The Divine Muses
6 Jun 2019 1:01 PM (5 years ago)
The Divine Muses
invites entries for NEW VOICES – Emerging poets
competition 2019
CLOSING DATE: 2 AUGUST 2019
Results to be announced at Divine Muses Poetry Reading
on National Poetry Day, 23 August 2019.
Judge - Poet & Editor, Elizabeth Welsh
First Prize: $200 in Unity Book’s book tokens
Second Prize: $100 in Unity Book’s book tokens
The
competition is open only to writers considered ‘emerging’ i.e. have not
published one or more books (fiction, poetry, nonfiction) with a New Zealand or
overseas publisher, and is a current or former undergraduate (BA, Hons, BSc,
BComm etc) or Masters student attending The University of Auckland, Auckland
University of Technology, Manukau Institute of Technology and Massey University
(Albany Campus, Auckland only) or student or graduate of Blue Haven Writers
Workshops.
Either opt to print the
entry form and then choose save as a PDF or export as a PDF. When you open the
PDF click on edit and then in the header section select “T add Text” and fill
in the form, save and email your entry as per instructions provided.
This year’s Divine Muses Reading and the announcement
of the winners will be held at the Central Library, Auckland CBD.
We are delighted to announce Elizabeth
Welsh the winner of 2012 NEW VOICES – Emerging Poets Competition as this year’s
Judge.
Elizabeth’s debut poetry collection, Over There a Mountain, was published by Makora Press in 2018.
For further details contact either
Two honorary doctorates to be awarded in May
Two Otago Alumni will be conferred with honorary
doctorates at May graduation ceremonies next month.
Hon Justice Forrest Miller
Honourable Justice Forrest (Forrie) Miller’s contribution to the
modernisation of New Zealand’s court systems will be recognised when he
receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Otago at its
18 May graduation ceremony.
Born in South Otago in 1956, Justice Miller gained a Bachelor of
Arts (History) from Otago in 1978 and an LLB with honours in 1981.
After his studies he worked in Alexandra for Bodkins Solicitors
and in the mid-1980s moved to Wellington to join Chapman Tripp, where he worked
in a range of general practice areas, including commercial and public law
litigation (specialising in securities) and regulatory and competition law. He
became a partner at the firm in 1987.
He was appointed to the High Court of New Zealand in 2004, and to
the Court of Appeal in 2013.
In 2013 he also became one of the first New Zealanders to receive
the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Award for Excellence.
The award jury recognised his efforts establishing the Earthquake
Commission list, created in 2011, which was aimed at reducing the burden on the
courts system by dealing with cases efficiently in the wake of the Christchurch
earthquakes. All case-managed
conferences – where judges and lawyers meet before the litigation process to
resolve differences – were managed by Justice Miller until his appointment to
the Court of Appeal in 2013.
Before his appointment to the Court of
Appeal the Judge was heavily involved in reforms which reducing waiting lists
for civil hearings in the High Court.
Justice Miller has been
instrumental in developing electronic casebooks, which are now routinely used
for hearings in the Court of Appeal. He chairs the Judicial
Reference Group, which is a cross-bench committee working with the Ministry of
Justice to modernise the court system
by, among other things, developing an electronic filing and case
management system for all New Zealand courts.
He also chairs the Judicial Libraries Management Board, which
exercises governance responsibilities over the quality of judicial libraries.
The Board’s current focus is on improving judges' access to electronic
resources, to ensure they have access to important works from the judicial
library.
Justice Miller has maintained strong links with the University’s
Faculty of Law and has often returns to Otago to judge student competitions. He
has also engaged with research in the Faculty, including a 2018 Legal Issues
Centre report on delays in the High Court to which he contributed feedback and
expertise.
He has also served as chairman of Unison Networks Ltd, the
electricity distributor for the Hawke’s Bay, Rotorua and Taupo regions, and as
a Wellington Girls’ College Board of Trustees member.
• Sat
18 May graduation ceremony at 4 pm (Commerce and Law) Justice Forrest Miller,
Court of Appeal, Hon LLD
Bridget Williams
Bridget
Williams, the founder of New Zealand’s leading specialist non-fiction press and
alumna of the University of Otago, will receive an honorary Doctorate of
Literature on 18 May.
Bridget
Williams (ONZM MBE) is considered a hugely influential figure in New Zealand
letters and publishing, and an outstanding graduate of the University of Otago,
where she completed a Bachelor of Arts.
Her
initial foray into intellectual life was in Oxford as a research assistant to
literary scholars Dame Helen Gardner and Richard Ellmann. After a stint at
Oxford University Press in the United Kingdom, Ms Williams returned to New Zealand
in 1976. She worked initially for the New Zealand branch of Oxford University
Press, where she helped shape what would become the Oxford History of New
Zealand, a volume that marked the coming of age of New Zealand historical
scholarship.
In 1981,
she struck out into independent publishing, founding Port Nicholson Press in
Wellington. Taking this small New Zealand firm into multi-national ownership
with Allen & Unwin Australia in the mid-1980s, Ms Williams became the
managing director of Allen & Unwin New Zealand. In that capacity, she established a
publishing partnership with the multi-volume Dictionary of New Zealand
Biography as well as important scholarly works such as Claudia Orange’s The
Treaty of Waitangi. In these years
too, her publishing reflected the new engagement with feminist writing, and she
had a key role in establishing the nationwide Listener Women’s Book Festival.
In 1990
she established Bridget Williams Books, a press that has risen to become New
Zealand’s leading specialist non-fiction press. She has worked with New
Zealand’s leading social scientists and humanities scholars, producing a large
number of award-winning volumes.
Significant amongst these has been a commitment to works on Maori
history, with the landmark Tangata Whenua:
An Illustrated History by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris
published to acclaim in 2014. In recent
years the BWB Texts Series – short, moderately-priced volumes – have catalysed
public debate over a range of pressing cultural and political issues.
Hugely
respected in the world of publishing, Bridget Williams has played an integral
role in facilitating public conversations in New Zealand, its history, identity
and politics, she has been extremely influential in shaping New Zealand intellectual
life and cultural debate.
Sat 18 May
graduation ceremony at 1 pm (Humanities) Bridget Williams, Publisher, Hon LittD
Publishers Lunch
22 Apr 2019 7:57 PM (5 years ago)
Stephen
Brayda will join the Harper One Group on
April 24 as art director for Harper Via, Amistad and Harper Espanol, reporting
to Judith Curr. He was previously with Riverhead.
Director of events at Copperfield's Books Barbara Lane debuts a column
for the San Francisco
Chronicle, Chapters and Verse, where she will "discuss
what I love about the literary world, often focusing on our rich Northern
California scene, personalities, trends, controversies and more."
Forthcoming
As agent Esther Newberg had indicated
in an interview a year ago, the unfinished memoir by the late Prince Rogers Nelson
will be published
October 29 by Random House, still listed as a Spiegel & Grau book even
though that imprint was recently discontinued. The portion Prince had already
written, "pages that brings us into Prince’s childhood world through his
own lyrical prose," comprises the first of four parts. The rest of the
book features "a scrapbook of Prince's writing and photos," another
set of images showing his evolution, and "his original handwritten treatment
for Purple Rain." New Yorker writer Dan Piepenbring, whom Prince had
selected as a collaborator for the book, writes an introduction.
Bookselling
The Barnes
& Noble in the Virginia Beach, VA's Town Center will close
for renovation on April 28, reopening in late fall. The renovation will include
a redesigned children's section and a space for author visits, based on
"one of Barnes & Noble's latest prototypes."
In Daytona Beach,
FL, the company opened
a new 15,000-square-foot store at Tomoka Town Center, their 11th new format
store. It replaces their store on W. International Speedway.
Separately, BN also announced its Discover
Great New Writers list for summer.
Horowhenua author, Carole Brungar, has won a gold
medal for her third novel, The Nam Shadow, in the internationally
acclaimed Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Brungar’s novel won first place in the Australia/New
Zealand/Pacific Rim category.
The
Independent Publisher Book Awards, known as the IPPY Awards, were established
in 1996 to recognise excellence in independent publishing worldwide and reward
those who exhibit the courage, innovation, and creativity to bring about change
in the world of publishing.
Each year the awards are intended to reward exemplary
books from among independently owned and operated publishers, foundation or
university presses and independent publishers who publish less than fifty
titles per year.
The Nam Shadow
is the second Vietnam novel in a series by the Levin author. It follows on from
The Nam Legacy, also an award winning novel. The novels
explore the lives of New Zealanders before, during and after the Vietnam War.
Where The Nam Legacy focused on the
affects of PTSD, The Nam Shadow highlights the consequences of
exposure to Agent Orange and other chemicals used during the Vietnam war.
“There aren’t many New Zealand stories that are set
around the Vietnam War, or that explore the consequences of the war,” Carole
said. “I would like to think that those men and women who went to Vietnam and
their experiences as a consequence, are not forgotten.”
The Nam Shadow is available from bookstores across New
Zealand or the author’s website, carolebrungar.com
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W H Smith plans to cull its backlist and build areas of
growth such as children's and lighter readers with a
"forensic store by store focus on space management to optimise the
returns from core categories".
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Dame Helena Morrissey challenged trade leaders over key
aspects of their diversity strategies, as the Publishers Association's
new president Peter Phillips laid out his aims for the year.
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HarperCollins insists it will publish David Cameron's
memoir this autumn as planned, amid reports the former prime minister
is pushing back publication due to a promise he made to Theresa May.
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A record number of shops closed in Britain last year with
16 stores closing a day, but bookshops are bucking the trend.
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The "boomerang" nature of time was discussed at
the Vintage for Change evening, along with teen revolution and the
sensibilities of sexbots, as Jeanette Winterson and six other authors
considered the “turbulent times” of present day.
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Cambridge University Press has entered into a three-year
transformative agreement with the University of California (UC), in
what is said to be UC's first such partnership with a major publisher.
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Bertelsmann plans to close its Nuremberg printing site by
April 2021, and has begun immediate talks with employee
representatives, with around 670 permanent staffers and 250 contract
workers affected.
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Grazia has run its last dedicated
books page, 'Shelf Life', under books editor Alexandra Heminsley, after
a redesign.
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Jasmine Richards, formerly a publisher at Oxford
University Press (OUP), has launched a fiction development company to
create inclusive stories for children.
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The Roald Dahl Story Company has hired Katie Price,
currently director of licensing at Hachette Children’s Group, as its
new head of books.
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Seven Dials has scooped the “extraordinary” memoir of
veteran "Our Planet" and "Blue Planet 2" filmmaker
Gavin Thurston, with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough.
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Headline Home has snapped-up a cookbook by chef and
YouTuber Ian Haste at auction, featuring recipes based on weekly
shopping lists.
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Once described as “our county's leading writer in this field”*,
Christchurch sci-fi writer Ged Maybury effectively disappeared after 15 years
and 12 successful children's books – two of which made the finals of the NZ
Children's Book of the Year Awards (1994, 2001).
Now he is back with his most ambitious project to date: a
six-book / 800,000-word Steampunk series set upon a bizarre “alt-Earth” where
Britain is a vast mat of hovering “skylands”, America is still a British
colony, and steamships have more in common with flying saucers than anything
else.
Drawing upon a long apprenticeship of producing well-polished
best-sellers for Scholastic, Harper Collins and Cape Catley, he now turns up
the steam (and the adult content) on a multitude of delightfully detailed
fantasy/steampunk settings riddled with mad scientists, villains, dangerous
and/or attractive antagonists and a sad series of intense (sometimes steamy)
love affairs.
'Across the Stonewind Sky' is the series title and each book
advances our straight-laced British hero deeper into various kinds of steaming
do-do the moment he flies into a curious zone called The Storm's Domain
– where airships rule, and Britain doesn't. It's the Victorian era writ large,
but it's not just a man's world. Rodney is constantly thrown into the company
of a series of competent purposeful women, some of them … how to say this: 'are
on the villain spectrum'. Maybury has already earned praise for his female
characters.
The first two books; 'Across the Stonewind Sky'** & 'Into
the Heart of Varste' are now available at:
As an re-introductory offer, he has priced Book One at $0.00.
Book Two at the normal price of $2.99. Book Three: “Hoverrim the Hunted” is due
out in early June. A digital edition only.
Books 4, 5 & 6 should all be out by the end of 2019 with a
second series planned.
* “He is our county's
leading writer in this field, and with 'The Triggerstone' he's at his best”
– William Taylor, cira 1994.
** Originally released
2014 as “Into the Storm's Domain” by now-defunct Satalyte Books. Print-edition
paperbacks can still be found. Already a rare book.
INTERNATIONAL WRITERS' WORKSHOP NZ INC
PO Box 36652, Northcote, Auckland, 0748
iww.co.nz
Press Release 5 April 2019
Renowned Professor to judge $1000 poetry prize
International Writers' Workshop NZ Inc (IWW) is delighted to announce that
Professor Bryan Walpert, who teaches English and Creative Writing at Massey
University in Auckland and was a co-judge of the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book
Awards Poetry Award, will judge The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems
later this year.
The prize of $1000, which is made possible due to an ongoing bequest from the
Jocelyn Grattan Charitable Trust, is for a cycle or sequence of unpublished poems
that has a common link or theme.
This is the eleventh year IWW has had the honour of organising the Prize.
Previous winners are Heather Bauchop (2018), Janet Newman (2017), Michael
Giacon (2016) Maris O’Rourke (2015), Julie Ryan (2014), Belinda Diepenheim
(2013), James Norcliffe (2012), Jillian Sullivan (2011) Janet Charman and Rosetta
Allan (joint winners 2010) and Alice Hooton (2009).
The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems is sometimes referred to as the
'Little Grattan' as the Jocelyn Grattan Charitable Trust also funds the biennial
Kathleen Grattan Award, run by Landfall / Otago University Press.
The competition is free for IWW members to enter but it is very easy for aspiring
poets and writers to join IWW to be eligible to enter their poetry into the Prize.
About the Judge
Professor Walpert is the author of three
collections of poetry, Etymology (Cinnamon
Press), A History of Glass (Stephen F. Austin
State UP), and most recently Native Bird
(Makaro Press); a collection of short fiction,
Ephraim’s Eyes; and two scholarly books: Poetry
and Mindfulness: Interruption to a Journey
(Palgrave 2017) and Resistance to Science in
Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge 2011).
His work has appeared in many countries and
has been recognised by the Montreal
International Poetry Award, the New Zealand
International Poetry Competition and the James
Wright Poetry Award (U.S.).
His website is bryanwalpert.com.
Preparatory Workshop
Professor Walpert will conduct a workshop on Writing Poetry Sequences at IWW’s
meeting venue, the Lindisfarne Room under St Aidans Church, 97 Onewa Road,
Northcote, Auckland on Tuesday 21 May. Doors open at 10 am and the workshop
runs from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm.
While the competition is restricted to IWW members, visitors are welcome to attend
the workshop for a $10 visitor fee. Any visitor who attends the workshop and joins
IWW by the third Tuesday in June will be eligible to enter The Kathleen Grattan
Prize for a Sequence of Poems and will have the visitor fee deducted from their
joining fee.
About the Competition and about IWW
The rules for the competition, details of how to join IWW, meeting times and other
activities of the workshop, which meets on the first and third Tuesdays of the
month from February to November and runs several competitions a year, are
available from the IWW website: iww.co.nz.
Key Dates for The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems in 2019
21 May: Workshop with Professor Bryan Walpert on writing poetry sequences.
18 June: Last day for new members to join IWW to be eligible to enter this year’s
Prize.
1 October: Closing date for entries.
19 November: Announcement of the 2019 winner of The Kathleen Grattan Prize for
a Sequence of Poems.
Contact
For further information about the Prize or about IWW in general, contact Sue
Courtney, email iww-writers@outlook.com or check out our website iww.co.nz
Kia ora
organisers, poets, librarians, teachers, book clubs, creatives and lovers of
poetry.
It is with
heavy hearts we contact you in the wake of such terrible events. We can only
hope you are determined, like us, to promote and rejoice in ALL New Zealand
voices, louder than ever. As poet, Paula Green says, “poetry connects us to human experience, to how we live and
love and mourn. It is a window, it is a balm and it is an eye-opener. This
is a time to reach out and make connections, to listen.”
Welcome to Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day, 23 August 2019.
Registrations are open.
Returning
2018 organisers:
Last year was huge – let’s do it again!
To those
returning after a break: Welcome back.
To the
newcomers: Phantom
Billstickers National Poetry Day is an annual celebration of the power of
poetry – in all its manifestations. Open to all ages, it is a chance to make
poetry accessible, inclusive, and to showcase how extraordinary it can be.
Events, activities or competitions can be large or small, from handing out free
poems, making a Poet-Tree, or chalking on pavements, to larger-scale events
such as workshops, readings with guest poets and book launches. At every level,
Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day is a chance to make poetry soar.
Registrations and applications for seed-funding remain open until
5pm, Wednesday 22 May 2019.
Visit our website
for more information on how to register and/or apply for seed-funding, how to
run an event, and for general guidelines and templates here.
Or you can
follow this link straight to our …
We look
forward to unleashing the power of poetry across Aotearoa and beyond on
Friday, 23 August 2019.
(PS: PLEASE DON’T REPLY ON THIS MASS EMAIL)
If
you have any queries, reply on a separate thread to: National Administrator | Jacqui
Hammond | poetryday@nzbookawards.org.nz. Otherwise we look forward to receiving your
registration!
If you’d like to
read the (full) poignant poem Paula Green was compelled to write in the wake of
the events of 15.3.19, you can find it on her NZ Poetry Shelf blog here.
Sarah Thornton
Thornton Communications Ltd
PO Box 31954, Milford,
Auckland 0741
M: 021 753 744
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18 March 2019
NZ
Booklovers Awards 2019 Winners Announced
Fiona
Kidman, Jo Seagar and Kimberly Andrews are winners in the inaugural
NZ Booklovers Awards announced today.
‘These are books that all families in New Zealand will enjoy,’ says
NZ Booklovers Director Karen McMillan. ‘Between the three winners,
there is a novel that is an excellent piece of storytelling that
takes the reader back in time to New Zealand in the 1950s, a
lifestyle book that will be used repeatedly for family
celebrations, and a children’s book that is likely to become a
favourite and foster a love of reading.’
This Mortal
Boy
by Fiona wins the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction Book
2019.
The judges say, ‘This novel is a portrayal of a real event in New
Zealand, one of the last times the death penalty was invoked. Set
in the 1950s, the social climate of the time is beautifully
portrayed – conservative, prejudiced against immigrants, and
suffering from an upsurge in juvenile delinquency. It is very easy
to engage with the characters, especially the central figure,
Arthur Black. In 1950s Auckland Arthur’s unfortunate liaisons lead
him to a situation which gets out of control. Is he a victim of
prejudice and a miscarriage of justice? A well-crafted story that
perfectly fits our brief of a book that celebrates the best in
storytelling, a book we couldn’t put down.’
Better than a
Bought One
by Jo Seagar wins the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Lifestyle Book
2019.
The judges say, ‘Better
than a Bought One is not a regular recipe book – it is
a valuable addition to any Kiwi home! This is New Zealand’s beloved
cook Jo Seagar’s best book yet. Sharing her love of entertaining,
Jo inspires readers to celebrate life’s milestones at home. Her
focus is on easy, economical ideas to mark everything from
birthdays, backyard weddings, baby showers and other life
celebrations to Matariki and a casual Kiwi Christmas. Jo deftly
shows readers how to create special occasions with minimal effort
and maximum impact. Jo’s trademark writing is accompanied by
intoxicating photography that ensures readers will repeatedly refer
to the book for memorable ideas. A highly pleasurable read that
hits our criteria of a book that enriches people’s everyday lives.’
Puffin the
Architect
by Kimberly Andrews wins the NZ Booklovers Award for Best
Children’s Book 2019.
The judges say, ‘As Puffin the Architect leads her
difficult-to-please clients through her past designs – the homes
she has planned for Platypus the Baker, Painter Goose and Pilot
Moose, amongst others – they see and hear about her wonderful
creations, but none are right for them. What is required is a
cottage specifically designed for puffins, and “a home built by the
sea” is underway. A detail with special appeal that comes at the
end of the story is that the architect is their mum. Cleverly
written in verse and with wonderfully detailed illustrations, this
is a great read-aloud book and one that children will also enjoy
reading alone for both the intricacies of the drawings and the
ideas of planning a “custom-built” house. A picture book which can
be read over many times and used as a creative discussion point for
children’s own choices about house designs, Puffin the Architect
has a richness, depth and complexity of concepts that will appeal
to kids over a wide range of ages.’
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Entries for the NZ Booklovers Awards 2020 are
already open at www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/awards
‘We are passionate about supporting the many talented authors we
have in New Zealand, so we are delighted to be offering the NZ
Booklovers Awards for a second year,’ says Karen McMillan. ‘We
welcome traditionally published authors and self-published authors
to submit their books throughout the year. This year we were
delighted to see a mix of well-known names and new talent and trust
we will see a similar variety for the 2020 Awards.’
Judges
The Best Adult Fiction Book Award is judged by writer and literary
editor Marcus
Hobson, publishing professional Rachel White,
and NZ Booklovers Director and author Karen McMillan.
The Best Lifestyle Book Award is judged by journalist and author Andrea Molloy,
NZ Booklovers Director and author Karen McMillan, and publisher,
home renovator and foodie Iain
McKenzie.
The Best Children’s Book Award is judged by author and creative
writing teacher Paddy
Richardson, editor and writer Heidi North,
and early childhood kaiako and journalist Rebekah Fraser.
About
NZ Booklovers
NZ Booklovers is an online home for books and for those who enjoy
reading them. It is a bookworms’ hub, dedicated to bringing New
Zealanders everything they need to know about reading and the world
of literature. Working alongside publishers, NZ Booklovers
showcases both New Zealand and international titles. It provides a
platform for sharing articles, author interviews, reviews, and
book-related stories, as well as book news, competitions, and
reading and writing advice.
Director Karen McMillan heads up a talented team of contributors
and reviewers, fellow readers and writers who are passionate about
books and who believe books inspire and enhance people’s lives. The
NZ Booklovers Awards are the brainchild of Karen McMillan, with the
aim of supporting the local publishing community and New Zealand
authors.
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Q. What constitutes Special Collections?
A. The entire book
and manuscript collection within Special Collections, University of Otago
Library, numbers some 28,000 items. The topics and formats are wide, ranging
from medieval manuscripts, early printed pre-1501 books, and 18th century
travel accounts, to scientific expedition reports, pulp and science fiction,
and limited edition private press publications. Some of the books and
manuscripts have been generously gifted to Special Collections; some have been
made on site; others have been purchased over time.
For
the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections is an exhibition that offers a very selective overview of
all the types of materials within Special Collections. It highlights the type
of books amassed by collectors such as Willi Fels, Esmond de Beer, Charles
Brasch, and the Rev. William Arderne Shoults, as well as those discrete
collections such as the Scientific Expedition Reports, and the Pulp Fiction
Collection. In essence, the exhibition is a taster. A brief but illuminating
glimpse into what makes up Special Collections. And in 2019, on the
sesquicentennial (150 years) celebrations of the establishment of the
University of Otago, it is fitting to acknowledge the generosity of both past
and recent benefactors to Special Collections. Importantly, we encourage use,
and it is pleasing to acknowledge that the different collections that form
Special Collections are used regularly by students and staff of the University,
by national and international scholars, and by individuals from the wider
community.
Special Collections is a treasure trove, and the books and
manuscripts on display highlight just some of the delights that are in Special
Collections. There are some real strengths; others tantalise. Collectors and
collections represented include the John Evelyn and John Locke Collections
amassed by Esmond de Beer; the Italian books collected by Willi Fels; the
Charles Brasch Collection of some 7,200 books; the ecclesiastical books owned
by the Rev.William Arderne Shoults; the James Hogg Collection from the Gilkison
family; the Truby King ‘Melrose’ Library; Professor Fastier’s Science Fiction,
and Hal Salive’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Collections. And much, much more.
All are welcome.
A
great library contains the diary of the human race. - G. Dawson
Exhibition
Times: 22 March to 14 June 2019
Venue: de Beer
Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central Library, University
of Otago
Hours: 8.30 am to
5.00 pm, Monday to Friday
Phone:
03-479-8330
Illustrations
can be supplied for media purposes
Publishers Lunch
12 Mar 2019 1:52 PM (6 years ago)
Thames
& Hudson's publishing director Sophy
Thompson will be promoted to ceo and publisher as of April 12,
when Rolf Grisebach departs.
Anne Speyer has
been promoted to senior editor at Ballantine Bantam Dell.
Nichole Argyres
has been promoted to senior publishing manager, St. Martin's publishing group.
At Tom Doherty Associates, Megan
Barnard has been promoted to adpromo assistant creative
director; Julia Bergen
has been promoted to adpromo associate marketing manager; and Kristin Temple has
been promoted to assistant editor.
Maria Gomez has
been promoted to executive editor at Montlake Romance.
At
Chronicle Books, Aubrey
Rojas has joined as social media manager, adult trade.
Previously, she worked in integrated marketing at Gymboree. Julia Patrick
has been promoted to editor, entertainment, and Sahara Clement has been promoted to
assistant editor, entertainment.
The Book
Industry Study Group has nominated Andrew Savikas of
getAbstract US to serve as chair, starting July 1. Also nominated
for two-year board positions are: Andrea
Fleck-Nisbet, Ingram Content Group; David Hetherington,
knk Software; Dan Kok,
Crossway; Kempton
Mooney, NPD Group; and Patricia
Simoes, Rakuten Kobo.
Bookselling
Micawber's Books in St. Paul is closing
for good on April 14, after owner Tom Bielenberg slipped on ice and badly
injured himself. Bielenberg, who has owned the bookstore since 2003, broke his
pelvis and two ribs and dislocated several vertebrae, and will need months of
rehab. He said, "I'm realizing it's a long haul. I can't just not take in
money for three or four months. People volunteering is great, but it would be
hard to put together."
Distribution
Hopkins
Fulfillment Services will distribute Central European University Press
starting in April.
NewSouth Books
will be Independent
Publishers Group's trade distribution partner in Australia
starting August 1. Also at IPG, Trafalgar
Square Publishing will begin distributing Koenemann in April,
and Ice House Books,
Muswell Press,
and Pan Macmillan
Australia in July.
It's
the annual Young Enterprise Donation Appeal and on behalf of our Chairman Norm
Thompson, CEO Terry Shubkin and myself, I would like to ask for your support.
You
might not know that the organisation behind the NZ Business Hall of Fame is a
charity called Young Enterprise (YES). Our "day job" is working with
high school students to get them excited about business and
enterprise.
We
are completely reliant on donations and sponsorship to fund the work we do with
secondary students across all of New Zealand. Any help you can give would
be appreciated.
By
donating you'll be supporting the next generation of young leaders, disruptors
and changemakers. Like the young students you
saw speaking on the night.
Thank you in
advance for considering us in your annual giving plans.
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Otago University Press is proud to have Hudson and
Halls: The food of love by Joanne Drayton as a finalist for the
2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, say OUP co-publishers Rachel Scott
and Vanessa Manhire.
Hudson and Halls: The food of love is a riveting account of the
legendary New Zealand TV chefs in 1970s and 1980s, a groundbreaking gay
duo in a socially conservative era, by an internationally acclaimed
author.
The book was launched in Auckland last year by chef, restaurateur and
writer Peter Gordon.
Hudson and Halls is described as an ‘engaging, fast-paced and
moving account’ and ‘a valuable and very welcome addition to New Zealand’s
cultural history and gay history’ by Chris Brickell, award-winning author
of Mates and Lovers: A history of gay New Zealand (Random
House, 2008).
Joanne Drayton is author of New York Times bestseller The Search
for Anne Perry (2014), which was a finalist in the New Zealand Book
Awards, the subject of a 60 Minutes documentary, and a cover story in
the New Zealand Listener.
Her critically acclaimed Ngaio Marsh: Her life in crime (2008)
was a Christmas pick in the UK’s Independent newspaper in 2009.
Joanne has written three other groundbreaking biographies. In 2007 she was
awarded a National Library Fellowship, and in 2017 she received
a prestigious Logan Nonfiction Fellowship at the Carey Institute in
Upstate New York. She lives in Auckland with her partner and three
cats.
The winners of the 2019 Ockham Book Awards will be announced on 14 May at
the Auckland Writers Festival.
Victoria University Press (VUP) titles
dominate the list of finalists for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards,
announced today.
Titles by VUP authors
make up half of the total shortlist, with a mix of debut writers and some of
New Zealand’s finest established writers.
Victoria University of
Wellington Emeritus Professor Vincent O’Sullivan and International Institute of
Modern Letters Master of Creative Writing teacher Kate Duignan both have novels
shortlisted for the Acorn Foundation Prize—the top prize worth $53,000.
The shortlist for the
Poetry Award consists entirely of VUP titles: There’s No Place Like Internet
in Springtime by Christchurch-based poet Erik Kennedy, Are Friends
Electric? by Helen Heath, The Facts by Therese Lloyd and Poūkahangatus
by Tayi Tibble.
Tayi Tibble’s debut Poūkahangatus
has received popular and critical praise since its release last year. Tibble
says the response to her work encouraged her as a writer and as a young wahine
Māori. “The recognition of Poūkahangatus also acknowledges the lives and
experiences of the women who came before me, so being shortlisted is very
significant to me in that sense.”
Maurice Gee’s memoir, Memory
Pieces, and debut memoir by Chessie Henry, We Can Make a Life, are
up for the General Non-Fiction Prize.
Henry’s memoir traces
the aftermath of the Christchurch and Kaikōura earthquakes, both of which
affected her family. “There are so many writers across all of the categories
that I'm absolutely in awe of ... it’s totally beyond what I ever would have
expected for my first book,” she says.
VUP publisher Fergus
Barrowman says he is thrilled by today’s announcement. “To have debut authors
like Chessie and Tayi alongside New Zealand’s finest established writers like
Vincent and Maurice as finalists is a great illustration of the robust health
of New Zealand writing, and exactly where VUP wants to be in that picture.”
The winners of the
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Auckland on
Tuesday 14 May.
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Punchy,
satirical and incisive, the Guerrilla Girls’ gorilla-masked personas,
bold visual language and frank, humorous messages have rendered them
iconic in the history of art and as part of wider social movements.
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Art After Hours: F’Rock Da Base
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Coinciding
with the exhibition Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera |
Fashion Activists, the Pacific Sisters present a
one-night-only takeover of the Gallery. Don't miss this special
night packed with Māori and Pasifika music, fashion, spoken word and
activism.
Relive
the spirit of Auckland in the '90s and celebrate the myth, magic,
music and more. Join us as we stay open late, and as live music and
moving image activate the Gallery.
Featuring:
Pacific Sisters; Moko Ink; Croc Tatau and Uhi Tapu; DJs DLT,
Manuel Bundy and Linda T. With special guests Whaea and
the Rumble. Plus, enjoy entry to all exhibitions, pop-up art
talks, and food and drink available for purchase.
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All About Women features emerging new voices from
around the world speaking to future directions in feminism. You
don't need to be at the Sydney Opera House on 10 March to
experience the main stage action of All About Women – we're
excited to be streaming a headline session live from this
preeminent festival on gender.
In this essential panel, we'll be exploring how
the movement must evolve to represent women worldwide, and to
create long-lasting cultural and political change.
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Talk frocks, street style and Pasifika-inspired
costume design with Pacific Sisters’ member Suzanne Tamaki and
New Zealand Fashion Museum director Doris de Pont on this early-morning,
VIP tour of the exhibition Pacific Sisters: He Toa
Tāera | Fashion Activists.
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A new programme by DANZ (Dance Aotearoa New
Zealand) that supports Māori and Pacific dance artists and
gives them the opportunity to perform in key public spaces.
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Join us for an advance screening of Boom
for Real, a documentary about one of 80s New York's
most charming and hailed (street) art darlings: Jean-Michel
Basquiat
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Jenny
Bornholdt to judge 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award
Otago
University Press advisory Tuesday 5 March 2019
This
prestigious biennial poetry award from Landfall and the Kathleen Grattan
Trust is for an original book-length collection of poems, by a New Zealand or
Pacific permanent resident or citizen.
Individual
poems in the collection can have been previously published, but the collection
as a whole should be unpublished.
Entries
are accepted until 31 July 2019.
The
result will be announced in Landfall 238 (November 2019), and the winner
receives $10,000 and a year's subscription to Landfall. Otago University
Press has the right to publish the winning collection.
The
judge for the 2019 award is Jenny Bornholdt, who has published ten books of
poems, the most recent of which is Selected Poems (VUP, 2016). She also
edited the 2018 anthology Short Poems of New Zealand (VUP).
Her
collection The Rocky Shore was made up of six long poems and won the
Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 2009. She is the co-editor of My
Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems and the Oxford Anthology of
New Zealand Poetry in English. Jenny’s poems have appeared on ceramics, on
a house, on paintings, in the foyer of a building and in letterpress books
alongside drawings and photographs. She has also written two children’s books.
Kāpiti poet Alison Glenny was the winner
of the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Award with ‘The Farewell
Tourist’, a poetry collection inspired by a visit
to Antarctica.
VQR
5 Mar 2019 11:18 AM (6 years ago)
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Our spring issue asks the question
of how we fight, as individuals, communities, and nations: for
survival, for radical change, for a sense of belonging, for a better
world.
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Also From
Our Spring Issue
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Coming
Next Week
- Essay: The Reluctant Activist
by Sidney Burris
- Poetry: Creation Myth by Tina
Chang
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2019
OCKHAM FINALISTS EXPLORE THE TRUTH AND ISSUES OF OUR TIMES
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Four of our best-known novelists – whose novels,
appropriately for our times, explore what it means to tell the
truth – are in the running for the country’s richest fiction
writing award, the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, with today’s
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist announcement.
New Zealand Book Awards trustee Jenna Todd says the full Ockham’s
shortlist is clear evidence of the vitality of New Zealand
literature. “Not only does the shortlist feature some of our
best-known writers – those with long and illustrious careers – but
it also includes newcomers writing out of deep passion and
engagement.”
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“These 16 books deepen the public discourse on a
range of issues and the particular genius of each of their writers
lifts them to an emotional plane at which they reward and endure
for their readers.”
— Jenna
Todd, NZ Book Awards trustee
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You can find the full list of Ockham New Zealand
Book Awards shortlisted titles here and you can download social
media visuals and other material to promote the books from the Resources page of our website
later this morning.
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WE WELCOME
TWO NEW SPONSORS
Today’s finalist announcement includes two major new category
sponsors for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. To support and
nurture new writing talent, mitochondrial science company MitoQ
will sponsor the four Best First Book awards, and arts enthusiasts
and philanthropists Mary and Peter Biggs will support the Poetry
category.
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MitoQ’s chief marketing officer John Marshall says
that as one of New Zealand’s newest success stories, it is their
pleasure to help emerging writers further enrich the country’s
literature.
Mary and Peter Biggs say that with poetry undergoing a wonderful
resurgence in our country over the last few years, it struck them
as strange that the poetry award was unsupported.
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“We are thrilled to be involved and hope that the
Award continues to recognise poetry’s – and the poet’s – vital role
to, as Salman Rushdie says, shape the world and stop it from going
to sleep.”
— Peter
Biggs CNZM
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Award-winning New York-based novelist Joseph O'Neill
will assist the three New Zealand judges to select this year’s
Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize winner from the four finalists
Irish born O'Neill is the author of four novels, most recently The Dog
and Netherland,
which received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Kerry Fiction Prize.
He has also published a book of short stories, Good Trouble,
and a family history, Blood-Dark
Track.
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NPD HAS A
NEW ADMINISTRATOR
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We were very sad to bid farewell to the
extraordinary Harley Hern, Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day
administrator of the past two years, but we are also delighted to
have her fellow alumni from the Master’s in Creative Writing at the
University of Auckland, Jacqui Hammond, take her place.
Jacqui majored in Literature, before working as a writer and editor
for several years in London and Sydney. She completed her Master’s
in 2015. She is a keen supporter of poetry and has a couple of
poems published in the latest Fast
Fibres collection.
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Jacqui is keenly awaiting the flood of proposals
when NPD 2019 registrations open next
Wednesday.
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GET READY
FOR THE 2019 HELL READING CHALLENGE
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We’re just days away from launching the wonderful
annual campaign that gets our nation’s youth reading and enjoying
the pleasures of stories – with the bonus of free pizza rewards.
Yes, the 2019 HELL Reading Challenge is about to kick off!
Registrations open Friday 8 March
and already our administrator Joy Sellen has fielded an
unprecedented number of enquiries from schools and libraries, so we
are set for another record year.
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In last year’s Challenge 300,000 reading wheels were
distributed, meaning that potentially more than two million books
were read by Kiwi kids as a result of the campaign.
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8 March: HELL Reading Challenge 2019
begins.
13 March: National Poetry Day event
registrations/seed funding applications open.
14 May: Ockham NZ Book Awards ceremony at
Aotea Centre, as part of Auckland Writers Festival. Tickets on sale
15 March.
22 May: Deadline for National Poetry Day
event registration/seeding funding applications.
6 June: Shortlist announced for 2019 NZ
Book Awards for Children & Young Adults.
7 August: NZ Book Awards for Children &
Young Adults ceremony in Wellington.
23 August: Phantom Billstickers National
Poetry Day
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The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, The New Zealand
Book Awards for Children & Young Adults, and Phantom
Billstickers National Poetry Day could not exist without the
generosity, commitment and vision of our sponsors and staging
partners. The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is hugely grateful to
Creative New Zealand, Ockham Residential, Acorn Foundation, Royal
Society Te Apārangi, MitoQ, Mary and Peter Biggs, Auckland Writers
Festival, HELL Pizza, Wright Family Foundation, LIANZA, Wellington
City Council, Te Papa, Nielsen Book, Phantom Billstickers, and our
other wonderful supporters. You can find out more about them here, here and here.
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You can find out more about the work of the Trust on
our website or
if you have a specific enquiry, contact our Trust Manager. And do follow us on
our various social media accounts to keep up with our busy calendar
of events and other news:
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New Zealand
Book Awards for Children
& Young
Adults
via Facebook or Twitter
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Dear
friends and book lovers,
it is a pleasure to invite you to the Bologna Children´s Book
Fair, which is going to be held from 1st
until 4th April. Albatros
Media stand D30-E29 is
in the hall
29.
Children have a lot to explore... nature, animals, mysteries, urban
legends, ghosts, adventures of crime or how to find a treasure! Our
(new) books will guide them.
To see what we have prepared for Bologna, please go through our new
catalogue.
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reserved.
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