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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.
Early in his writing career, Baysting was a journalist with the magazine NZ Listener and published Young New Zealand Poets (1973), an anthology of poetry. [ 2 ] In 1977, Baysting (with Ian Mune ) wrote the screenplay for Roger Donaldson 's feature film Sleeping Dogs , a film credited with kick-starting the modern NZ film industry . [ 3 ]
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.
Alfred Domett (1811–1887), fourth Premier of New Zealand and poet; Robyn Donald (born 1940), romance novelist; Basil Dowling (1910–2000), poet; Melanie Drewery (born 1970), children's author and illustrator; Joan Druett (born 1935), historian and novelist; Alison Edith Hilda Drummond (1903–1984), farmer, historian, writer and editor
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 ...
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[3] [6] While her two daughters were young, she wrote for the New Zealand School Journal, [4] and she has also had work published in the New Zealand Listener. [6] In 1984 she collaborated with children's writer Joy Cowley on the short story collection Two of a Kind. [6] She was the 1993 writer-in-residence at the University of Waikato. [1]