Creative Writing in New Zealand
Author: John Cowie Reid
Publisher:
Published: 1946
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13:
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to Z of Creative Writing Methods
Author: Deborah Wardle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-10-20
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1350184233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe A to Z of Creative Writing Methods is an alphabetical collection of essays to prompt consideration of method within creative writing research and practice. Almost sixty contributors from a range of writing traditions and across multiple forms and genre are represented in this volume: from poets, essayists, novelists and performance writers, to graphic novelists, illustrators, and those engaged in multi-media writing or writing-related arts activism. Contributors bring to this collection their distinct and diverse literary and cultural contexts, defining, expanding and enacting the methods they describe, and providing new possibilities for creative writing practice. Accessible and provocative, A to Z of Creative Writing Methods lays bare new developments and directions in the field, making it an invaluable resource for the teachers, research students and scholar-practitioners in the field of creative writing studies.
Creative Writing
Author: Graeme Harper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-08-28
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1137609575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis stimulating edited collection focuses on the practice of revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to the modes and methods of drafting, revising and editing. Offering an overview of how creative writing is generated and improved, the chapters address questions of how creative writers revise, why editing is such a crucial part of the creative process and how understanding the theories underpinning revision can enhance writers' projects. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of creative writing, along with all creative writers looking to hone and polish their craft.
A Clear Dawn
Author: Alison Wong
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-13
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781869409470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark anthology of creative work - poetry, fiction and essays - by emerging Asian New Zealand writers.This landmark collection of poetry, fiction and essays by emerging writers is the first-ever anthology of Asian New Zealand creative writing.A Clear Dawn presents an extraordinary new wave of creative talent. With roots stretching from Indonesia to Japan, from China to the Philippines to the Indian subcontinent, the authors in this anthology range from high school students to retirees, from recent immigrants to writers whose families have lived in New Zealand for generations.Some of the writers - including Gregory Kan, Sharon Lam, Rose Lu and Chris Tse - have published books; some, like Mustaq Missouri, Aiwa Pooamorn and Gemishka Chetty, are better known for their work in theatre and performance. For many, A Clear Dawn is their first-ever print publication.The 75 writers explore the full range of human experience: from the rituals of food and family to sexual politics; from issues around displacement and identity to teen suicide and revenge attacks; from political chicanery?to?social activism to?childhood misadventures. Funerals, affairs, accidents, friendships, crimes, jealousy, small victories, devastating losses, transcendent moments: all are here. With its diverse voices, styles and points of view, A Clear Dawn maps a new literature of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Creative Writing and Education
Author: Graeme Harper
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2015-04-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1783093552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores creative writing and its various relationships to education through a number of short, evocative chapters written by key players in the field. At times controversial, the book presents issues, ideas and pedagogic practices related to creative writing in and around education, with a focus on higher education. The volume aims to give the reader a sense of contemporary thinking and to provide some alternative points of view, offering examples of how those involved feel about the relationship between creative writing and education. Many of the contributors play notable roles in national and international organizations concerned with creative writing and education. The book also includes a Foreword by Philip Gross, who won the 2009 TS Eliot Prize for poetry.
All Who Live on Islands
Author: Rose Lu
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 2021-02-16
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1776562682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate and entertaining essays, Rose Lu takes us through personal history—a shopping trip with her Shanghai-born grandparents, her career in the Wellington tech industry, an epic hike through the Himalayas—to explore friendship, the weight of stories told and not told about diverse cultures, and the reverberations of our parents' and grandparents' choices. Frank and compassionate, Rose Lu's stories illuminate the cultural and linguistic questions that migrants face, as well as what it is to be a young person living in 21st-century Aotearoa New Zealand.
Book & Print in New Zealand
Author: Douglas Ross Harvey
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780864733313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to print culture in Aotearoa, the impact of the book and other forms of print on New Zealand. This collection of essays by many contributors looks at the effect of print on Maori and their oral traditions, printing, publishing, bookselling, libraries, buying and collecting, readers and reading, awards, and the print culture of many other language groups in New Zealand.
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
Author: J. Ross
Publisher: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
Published: 2019-03-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780995102965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the work of talented newcomers as well as that of established leaders in the field. This issue features the winning entries in the Poetry New Zealand Poetry Prize and the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition, as well as 126 poems by 101 poets, including Michele Leggott, Emma Neale, Bob Orr, Vaughan Rapatahana, Elizabeth Smither, and many others. Issue #53 also features essays by Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod, Jessica Pawley and Erena Shingade, as well as reviews of 22 new poetry books"--Back cover
Murderabilia
Author: Craig Robertson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-09-08
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1471156605
DOWNLOAD EBOOK*** LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2017 *** *** LONGLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2017 *** 'I can't recommend this book highly enough' MARTINA COLE The first commuter train of the morning slowly rumbles away from platform seven of Queen St station. And then, as the train emerges from a tunnel, the screaming starts. Hanging from the bridge ahead of them is a body. Placed neatly on the ground below him are the victim's clothes. Why? Detective Inspector Narey is assigned the case and then just as quickly taken off it again. Winter, now a journalist, must pursue the case for her. The line of questioning centres around the victim's clothes - why leave them in full view? And what did the killer not leave, and where might it appear again? Everyone has a hobby. Some people collect death. To find this evil, Narey must go on to the dark web, and into immense danger ... 'Takes the reader on a wickedly entertaining ride through a fascinatingly sinister world'Sunday Mirror 'Brace yourself to be horrified and hooked' EVA DOLAN 'Fantastic characterisation, great plotting, page-turning and gripping. The best kind of intelligent and moving crime fiction writing' LUCA VESTE 'Really enjoyed Murderabilia - disturbing, inventive, and powerfully and stylishly written. Recommended' STEVE MOSBY
The Ice Shelf
Author: Anne Kennedy
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 2019-03-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1776562496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe?Ice?Shelf:?an?eco-comedyOn the eve of flying to Antarctica to take up an arts fellowship, thirty-something Janice, recently separated, has a long night of remembrance, regret and realisation as she goes about the city looking for a friend to take care of her fridge while she's away. En route she discards section after section of her manuscript in the spirit of editing The Ice Shelf into a stronger, sleeker work of literature.The Ice Shelf is an electrifying allegory for the dangers of wasting love and other non-renewable resources.
