NZSA Northland Branch News July 2024

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EVENTS:

NZSA Northland Branch meeting

Thursday 11 July 2024 at 7.30 pm, via Zoom.

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

POETS@ONEONESIX

Thursday 18 July 2024, 5.30 pm – 7.30 pm at 116 Bank St, Whangārei

NZSA NORTHLAND YOUNG WRITERS’ AWARD

New award celebrates young talent

Background:

In 2022 the Whangarei Library 3.30 Flash Writers’ Group held an adult and youth flash and micro writing competition, and were impressed by the large number of young writers who participated. We have a Northland adult writer of the year trophy and award for short fiction, so why not one for young writers?

A trophy was donated and on 22 June 2024 at the local event held to celebrate National Flash Fiction Day, the inaugural presentation of the trophy took place.

CONGRATULATIONS:

The honours this year went to Emma Philips who was presented with the inaugural NZSA Northland Young Writers’ Award.  As well as winning first place in the NFFD International Youth Competition 2024 with her story We Couldn’t Find The Cat, So We Had To Leave It Behind, she was highly commended for The World Ended With The Explosion of The Sun But I Won’t Know For Another 8 Minutes and 20 Seconds. All three of Emma’s submissions were long listed – an amazing result!

Emma’s other significant achievements throughout the year from 1 July2023 to 30 June 2024 include winning the secondary schools’ category in the 2023 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards for her climate-themed short story Changing Landscapes, 2nd place in the NZSA Northland High Schools Competition, and 2nd place in the Year 13 division of the Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry competition. Emma is indeed a worthy recipient of this new award!



New Publication: Timepiece

NZSA Northland member, Heather Whelan, has published an enticing new junior novel that provides an insight into life in Northland in the 1800s.

‘Researching her family tree for a school project, Zoe Smith becomes fascinated by what she discovers. Then she finds herself in 1868, meeting a girl called Kate and experiencing pioneer life first hand. A world with no shops, no school – and no phones.’

Timepiece is a timeslip story for 8-12-year-olds. Timepiece is a standalone story, but Kate and her family are characters in Lost (Heather’s previous book) so it is also a sequel to that story.

Available from: heatherwhelan2@gmail.com   Price: $25.00 Plus $6.60 P&P

OPPORTUNITIES:

SCRIPT TO SCREEN FAR NORTH FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS

Turner Centre, Kerikeri

Far North Youth Filmmaking Workshop 11 – 18 July 2024

Far North Adult Scriptwriting Workshop 14 July 2024

Far North Youth Filmmaking Workshop

COMMUNITY OUTREACH:

Writing Group – U3A Hatea

Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday behind the Baha’i Centre, 82 Mill Rd, Whangārei

Contact: marie.kaire@gmail.com

Writers and Poets Doubtless Bay and Kaitaia

Want to meet like-minded folks in the Far Far North? Come and join us. We meet weekly to chat and share news, and we organise readings and occasional workshops. We share and communicate via

Facebook: facebook.com/groups/992603708382931

PROFESSIONAL WRITING SERVICES

Affordable editing, feedback and mentoring

I’m Jackson, and I get a kick out of helping other writers succeed. I’m a much-published, PhD-qualified poet and writer, and a trained, experienced editor and educator. If you’re applying for a grant or mentorship, I’ll help you polish your writing sample. If you write poems or stories, I’d love to help you choose, sequence and perfect the best pieces for your next book. If you’re an emerging writer, talk to me about online or email coaching. Affordable rates. writerjackson.com

SHARING NZSA NORTHLAND BRANCH NEWS AND EVENTS:

– Share with us on our Facebook Pages for NZSA Northland 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1618171775233622  (Private group)

https://www.facebook.com/NZSANorthlandBranch  (Public)

– 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/

“Character to some extent is as much a construction of the reader as it is of the writer.”

Lloyd Jones



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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  1. Lovely newsletter Trish 😊

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