The
Michael King Writers’ Centre will launch the third issue of Signals, its literary journal for young writers,
on Saturday December 6 at the National Library in Auckland.
The journal
features the work of writers who took part in this year’s Young Writers
Programme. This year the publication has increased to 90 pages and includes about
50 works of poetry or prose from 24 writers. It has a print-run of 700.
It
is edited by Rosalind Ali and Johanna Emeney, specialist tutors of creative
writing who run the programme.
They said it was an
exciting book to assemble, with high-quality submissions and a range of diverse
voices. “We enjoyed hearing the different tones of the pieces, from the
melodious lyric to the driving polemic.”
The
2014 Young Writers Programme attracted more than 130 senior students,
representing schools from Kaipara to Dargaville. Leading writers, journalists
and musicians contributed to workshops and master classes in collaboration with
the tutors. The writers included Simon Wilson, Vaughn Davis, Charlotte
Grimshaw, Annie Crummer, Seth Haapu, Mike Chunn and Arthur Baysting, Anne
Kennedy, Paula Morris, Ted Dawe and Steve Braunias.
Signals will be launched at the National
Library in Stanley Street, Auckland, on Saturday December 6 at 10 am. The
winners of the Chris Cole Catley Writing Awards will also be announced at the
event.
Copies
of Signals will be
distributed to Auckland secondary schools and Auckland libraries. The journal will
be available through selected book shops and through the Michael King Writers’
Centre for $10 a copy.
The
Michael King Young Writers’ Programme will be offered again next year. Nominations
will open in February and are made through school English departments.
The
Michael King Writers’ Centre thanks Creative New Zealand for its support for
the programme. Signals is published
thanks to a grant from the Joyce Fisher Charitable Trust.
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Michael King Writers’ Centre
PO Box 32-629, Devonport, Auckland 0744
Ph: 09 445 8451
www.writerscentre.org.nz
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