EVENTS:

NZSA Northland Branch meeting

Thursday 8 August 2024 at 7.30 pm, via Zoom.

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

The Whangarei Library 3.30 Flash Writers’ Group

Flash Fiction Competition Award Ceremony

The Whangarei Library 3.30 Flash Writers’ Group Flash Fiction Competition has been short listed. There were eighty entries, about half adult and half young writers. There are currently twenty-nine short listed stories.

Competition winners and the winner of the NZSA Northland Flash Fiction Award will be announced at the Award Ceremony:

31 August^, at 2pm

May Bain Room, Whangarei Central Library

Head Librarian Paula Urlich will present the awards

The programme is now available on www.upsurgefestival.co.nz

CELEBRATION 

2024 is the centenary year of Janet Frame’s birth. 

Everyone is invited to our 100-day celebration – one Janet Frame poem is being broadcast each day for 100 days – the public can listen online daily at www.arrowfm.co.nz  at 12 noon from 28 August all the way to 5 December. 

100 DAYS of JANET FRAME is brought to you by Arrow 92.7 FM, Wairarapa Word and Wairarapa Library Service, with the kind permission of the Janet Frame Literary Trust.

A Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day event. 

Supported by Masterton Creative Communities. 

For more information, contact:

Michael Wilson, Arrow FM: quiver@arrowfm.co.nz / 06 378 0255 / 027 340 3060 

Louise Dowdell, Wairarapa Library Service: louise@wls.org.nz / 027 944 7022

CONGRATULATIONS:

WOMAN, MISSING

NZSA Northland member, Sherryl Clark, has launched her latest novel in New Zealand and Australia to stunning acclaim. Take a look at the fantastic local launch at Paper Plus in Whangārei. https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=paper%20plus%20whangarei

Sincere thanks to Paper Plus for supporting and providing a venue for local writers.

When Lou Alcott starts work as a new private investigator, she lands two missing person cases – one is a woman who appears to have walked out on her husband, the other is a young woman who believes her ex is stalking her again. Lou discovers neither case is as simple as it looks, and her investigations lead her into dark territory, including the online dating jungle.

Reviewers have said, “From the moment you dive into this book, you’re hooked … an absolute must-read” (Kasia, Amazon), “a terrific introduction to a new Australian private investigator with significant points of difference that sets it apart from anything that’s come before” (Damo, GoodReads).

ISBN 9781038915443

Published by HQ HarperCollins Australia

RRP $36.99

Available at PaperPlus and Whitcoulls, and online.

A Volatile Mixtape, by NZSA member, Eddie Williams

Check out this rollicking tale of musical misadventure from prizewinning local author, Eddie Williams. Now available for loan from Whangārei Library or for sale from Wards Music Works.

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“I really love being human but some days I wish I could be a fairy.”

– Greta, aged four years