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The Guild's members include most of the professional script writers working in New Zealand. There were 517 registered members of the Guild as of 2 November 2016. The Guild was founded in 1975. [citation needed] It was initially established to set minimum rates and conditions for writers working in television. It has expanded to encompass all ...
The Michael King Writers Centre is a writing centre on the slope of Takarunga / Mount Victoria in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand, which offers residencies to early career and experienced writers. It was established in 2005 in honour of New Zealand historian Michael King .
M. Finlay Macdonald (editor) John MacGregor (New Zealand politician) Sam Mahon; Hamuera Tamahau Mahupuku; Purakau Maika; Frederick Edward Maning; Guy Mannering (mountaineer)
The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN New Zealand Inc.) promotes and protects the interests of New Zealand writers. It was founded as the New Zealand PEN Centre (Poets, Essays and Novelists) in 1934. [1] It broadened its scope and became the New Zealand Society of Authors in 1994, [2] under the presidency of writer Philip Temple. There are ...
The International Writers' Guild was founded in 1966 by unions from the United Kingdom, United States, and Yugoslavia. It gradually grew, but in 1986 it was replaced by the "International Affiliation of Writers' Guilds", with its founding members all being in English-speaking countries.
Initially undergraduate courses were offered, and a master's degree programme (New Zealand's first master's degree in creative writing) was introduced in 1997. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Manhire's courses involved setting writing exercises to allow students to get to know each other's work and become comfortable giving and receiving feedback, followed ...
Violet May Cottrell (1887–1971), writer, poet and spiritualist; James Courage (1903–1963), fiction writer, poet and bookseller; David Coventry (born 1969), novelist and musician; Winston Cowie (born 1982), novelist and historian; Joy Cowley (born 1936), author of children's fiction; Rachael Craw (living), novelist and teacher
Promoted (as of 2021) as "New Zealand's richest short story prize, sponsored by the University of Waikato. Named for celebrated New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson, the Prize was conceived by writer Catherine Chidgey, who also lectures in Writing Studies at the University." There are Open and Secondary School divisions.