bogged down, Liv resists the old yearnings that stir every time they meet. And while Andrew finds the temptation of her mature charm irresistible, he’s terrified he’s about to make the same mistakes all over again. Will grief and grace combine to lead them to a happily ever after?
Never Forgot You is the steamy first book in the Harbour Town contemporary romance series. If you like characters with depth, slow-burn attraction, and tight-knit communities, then you’ll adore Kath Farr’s cocktail of sun, sea, and spice.
Publisher: Treehouse Publications kathfarr.com
ISBN: 978-1-0670000-0-4 RRP: $3.99 AUD
Released: eBook format, 10 February 2024
Available from Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books and Barnes & Noble in ebook version.
Coming soon in print.
For NZ and international writers: Micro Madness!
This competition is for works up to 100 words. Submissions through May 15. Info here. An interview with 2024 MM judges Courtney Sina Meredith and Christopher Allen is here.
Still time to submit!
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“Show me a perfect writer and I’ll show you a unicorn.”
Kathryn Burnett – The Productive Writer Guidebook
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