Whitireia Creative Writing Programme

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Member for: 10 years 6 months

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Become part of New Zealand's writing landscape. Write part-time, full-time, online, on-campus, for personal goals, publication, degree or diploma. We are based in Dixon St, Wellington.

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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’.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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John Summers talks to students about The Mermaid Boy

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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

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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.

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When writing's your happy place

When writing’s your happy place

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The Shark Party

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Mandy Hager on her Menton experience

Writer Mandy Hager has recently returned from France after six months as the Katherine Mansfield Fellow at Menton. She is best known as a young adult novelist, and teaches on the Whitireia Creative Wr

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Launching new imprint & celebrating 20 years

The Whitireia Creative Writing Programme celebrated three significant events this week: 20 years of teaching creative writing, the establishment of an exciting new imprint (Escalator Press) and the la