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Special event on 21 November with two Randell Cottage writers

Special event on 21 November with two Randell Cottage writers

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You’re invited to the National Library Auditorium on 21 November to get to know our latest writers. New Zealand poet Rachel O’Neill has just finished their placement at Randell Cottage and will share their experiences in conversation with Trustee Francis Cooke. The French Embassy’s Cultural Counsellor, Eric Soulier, will lead a discussion with newly-returned laureate, Caroline Laurent, who was inspired by her brief visit to Wellington last December and is halfway through an exciting new work. Light refreshments will be served before & after the event. Koha (suggest $5 pp) would be appreciated. Time: 5:15 to 7.30 pm (formalities 6.00 to 7.00 pm) Venue: Auditorium, National Library, Molesworth Street, access from Aitken Street RSVP: info@randellcottage.co.nz by 19 November. Can’t make it in person? A zoom link will be available through the National Library.

Writers Owen Marshall and Lawrence Patchett at the National Library

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What makes a short story? Is it a question of length? Or is it the plot? What about flash fiction? Twitter fiction? The long form? What makes a New Zealand short story? Is it the landscape? The shape? The theme?

Writers Owen Marshall and Lawrence Patchett will address these – and other – questions in in an evening of discussion and readings at the National Library on 2 December 2015.

Owen Marshall Timaru-based Owen Marshall is regarded as a master of the short story. He is currently writer in residence at the Randell Cottage in Thorndon. He is a prolific writer and editor of short stories, poetry and novels who has held fellowships at the universities of Canterbury and Otago and in Menton, France. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Canterbury, which awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in 2002. His work has seen him honoured with some of New Zealand’s top literary awards, including the 2013 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in fiction. In 2000 he became an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature and in 2012, a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Lawrence-PatchettLawrence Patchett is the author of I Got His Blood On Me: Frontier Tales, a book of short stories. His fiction has been recognised in the New Zealand Post Awards (NZSA Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction), and the Long and the Short of It Short Story Competition (long section). His work has also appeared in Sport, Landfall, Dominion Post, Hue & Cry, Turbine, and on Radio New Zealand National. He has a PhD in creative writing from Victoria University, and lives in Raumati Beach. He is currently working on a dystopian adventure novel set in the North Island of New Zealand.

The event is being held under the auspices of the Friends of the Randell Cottage and the National Library of New Zealand, as part of the Library’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations.

Time: The venue opens at 5:30pm and the discussion will run from 6:00-7:30pm
Date: 2 December 2015
Venue: Co-Create, Ground Floor, National Library, Molesworth Street

 

RSVP: by email to events.natlib@dia.govt.nz with the words Owen Marshall in the subject line. (Note seating is limited to 120.)

Hear Randell Writers Read

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Hear Randell Writers Read over a glass of wine at the Friends of Randell Cottage AGM

Vincent O’Sullivan
Fiona Kidman
Mary McCallum
Pat White
Maggie Rainey-Smith
Jean Anderson
Beverley Randell

7 pm Monday 27 September 2010
Thistle Inn, 3 Mulgrave St, Thorndon

Readers are our current writer in residence and writers who are Randell Trustees & Friends Committee members. AGM business will be brief.