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The home of creative writing at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Undergraduate courses, MA and PhD. Also: harbour views and baking.

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New data has given detailed insight into the number of protected species being killed by commercial fishers.
In 3 months this year 6 Hector's dolphins, 160 albatrosses, 24 fur seals, 42 petrels, 38 shearwaters, 2 yellow-eyed penguins & 2 baleen whales were killed
www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zea...

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Time to put Writers on Mondays in your diary on repeat! On 8 July we feature first essay collections by Airini Beautrais and Flora Feltham—women working out how to live their lives and how to write about them. 1215 Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa, free!

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Found on the wall above the IIML’s hardworking but not altogether trusty printer - author as yet unknown

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If a wet cold Wellington Monday is getting you down never fear - Writers on Mondays starts up next week to make the day brighter and better! First up, Airini Beautrais and Flora Feltham talk about their new essay collections with Michelle Duff. Full programme here. www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

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Woof! You walk up the hill for days and days and eventually the top seems less and less likely. Probably you should have followed the advice of the small sensible dog, who turned back having offered up his warning. The stars are out now, they certainly don’t talk much do they.

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‘Irish was considered a badge of poverty, and physical violence was seen as an expedient way to diminish its proliferation’ - Sinéad Gleason compares the use of the Irish language with te reo, and discovers Rita Angus

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From July 2, Victoria University's NZ Electronic Text Centre will move to National Library of NZ, preserved as a web archive (h/t: PHANZA)

Good the NZETC will survive, though raises question marks re. future of digital heritage projects in NZ tertiary sector

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Great to see IIML grads Zac Hing and Tara Leckie on this list along with our colleague (and grad) Joan Fleming

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Applications are now open for the Michael King Writers Centre Residencies: deadline 29 July.

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Baking and writing - our two favourite things! Thank YOU.

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Pōneke, come and get your first glimpse of The Mires, the exciting new novel by our colleague and MA workshop convenor Tina Makereti! Tina will be in conversation with Ingrid Horrocks at Unity Books on 10 July, 1230.

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🚨 Calling all writers! Applications for the CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award close at 4pm on Monday 1 July. Don’t miss your chance of $25,000 in support for your next project. Apply here: bit.ly/3KDKWEK

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‘It was probably the best year of my life. I work really well to deadlines.’ Lovely interview with poet Stacey Teague about her book Plastic, Tender Press, and doing the MA at the IIML.

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"A painting I used to like a lot once & thought about I haven’t thought about for some time. It showed Walter Benjamin at a table in Paris. The artist’s name I can’t recall. Not Patrick. Not Paul? ..."

From "Night thoughts", a new poem by Ken Bolton
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. YOUR ABSENCE   Your absence is a hurt I would bring to no one: It is a place For entertaining friends and waiting. I shall always ask you in. .

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Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly (IIML MA19) is on the shortlist for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize!

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Cath Vidler was one of the group of editors who created the very first issue of the IIML’s online journal, Turbine | Kapohau

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Mōrena! Is it time to work on your poetry, short fiction, writing for theatre or world building skills with like-minded writers? Come and join a writing workshop with our amazing teachers in the second half of this year! Applications due 20 June, details here.

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How to take off your clothes at the picnic

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Applications now open for the Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship $10,00 to a writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama with a literary track record, who is currently working on a new project. Deadline 20 August. authors.org.nz/nzsa-peter-d...

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Congratulations to Tracy Farr, NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2024 winner! 'The winning manuscript, Wonderland, is set on Te Motu Kairangi Miramar Peninsula in 1912. Wonderland is about the bliss of youth, the uncertainty of life and the wonder of science.'
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Terrific launch speech for David Coventry’s new novel Performance from Tracey Slaughter at Unity Books tonight!

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I’ve spent this semester thoroughly enjoying the creative non-fiction writing paper and I’m about to head to Welly to hand in my writing portfolio. I can’t recommend this enough for anyone who wants to flex their writing skills!! Get in!!

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Mōrena! Is it time to work on your poetry, short fiction, writing for theatre or world building skills with like-minded writers? Come and join a writing workshop with our amazing teachers in the second half of this year! Applications due 20 June, details here.

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The NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award is a new award established by novelist Tina Shaw to encourage the development of great novels by mid-career fiction New Zealand writers who are working on a new project. Applications close 14 Jul Find out more and apply 👇

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Delighted to be taking part in 'Raise the Roof for Randell Cottage: Letters Live', a fundraising event for Randell Cottage, in Wellington on 15 July, featuring Emily Perkins, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Hinemoana Baker, Anna Fifield and other letter readers.

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There's still time to apply for this residency that allows a New Zealand writer to live and write for three months or more in Menton, southern France, with a grant of $43,000. Could it be you? Deadline 14 June.

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‘Otherhood is a vibrant antithesis to the assumption that only biological motherhood can fulfil a life and a testament to the various connections that shape our lives.’

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'Laurence Fearnley’s latest novel, At The Grand Glacier Hotel, is a tender and beautifully written story about learning to live again....This is New Zealand writing at its best.' - Jackie Lee Morrison (MA22)

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Writers, you could spend a year of writing time in this room with a view if you apply to be the Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington / Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence 2025. Applications open now!
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