Auckland Writers Festival
Every year we stage over 200 public events, gathering together 230 of the world’s best writers and thinkers with over 83,000 festival goers, to celebrate the world of books and ideas.
Conventions and Melting Pots – Week 17
In ‘Con’ terms, I’m still considered a newbie. I went to my first NZ National Science Fiction and Fantasy convention in Wellington 4 years ago and I’ve been returning (sometimes kicking and screaming against my fear of public speaking) into Convention panels and events [...]
Work in Progress 4th February 2016
Report of our Work in Progress Meeting held on Thursday 4th February 2016 What our members have been getting up to. Chad Dick, Jessica Harvey and Dhaivat Mehta told us they’ve all been working on Grim Tales, a collaborative publication between survivors of domestic [...]
Startled Beginning – Week 16
Gayel Collinson Pen name Gracie Stathers. My Journey to writing fiction. I have always loved the stories my family told me, not stories read from books but real stories that are passed down from one generation to another embellished by some and adjusted by [...]
Field Finds Words – Week 15
From Creative Beat (Creative Tauranga) Literary Trailblazers - December 2013/January 2014 Field Candy – writing about the land His name is particularly apt, for the young Field Candy discovered a natural affinity with the great outdoors. Brought up in the Thames Valley, he lived [...]
Bars Close, Minds Open – Week 14
When I was young and single – with no kids and few responsibilities – I loved to sit in the pub with my mates and solve the world’s problems. We enjoyed plenty of discussion of ‘what they should do’ and, after a few tankards [...]
Beauty of Natural Drop – Week 13
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 [...]
Nuggets and Knowledge – Week 10
I have always written but it was always in schoolbooks, and then when I caught up with technology, on the computer. All these short stories, poems, wonderful children’s stories, all hidden in folders in the computer. There is something liberating in never having to [...]
A Writer’s Journey – Week 9
I am not an author… yet I am a writer, I suppose, because I am trying to write a book. It all started about 15 years ago, when my kids were little, and Harry Potter had become a BIG craze. My husband and I [...]
Bravery Publishes – Week 8
I am always amazed how my brain can compose a blog but when I try to put it on paper, nothing happens. When putting up my hand to write a blog for Week Eight of Tauranga Writers 50th Anniversary celebration it seemed so simple. [...]