Writer benefits from award
Linda Bennett, winner of one of two NZSA/Hachette mentorship awards this year describes her novel as both ‘women’s fiction’ and ‘climate change fiction’.
The value of abandoned books and re-writing
Wellington writer and finalist in the national book awards, David Coventry, says it took him a long time to figure out how to write, even though he traces his love of words back to his teenage years.
An emerging artist in the film industry Q & A
What does work in the film industry look like for an emerging artist? Award-winning film-maker and scriptwriter Ness Simons talks frankly about straddling the divide between dreams and reality
Je Suis Heloise: The Research Journey
There are many ways to measure research—15kg of books, 14,500 kilometres travelled, a truckload of annotated notes. The numbers represent a small insight into Mandy Hager’s time in France as the Mento
Symbolic jandals in Vienna and making theatre in Croatia
Scriptwriter and teacher of creative writing Donna Banicevich Gera has just come back from two wildly different experiences—one in Vienna, the other in Croatia.
John Summers talks to students about The Mermaid Boy
Students enter ‘guerilla’ 48 hr film-making competition
FORTUNE THEATRE THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLESWritten by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Adapted for stage by Steven Canny and John Nicholson Directed by Patrick Davies Featuring: Patrick Davies, Nick Dun
Students enter ‘guerilla’ 48 hr film-making competition
It’s fast and it’s furious and it helps if you’ve got a good supply of V. That’s what six Whitireia creative writing students discovered when they entered this year’s ‘guerrilla’ 48 hr film-making com
Crime writing, chief executives, and killing 'crappy' words
One of the things that makes Jennifer Mortimer’s new crime novel Trilemma different, is that the protagonist is a female chief executive.
When writing's your happy place
When writing’s your happy place
The Shark Party
This year's Southside Arts Festival has begun!The format of the festival has grown to encompass 4 'villages' as Urbanesia. From 12 - 29 November the annual celebration of Maori and Pacifika takes
