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Landfall Essay Competition
The ''Landfall'' Essay Competition is an annual competition open to New Zealand writers. It is judged by the current editor of the long-running literary magazine ''Landfall'' and the winning entry is published in a subsequent issue of the magazine. History The ''Landfall'' Essay Competition was first held in 1997 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the literary magazine ''Landfall''. It was begun by Chris Price, who was editor at the time, and was sponsored by the Otago University Press. The competition has been awarded annually since 2009 and is judged each year by the current editor. The aim of the competition is "to encourage New Zealand writers to think aloud about New Zealand culture" and "to revive and sustain the tradition of vivid, contentious and creative essay writing". In 2017 the Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition, named for ''Landfall'' founder Charles Brasch, was launched, which is an annual award open to young writers between the ages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landfall (journal)
''Landfall'' is New Zealand's oldest extant literary magazine. The magazine is published biannually by Otago University Press. As of 2020, it consists of a paperback publication of about 200 pages. The website ''Landfall Review Online'' also publishes new literary reviews monthly. The magazine features new fiction and poetry, biographical and critical essays, cultural commentary, and reviews of books, art, film, drama, and dance. ''Landfall'' was founded and first edited by New Zealand poet Charles Brasch. It was described by Peter Simpson in the ''Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'' (2006) as "the most important and long-lasting journal in New Zealand's literature". Historian Michael King said that during the twentieth century, "''Landfall'' would more than any other single organ promote New Zealand voices in literature and, at least for the duration of Brasch's editorship (1947–66), publish essays, fiction and poetry of the highest standard". Background Denis Glo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Wedde
Ian Curtis Wedde (born 17 October 1946) is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator. Biography Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. He attended King's College and the University of Auckland, graduating with an MA in English in 1968. Wedde started publishing poetry in 1966. He travelled in Jordan and England in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and returned to New Zealand to live in Port Chalmers in 1972. In 1975 he moved to Wellington. From 1983 to 1990 Wedde was the art critic for '' The Evening Post''. He co-edited ''The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse'' with Harvey McQueen in the mid 1980s, and ''The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry'' with McQueen and Miriama Evans in 1989. He became the arts project manager at Te Papa in 1994. A collection of essays, ''Making Ends Meet'', was published in 2005. Wedde was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Bainbridge (writer)
Sarah Jane Bainbridge (born 7 October 1982 in Fleetwood, Lancashire) is an English taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the women's welterweight category. She won a gold medal in the 68-kg division at the 1999 European Junior Championships in Nicosia, Cyprus, retrieved a bronze at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu, South Korea, and had been thereby selected to Team GB's four-person taekwondo squad for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Starting her career at age 16, Bainbridge trained full-time for Fleetwood Taekwondo Club in her native Fleetwood, under her personal coach, master, and father Alan Bainbridge. Bainbridge spurred public attention on her senior debut at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu, South Korea, where she shared bronze medals with the Netherlands' Luttikhuis Oude in the women's 67-kg division. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Bainbridge qualified for Team GB's taekwondo squad in the women's welterweight class (67 kg). Earlier in the proces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Bridge
Diana Bridge (born 1942 in Wellington) is a New Zealand poet. She attended Queen Margaret College and Victoria University of Wellington. She lived most of her adult life in various parts of Asia, including India and China, and as an adult she completed a PhD in classical Chinese poetry at the Australian National University. She began writing poetry in her 50s. In 2010 she was awarded the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for her distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry. In 2014 her essay "An attachment to China" won the Landfall Essay Competition. In 2015, she completed a residency at the Writers' and Artists' Colony at Yaddo in New York. She won the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize in the same year. She shared her poem ''Dream Sound'' for Chinese language week in 2021. Selected works * ''Landscape with lines'' (1996) * ''The girls on the wall'' (1999) * ''Porcelain'' (2001) * ''Red leaves'' (2005) * ''An unexpected legacy: Xie Tiao's 'poems on things (2008) – translation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Rainey-Smith
Maggie Rainey-Smith is a novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist and book reviewer. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Biography Maggie Rainey-Smith was born in 1950 in Richmond, Nelson. Her father, Reginald Mervyn Rainey, had served with the 2nd NZ Expeditionary Force in World War II and was taken prisoner in Crete and held in Stalag VIIB in Poland. She grew up in Richmond and later travelled widely overseas, including to the United States, England, Scotland and Norway, afterwards returning to New Zealand and setting up a recruitment consultancy business. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 2002 and has also completed the Aoraki Writing Course in Timaru under Owen Marshall in 2001, the Whitireia Advanced Diploma in Writing in 2003 and two undergraduate writing workshops at Victoria University of Wellington. Her short stories, poems and travel essays have been published in anthologies, online and in journals such as ''Landfall'', ''Sport'', Head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Ng
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Jane Williamson
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Majella Cullinane
Majella Cullinane, born in Limerick, Ireland is an author based in New Zealand. Background Born and raised in Ireland, Cullinane became a New Zealand resident in 2008. She has a MLitt. in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and completed a PhD in Creative Practice at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago. Her doctoral advisors were Vincent O'Sullivan and Liam McIlvanney. She currently lives in Port Chalmers, New Zealand. Cullinane draws inspiration for her work from myths and history, with her poems exploring nature and dreams, real and imagined people. Her collection ''Guarding the Flame'' takes its title from the myth surrounding Saint Bridgid’s flame in Kildare. Works * ''Guarding the Flame'' (Salmon Poetry, 2011), collection of poetry * ''The Life of De'Ath'' (Steele Roberts Aotearoa, 2018), novel * ''Whisper of a Crow's Wing'' (Salmon Poetry and Otago University Press, 2018) Awards Her first novel,''The Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Smither
Elizabeth Edwina Smither (born 15 September 1941) is a New Zealand poet and writer. Life and career Smither was born in New Plymouth, and worked there part-time as a librarian. Her first collection of poetry, ''Here Come the Clouds'', was published in 1975, when she was in her mid-thirties. She has since published over fifteen poetry collections, as well as several short story collections and novels. Her work has won numerous notable awards, including three times the top poetry award at the New Zealand Book Awards. In 2002, she was named the New Zealand Poet Laureate. Harry Ricketts, writing for ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', describes her strength as being "the short poem, usually but not always unrhymed, witty, stylish and intellectually curious". He also notes that her poetry tends to feature figures from literature and legends, as well as Catholicism. Awards *1987 Scholarship in Letters *1989 Lilian Ida Smith Award (non-fiction) *1990 New Zealand Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Kershaw
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Raewyn Alexander
Raewyn Alexander (born 1955) is a New Zealand writer. She has also worked in visual media, producing comics and clothing. She was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, later moving to Auckland. Alexander was editor for the arts magazine ''Magazine''. Her work has appeared in various literary magazines, in the ''Auckland Poetry Live'' anthology and in the anthology ''Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page''. In 2016 she had a lengthy essay published in Metro (magazine), Metro alleging she was engaged to Chris Knox. A spokesperson for Knox denied this, and Metro then retracted the story and apologised. Selected works * ''Fat'', novel (1996) * ''Concrete'', novel (1998) * '' Love and Hate are Small Words with Big Names'', poetry (1999) * ''Bacon is Not a Vegetable (701 Tips for Flatting)'', non-fiction, with Olwyn Stewart * ''Sweet: A Guide for New Zealand Teenagers'', non-fiction (2001), with Jan Hedge * ''It's a Secret (Selected Poems 1993–2005)'', poetry chap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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