Give quake-brain the boot and kick start your
writing with a weekend of free workshops from some of the country’s leading
authors, poets and publishers.
Sponsored by Copyright Licensing Ltd and The
New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc), the weekend will include tips to
writing film scripts, how to craft a play, the steps to self-publishing on
Kindle and exploring the hero’s journey.
Event organiser, Jenny Haworth of New Zealand
Society of Authors, says both Copyright Licensing Ltd and The New Zealand
Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) realised the importance of getting Cantabrians
writing again.
“The impact of stress on the creative process
can stop writers in their tracks,” she says. “I’m hearing from writers across
the city that many feel they’ve hit a brick wall and don’t know how to get
started writing again.”
Ms Haworth says the 90-minute workshops will
be a chance for writers to re-boot their creative brain.
“With writing talents such as Gavin Bishop,
Press feature writer Martin Van Beynen and poet Karen Zelas on hand, it will be
a weekend that fires up imaginations and will have Cantabrians putting pen to
paper in no time.
“Best of all, thanks to the sponsorship from
Copyright Licensing Ltd and The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.)
the workshops are all free,” she says.
The workshops will explore the impact of the
earthquakes on creative work and will include writing exercises to stimulate
creativity and the expression of inner emotions.
The line up of presenters includes:
Saturday
26 May
10:15am Kathleen Gallagher
(How to Write a Film Script) or
Kathryn Taylor (Fiction
Writing)
11:45am Gary Henderson (How to Craft a Play – how
to write using the vocabulary of theatre, and translate from prose into
theatre) or Karen Zelas (Writing
Poetry)
1:15pm Gavin Bishop (Making Pictures that Tell
a Story)
1:30pm Jenny Haworth (The Business of Writing
– Planning your work for publication)
2:25pm Jillian Sullivan (The Hero’s Journey –
the importance of archetypes in fiction writing)
Sunday
27 May
10:15am Martin van Beynen (Writing Non-fiction)
11:45am David Roys (How to Self-Publish a
Kindle Novel)
1:30pm Rachel Scott (The World of Publishing)
Where: Community Meeting
Room and Learning Centre Room 3, Upper Riccarton Library, 71 Main
South Rd, Sockburn (check times and venue for Saturday workshops)
When: Saturday, 26 /
Sunday, 27 May from 10:15am
What: Free writing
workshops for Christchurch
writers, new or established. Bring writing materials.
For full programme details, see www.authors.org.nz
Presenter
Bios
Kathryn
Taylor is a freelance developmental editor, multi
e-Published author, has a graduate Diploma in Publishing, and has written
professionally for fifteen years. Her recently published novel The Rajah’s
Chosen Bride is listed as a best-seller on her publisher’s website. She has
received consistently positive reviews for this novel and for her other
publications. Until the February earthquake, Kathryn was the creative writing
tutor (novel writing and script writing) for Aoraki Polytechnic (Christchurch
Campus), where she tutored students studying for a Certificate in Radio,
Television and Presenting. The growth of electronic publishing is of great
interest to Kathryn. She believes this is the way of the future for authors
publishing mainstream and popular fiction. It is her goal is become establish
as an e-published author of high-quality romantic fiction both in New Zealand
and internationally.
Gary
Henderson’s work has been produced around New Zealand , and in South
Africa , Australia ,
Great Britain , the United States and Canada . His most well travelled play is "Skin
Tight" which won a coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in
1998 during a sell-out season at the Traverse Theatre. His recent work includes
"Home Land ,"
for Fortune Theatre in 2004; and "Peninsula ,"
for the Christchurch Arts Festival in 2005, which also played at Court Theatre
and at the Brisbane and Nelson Festivals in 2006. It has recently had a season at Circa Theatre
as part of the 2012 NZ International Arts Festival. "Home Land "
was also produced by Circa Theatre in 2007, and won five Chapman Tripp Theatre
Awards, including Production of the Year, and Best New NZ Play. Gary has written two radio
plays, The Moehau in 2008 - broadcast
by RNZ and five other radio stations around the world - and News Bomb in 2011. Gary
has also taught playwriting at Unitec's Department of Performing and Screen
Arts in Auckland .
Karen
Zelas’ book of poetry, Night’s Glass Table, is the winner of the 2012 IP Picks Best First
Book competition and will be launched in August this year in conjunction with
the Christchurch Writers’ Festival. A former psychiatrist and psychotherapist,
Karen has been Fiction Editor of Takahē for
the last five years. Her poetry has been widely published within New Zealand,
including in Landfall, Poetry New Zealand, Takahē, and broadcast on radio; also Australian ezines Snorkel and Eclecticism and recently blogged by Interlitq (UK). Several anthologies contain her work. She was
editor of Crest to Crest: Impressions of
Canterbury, prose and poetry (Wily Publications, 2009) and her historical
novel Past Perfect [view at www.KarenZelas.com] was published by Wily in
2010 and is about to be republished as an ebook by Interactive Publications.
Gavin
Bishop has published over 40 books that have been
translated into nine languages. He has also written the libretti for children’s
ballets for the Royal New Zealand Ballet as well as scripts for television.
Gavin is widely travelled and has been a guest author and speaker, through
UNESCO, in Japan , China , Indonesia
and the USA .
He was a guest lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996. In 2003
with an Art and Science Collaboration Grant at Canterbury University
he helped produce the world’s first 3-dimensional, animated picture book. His
numerous awards include, among others, the Russell Clark Medal for Illustration
in 1982, 2006, 2008, 2010, NZ Children's Book of the Year 2000, 2003, 2008 and
the Margaret Mahy Medal for Services to Children's Literature 2000.
Jenny
Haworth is both writer and publisher. She is the
managing director of a small publishing company Wily Publications Ltd that
produces around six books a year many of them non-fiction, although fiction is
considered. She has written a number of
non-fiction books including The Art of
War, the story of New Zealand ’s
commissioner World War II artists and Swimming
Upstream, a history of salmon farming in New Zealand . She is currently working on a history of road
transport and also one on the history of the Canterbury Club. She is also the author of three novels and
has made a start on the fourth that tells the story of the New Zealand troops in Italy in World War II. Jenny will
give useful tips on the process of getting published, how to prepare your
manuscript to catch the eye of a publisher, the way ahead for publishing both
fiction and non-fiction and the various assistance available to New Zealand
writers.
Jillian
Sullivan is a short-story writer and novelist, now
living in Central Otago . Her awards include
the Highlights Fiction Award in America
for children’s fiction, the Tom Fitzgibbon Award and Maurice Gee Prize for
Children’s Writing for young adult novels, and recently the Kathleen Grattan
Prize for a Sequence of Poems. Her non-fiction books include Fishing from the
Boat Ramp, a Guide to Creating, and Myths and Legends, the Gift of Stories from
Our Cultures. She teaches Writing for Children for Massey University and will
be teaching the Hero’s Journey to writers in America this June for the
Highlights Foundation. For more information on Jillian visit, jilliansullivan.co.nz
Martin
van Beynen has worked for The Press for over two in
different roles graduating from court and justice reporter to deputy chief
reporter and senior writer. He has completed a number of major investigative
projects, one of which revealed corruption within the school building tenders
system in New Zealand. He has exposed many white collar crime schemes and
doggedly pursued a number of shonky business people. He also covered the David
Bain retrial for Fairfax Media and won wide acclaim for a powerful piece saying
why the jury had made a terrible mistake. Martin came to journalism after
completing a law degree at Auckland University and several stints in business.
He has a weekly column that appears in both The Press and the Waikato Times.
David
Roys has written two books about computers - a
552-page technical reference manual which he co-authored in 2009 with a man
from Croatia, a man who he still hasn’t met, and, the second, a thriller about
a programmer who gets accused of murdering his research assistant. David’s
thriller, Coding Isis, was self-published using Amazon’s Kindle Direct in
February 2012 and sold over 700 copies in the first three months. David will
talk about his experiences of the digital print revolution and show how easy it
is to prepare and publish e-books on
Amazon.com and print-on-demand paperbacks with no upfront costs.
Rachel
Scott is the Canterbury University Press publisher
and has nearly 20 years experience in the book industry, including over 12 as a
freelance editor working for Canterbury University Press, Random House and
Penguin. Rachel has also worked as a sub-editor at the New Zealand Listener,
the National Business Review and the Press, as well as sub-editing tutor for
University of Canterbury Graduate Diploma in Journalism students.
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