We’re in the Auckland Writers Festival! The amazing Mele Peaua will lead a team of four writers from Somewhere a cleaner, introduced by co-writer Janice Marriott. If you’re in Auckland, Saturday 15 May 5pm, join us.
You don’t need to go to Auckland! Several writers from the book join cleaner/musician Don Franks for an hour in the Aro Valley Community Centre. Sunday 28 March, 4.00pm.
Also an open mic for poems about cleaning/cleaners. Coffee and cake (bring your own cup), koha.
Semira Davis is currently running a Boosted campaign and looking to spread the word beyond her own social circle.
The campaign is to publish a narrative sequence of poetry that was Runner-Up in the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award.
It’s a story about the grief of losing a sibling to incarceration.
Here is a link to the project.
NFFD 2021 is open through 30 April!
Submit your best 300-word stories!
See an interview with the judges for the 2021 competition: Rachel Smith speaks with Diane Brown and Paula Morris.
Coming soon: an interview with youth judge Kerry Lane.
The youth competition moved in 2020 to an international competition with free entry – curated by the youth journal fingers comma toes. All youth writers welcome!
Note that the youth comp, for ages up to 19, has no competition fee and is international! Please share the news!
Upates have been posted for the international 2021 MICRO MADNESS competition – opening in April! Judges this year are Alison Glennyand Grant Faulkner. Micro information, and last year’s winners, are here.
NFFD events will take place 22 June 2021 in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Northland, Waikato and Wellingtonwith international online events as well.
Otago University Press warmly invites you to celebrate the launch of Kate Edger: The life of a pioneering feminist by Diana Morrow.
In 1877, Kate Edger became the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university. She went on to become a pioneer of women’s education in New Zealand and worked tirelessly to mitigate violence against women and children. Diana Morrow tells the story of this remarkable woman’s life and, in the process, provides valuable insights into the role of women social reformers in our history and Edger’s place within a distinctive strand of Christian feminism.
When: 6pm, Wednesday 7 April
Where: The Women’s Bookshop, 105 Ponsonby Road, Auckland
RSVP to publicity@otago.ac.nz by 1 April
*Please note, this event will only take place if Auckland is at Alert Level 1
Poet Laureate David Eggleton is curating a series entitled Six Dunedin Poets (with the work of one poet being posted on Mondays weekly), that he ids currently running on the National Library’s Poet Laureate blog as part of a bigger programme called The Situation, which he initiated last year on the blog.
So far he has posted work by Ruth Arnison, Richard Reeve and Alan Roddick, with Carolyn McCurdie, Sue Wootton and Peter Olds to follow over the next few weeks.
Go here
NZ Poetry Shelf 