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Writers of Māori descent, some of whose writings are related to Māori culture. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:New Zealand writers . It includes New Zealand writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Wesleyan Writers Conference, Middletown, Connecticut [144] West Coast Writers Conference, July 20–22, 2012, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles [145] White County Creative Writers Conference, Searcy, Arkansas [146] Willamette Writers conference, Willamette Writers' annual conference, first weekend in August, Portland, Oregon [147]
The first private literary award was the biennial Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award, a short-story competition organised by the New Zealand Women Writers' Society and funded by the Bank of New Zealand, which became available in 1959; [91] [92] this award ran until 2015. [93]
Bruce Richard Stewart (5 August 1936 – 28 June 2017) was a New Zealand fiction writer and dramatist of Ngāti Raukawa Te Arawa descent. Stewart's work often expresses the anger, the confused loyalties, and the spiritual aspirations of late-twentieth-century Māori.
The novel tells the story of a Māori family's attempts to preserve their ancestral land and heritage. The term potiki can mean "youngest child" or "last-born child" in te reo Māori (the Māori language), and the title refers to the character of Tokowaru-i-te-Marama (or Toko), a child who foresees and is impacted by the conflict over the land.
Margaret Rose Orbell CNZM (17 July 1935 – 31 July 2006) was a New Zealand author, editor and academic. She was an associate professor of Māori at the University of Canterbury from 1976 to 1994.
Michèle A'Court (born 1961), comedian, memoirist and non-fiction writer; Avis Acres (1910–1994), artist, writer, illustrator and conservationist; Pip Adam (living), fiction writer and reviewer
The Writers Walk featured in a 2015 Spectrum documentary when presenter Jack Perkins explored part of the walk with Rosemary Wildblood, Barbara Murison and Philippa Werry. [ 27 ] In 2017, a project for the Wai-Te-Ata Press at Victoria University of Wellington , called the Literary Atlas of Wellington, was undertaken to create an augmented ...