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Sadly I was unable to attend the mid-year meet of the Hamilton Press Club, when Land Wars historian Vincent O’Malley was speaker. Press Club...

From the edition of Friday 13 December. As always, spelling, punctuation, paragraphing, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Wa...

From the edition of Saturday 8 December. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times ....

My 14-year-old daughter wants to redecorate her room so I dug out some photos of Murray Grimsdale’s exhibition at the Denis Cohn Gallery in ...

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 ...