Rotorua Writers Group Memoir Writing Workshop

QuickWrite Writers’ Forum, City Focus, Saturday March 9th

QuickWrite Writers’ Forum, City Focus, Saturday March 9th

This event features individual writers and/or organisations or businesses  and their books to view/buy, in a range of writing genres and themes, sitting at tables in City Focus.

At each table will also be Writing Kits of clipboards, pens and paper, and a list of up to three starter lines. Each kit will be headed with event’s email address for future use; a place to insert name, phone number and email address; and a double-ticket number (eg from a raffle book).
Three times through the event, probably at 10.20am; 11.00am and 11.40am, a signal will indicate the start of a 15-minute ‘quick-write’ session, ending on a second signal.

At City Focus there are many park seats, benches and tables, kerbs and street garden walls where folk can sit and write. Participants can enter more than one quick-write.

Writing Kits will be handed back to the source table, where one half of the raffle number will be returned to the contributing writer..

(Writers who’d like a brief assessment of their writing can take their quick-write to the Business Media Service desk for a brief ‘taste test’ from Mike Smith )

 

Later, but within the half hour and before the start of the next ‘quick-write’, a lucky number will be drawn. The prize will be a book chosen from a selection donated by authors at the forum.

The forum is seen as a ‘kick-starter’ for would-be writers to explore their fledgling desire to write. Some may feel your writing has no worth and you may be reluctant to hand it in. However, all of you will be encouraged to return your writings. We accept some of you won’t. But, only those who do hand in their piece after each ‘quick-write’ will be included in that draw.

School-aged writers will be encouraged with age-categories: primary/intermediate/ secondary

Contributions may be acknowledged/published by:

• a) being posted on Facebook or Blogspot (by site administrator Lynne), and mentioned and linked back to on Twitter (by our administrator there, Katie)
• b) appropriate material may be posted by Rotorua library on their on-line Kete.
• c) event administrators will review the contributions and consider the potential for publishing in book form a collection of local talent.

The following categories will be represented:

•  Fiction
•  Poetry
•  Writing for families: memoirs; family history
•  Non-fiction: newspaper reporting
•  Writing for children
•  Writing for the community
•  Writing to be heard

 

 

Wha's Happening In March?

Well, throughout March, many of our local bookstores will be displaying books by Rotorua's authors.
These book stores will be: Mcleods Booksellers, Take Note, Books Alive, Idle Hour Book Inn, and Ngongotaha Books all have window and/or in-store displays featuring N Z and Rotorua authors. (More details in a following post.)
                       The Rotorua Library's programme of events throughout
                           March will include a focus on local authors.

Saturday 9th March:
Rotorua’s Write Up Here in 2013 – QuickWrite Writers’ Forum, City Focus, 10am -12.30pm

Saturday 16th March:
Take Note will be featuring a Festival of Children's Books by NZ, maybe local, authors,

Thursday 21st March:
Books ‘n’ Baths at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. 4.30pm – 7pm.

Saturday 23rd March:

Jenny Argante’s Memoir Writing Workshop, hosted by Rotorua Writers Group. At RAVE. Pre-bookings essential.

Exact dates/times not known at time of writing, but for Rotorua Write Up Here 2K13, the Rotorua Library is planning ...

*          Children's department holds a competition featuring NZ authors

*          A crossword competition of NZ authors with the prize being a selected book

*          Displays to do with NZ books and authors –
            possibly including screenings of Rotorua interviews on DVDs by Kerry Fowler

*          Library-Live sessions in March: Detailed in a separate Post.

March hasn't been such fun for years!