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

 

 

Waiariki's Creative Writiing Challenge

Waiariki Institute of Technology’s Creative Writing Challenge starts in February.
It ends at QuickWrite Writers’ Forum at City Focus on March 9 with Sue Emm’s announcement of the winner.
The prize, valued at just under $700.00, is a Waiariki Institute of Technology creative writing course of the winner’s choice, in the year 2013.

Participants are challenged to 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.

Writers bring their contributions, printed on A4 paper, to Sue Emms at Rotorua’s WriteUp Here in 2013’s QuickWrite Writers’ Forum at City Focus on Saturday March 9 at 10am. Author’s name, phone number and email address must be at the top of their story. Sue will read these contributions as they are delivered, and decide that morning who will receive the prize. She will make the announcement at about 12 noon.

Competitors are encouraged to participate in this event’s QuickWrite activities while they await Sue’s decision. The QuickWrite is a separate event from the Waiariki Challenge. (Watch for details in a separate post.)

This Waiariki Challenge reflects the commitment of Sue’s department to supporting people to discover the stories within them and encouraging them to develop the skills needed to bring those stories onto the shelves of bookstores and libraries as well as to their computer screens.