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Northlanders have achieved highly in this year’s National Flash Fiction Day competition, which celebrates one of the shortest forms of creative writing.
13 year old Jana Heise, who was raised in Whangarei, won the NFFD Youth Award on June 22. Her story was then performed, with those of other … View moreNorthlanders have achieved highly in this year’s National Flash Fiction Day competition, which celebrates one of the shortest forms of creative writing.
13 year old Jana Heise, who was raised in Whangarei, won the NFFD Youth Award on June 22. Her story was then performed, with those of other Northland and national finalists, at a workshop and open mic event on June 24 in Kawakawa put on by Bay of Islands resident Kathy Derrick, who is a National Flash Fiction Day Committee city chair.
Former Whangarei writer Lola Elvy was in the youth top ten shortlist and Michael Botur was longlisted three times. Lola’s mother Michelle Elvy, who lived in Opua and Whangarei from 2008 to 2014, contributes much to flash fiction, as one of the editors of the Bonsai anthology, which will be published in August by Canterbury University Press. That collection includes at least six Northland flash fiction writers.
Flash fiction is a form of storytelling with a strict 300 word limit. National Flash Fiction Day is celebrated each year on the shortest day. This year’s competition attracted around 500 entries.
Northland has just three percent of the country’s population but achieves disproportionately well at flash fiction. Flash fiction took off nationwide after Ms Elvy and friends published the first edition of Flash Frontier magazine in 2012. Highest-placed Northland writer and top ten NFFD finalist Vivian Thonger of Kerikeri said when she arrived four years ago, the region was “a flash-fiction writing hotspot where people at all levels of experience could learn and hone their short-form writing skills.”
Thonger said flash fiction can be addictive. “It doesn’t take long to write a piece, yet it’s a delicate game trying to fit meaning and tension into 300 words or fewer. It’s a kick getting published, and it feels less painful when you’re rejected; you bounce back and try again quickly, or have several pieces on the go at once.”
“Many of us have a collection of vignettes, of unforgettable moments, stuck in our heads; flash is a way to bring those snippets to life as a feeling evoked, or a brief encounter leaping off the page, real or imagined, like a frisson of truth or recognition passing between you and the reader.”
Other organisers of the Kawakawa event included Whangarei author Martin Porter, a National Flash Fiction Competition Committee member. Kathy Derrick is also judging the Whangarei Libraries Flash Fiction competition 2018, which is having its prizegiving on June 27.
More at: writeupnorth.co.nz...
Vivian Thonger’s Bay of Islands Writers Group is looking for more members. Contact vthonger@gmail.com to join.
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Join the challenge and ‘Choose To Refuse’ single-use plastic during July.
The call is out across the world to reduce plastic waste and people are asking what happens to the glass, cardboard, plastic, tin and other recyclables that go into Council recycling bins.
Read our full story and lean … View moreJoin the challenge and ‘Choose To Refuse’ single-use plastic during July.
The call is out across the world to reduce plastic waste and people are asking what happens to the glass, cardboard, plastic, tin and other recyclables that go into Council recycling bins.
Read our full story and lean what happens with our recyclables: ► bit.ly...
Check out Get Growing subscriber Clare Strange's genius hack for a gardening apron. It was made from a pair of jeans from an op shop. "All of my gardening clothes come from op shops," she says. "Large men's shirts make good cover-ups to keep sun and insects off my arms. For… View moreCheck out Get Growing subscriber Clare Strange's genius hack for a gardening apron. It was made from a pair of jeans from an op shop. "All of my gardening clothes come from op shops," she says. "Large men's shirts make good cover-ups to keep sun and insects off my arms. For the apron, start with a smaller size than you would wear so it doesn't wrap around too far. Check that it has a lot of pockets." So tell us if you've got similarly fashionable, exclusive-for-the-garden glad rags, and if yes, why not post a photo in the Reply space too!
Whangarei has been hit by a crime wave of tyre slashing which has resulted in tens of thousands wor…
Slashing vehicle tyres is the latest crime wave to hit Whangarei with at least 44 cars hit over two nights.
Vehicles parked on streets were targeted over a large swathe of the city, starting on Friday night.
Whangarei police were inundated with reports on Saturday and Sunday of multiple tyres… View moreSlashing vehicle tyres is the latest crime wave to hit Whangarei with at least 44 cars hit over two nights.
Vehicles parked on streets were targeted over a large swathe of the city, starting on Friday night.
Whangarei police were inundated with reports on Saturday and Sunday of multiple tyres on each vehicle slashed in a number of streets in Kamo, Tikipunga, Maunu and in Onerahi.
Mostly tyres on the driver's side were targeted.
Source: NZ Herald - find out more here.
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Would you like to see many more facilities for walking and cycling, mobility scooters, wheel chairs, prams and push chairs, skateboards and scooters?
Connecting the places where people live with where they work to enable more commuter walking and cycling, is just one key theme to this Strategy.
… View moreWould you like to see many more facilities for walking and cycling, mobility scooters, wheel chairs, prams and push chairs, skateboards and scooters?
Connecting the places where people live with where they work to enable more commuter walking and cycling, is just one key theme to this Strategy.
You can now view our Draft Walking and Cycling Strategy and let us know if we are heading in the right direction!
| You have time until Thursday 5 July to give us your feedback. |
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Disabled employment. People with disabilities want to work they will work hard and benefit your business, often they will put extra effort in because they can. Please consider hiring a disabled person, we are on Facebook and on the net, we need employers and employees to list
… View moreDisabled employment. People with disabilities want to work they will work hard and benefit your business, often they will put extra effort in because they can. Please consider hiring a disabled person, we are on Facebook and on the net, we need employers and employees to list
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Graeme Bergh is a keen motorcyclist and happens to be a NZ Police officer. He’s attended many serious motorcycle crashes and learned first-hand the factors that cause and contribute to them.
Sadly, in the majority of cases, there were things the rider could have done to prevent the crash, … View moreGraeme Bergh is a keen motorcyclist and happens to be a NZ Police officer. He’s attended many serious motorcycle crashes and learned first-hand the factors that cause and contribute to them.
Sadly, in the majority of cases, there were things the rider could have done to prevent the crash, “and that breaks my heart”, says Graeme. His solution? “Do some training”. It just might save your life.
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New indoor tsunami sirens are now available to alert people who live, work or holiday along Northland’s coast.
The indoor, plug-in sirens feature a loud alarm as well as a flashing blue light for the hearing impaired and alert people in evacuation zones of a pending tsunami.
Read our full story… View moreNew indoor tsunami sirens are now available to alert people who live, work or holiday along Northland’s coast.
The indoor, plug-in sirens feature a loud alarm as well as a flashing blue light for the hearing impaired and alert people in evacuation zones of a pending tsunami.
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Meet Miriama Kamo the author of The Stolen Stars Of Matariki today, Saturday 23 June, at our Storytime store in the Town Basin.
At 1pm gather round to hear Miriama read her new book The Stolen Stars Of Matariki. Learn about the mythology of Matariki in this gorgeous story which mentions all 9 … View moreMeet Miriama Kamo the author of The Stolen Stars Of Matariki today, Saturday 23 June, at our Storytime store in the Town Basin.
At 1pm gather round to hear Miriama read her new book The Stolen Stars Of Matariki. Learn about the mythology of Matariki in this gorgeous story which mentions all 9 stars including Pōhutukawa and Hiwa-i-te-Rangi. After story time there will be an opportunity to get your book signed.
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