Monday, December 02, 2013

Invitation to launch - Eastbourne: an anthology



Eastbourne: an anthology is to be launched December 5 2013, 6.30 pm at Rona Gallery, Eastbourne – a free community event with readings from contributors like Booker-nominated Lloyd Jones, his son Avi Duckor-Jones, and former Eastbourne mayor Elaine Jakobsson who writes as Helen Jacobs. Len du Chateau's daughter Robyn will read his poem about Rona Bay in 1925, and other writers will be stepping up too.

Eastbourne is a fresh collection of writing that has sprung from Wellington’s eastern bays. The 96 contributors in the 300 page book include acclaimed New Zealand writers such as Denis Glover, Lloyd Jones, Steve Braunias, Kate de Goldi, and Robin Hyde, young and emerging talent like Sarah Laing and Airini Beautrais, and newcomers like Avi Duckor-Jones. The editors are Mary McCallum, Anne Manchester and Maggie Rainey-Smith, and the book is published by new Wellington publisher Mākaro Press.


The editors say they have been impressed by the depth and richness of the work they have been offered and the serendipitous discoveries they have made, but more than anything by the sheer amount of exciting writing out there. 


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