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Born in Botswana, a landlocked country in Southern Africa, Nametso Dorothy Ponchi is just getting started. At only 26 years
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Okay, you now understand the basics of third person narration. So how exactly do you write in limited third person
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NZ Writers College is proud to showcase one of its Novel Course graduates, Gareth Ward. Gareth’s debut novel, The
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Love at first word. My first word was ‘home’, and that word has stuck with me ever since. Home is
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BY THERESA-LOUISE BRINK The best writing tip I ever received was from a man who had fallen in love with
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I’m standing on the side of a road. It’s an unremarkable road, but then, why would it be otherwise? Its
BY ELEANOR TALBOT I’ll be honest. I don’t really consider myself a writer. John Steinbeck is a writer. Cannery Row
BY LEONIE FOURIE It was hot. Mid-December in the Cape Winelands tends to be hot. Your-clothes-stuck-to-your-butt kind of
BY OLAKUNLE OLADIRAN Growing up in the tiny village of Akure in Nigeria, I had only felt liberated
BY NOHLEE CLOETE On my mobile phone, I have a picture saved of the urban English word ’Rastrophiliopustrocity’. It has eight
My favourite singer once told an interviewer that he started singing at the age of four. He said that by
Q & A WITH AWARD-WINNING WRITERS
Fiona Ingram is a multi-award-winning author of adult and children’s fiction. She has won, or been a finalist in, over
TRUDY DELAMARE asks veteran copy-editor Di Smith if machines can correct errors better than humans in this frank Q &
Paul Cleave – international bestselling New Zealand author – talks about his writing career and offers tips for new writers
Successful journalist Sarah Lang may have started her working life sleeping in her mother’s garage, but she has quickly climbed
Helen Brain is the author of 30 books for children, an adult memoir and many short stories. In 1998
New Zealand Poet Laureate, Dr Selina Tusitala-Marsh Selina Tusitala-Marsh has published three critically acclaimed collections of poetry. She was the
Alex Smith’s most recent novel ‘Devilskein & Dearlove’ is a YA Fantasy, described by the ‘Sunday Times’ as “a magical
Susan Williams has been the managing director of Prose & Comms – a communications company – for over a decade.
Rosemary Hepözden has three decades of editing, writing and teaching experience. She is the author of three nonfiction books, and
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