WHO WE ARE

Tauranga Writers is New Zealand’s longest-running self-help group for writers, established in 1967. Our mission statement is: getting you started and getting you published. Our mantra is: Writers write!

Members meet on the first Thursday of every month, 7pm at the Wesley Community Centre, 100 Thirteenth Avenue, Tauranga. These meetings concentrate on work in progress and an exchange of information about writing, activities, projects and events. Visitors are always welcome.

On the third Sunday of the month TW holds a Writers on Writing Session from 2-4pm at the Greerton Library. Expertise is shared, mainly by members but also by professionals outside the group. These mini-workshops are open to the general public for a $15 entry fee ($10 for members). Many collective and individual accomplishments have been achieved over the years, giving the club a base of history and experience. Tauranga Writers has close associations with New Zealand Society of Authors, Tauranga Writers for Children, Bookrapt and the Friends of Tauranga City Libraries, to name a few.

Tauranga Writers provides free resources and training documents. We understand the importance of promotion, and provide that opportunity on this website and through our weekly communications with writers, members and authors.

For more resources and about writers’ rights we recommend you include in your search a visit to www.authors.org.nz

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Membership subs are $45.00 per year and can be paid to the following account:
TW account no. 03 0435 0509295 000

Please use your name as the reference and we will email you a confirmation. If you have any problems please do not hesitate to contact us here

Byline is the name of Tauranga Writers’ anthology of writing by its members and is published yearly in October/November. It comes as a paperback and e-zine. Our mission statement is ‘getting you started and getting you published.’ This publication provides that opportunity. More information can be found HERE

TAURANGA WRITERS MONTHLY WORK-IN-PROGRESS (WIP) MEETINGS

Every first Thursday 7-9pm @ Wesley Community Centre, 100 Thirteenth Avenue, Tauranga

Come along and check us out. You can attend a couple of sessions before committing to joining.

WRITERS ON WRITING (WoW) SESSIONS

Every third Sunday 2-4pm @ Greerton Library

A monthly presentation or workshop conducted by an award-winning local writer focusing on a topic relating to creative writing or being an indie author. General public $15; Tauranga Writers financial members $10. Sessions involve a practical component and Q&A.

Tauranga Writers Code of Conduct

This Code of Conduct covers the following: –

  • All online activity related to Tauranga Writers, including activity on the Tauranga
    Writers’ website
  • All offline communications and events related to Tauranga Writers.
  • All activity using social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) related to
    Tauranga Writers

As a member of Tauranga Writers, you are required to behave in a professional, respectful
manner towards all other members and associates of Tauranga Writers. We are writing
professionals, and this is reflected in our interaction with others and in our writing.
To this end:

  • We are mindful of sensitive issues and respectful of confidentiality.
  • We are accountable for our actions within the group.
  • We are encouraging, considerate and constructive when critiquing one another’s
    work.
  • We refrain from making or posting derogatory statements about any group e.g.
    abilities/disabilities, ages, ethnicities, genders, races, religions and sexual
    orientations.
  • We are protective of using or accessing member contact lists (email or otherwise)
    and do not use them for individual commercial or advertising purposes.
  • We do not plagiarise another writer’s work (or ideas and do not copy without
    express permission of the author/owner).
  • We do not claim authorship of writing produced by ChatGPT or similar non-human
    content-writing entities.

Member Responsibilities

  • If you experience behaviour that makes you uncomfortable, contact a committee
    member.
  • If you observe behaviour in another member that may have made someone else
    uncomfortable, contact a committee member.

Breaches of the Code of Conduct
If a member is considered to have breached the Code of Conduct, the member may be
required to apologise and must refrain from further behaviour that breaches the Code of
Conduct.

If a member breaches the Code of Conduct repeatedly, or in an extreme manner, their
membership may be rescinded.

Where a breach of the Tauranga Writers Code of Conduct is reported to the committee, this
will be handled confidentially by the Committee and the parties involved. Those parties
questioned will be reminded of their responsibilities to maintain confidentiality.

Tauranga Writers, being a private forum, does not guarantee free speech where such speech violates our Code of
Conduct.
This Code of Conduct applies to all members of Tauranga Writers.