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Kirsten Cliff has had a haiku nominated for The Haiku Foundation's 2011 Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems by the editors of DailyHaiku. She successfully completed her 2011 goal of submitting poetry to a publication or competition every week for the entire year, which resulted in her works appearing in twenty-two publications in print and online over the last twelve months.
The Irish Haiku Society's 2011 International Haiku Competition features some familiar names: it was won by Quendryth Young (Aust.), twice winner of our own competition, with John Barlow (UK) in second place. Ernie Berry is in the Highly Commended list.
The 2011 San Francisco International Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Competition featured some NZPS names in its winners' lists: Ernie Berry won Second Place, Haiku; Chen-ou Liu won First and Third Places, Tanka; Andre Surridge appeared on the list of Senryu Honorable Mentions.
Greg O'Connell reached double figures with his tenth poem 'My Grandad's Hands' published in School Journal, Level 3, November 2011.
Karen Peterson Butterworth won the New Zealand Society of Authors Bay of Plenty Regional Branch's Memoir & Local History Competition 2011, with: "A tightly-written, perceptive look back at a hard-working Kiwi family struggling up in Otago in the Forties and early Fifties. It includes some evocative images of Kiwi life then - pee pots emptied in orchards, scorch marks on dunny seats - and some poignant, amusing and intimate snapshots of family life." Tony Beyer and Kristina Jensen were among those with Highly Commended entries.
Turbine 11, the online journal of the INternational Institute of Modern Letters, has a good sprinkling of NZPS contributors: David Beach, Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, Lynely Edmeades, Aleksandra Lane, Kerrin P. Sharpe and Tim Upperton have poems in this issue.
Vaughan Rapatahana published not one but two books in November 2011: Home Away Elsewhere (Proverse Press) and china as kafka (Kilmog Press). He is also guest editor of the next issue of Blackmail Press: Marginalisation, and reviews Hone Tuwhare's Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works (Godwit/Random House 2011) in Landfall Online.
Speaking of Blackmail Press, Issue 30 contains poems by members Charmaine Thomson, Marion Jones, Lora Mountjoy, Jenny Dobson, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Martha Morseth, Sandi Sartorelli, Sue Wootton and Vaughan Rapatahana.
Takahe 73 contains poetry by Michael Harlow, Robynanne Milford, Joanna Preston, Barbara Strang, Catherine Mair and Linley Edmeades, along with fiction by our Patron Fiona Kidman.
The 2011 Takahe Poetry Competition, judged by Sue Wootton, was won by NZPS member Jan Hutchison. Jo Thorpe had both a runner-up and a short-listed poem, and Jan also appeared on the short list with a second poem.
Valley Micropress October 2011 (ed Tony Chad) contains work by Margaret Beverland, Neroli Cottam, Anne Curran, Deryn Pittar, Pat Prime, Fred Simpson and André Surridge.
Greg O'Connell's poem 'How to Swim a Length Under Water' is published in School Journal, Level 2, October 2011. It is accompanied by the instruction: "Recite in a single breath".
Ernest Berry was awarded First Prize in this year's Gerald Brady Awards for Best Unpublished Senryu (Haiku Society of America). His winning senryu will be in a future issue of Frogpond.
Past editor of a fine line (from the days when it was still a newsletter), Lynn Davidson, has 5 poems in PN Review, a prestigious journal with some seriously flash names in its line-up. See a teaser of her work at: PN Review.
Margaret Beverland and Kirsten Cliff have work in Paper Wasp.
Margaret Beverland, Mary Cresswell and Charmaine Thomson have poems in Shot Glass Journal #5.
Heartiest congratulations to our Patron, Dame Fiona Kidman, who received the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award (Fiction), presented in August at Premier House, Wellington.
Greg O'Connell's poem 'No Simple Book' was awarded first place in this year's Page & Blackmore competition. Barbara Strang was one of the two runners-up. You can read the poems and judge's comments on the Poetry Day Competition page at www.pageandblackmore.co.nz Greg has also had three poems published in recent rugby-themed issues of the School Journal (Learning Media: SJ1211, SJ2211, SJ4211). You can read more about Greg's work at www.gregoconnell.com
Margaret Beverland, André Surridge and Sandra Simpson are among the finalists in the Jack Stamm Haiku Award (Australia) and have several poems each published in the award anthology, moonrise & bare hills. (Tauranga Writers Newsletter).
Owen Bullock has new work in paper wasp, Presence and Notes From the Gean, and has once again been included in the anthology, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka. Owen has joined the editorial board for the 2011 edition of this title, and has also become an editor for a new online journal, Axon: Creative Explorations, based at the University of Canberra. He now has his own website: http://www.owenbullock.com/ (Tauranga Writers Newsletter)
Adrienne Jansen (2) and Susan Howard had poems Highly Commended in the 2010 Gum Blossoms Poetry Competition.
Jenny Powell had two finalists in the Welsh Poetry Competition, and both will be published in an anthology, covering the winners from the five years of the competition. Read her poems at: http://www.welshpoetry.co.uk/winners.html
Ernest J Berry had an Honourable Mention in the 2011 Haiku Pen Contest, for: faded jeans/ the moon-washed hills/ of dreamland
Nicola Easthope was a finalist in the World Wildlife Fund's Ocean:Views contest. You can read her entry at: http://assets.wwf.org.nz/downloads/beach_walk___nicola_easthope.pdf (I hope - my browser won't open pdfs, so I can't check.)
Sandra Simpson has recently won the Shoreless River Haiku Contest (although still waiting with bated breath to find out if the prize money will be forthcoming ...), placed as a runner-up in the contemporary category of the HaikuNow! Contest run by The Haiku Foundation, was Second in the Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award (US) and Third in the Haiku Magazine Contest (Romania).
Ernest J Berry came second in the 2011 J. Franklyn Dew Award (The Poetry Society of Virginia), and received an Honourable Mention in the Kaji Asi Studio's 23rd annual haiku contest (Boston). UK member Kevin Goldstein-Jackson also received an Honourable Mention in this contest.
Michele Amas received Second Prize in the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize for 2011, judged by Bernadette Hall.
Maris O'Rourke received a Highly Commended in the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize, and won the SIWA (South Island Writers Association) 2010 Short Story Competition.
Derryn Pittar and Charmaine Thomson have fibs in Fib Review #9 and Derryn has also had work accepted for Shot Glass Journal #4. Furthermore, Derryn came Third in the semi-annual Lucidity Poetry Journal Clarity contest, which also featured Jack Wood in the Highly Commended list.
Harvey Molloy, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Janet Newman and Karen Zelas have work in trans-Tasman online journal Snorkel 13, published April 2011.
Sandra Simpson has won one of the inaugural Touchstone Awards from The Haiku Foundation - seven awards were made to haiku deemed by a panel of judges to be "the best of 2010". Haiku, which were nominated, must have been published in the 2010 calendar year. To read more about the awards, and the judges' comments, go to: http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/awards/touchstone-archive/ Sandra's haiku, which appeared in The Heron's Nest, is:
slicing papaya -
the swing
of her black pearls
Kristina Jensen's poem 'd'Urville cliffs' is the April 'Poem of the Month' on display in the Hardy Street window of the Nelson Provincial Museum. The project, 'Top of the South Poetry', is run by Carol Ercolano.
Interlitq 14 is featuring New Zealand poets over the next few months, adding new poets each week. In Week 1 it included poems from Laurice Gilbert, Helen Lowe and Niel Wright. In Week 2 were added: David Gregory, Charles Hadfield, Siobhan Harvey and Harvey Molloy. Since added: Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, Majella Cullinane, Janis Freegard, Robin Fry, Tim Jones, Stephanie Mayne, and Mia Watkins (prose).
Madeleine Slavick had a poem on love and horses selected as a Tuesday Poem, on 22 February. And she has work in the forthcoming Broadsheet 7.
Ernie Berry has had work selected for Contemporary Haibun Volume 12, due out in March.
Stephen Giles had a poem published in the International Reading Association's magazine, Reading Today. The Association, based in Delaware, USA, has around 70,000 members. Way to get an audience!
Keith Westwater has been awarded the Best First Book publishing prize by Australian publisher Interactive Publications (IP) in its 2011 "IP Picks" competition. The competition is open annually to writers from Australia and New Zealand. Keith's collection of poems, entitled Tongues of Ash, will be published later this year or in early 2012. IP described Keith's poetry as follows: "The joy of reading Westwater's poetry is his obvious skill as a manipulator of language, delving into the reverent, the morose, the gleeful and the humorous without falter. He is fearless in his subject matter and confident in his use of words. The poetry is a true escape from the reader's present world, a tour in the realms of the imagination, facilitated by an experienced leader."
Maris O'Rourke came second in the 2011 Robert Burns Poetry Competition, judged by Michael Harlow.
Siobhan Harvey, Lonnard Dean Watkins and Laurice Gilbert have had poems nominated for the prestigious 2011 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.
the fib review #8 contains poems by Laurice Gilbert, Deryn Pittar, Charmaine Thomson and Lonnard Dean Watkins. Probably the last 'congratulations' for 2010.
Madeleine Marie Slavick has a particular interest in Asian Poetry. You can read one of her poems in the Asia Literary Review at http://www.asialiteraryreview.com/web/article/en/73
Julie Ryan has been awarded a half-mentorship with Alistair Paterson, by the New Zealand Society of Authors.
Ruth Arnison won both First and Second prizes in the Timaru Rose Festival Poetry Awards.
Yin Lin was featured in the Otago Daily Times for her recent mutliple writing successes, notably in the School for Young Writers' annual Re-Draft Competition.
Rosetta Allan was joint winner (with Janet Charman) of the 2010 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems. This prize was awarded by the International Writers' Workshop.
Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle has poems in the latest issues of Snorkel, Rem and Landfall 220. She's also got poems forthcoming in brief and Colorado Review.
Nalini Singh has a poem in Rem, a new experimental magazine.
Jenny Powell was a runner up in the 2010 Myslexia poetry competition.
Bryony Jagger, Deryn Pittar and Nalini Singh had poems accepted by South Pacific Press for a North American maths textbook.
NZPS Vice-President Tim Jones is the 2010 recipient of the NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature.
Tim is currently working on stories for his third short story collection, to follow Extreme Weather Events (2001) and Transported (2008). He plans to use the award to help him with the writing of this collection. "These things always evolve as they go along," says Tim, "but there are a lot of coastlines, changing landscapes, and far-off places in which Antipodeans unexpectedly wash up in the stories I'm working on or thinking of writing. Then again, right now, I'm writing a footballing romance. I never have had all that much patience with themes."
Tim is a Wellington poet and author of both science fiction and literary fiction. Among his recent books are poetry collection All Blacks' Kitchen Gardens (HeadworX, 2007), fantasy novel Anarya's Secret (RedBrick, 2007), and poetry anthology Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand (Interactive Press, 2009), co-edited with Mark Pirie. Voyagers appeared in the NZ Listener's "100 Best Books of the Year" list in 2009 and won the Best Collected Work category in the 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Awards.
News about Tim and his writing is on his blog at http://timjonesbooks.blogspot.com
The biennial award has been established through a generous grant from The Janet Frame Literary Trust and is for $3,000. It may be used for travel or for purchasing computer equipment, as well as to buy time to write. The award is offered to support a mid-career or established author to further their literary career. The inaugural recipient of the award, in 2008, was Emma Neale.
Phillip Donnell gained Third place in the Foreign Language Category of the 15th International "Kusamakura" Haiku Competition, one of the foremost haiku competitions in Japan, which attracts thousands of entries from all over the world.
Wow! NZPS members did great in the The Whitireia Creative Writing Programme's ‘Eat Your Words' Wellington Café Poetry Competition, 2010. Congratulations to: Mercedes Webb-Pullman, who won, and Tony Chad, Enid Flannery, Janis Freegard, Robin Fry, Anne Harre and Gill Ward, all runners-up.
NZPS members made a great showing in the Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest in English 2010, run from Croatia/Hrvatska. Third equal: Patricia Prime. Honourable Mention: Catherine Mair. Choice of Haiku (for later publication): Margaret Beverland, Owen Bullock and Seren Fargo.
Gillian Cameron has had her remix piece 'Still Life' chosen for inclusion in Cordite 33.1: CREATIVE COMMONS (THE REMIXES). http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/cc-the-remixes/still-life
Janet Newman has a poem in the Australian Association of Writing Program's 2010 anthology Nth Degree, which will be released at the AAWP Conference in Melbourne in November. Entry was open to anyone enrolled at a unversity or tertiary institution in NZ or Australia, and Janet is the only New Zealander included.
Maureen Sudlow was one of the last four finalists in the poetry section of the Cricket Art Prize. Results can be seen at: www.cricketartprize.org She didn't win, but was thrilled to get this far - a first success for her.
The online short poetry zine Shotglass Journal, edited by NZPS member Mary-Jane Grandinetti, has a New Zealand section in its September 2010 issue. Holding the candle for the NZPS are: Alison Denham, Laurice Gilbert, Mariana Isara, Maris O'Rourke, Deryn Pittar, Vaughan Rapatahana, Charmaine Thomson and Lonnard Dean Watkins. Great job, everyone. http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/index.html
Joanna Preston has won the prestigious Mary Gilmore Award for best first book of poetry for her title The Summer King, which was reviewed in a fine line in November 2009. You can read the review at: http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/summerking Fantastic news!
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