On Thursday August 24 from 11.00am to 12.00pm, join our live videoconference
WordSpace: Reviewing
Join David Hill and Nick Bollinger in a discussion about reviewing. 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 how much of a review should be informative and how much should be personal opinion, how do you tailor your review to its audience, and what assumptions can you make about their prior knowledge. The writers will also talk about their personal experiences of reviewing within a small writing community like New Zealand’s.
David Hill
David Hill is a versatile journalist, reviewer, fiction writer, playwright and children’s writer. His books include See Ya, Simon (1992), which was short-listed in New Zealand and runner-up for two awards in the UK, won the 1994 Times Educational Supplement Award for Special Needs, the Children’s Literature Foundation, and a Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book in 2002.
In 1995 he wrote Kick Back, Take It Easy, Curtain Up and The Winning Touch. Other titles include Second Best (1996), The High Wind Blows (2001), The Sleeper Wakes (2001), The Name of the Game (2001), Right Where It Hurts (2001) and Where All Things End (2002). Right Where It Hurts was short-listed for the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards 2003 and won the 2003 LIANZA Esther Glen Medal. He also wrote My Story: Journey to Tangiwai, The Diary of Peter Cotterill, Napier 1953 (2003), No Safe Harbour (2003) and Coming Back (2004), which was a finalist in the Young Adult Fiction Category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2005. His latest novels from 2005 are Running Hot and Bodies and Soul.
Nick Bollinger
Nick Bollinger is a regular contributor to the New Zealand Listener and has written for Mojo, Rhythms, International Arts Manager, Rip It Up, The New Zealand Herald and many other national and international publications. Since 2001 he has written, produced and presented the music review programme The Sampler for New Zealand’s National Radio.
Nick was the curator for Sound Design, Kiwi Style, an exhibition of New Zealand record cover design, which toured the country from 2002 to 2004. His book How To Listen To Pop Music, which traces his personal voyage through pop music, was released in 2004.
This is Nick’s second appearance in WordSpace – he also took part in the Reviewing session last year.
TO REGISTER FOR THIS VIDEOCONFERENCE, CONTACT digitalconversations@cwa.co.nz or telephone: (04) 382 6515 BY Monday 22 August 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.
