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 [...]
A presentation on 2nd April 2017 by by Tauranga Writers president Jenny Argante to the Tauranga Historical Society. Tauranga Writers was founded on the 21st June 1967. If I were to write my own memoir, I would begin, “I am a word wizard born [...]
Jenny Argante's 2002 winning essay in Takehe Cultural Studies Competition Make it new, said Pound, and the Modernists listened. Yet there was an inherent paradox within his words, for he also instructed us to immerse ourselves in ‘the river of tradition’.And how else can [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tauranga Writers held an extra event on Sunday 17 September 2017, 10am at The Raft Café boardroom for visiting American novelist Mark H Wandrey. Mark was accompanied by his wife, Joy, between them they formed a dynamic speaking pair. The two hours with them and a [...]
Anne Cleary Not About Time When I look back to the period of time during which I wrote my two novels, I often wonder how I managed it. I was busy – far busier than I am now – home-schooling my two children. Yet [...]
I’ve been writing for years and clogging up my laptop memory with short stories and novels. When I joined Tauranga Writers, some of them began to pop up their heads and get published. I like to write for children and include the environment in [...]
In April 2017, I attended the international Horror Writers Association’s second annual StokerCon conference, a convention bringing together creatives and consumers of the horror genre: writers, screenwriters, illustrators, game designers, graphic artists, podcasters, voice talent and filmmakers. Held, on this occasion, on Long Beach’s [...]
This story begins during my childhood in the Feltham Children's Home at Otaki Beach. On Boxing Day morning Aunty Maud, who was Miss Feltham's main helper, asked me to collect chicken scraps from the Devantier's beach bach. “They're expecting you,” she said. “And be [...]