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A new foundation established by the Auckland Writers Festival offers up to 10 one-off grants of $2000-5000. The Matatuhi Foundation wil...

The Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship invites applications for 2019. This offers the opportunity to write full-time, free from financial pressure...

The University of Waikato invites applications for the position of Writer in Residence for 2019. The salary is $52,000. Yes, $52,000. Hoo...

Portrait by Annelies van der Poel . For family reasons I was unable to attend the funeral in Devonport last Friday of Warwick Roge...

From the edition of Tuesday 7 August. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times . ...

This letter from the latest issue of the London Review of Books ticks every box for me: it is from the Orkneys; it is about a vegetable ...

The Wintec Press Club is dead. Long live the Hamilton Press Club! The full story of the change is here . Full credit to Steve Braunias for...

I can’t decide between these two from the 28 April issue so here are both. A.N. Wilson writes in the Diary about his friend Jill Hamilt...

This is for Jillian Ewart: from the edition of Tuesday 10 April. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed ...

To the capital for the launch last night at the Wellington Festival of three VUP books: All This by Chance , a novel by Vincent O’Sullivan...