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A Future Without Problem Gambling? haiku/sonnet contest, Tauranga
Wednesday 1 September, 9am-2pm
Red Square, Tauranga Central
It's National Gamblefree Day and the Oasis Centre for Problem Gambling are celebrating with a sausage sizzle and poetry reading. Problem Gambling Foundation and Oasis Centre counsellors, and health promoters will be available for a chat, to help read the poetry and to help cook the snarlers. Since it is also National Random Act of Kindness Day that day, Oasis staff Rachel Hamilton and Jeanette Arnold wanted to celebrate a future without problem gambling while also triggering a random act of kindness on the day.
"We've decided to gift the proceeds of the sausage sizzle to a local children's sports adventure", Mrs Arnold says "Now all we need are people's best attempts at a haiku or a sonnet. The themes are "Problem Gambling", or "A Future Without Problem Gambling".
People are welcome to come and read their own haiku or sonnet.
Award-winning authors 'in conversation' with Maggie Barry & Kim Hill, Auckland/Wellington
Meet the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards Winners - in conversation with Kim Hill
Sunday 5 September, 1-2.30pm, Free entry.
Te Papa (on the Marae)
The winners of our major literary awards for contemporary writing will be announced at a gala dinner ceremony on Friday 27 August. Readers can hear the Book of the Year winner, Fiction winner, Poetry winner, Illustrated Non-fiction winner, General Non-fiction winner and People's Choice Award winner live in conversation with Maggie Barry in Auckland the following day, and with Kim Hill in Wellington the following weekend.
The writers will be talking about their books, research, writing, new projects, what inspires them, and what they're reading now. An audience question and answer session will follow, and copies of the authors' Award-winning books will be available for purchase and signing at both events.
Register online to attend and you'll be in to win a set of the winning books: http://www.booksellers.co.nz/awards/new-zealand-post-book-awards/winners-2010/register-winners-event
NZPS Monthly Poetry Readings, Wellington
Extra Meeting: Wednesday 8 September, 7.30pm
The Thistle Inn, 3 Mulgrave St
The meeting will begin with an open mic. Guest poet: Irish poet Iggy McGovern - on his way to the Christchurch Press Writers Festival. Sponsor: Creative Communities Wellington Funding Scheme.
Iggy McGovern was born in Coleraine and lives in Dublin, where he is Associate Professor of Physics at Trinity College. His poems have appeared widely in both journal and anthology formats, as well as in the "Poetry In Motion" series on DART trains. Awards include the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary and the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry. A first collection, The King of Suburbia, published by Dedalus Press in 2005, received the inaugural Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry. A second collection Safe House is published by Dedalus Press in 2010. Iggy is travelling with the assistance of Culture Ireland.
The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival, Christchurch
9-12 September
Poetry Events include:
Friday 10 September: 12.30-1.30 pm: Poetry for Lunch--"tasty morsels served up by delectable selection of poets" (ed: what is it about poetry and food these days?): Poets Iggy McGovern, Jessica Le Bas, Owen Marshall, Alison Wong and John O'Connor will read from their work in an event chaired by Bernadette Hall.
7.30 pm, Survivor Poetry: An exclusive new form of performance poetry competition cut-throat reality style: SURVIVOR POETRY! Hosted by Ciaran Fox and judged by Tusiata Avia, Doc Drumheller and Iggy McGovern.
Saturday 11 September, 12.30-1.30 pm: Poetry for Lunch--"more tasty morsels served up by yet another delectable selection of poets": Poets Bill Manhire, Cilla McQueen (the current poet laureate) and Harry Ricketts will read from their work. (No chair is cited.)
Sunday 12 September, 5 pm-6 pm: Five New Zealand Poets--the finale of the festival includes readings from five of NZ's most celebrated poets culminating in presentation of the NZ Poetry Society's Lauris Edmond Award for Poetry. Poets Diana Bridge, Bill Manhire, Cilla McQueen, John Dickson and Bernadette Hall will all read from their work in an event chaired by James Norcliffe.
http://www.chchwritersfest.co.nz/
Echoing the Ghosts, Auckland
18 September, 7 pm @ Corban's Estate Chapel, 426 Great North Road, Henderson
25 September, 7 pm @ Galatos, 17 Galatos St, Auckland City - with The Moving Image Centre.
Echoing The Ghosts confronts characters that have shaped our world/view, dresses them in poetry and makes them thrash it out to music from Nine Inch Nails' instrumental albums Ghosts I & II.
With a cast comprised of slam winners, musical-poets and the odd Poetry Idol champion plus a year spent workshopping since The Literatti's Def Jam collaboration, Echoing The Ghosts is going to be hot!
Solo performances resurrect such characters as The Wright Brothers, Kerouac, Billie Holiday, Hans Christian Anderson, and Lewis Carroll. Three-person performances play with Te Whiti & Marilyn Monroe, and poems in two voices discuss Huxley, Friedman, Rosa Parks, Da Vinci and Jung. We go partying with Sigmund Freud, cooking with Kate Sheppard, to Family Planning with Ettie Rout and we have coffee with the famous artists of renaissance Florence. There is the melding of song and spoken word, the layering of multiple voices and as always, a constantly changing ride.
Tickets $15 / $20 on the door. Email theliteratti@gmail.com to reserve tickets. www.theliteratti.co.nz http://ghosts.nin.com to list to the copyleft music by Nine Inch Nails
Writers Read Series 2010: Poetry, Wellington
Thursday 23 September, 6 pm
Theatrette (10A02) Museum Building, Massey University, Buckle Street; Entrance D, (access Theatrette from East side of Building).
Guest poets: Ingrid Horrocks and Tina Makereti
All Writers Read events are free and open to the public. They form part of the community outreach programme associated with the Expressive Arts major and minor in the University's Bachelor of Communication and the English major and minor in the Bachelor of Arts. These School of English and Media Studies events are co-sponsored by the Regional Chief Executive Wellington and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
No Easy Options? Being a Writer in New Zealand- Imprints Conference 2010, Tauranga
Saturday 16 October, 9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Baycourt, Durham Street, Tauranga
Keynote Speakers - Emikly Perkins, Steve Braunias and Christine Cole Catley. Chaired by Dr. Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato
What are the pros & cons of being a writer in New Zealand? Is success possible in our small country or do we have to compromise what it means to be a New Zealand writer by publishing abroad? Are the dice loaded unfairly by publishers and booksellers against the writer who wants to write within a New Zealand culture for New Zealand writers? And is the market big enough and sufficiently proactive to sustain writers and pay them fairly for the work they do? A participative conference for writers, publishers, distributors, editors, creative writing tutors, and anyone else interested in the contemporary New Zealand publishing scene.
Programme
9.30-09.45 am Registration (Please note it is necessary to book ahead.)
9.45-10 am Dr. Mark Houlahan: Introducing our Keynote Speakers
10-10.30 am Keynote Speaker 1: Emily Perkins Home or Away? The Dilemma of the New Zealand Novelist.
10.30-11 am Q. & A. from the floor. Summary by Chair.
MORNING BREAK
11.30 - 12 noon Keynote Speaker 2: Steve Braunias Making an honest living: writing for the media.
12 - 12.30 pm Q. & A. from the floor. Summary by Chair.
LUNCH
1.30 - 2 pm Key Note Speaker 3: Dame Christine Cole Catley High Hopes & Heartbreak: Getting Published In New Zealand
2 - 2.30 pm Q. & A. from the floor. Summary by Chair.
2.30 - 3 pm Reprise from our Keynote Speakers.
AFTERNOON BREAK
3 - 4 pm Actions & Initiatives: Discussion and decisions on a possible New Zealand strategy for writers and publishers in terms of both local & international markets and home-based promotion & support.
4.30 pm Closing No Easy Options? Conference.
Note
Please enquire further and book through Nyree Sherlock, Community Education Adviser, University of Waikato in Tauranga. Email: nyree@waikato.ac.nz or phone 07 577 5376 for details. For information about our speakers, please contact Jenny Argante, Tauranga Writers. Email: twinfo@clear.net.nz, tel 07 576 3040 or txt 027 316 31 93.
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