About Gillian Cook

Author of Hoko's Choice - a futuristic fiction about a teenage boy in central plateau of the North Island, New Zealand. Gillian has been a member of Tauranga Writers for two years and is enjoying the writers enthusiastic company.

Venue 2019

2021-04-28T19:36:44+12:00December 17, 2018|

Monthly Thursday Work in Progress meetings resume February 7, 2019. The venue may change to The Historic Village's Incubator (The Artery) but a decision will not be made until mid January. Keep a watchful eye on the Facebook link from our Home Page - the Work in Progress link. If [...]

Oct Sunday Focus Cancelled

2018-10-20T23:43:25+13:00October 20, 2018|

Sunday Focus 21 October has been cancelled due to two other events held this month - that being, 19 October Books From Your Own Backyard and 26, 27 October Women's Focus Expo at ASB Arena. We'll see you back at the Greerton Library, last [...]

Sunday Focus 16 September 2018

2018-09-18T08:44:25+12:00September 18, 2018|

By Lovonne Campbell Tauranga Writers Sunday Focus 16 September 2018, 2 - 4pm @Greerton Library 18 people in attendance Note: There will not be a Sunday Focus in October (Labour Weekend) Instead, we will have stalls for: Books from Our Own Backyard 19thOctober Focus on Women Expo 27/28 [...]

Treat for Sunday with Lee

2018-05-23T01:16:07+12:00May 23, 2018|

A treat for those who attended our Sunday Focus meeting at Greerton Library May 20 from our own local and steadily growing prolific author Lee Murray. Her journey of trials and tribulations is taking her to new contracts and recognition - but it didn’t happen overnight. Lee [...]

Writers Timeless

2017-11-23T07:30:54+13:00November 23, 2017|

Poetry, music, song and games - yes, a real live parlour party -  for just a few hours in the fitting surrounds of  Tauranga's Historic Village hall on Saturday 2nd December. This event is Tauranga Writers last on the list for its Jubilee year. It's also a tribute to writers [...]

Birthday Week

2017-06-25T22:19:46+12:00June 25, 2017|

What a fantastic week of elite workshops we had last week, ranging from screenwriting, writing for children, history, plays and fiction. Wow! Big thanks to president Jenny Argante who's been so focused in making this year memorable. The 21st of June was 50 years to the [...]

Scrivener Assemble

2017-06-04T22:02:41+12:00June 4, 2017|

June 10 is fast approaching for our TW training of Scrivener with Angela Curtis. I've heard some good things about this design tool, how it can make sense of a manuscript. I get lost once it passes 10,000 words. Where did I write that, where can [...]

Beauty of Natural Drop – Week 13

2017-05-09T20:01:46+12:00March 26, 2017|

Funny how birthdays make you sit up and wonder.  Mine was yesterday and after all these years I consider what correlation the 25th March has to do with the seasons. We are entering autumn in New Zealand, a time for leaves to stop receiving [...]

Synchronising Education and Jobs – Week 4

2017-05-09T20:04:32+12:00January 22, 2017|

Becoming a journalist was my third career, and one that came after much consideration and work experience with a local community paper that was privately owned called the Guardian (in Palmerston North). By the time I exited my training 18 months later, the business [...]

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