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For more information contact GENNY VELLA | E: [email protected] | Ph: 06 351 4100 | W: www.citylibrary.pncc.govt.nz Massey University University Massey Palmerston North North Palmerston School of English English of School & Media Studies Studies Media & present the best best the present of New Zealand WritersCity Library & Read ‘10 writing FRIDAY 30 JULY FRIDAY 20 AUGUST FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER Drinks & nibbles 6:30pm Mihi Whakatau Drinks & nibbles 6:30pm (welcome) 6:00pm Reading 7:00pm Reading 7:00pm Kai timotimo / Whakawhanaungatanga (refreshments/socialising) 6:15pm Photograph by Deborah Smith Jenny Bornholdt Witi Ihimaera Charlotte Grimshaw Jenny Bornholdt is a poet and anthologist. Born in Lower Hutt Witi Ihimaera’s publishing career began with Pounamu, Pounamu Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of four novels, Provocation, in 1960, she holds a BA in English Literature and a Diploma in (short stories, 1972) and Tangi (novel, 1973), the first novel written Guilt, Foreign City and The Night Book. In 2000 she was awarded Journalism. She attended Bill Manhire’s original composition by a Maori. To date his primary output has been the writing of 11 the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. In 2006 she won the BNZ course at Victoria University of Wellington in 1984. novels and 6 short story collections, among them The Matriarch, Katherine Mansfield Award, and in 2007 she won a Book Council The Whale Rider, Nights In The Gardens of Spain, Bulibasha, The Six Pack prize. She is the author of a number of collections of poetry including Uncle’s Story, Ask The Posts of the House and The Trowenna Sea. Summer (April 2003) and These Days (2000) and Miss New Zealand: Her story collection Opportunity was short listed for the 2007 Selected Poems which was published in 1997 and contains work He has also written libretti for opera, theatre and ballet and edited Frank O’Connor International Prize, and in 2008, Opportunity won from her four earliest collections of poetry This Big Face (1988), over 25 books of Maori, Pacific and New Zealand arts and culture. New Zealand’s premier Montana award for fiction, along with the Moving House (1989), Waiting Shelter (1991) and How We Met The Whale Rider was made into an internationally acclaimed film Montana medal. She was also the 2008 Montana Book Reviewer (1995). of the same name; the television film adaptation of Nights In The of the year. Her story collection Singularity was short listed for the Gardens of Spain will be shown on New Zealand television later 2009 Frank O’Connor International Prize and the South East Asia Her latest book is The Rocky Shore (VUP October 2008). It won the this year. and Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 2009. He is currently working on Purity of Ice (short story collection) She writes a monthly column in Metro magazine, for which she She has, with her husband poet Gregory O’Brien, edited a and, with Producer Charlotte Yates, a show which will premiere at won a 2009 Qantas Media Award. She lives in Auckland. collection of New Zealand love poetry My Heart Goes Swimming the Auckland Arts Festival in 2010. (1996) and they, with Mark Williams, edited An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (1997) which won the 1997 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. Jenny Bornholdt spent six months of 2003 in Menton, France, as the 2002 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Fellow. She was named as New Zealand’s Poet Laureate in March 2005. Her poem “Being a Poet” was selected for the online collection Best New Zealand Poems 2001, while “Blue Shirts, Descending” was chosen for Best New Zealand Poems 2002. “Ode to the Little Hotel” is one of the Best New Zealand Poems 2003 and “Photograph” made it onto the list of Best New Zealand Poems 2005. “Medical” was chosen as one of 2006’s Best New Zealand Poems. Jenny’s poem “Mrs Winter’s Jump” has been named as one of 2007’s Best New Zealand Poems..