On Wednesday 18 October from 11.00am to 12.00pm, join our live videoconference
WordSpace: Creative writing
Join Damien Wilkins and Frances Samuel in a discussion about creative writing. WordSpace is a series of videoconference discussions between secondary school students and leading New Zealand writers, brought to you by the New Zealand Book Council and CWA New Media. To participate, your school will need to be a member of the Book Council.
The session will consider questions like what forms creative writing can take, and how to make a career as a creative writer. The authors will talk about their own writing processes and how they start and finish a piece of work. The value of creative writing will also be discussed.
Damien Wilkins
Damian Wilkins’s short stories first appeared in Sport and other periodicals in the late 1980s. His story collection, The Veteran Perils (1990), was joint winner of the inaugural Heinemann Reed Fiction Award. His novels include Widows Under Ash (2000), which was a runner up in the Fiction section of the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and Chemistry (2002), and a book of essays, When Famous People Come to Town (2002). He has taught creative writing in both New Zealand and America, and is well-known as a book reviewer and essayist. Damien has also written drama for television and radio
Frances Samuel
Frances Samuel is a Wellington-based writer whose poetry has appeared in The Approach Sport, Staple and Great Sporting Moments: The Best of Sport Magazine 1988–2005. Her work has also been published in the online journals Snorkel and Turbine. In 2002 she was awarded the Story Inc! Prize for best folio of poetry produced at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University. She completed an MA in Creative Writing with distinction at the IIML, where she was one of two writers shortlisted for the 2004 Iowa Writer’s Residency. She is currently working towards a book of poetry, as well as a collaborative project with conceptual jewellers through Juicy Press.
TO REGISTER FOR THIS VIDEOCONFERENCE, CONTACT: digitalconversations@cwa.co.nz or telephone: (04) 382 6515 BY Monday 16 October 2006
The Book Council will be creating a DVD of this session, which will be available for schools to purchase. If your school takes part in the session, please be aware that we will need signed permission forms from all participating students.
