Category: Writing Process
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STALKER: A BAND CALLED STALKER
It’s been four years since Stalker ’s first demo release ‘Satanic Panic’ and three years since their 2017 debut album ‘Shadow of the Sword’ was released through Austrian record label Napalm Records. Covid-19 didn’t prevent them from managing an appearance in Osaka for Japan’s True Thrash Festival in February, or from releasing their sophomore album ‘Black Majik Terror’…
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Compelling stories by emerging writers awarded 2020 NZSA assessments
The NZ Society of Authors announce who will receive manuscript guidance in this year’s CompleteMS programme. Thirteen writers with manuscripts ranging through Fantasy, Pasifika futurism, Indie Rock fiction, Young Adult, Biography, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Vignettes, Creative Non-Fiction, and Dramatisation of a Verse Biography have all been chosen to take part in this year’s…
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An Interview with Departure Party
by FRANK EGGLETON Departure Party: Cajons And Cronies (First Published in NZMusician.co.nz) Departure Party is a folk-punk, maybe emo/anti-folk three-piece, that has released two albums (the first in 2017 under then-band name Yor Cronies, titled ‘I Want To Quit’) and the just-released ‘Departure Party’. Based in Wellington, they have supported the likes of Joyce Manor, Listener, Wolfpack and…
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Review: Newtown Festival 2019, Wellington
By FRANK EGGLETON Review: Newtown Festival 2019, Wellington Images by BIRGIT BACHLER You awake to a light grey day, with a smidgen of fuzz— because you couldn’t resist going to Moon to see Hex and an Australian touring band called Cable Ties. You behaved yourself, sleeking home straight after the last note. Which is just as well, as your group is…
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2019 NZSA Writer Mentorships announced
Recipients have been selected for the New Zealand Society of Authors Mentorship Programme 2019 with thirteen chosen from a pool of 79 applicants. With a high level of commitment shown by the applicants and a wide variety of fascinating projects the judges had quite a task making their selection. Our 2019 mentees are emerging writers…
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Rona Love
Set in Wellington, New Zealand. Rona Love is the story of an ex-housewife who pursues her dream of becoming a musician, a songwriter, an artist. Welcome to a world, where the only things that matter are the Arts and music. Real and fictional bands mingle and blend into a modern cocktail of the Hero’s journey.…
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Rona Love; A Writing Experiment
In between drafts of the Rona Love novel, I decided I needed to know a little bit more about some of the characters. Especially about Rona, Audrey and Silvias relationship. I wrote this short story set in 2011, to see what I could find out about why they hadn’t spoken very much in a decade.…