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The 2023 Kāpiti Writers’ Retreat

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  • Kāpiti Writer's Retreat - Day 1, 2023
    February 24, 2023
    5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • Kāpiti Writer's Retreat - Day 2, 2023
    February 25, 2023
    7:30 am - 10:00 pm
  • Kāpiti Writer's Retreat - Day 3, 2023
    February 26, 2023
    7:30 am - 4:00 pm

Join us for the 2023 Kāpiti Writers’ Retreat and renew and recharge your writing and your life. The Kāpiti Writers’ Retreat is an immersive two-day gathering for writers, happening on the Kāpiti Coast. The retreat includes intensive morning workshops, lively afternoon discussions and space to write, relax and engage with topics critical to your work. 

The 2023 Kāpiti Writers’ Retreat Accommodation Options

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  • The 2023 Kāpiti Writers' Retreat
    February 24, 2023 - February 26, 2023
    5:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Stay with us for the 2023 Kāpiti Writers’ Retreat and renew and recharge your writing and your life. Each unit has a bathroom, lounge, and kitchenette where you can make tea and coffee. Beds come with linen and blankets. Sole occupancy or shared rooms (maximum three occupants) are available. If you would like to book … The 2023 Kāpiti Writers’ Retreat Accommodation OptionsRead More »

The Hybrid Form: Prose Poetry

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  • The Hybrid Form: Prose Poetry
    November 19, 2022
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • The Hybrid Form: Prose Poetry
    November 26, 2022
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Teacher

  • Chris Tse
    Chris Tse (he/him) is the author of three poetry collections published by Auckland University Press: How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes (winner of the 2016 Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry); HE'S SO MASC; and Super Model Minority. He and Emma Barnes are co-editors of Out Here: An anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa. Chris is The Spinoff’s Poetry Editor and a regular contributor to Capital. In August 2022 he was named the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2022-24.

Prose poetry is a delicious contradiction and an uninhibited rejection of the traditional verse/prose binary. This ‘formless form’ has surprised and confounded readers for centuries, forcing many to question what makes a poem a poem if it doesn’t contain the supposed defining feature of poetry – enjambment. Although early versions of the form date back … The Hybrid Form: Prose PoetryRead More »

Genre-bending Fun: Using theme words to write deeper and stranger fiction and non-fiction

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  • Genre-bending Fun
    October 8, 2022
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Teacher

The aim of the workshop is to find out if choosing a few theme words and using them as part of the structure of a story, might be a useful addition for your bag of writerly tools and tricks. In the workshop, we’ll look at how some writers have used theme words, or repeated words, … Genre-bending Fun: Using theme words to write deeper and stranger fiction and non-fictionRead More »

Process and Play

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  • Process and Play Day 1
    July 23, 2022
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Process and Play Day 2
    July 24, 2022
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Teacher

This two-day workshop will aim to hone in on the places where creativity comes from within ourselves, including sensory experiences, memories, and the various forms of inspiration we carry with us. We will focus on process rather than product, getting back to what first drove us to create before we developed an inner critic or … Process and PlayRead More »

Humour in Fiction – Online

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  • Humour in Fiction Day 1
    June 28, 2022
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
  • Humour in Fiction Day 2
    July 5, 2022
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Teacher

Humour has the unusual effect of stopping or slowing the narrative. Used in the right way it can also sweeten areas that are dark or political. In this workshop, we will be looking at the ways humour can be used in literature, and methods you can use to incorporate it into narratives. We will look … Humour in Fiction – OnlineRead More »

After the First Draft

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  • After the First Draft
    May 21, 2022
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm

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This is a course for writers of long and short fiction who have new work in progress that they’re looking to develop beyond a first draft. We will be reading published stories, and then using them as blueprints to examine our own work by way of writing exercises. These are stories and exercises I turn … After the First DraftRead More »

Where we Belong: Writing about Food and Place

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  • Where we Belong: Writing about Food and Place
    April 30, 2022
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm

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What does home mean to you? A kitchen, a coastline, an urban landscape? How does our sense of belonging shift and change over time? In this workshop we will examine the relationship between memory and belonging through writing about food and place. We will consider how ‘nature writing’ can encompass all kinds of writing about … Where we Belong: Writing about Food and PlaceRead More »

Kickstarter: Get that story out of your head and onto the page! (Online)

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  • Day 1
    October 20, 2021
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Day 2
    October 27, 2021
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Do you have a story you’re burning to tell but don’t know how to tackle it? In this two-day workshop you’ll learn how to centre a story around a point of view character, tying plot, character and theme together to create a unified whole.

Painting over the Photo – Fiction in a real life landscape.

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  • Painting over the Photo - Day 1
    October 9, 2021
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Painting over the Photo - Day 2
    October 16, 2021
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Teacher

Join Wellington novelist Sue Orr for this two-day workshop, exploring ways in which fiction can be grafted onto the canvas of non-fictional life to create exciting contemporary narrative. Writers will engage with each other to kickstart their fiction, then turn to the real world for inspiration allowing the work take flight. This course is for … Painting over the Photo – Fiction in a real life landscape.Read More »