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The New Zealand Writers Guild (NZWG) is a New Zealand trade union which represents writers in the fields of film, television, radio, theatre, video and multi-media. The guild's name in Māori language is Puni Taatuhi o Aotearoa. It provides services, events, networks, lobbying, and legal advice to writers mostly in the film and television industry.
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.
McGee became a founder of the Screenworks TV production company, a member of the New Zealand Film Council and a past President of the New Zealand Writers Guild. He admitted in 2011 to being the pseudonymous writer Alix Bosco who has written two highly successful crime novels, one of which won the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime in 2010.
In 2007, Gardiner began co-presenting Iti Pounamu, a Māori Television series showcasing New Zealand short films. [3] In 2009 Gardiner wrote and directed Mokopuna , a short film about a part-Māori girl who struggles to embrace her roots; the film won the best short film award at the Canadian indigenous film festival Dreamspeakers. [ 2 ]
At the memorial service for historian and writer Michael King in 2004, Gordon McLauchlan suggested that a writers' centre in King's name should be set up. [8] The centre was established through a charitable trust; together with McLauchlan, founding trustees included Christine Cole Catley, [9] Witi Ihimaera and Geoff Chapple.
New Zealand radio writers (1 P) S. New Zealand screenwriters (4 C, 67 P) New Zealand short story writers (3 C, 2 P) New Zealand songwriters (8 C, 1 P) T.
Police are searching for a burglar who stole more than £10 million ($12.5 million) worth of bespoke jewelry in north-west London in what is thought to be one of the biggest thefts from a British ...
Keri Kaa (1942–2020), writer, educator and advocate of Māori language; Kuni Kaa Jenkins, writer, research and educationalist; Simone Kaho (born 1978), poet; Amy Kane (1879–1979), journalist and community leader; Angelique Kasmara (living), novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer, editor and translator