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!

Wha's Happening - Pre Book Month Programme

Rotorua’s WriteUp Here in 2013 ~

 Pre-programme - Through February and March

We'll continue bringing you on-going publicity about the actual coming events, and raising awareness of the aims of the programme as well as encouraging discussion within Rotorua's communities, leading to widespread participation in March.

February – mid March

 

Waiariki’s Creative Writing challenge starts any moment you're ready, and ends at WriteUp Writers’ Forum at City Focus on March 9th. Write 500 words to demonstrate their flair, imagination and emerging talent in their preferred genre – fiction or nonfiction, on any topic and in any style, except poetry.