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.

TAURANGA WRITERS SUNDAY FOCUS 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.