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
