Events:
NZSA Northland Branch Meeting
Hybrid Zoom and face-to-face meeting
Maunu, Whangārei, or your home: Sunday 27 November 2022, at 11.00 am
Secretary, Trish Fenton, will send the Zoom link, and directions to the venue, with the agenda.
End-of-year celebration. Bring a plate for a shared lunch. Lesley will lead us with writing Courage Day postcards.
POETS@ONEONESIX
Thursday 17 November 2022, 5.00 pm – 7.30 pm, 116 Bank Street, Whangārei
CONGRATULATIONS!
NZSA Northland Open Short Story Competition 2022
The long list, in alphabetical order:
Anniversary
Loess/Loss
Lost on the River
Mapping You
Marlon Williams at the Pt Chev RSA
Ray’s Couch
The Shimmer Lines
The Thief
The Weight of a Dress
Weight Lost
Congratulations to these talented authors whose writing caught the eye of the judges.
The short list, also in alphabetical order:
Anniversary
Loess/Loss
Lost on the River
Marlon Williams at the Pt Chev RSA
Ray’s Couch
The Shimmer Lines
Final results will be announced on 17 December 2020
Storylines Notable Book Awards
We’re excited to announce that NZSA member, Janine Williams is one of the Northland recipients of the Storylines Notable Book Awards for 2022 with her book Holding the Horse.
Author Janine (J L) Williams is a mother, orchardist and writer, living and working from her home in Hukerenui. In her writing, she draws on her own family history and her love of New Zealand and New Zealand history. She is currently working on a new book called Like the Wind, a sequel to Holding the Horse.
Set in rural New Zealand in 1946, just after WWII, Holding the Horse is the story of a boy with a dream and a dad with a secret past. Fourteen-year-old Sidney Everett wants to become a top New Zealand jockey. His father, recently returned from the war, is inexplicably opposed to his son’s ambition.
A fast-paced, exciting read for ages 10 to adult, with themes of ambition and dreams, family, father-son relationships, PTSD and sacrifice, this heart-warming story will have you on the edge of your seat until the last page.
Holding the Horse was the inaugural winner of the Janice Marriott Mentoring Award in 2019 and shortlisted for the Tom Fitzgibbon Award for a junior fiction manuscript in 2020.
HOLDING THE HORSE is available from Wheelers if you’re a library, school or bookshop, or directly from Janine: jwilliamswriter@gmail.com or through the contact form on her website https://www.jlwilliamsauthor.com.
Copies are $20, and $18 to NZSA members. Postage is $6.40 tracked to anywhere in NZ. Up to three copies can be purchased for that rate of postage.
INVITATION:
Kia ora everyone,
You are invited to a poetry-reading by leading Ngāpuhi poets Briar Wood and Robert Sullivan, who will read from their new poetry collections at Whangarei Central Library, in Te Puawānanga, on Tuesday 15 November 12-1.30pm. Briar’s new book is A Book of Rongo and Te Rangahau. In this collection she reimagines the lives of Rongo and Te Rangahau, nineteenth-century wahine toa, through radiant verse. Robert’s pukapuka is Tūnui Comet. In the book, he takes readers on a marvelous poetic hikoi: guided by Māui and Tāwhirimātea, Moana Jackson and Freddie Mercury, we walk from the K’Rd council flats to Kaka Point, finding ourselves and our ancestors along the way. An additional reading will be presented by Anahera Press publisher Kiri Piahana-Wong: Kiri (Ngāti Ranginui) is the author of poetry collection Night Swimming.
- Light refreshments will be available after the book launch
- Signed copies of both poets’ books will be available to purchase
- Free entry, no booking required.
Nyree Sherlock
Librarian- Outreach Services | Whangarei District Libraries
Whangarei District Council | Whangarei Central Library |Private Bag 9006, Whangarei 0148 | www.wdc.govt.nz/library/home
’tis the Season…
Women’s Refuge Critiquing Raffle
Once again it’s time for Lesley’s annual Christmas raffle for a critique (or the equivalent time in editing) in memory of her son, with funds to go to Te Puna Women’s Refuge.
To enter, simply contact Lesley to arrange payment (editline[at]xtra.co.nz), and she’ll put you in the draw.
The draw will take place on 20 December so that gives you lots of time to get your entries in. The critique is for a novel or any similar piece of work, and the winner can send it any time in the next year, either on paper or by email. The costs for entries are as follows:
One chance = $20; 3 chances $30; 6 chances $40; 10 chances $50; 15 chances $60.
The refuge is a very deserving cause – especially in these challenging times.
Kiwi Christmas Books open for donations in Whangārei
Kiwi Christmas Books is encouraging Whangārei residents to once again play Santa Claus by gifting the joy of reading to local children and youth in need.
In the nationwide initiative, people buy a new children’s book by a New Zealand author or illustrator, to donate to a local charity. Books donated in Whangārei will be delivered to Whangārei Women’s Refuge, which will distribute them as Christmas presents for children whose families are using the refuge’s services.
All types of books are welcome, and for all ages: board books, picture books, chapter books, young adult fiction, non-fiction and reference. Buying a new Kiwi book supports local authors and illustrators, publishers and booksellers.
Books can be dropped off at Craniums in Whangārei’s Town Basin, by:
Monday 13 December
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“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story”
– Terry Pratchett
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