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- Briar Grace-Smith to convene Writing for Theatre Workshop
- 2015 Writer in Residence Announced
- The Luminaries shortlisted for International Thomas Dylan Prize
- The Luminaries Wins NZ Book Award for Fiction
- IIML Director and graduates on NZ Post Book Awards shortlist
- Creative Writing Graduates Win NZ Post Book Awards Best First Books
- A capital literary season - Writers on Mondays returns
- Damien Wilkins on creativity and innovation
- Tina Makereti interviewed
- Emily Perkins visits Chinese Universities
- Best New Zealand Poems 2013 now online
- Turbine 2013 goes live
- IIML Staff and Graduates in Writers Week lineup
- Eleanor Catton to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Victoria
Briar Grace-Smith to convene Writing for Theatre Workshop
26 November 2014
We are delighted to announce that Briar Grace-Smith will convene CREW 353 Writing for Theatre in second trimester 2014.
Briar is of Ngā Puhi descent and is an award-winning writer of plays, screenplays, short fiction and television scripts. She was an inaugural recipient of the Arts Foundation Laureate Award, and was the Victoria University / Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence in 20013. She completed an MA in Creative Writing in 2014. Read about Briar's theatre, television and film writing credits.
Briar says: 'The joy derived from being a playwright comes not only from the writing, but from the collaboration with the creative team and the actors. it comes from feeling the energy in the space come to life when the audience arrives. It is the most human of mediums.
A play can be realised on a small budget, with nothing to hold you back but your own desire and determination to get the work made.
For myself, playwrighting hasn't only been a stepping stone into the realms of television and film - teaching me about character, structure and story - it's where my writing heart lies. It is the home that I will always come back to.'
Read about How to apply for undergraduate CREW workshops at the IIML.
2015 Writer in Residence Announced
29 October 2014
We're delighted to announce that the 2015 Victoria University / Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence will be Tim Corballis. Tim has an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria; winning the Adam Foundation Prize in 2000 for his MA thesis which became his first novel, Below (Victoria University Press, 2001). His subsequent novels Measurement (2002) and The Fossil Pits (2005) were also published by VUP.
Tim held the Randall Cottage Writers' Residency in 2003 and the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency in 2005-6. He recently completed a PhD at the University of Auckland on aesthetic theory in the context of the Antipodes, and he sees this theoretical work as closely informing all of his creative practice.
Next year Tim will work mainly on a time-travel novel. His next book, a pair of novellas, will be published by VUP in 2015.
Applications for the annual Victoria / CNZ Writer in Residence open mid-year and close in late September for the following year's appointment. Writers of proven merit in any area of literary activity are invited to apply, provided they are normally resident in New Zealand or New Zealanders currently resident overseas. Enquiries about the residency may be made at any time, but a full role description and application will be available on the Current Vacancies page of Victoria's website when applications open each year.
The Luminaries shortlisted for International Thomas Dylan Prize
10 September 2014
MA in Creative Writing graduate Eleanor Catton's second novel, The Luminaries (Victoria University Press / Granta), has been shortlisted for the 2014 International Thomas Dylan Prize; the world's biggest literary prize for young writers.
The Luminaries has already won the Man Booker Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, both in 2013, and in 2014 it won both the Fiction and People's Choice categories of the New Zealand Post Book Awards. Her first novel The Rehearsal (VUP / Granta, 2008), which she wrote as her MA in Creative Writing thesis, was also shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, among others.
The £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize is awarded to the best published or produced literary work in the English language, written by an author aged 39 or under. This year's shortlist includes poetry, prose and drama by writers of many nationalities, including the Jamaican-born, Scotland-based Kei Miller, who held a masterclass with MA in Creative Writing students at the IIML earlier this year, while he was a guest of the New Zealand Festival Writers Week.
Peter Stead, founder and President of the International Dylan Thomas Prize, said:
'Given the strength of our longlist, we judges knew that choosing a shortlist would be a difficult process. In the end, seven wonderful works stood out.
We are thrilled that a play written and performed in Wales and a Caribbean poet from Glasgow will be gracing the shortlist which also consists of two American writers and novelists from Ireland, England and New Zealand.
Several of the books on the shortlist have already been honoured and this indicates the extent to which the International Dylan Thomas Prize has earned its place at the forefront of world literature.
We will be inviting to Swansea seven of the best writers in the world.'
The winner will be announced in November 2014.
Read the full shortlist and more about the Dylan Thomas Prize.
The Luminaries Wins NZ Book Award for Fiction
29 August 2014
Eleanor Catton has won both the Fiction and People's Choice categories of the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards with her second novel, The Luminaries (Victoria University Press/ Granta UK, 2013).
An astrological murder mystery set in the West Coast town of Hokitika during the 1860s Gold Rush, The Luminaries won the Man Booker Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in 2013.
The judging panel of this year's NZ Post Book Awards was convened by broadcaster Miriama Kamo and includes acclaimed New Zealand artist, Dick Frizzell; award-winning Radio New Zealand presenter Kim Hill; poet and novelist Elizabeth Smither; and literary critic Peter Simpson.
The panel described The Luminaries as 'sprawling, brilliant; there's a virtuosity to the work that affirms every accolade, that justifies all praise. Eleanor Catton is an extraordinary writer who has conducted a bold experiment and, in the tradition of great and celebrated risk-takers, it has paid off richly.'
The Poetry Award went to current NZ Poet Laureate Vincent O'Sullivan for his latest collection Us, then, also published by VUP. The winners of the previously announced Best First Books of Fiction and Poetry, Amy Head and Marty Smith, both also published by VUP, received their awards at the ceremony.
Read the press release or download the 2014 NZ Post Book Awards Judges' Report (942 KB )
IIML Director and graduates on NZ Post Book Awards shortlist
23 July 2014
IIML Director Professor Damien Wilkins' seventh novel, Max Gate, and The Luminaries; the Man Booker Prize-winning second novel from MA in Creative Writing graduate Eleanor Catton, are finalists in the Fiction category of the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards. MA in Creative Writing graduate Marty Smith's debut collection Horse With Hat is a finalist in the Poetry category. Horse with Hat has already won the Awards' Best First Book of Poetry category.
All three books are published by Victoria University Press, which has five books on this year's shortlist. The winners will be announced on 27 August.
Max Gate (VUP 2013) revolves around the impending death of Thomas Hardy in 1928, and the fight for ownership of his legacy among family, friends, admirers and hangers on.
'This is Wilkins at his luminous best...Max Gate is a triumphant take on a literary heritage and on a period in history that resounds with contemporary concerns.'
–Anne Kennedy, Metro
Wilkins has previously won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction with The Miserables and a number of his other books have won or been shortlisted for major prizes, including the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. He was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in 2008, and was made and Arts Foundation Laureate in 2013.
The Luminaries (VUP / Granta, 2013) is an astrological murder mystery set in the West Coast town of Hokitika during the 1860s Gold Rush. It has so far won the 2013 Man Booker Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction.
'A dazzling feat of a novel...a pastiche quite unlike anything I've come across, so graceful is its plotting and structure.'
–The Guardian
Catton graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria in 2007. Her previous novel The Rehearsal (VUP 2008) was written during her MA year at the IIML, under Damien Wilkins' supervision. It went on to win major New Zealand and international awards and, at last count, had been published in twelve languages.
Horse with Hat (VUP 2014) is the first collection from poet Marty Smith who graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria in 2003. She is one of two first-time authors on the poetry shortlist, alongside fellow VUP poet Caolinn Hughes.
'This is a simply beautiful book. Marty Smith's poems are by turns quirky, sad, punchy, amusing, thought-provoking, and above all they provide a sense of time and place and family.'
–Booksellers New Zealand
Read the Book Awards Press release and full list of finalists.
Creative Writing Graduates Win NZ Post Book Awards Best First Books
16 July 2014
MA in Creative Writing graduates and first-time authors Amy Head and Marty Smith have won the New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards for fiction and poetry respectively in the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards.
Both books were published by Victoria University Press, which has a total of five books on this year's shortlist.
Amy Head's Tough (VUP 2013) is a collection of stories set on the West Coast, past and present. Tough was included in the NZ Listener and Metro best book lists for 2013.
'...vividly brought to life and full of imaginative flourishes of minutely observed language.'
Guy Somerset, NZ Listener
'Head uses understatement to marvellous effect; Tough is tenderness by other means.'
Murray Bramwell, NZ Books
Announcing Tough as the winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for fiction, the judges described Amy's writing as clean and unfettered, yet fulsomely expressed. Judging panel convenor, the broadcaster Miriama Kamo says the book explores the 'then and now in a literary panorama mirroring the very place upon which the collection is built.'
Marty Smith's Horse with Hat (VUP 2014), has not only won the NZSA Jessie Mackay First Book Award for poetry, but is a finalist in the New Zealand Post Book Awards overall Poetry category, in the company of current and past New Zealand Poets Laureate Vincent O'Sullivan and Michele Leggott, and fellow first-time author and VUP poet Caoilinn Hughes.
'This is a simply beautiful book. Marty Smith's poems are by turns quirky, sad, punchy, amusing, thought-provoking, and above all they provide a sense of time and place and family'
Booksellers New Zealand
'...you travel through sumptuous lines and layers. This is no rose-tinted memoir—you get grit and you get open views, you get life's awkwardness and you get empathy...a fine debut.'
The Poetry Shelf
Of Marty's debut, Miriama Kamo commented: 'If Kiwi filmaking can be characterised as "cinema of unease", then Horse with Hat is the literary equivalent – dark, quiet, explosive and compelling. The book reflects thos quintessential markers that so many New Zealand families will recognise, whether with joy or reluctance. Galloping from poem to poem, Marty's work is an innovative and unsentimental observation of relationsahips, the most primal of all – within the family.'
A capital literary season - Writers on Mondays returns
27 June 2014
The perennially popular Writers on Mondays series, presented by Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), returns to Te Papa in mid-July with another stimulating line-up of new fiction, poetry, scriptwriting and nonfiction from the Wellington scene and further afield.
Read or download the full Writers on Mondays 2014 programme.
This year's special international guest is novelist, publisher, translator, poet and anthologist, Michael Schmidt. Schmidt's illustrious career includes founding Carcanet Press and editing world-class literary journal PN Review. With poet, painter and essayist Greg O'Brien, Schmidt will discuss his latest work, a brilliant and compendious history of fiction called simply The Novel: A Biography. Schmidt appears on 1 September, with support from the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation at Victoria University.
The programme kicks off on 14 July with Auckland-based novelist and journalist Tim Wilson, who will read from his raucous new satirical novel News Pigs, and interrogate New Zealand's self-image as Plucky Little Country with fellow broadcaster and writer Richard Langston, in what promises to be a very lively session.
The following week, the audience gets the opportunity to hear three new poets on the scene – Maria McMillan, Rachel O'Neill and Marty Smith – in readings and discussion about their recent stunning debut collections of poetry.
On July 28, literary all-rounder and much-admired poet Geoff Cochrane joins publisher Fergus Barrowman in conversation about Astonished Dice, a brand new collection of Cochrane's best short stories.
At the start of August, Victoria University/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence Hinemoana Baker will share her experiences of the residency, read from her new book of poems, and reveal a little of her work in progress, a moving personal account of involuntary childlessness and her father's traumatic childhood in a Nelson orphanage.
On 11 August, historians Kirstie Ross and Associate Professor Kate Hunter share some of the treasures they discovered while writing Holding on to Home, an account of New Zealanders' experience of World War I told through objects that act as emotional touchstones to bring this distant event back into our hands.
To celebrate National Poetry Day, nine poets will read work selected for the 2013 edition of Best New Zealand Poems introduced by the anthology's editors, Professors Jane Stafford and Mark Williams.
Returning to fiction, Dominion Post columnist and Commonwealth Writers' Best First Book Prize winner Craig Cliff and Ngā Kupu Ora award winner Tina Makereti talk about writing into the spaces between magic, realism and history in their acclaimed novels The Mannequin Makers and Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings.
September kicks off with man of letters Michael Schmidt discussing his many literary lives. Then we showcase the emerging new voices from the IIML's MA in Creative Writing Programme. The penultimate session features seasoned scriptwriters Peter Cox, Kelly Marshall and Dave Armstrong talking about the highs and lows of the scriptwriting life; and the 2014 series rounds off with a trio of writers discussing newly released memoirs of home, exile and pain: Ian Wedde (The Grass Catcher), Helena Wísniewska Brow (Give Us This Day) and Stephanie de Montalk (How Does it Hurt?).
As Damien Wilkins, Director of IIML, says, 'The wonderful combination of new voices and established writers makes this series a brilliant fixture on the literary calendar.'
Writers on Mondays events run from 12.15–1.15pm, 14 July – 30 September at Te Papa, The Marae, Level 4, Te Papa.
Admission is free, all are welcome. Please note that no food may be taken onto the Te Papa marae.
Writers on Mondays is presented by Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and National Poetry Day. Michael Schmidt's visit is funded by the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation at Victoria University.
For further information contact Chris Price, Senior Lecturer, IIML, on 04-463 6854 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Damien Wilkins on creativity and innovation
22 June 2014
A panel of Victoria staff, including the IIML's Director, Professor Damien Wilkins, led a conversation about the link between creativity and innovation as part of a Leading Edge event at the National Library on June 18.
'Creating Worlds: writing, design, science' was hosted by Victoria's Vice-Chancellor Professor Grant Guilford and featured presentations by Wilkins alongside Professor Simon Fraser from the Faculty of Architecture and Design and Professor Kate McGrath from the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences.
Wilkins discussed the cross-disciplinary nature of a recent PhD Creative Writing graduate's thesis, and subsequent novel, while acknowledging that innovation can be a high-risk activity in the field of creative writing. He also touched on hairdressing and caligraphy. Watch the presentation on YouTube.
Professor Guilford commented after the event: 'What struck me, and our audience, was the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. Of course, we need the right environment – one that is stimulating, encourages freedom of expression and gives people time to reflect – but we must also be open to ideas from outside our area of expertise. Ideas are better connected than protected – it is the coming together of new ideas that sparks new possibilities and that is at the heart of innovation.'
Tina Makereti interviewed
23 May 2014
Tina Makereti is an award-winning short fiction and non fiction writer, whose first novel, Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings (Random House), was published this year. She has an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University. She is of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Pākehā and Moriori descent.
From July to October 2014, Tina will convene the CREW 256: Special Topic: Māori and Pasifika Creative Writing Workshop at the IIML.
In a recent interview with the Book Council's Rachel O'Neill, she talks about writing Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings, and its central themes of loss, change, ethnic identity and belonging.
'The whole novel was really a working through of my central questions around identity and ethnicity and culture, so I guess the story itself was a way of answering this question, which I found couldn't be answered any other way.'
Read the interview on Booknotes Unbound
Applications for CREW 256 close on 21 June.
More about CREW 256 Special Topic: Māori and Pasifika Creative Writing Workshop
Emily Perkins visits Chinese Universities
11 April 2014
Fiction writer Emily Perkins has addressed student audiences at a number of Chinese universities, about creative writing and approaches to creativity in the New Zealand education system.
Emily, who is a Senior Lecturer at the IIML, co-convening the MA in Creative Writing, visited China in March as a guest of the 2014 Shanghai Literary Festival.
In addition to her Festival commitments, she spoke to students in popular sessions at Fudan University and Shanghai International Studies University in Shanghai; and Sun Yat-sen University and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou. She spoke from her experiences as a student, artist and creative writing tutor in New Zealand and fielded questions about her own fiction and the study and practice of creative writing. Read the coverage on the Education NZ website.
Emily is the author of four novels, including The Forrests, and Novel About My Wife, and a collection of short stories, Not Her Real Name. She has taught in the UK and New Zealand and presented TV books programmes 'The Book Show' and 'The Good Word' from 2006-2011. Her books have won and been shortlisted for major local and international awards, and she was named an Arts Foundation Laureate in 2011.
Read more about Emily Perkins and the MA in Creative Writing.
Best New Zealand Poems 2013 now online
1 April 2014
Media release
Best New Zealand Poems 2013 has been published online, showcasing work from award-winning poets, including the Poet Laureate, to new and emerging talents.
The 2013 edition includes work from award-winning poets such as Fleur Adcock, current Poet Laureate Vincent O'Sullivan, and Anne Kennedy to emerging talents such as Chris Tse and the Irish-New Zealand poet Caoilinn Hughes. It has been edited by Professor Mark Williams and Professor Jane Stafford from Victoria University of Wellington.
In deciding what to include in Best New Zealand Poems, both editors have drawn on their experience of wading through 200 years of New Zealand literature when putting together the landmark Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature (2012). They chose 25 poems to include in the anthology, put them in a historical context and described the current state of New Zealand's 'best' poetry.
After the 'torrid but not wholly unenjoyable' task of editing the Anthology of New Zealand Literature, the editors say it was liberating to be confined to one year's slim bulk of poetry with Best New Zealand Poems.
'What we looked for, and found,' write Professors Stafford and Williams, 'were poems of clarity and suggestiveness, poems that act as a dynamic conversation with the reader — rule poems, riddle poems, mix-of register poems, social pattern poems with something withheld, poems which are dramatic, lyrical and coherent, without tired lines or dull phrases.'
Series editor and poet Chris Price, who is also Senior Lecturer at Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters, says: 'While many previous editors of Best New Zealand Poems have themselves been poets, this year it's been stimulating and revealing to have the 2013 edition selected by professional critics of New Zealand literature. I'm sure their introduction will provoke further conversations and debates.'
Best New Zealand Poems 2013 includes excerpts from a number of impressive long poems by both leading writers such as Ian Wedde, Michele Leggott and Dinah Hawken, and relative newcomers such as Amy Brown.
A number of the poems are also available as audio recordings. Auckland poet Selina Tusitala Marsh and Dunedin-based Professor Emeritus Vincent O'Sullivan are among a number of poets who can be heard reading their work on the site.
Best New Zealand Poems is published by the International Institute of Modern Letters. It was first published online in 2001, and features a different editor each year. In 2011 Victoria University Press published The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems, a selection from the first 10 years of the collection in book form.
Best New Zealand Poems 2013, and all previous editions, can be viewed at www.victoria.ac.nz/bestnzpoems.
It is published with the support of Creative New Zealand, and hosted by the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection at Victoria University.
For more information please contact Chris Price on (04) 463 5815 or email email@example.com.
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Turbine 2013 goes live
19 February 2014
Media Release
Poetry, memoir and a tribute to artist Ralph Hotere feature in the 2013 issue of the online literary journal Turbine which is published by Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML).
Turbine 13 showcases writing from established and emerging voices, including the latest graduates of the IIML's Master of Arts in Creative Writing.
View Turbine 13.
This year's highlights include American poet Mary Ruefle's 'Long White Cloud', which was inspired by her visit to New Zealand as an IIML international guest writer, and former IIML director Emeritus Professor Bill Manhire's tribute to Ralph Hotere titled 'Some Things to Place in a Coffin'.
Turbine also features an extract from the first memoir to win the Adam Foundation Prize, Helena Wiśniewska Brow's Give us this day, which will be published by Victoria University Press in October this year. The memoir tells the story of a Polish child who arrived in New Zealand in 1944.
There is also poetry from Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Sara Martin, who is currently convening a poetry workshop at the IIML.
An interview with 2013 Victoria University Writer in Residence Carl Shuker and extracts from the reading journals of last year's MA in Creative Writing graduates, give fascinating insights into the writing process.
Among the previous contributors to Turbine is IIML graduate Eleanor Catton, whose novel The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
For further information contact Chris Price, Senior Lecturer at the IIML, on 04-463 5815 or by email.
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Issued by Victoria University of Wellington Communications & Marketing. Kristina Keogh, Assistant Communications Adviser, can be contacted by emailing Kristina Keogh or phoning (04) 463 5163 or 027 563 5163.
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IIML Staff and Graduates in Writers Week lineup
7 February 2014
Writers Week runs from 7 to 12 March this year, as part of the New Zealand Festival, and once again, Victoria University is a key partner in the event. IIML staff and graduates also have a strong presence in this year's Writers Week lineup.
Events to look out for include a rehearsed reading of scenes from IIML Director Damien Wilkins' latest novel, Max Gate; a live creative writing workshop convened onstage by James Brown; Dave Armstrong reading as part of the lineup for The Curioseum: Collected Stories of the Odd and Marvellous, and chairing a session on New Zealand playwrights and the histories that inspire them; and critic Terry Castle in conversation with Harry Ricketts.
More details are below. You can read the full programme and book tickets on the Writers Week website.
And look out for sessions featuring or hosted by our graduates; among them the Man Booker prizewinning novelist Eleanor Catton (2014 New Zealand Book Council Lecture and Midwives or Meddlers?, journalist Linley Boniface and Commonwealth Short Story Prizewinner Emma Martin (Reading for Readers); poet, essayist and fiction writer Alice Miller (First Published); novelist and first-time children's author Mary McCallum (Dappled Annie and the Tigrish - book launch); and award-winning writer Tina Makereti, who will teach a Māori and Pasifika Creative Writing Workshop at the IIML later this year, in conversation with the poet and novelist Kei Miller(Where We Might Fit).
Read more about our graduates.
Scenes of Secrets and Disguises – five actors read from Arts Foundation Laureate Damien Wilkin's seventh novel, Max Gate (Victoria University Press, 2013).
Sunday 9 March from 4.45pm, Embassy Theatre
More about Damien Wilkins and the International Institute of Modern Letters
The Exercise Book Live – award-winning poet James Brown and students of the International Institute of Modern Letters workshop prose, poetry and scripts live onstage, with audience interaction.
Friday 7 March from 9.45am, Hannah Playhouse
More about James Brown and CREW 253 Poetry Workshop
Based on a True Story – Playwrights Michelanne Forster, Hone Kouka, Briar Grace-Smith and Stuart Hoar discuss their relationship with and debt to the New Zealand histories that have inspired them, in a session chaired by fellow playwright and television scriptwriter Dave Armstrong.
Wednesday 12 March from 10.45am, Hannah Playhouse
Collected Stories of the Odd and Marvellous –
Dave Armstrong, Joy Cowley, Elizabeth Knox, Antonio Te Maioha, Kyle Mewburn, and Jo Randerson share stories and poems from The Curioseum: Collected Stories of the Odd and Marvellous (Te Papa Press, 2014); a new anthology inspired by the weird and wonderful contents of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum.
Sunday 8 March from 2pm, Te Marae at Te Papa.
More about Dave Armstrong and CREW 351 Television Scriptwriting Workshop
Reviewing the reviewer – critic Terry Castle (London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books), whom Susan Sontag called 'the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today', discusses her craft with fellow critic, poet, biographer and reviewer Harry Ricketts.
Sunday 9 March from 10.45am, Embassy Theatre.
More about Harry Ricketts and CREW 257 Creative Nonfiction Workshop.
Eleanor Catton to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Victoria
28 January 2014
Man Booker prize-winning author of The Luminaries Eleanor Catton, is to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature at Victoria University of Wellington's May graduation.
'We are extremely proud to count Eleanor among our illustrious alumni, and look forward to formally acknowledging her achievements with an honorary doctorate,' says Victoria University Vice-Chancellor Professor Pat Walsh. Read the full story.
Eleanor graduated with Distinction from Victoria's MA Creative Writing programme in 2008, winning that year's Adam Prize for The Rehearsal, which was subsequently published by Victoria University Press. The Luminaries is her second novel.
Read more about Eleanor Catton and other graduates of the MA in Creative Writing


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Our harmony singing camps are a testament to the extraordinary things ordinary people can achieve when they come together. They are also a lot of fun, and there is nothing quite like singing in harmony with others. People come to our programs with a broad range of musical experience, from novice singers to experienced choir leaders. Wherever you fit in that spectrum, you are encouraged to join us.
During our week-long summer programs, everyone stays together at the retreat center: we eat communally and share a lot of time together. Often we are asked to help with clean up after meals, and see this as another opportunity to work together. Each day, we spend 6 hours singing as a full group, with the leaders taking turns to present material. Each leader brings their individual focus and expertise, making the musical blend of each camp unique. In addition the singing, there is time during the week to walk and play and explore. Evenings are free, but we usually put on a cabaret one night during the week.
Weekend retreats begin on Friday with dinner and run through Sunday lunch. We sing for two hours on Friday evening, about 8 on Saturday, and another two hours on Sunday before heading home.
A word about food:
We believe that good food is an essential part of a good life, and strive to work with venues and caterers that provide healthy, satisfying meals. We are also aware that many people have dietary restrictions. We work to accommodate these needs, but—as balancing the many restrictions of a large group can be a challenge for the kitchen crew—we cannot promise that every need will be met. If you have severe or extensive dietary restrictions, you may wish to bring supplemental food. More importantly, we'd like to think of the meals—indeed, of the whole camp—as a collaboration between us rather than as a service provided to you. If we work together, everyone can get what they need at the table.
Please visit us at facebook, where we have pictures of past programs.
Singing Workshop with John Harrison and Brendan Taaffe
Long-time friends, John and Brendan have taught together many times and their styles and repertoire complement each other well. Together they will explore traditional American harmonygospel, shape note hymns, Appalachian ballads—as well as offering some original pieces. There may also be some Zimbabwean pieces from Brendan's song collecting trip there. John directs the Montpelier Community Gospel Choir and is a popular singing leader at workshops throughout New England. Brendan directs the Bright Wings Chorus, and travels frequently to Europe to lead workshops. His original work, based on early American styles, is popular with choirs in the U.K., New Zealand, and America. The songs are known for their lush harmonies and sense of the sacred.
The workshop is open to all interested singers and costs $45 for the day. Lunch is not included in the price.
To register, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com and send a check for $45 (made out to 'Turtle Dove') to 118 Prospect St. #2, Brattleboro, VT, 05301.
Winter Singing Weekend in the Northeast Kingdom with Val Mindel and Brendan Taaffe
Join us in the peace of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom for a weekend of song and rejuvenation before the craziness of the holiday season. Val, known around the country for her teaching and command of the material, will lead us deep into the hows and whys of old-time and early country harmony. Brendan will bring a selection of his original works, popular with singing groups throughout America and the U.K., and will be just recently returned from a second song-collecting trip to Zimbabwe, surely with some new treasures to share.
Sky Meadow is a peaceful retreat nestled in the hills of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. It operates primarily as a Buddhist retreat, so the accommodations are simple but comfortable. Unlike recent Turtle Dove events, this weekend won't be catered. We'll work together in the kitchen to create our own meals, giving us another chance to create community.
The cost of the weekend, including room and board, is $285. This weekend is limited to 20 people. To register, please fill out a registration form and send a deposit of $125 to Turtle Dove, 118 Prospect St. #2, Brattleboro, VT 05301.
Youth Harmony Weekend with John Harrison, Suzannah Park, and Brendan Taaffe
Calling all teen (and recent-teen) singers for a weekend of peace, love, and harmony. We'll make our meals together, dance in the morning, and dig deep into some great music with our dynamic trio of leaders. John Harrison, director of the Montpelier Community Gospel Choir and long-time popular leader with Village Harmony, will bring some rockin' gospel and originals. The inimitable Suzannah Park will bring her infectious energy, traditional Appalachian songs and probably her cloggin' shoes. Brendan will throw in some originals that make you cry in the best way and will be just recently returned from a song-collecting trip in Zimbabwe, surely with some treasures to share.
Woolman Hill is a Quaker retreat center in Deerfield, Massachusetts, convenient to rte. 91 but secluded in 110 acres of meadows and woods. It is founded on the Quaker belief that there is that of God in every person, and welcomes all who wish to nurture the spirit within and without. We think that singing together will definitely nurture our spirits and be a lot of fun.
The cost of the weekend is $255 and is open to high school and college-aged singers. To register, please fill out a registration form and send a deposit of $125 to Turtle Dove, 118 Prospect St. #2, Brattleboro, VT 05301.
Singing in Paradise: A Winter Week in Hawaii with Moira Smiley and Brendan Taaffe
A week in Hawaii in February, staying at a yoga center that's part of an organic ginger farm, and singing with Moira and Brendan? I mean, really, what more is there to say?
Moira Smiley has one of the most agile voices you'll encounter—rare for any musician, Moira has managed to master multiple styles of music—Balkan, Appalachian, Irish and more. Even rarer, she is as adept at teaching as she is at performing, able to explain the nuances of these different styles in a way that makes it fun to develop your own skills. Moira will likely focus on Eastern European material. Brendan will bring his lush originals, songs from Zimbabwe and Polynesia, and his quiet grace as a leader. In addition, we are hoping to spend some time with local Hawaiian singers and, of course, we'll go to the beach.
The cost of the week, including room and board, is $1200. Hilo is the closest airport to the retreat center: from there you can take a shuttle to Pahoa, where we will meet you and bring you to the retreat center. To register, please fill out a registration form and send a deposit of $125 to Turtle Dove, 118 Prospect St. #2, Brattleboro, VT 05301.
Summer Singing Week in England with Sian Croose, Chartwell Dutiro, and Brendan Taaffe
Join us in the temenos of Avalon for an uplifting week of song with Sian, Chartwell, and Brendan.
Sian is one of England's most loved singing leaders and is one of those people who lights up a room. She directs Big Sky, a choir based in Norwich, and is a co-founder of The Voice Project, an open-access singing project that promotes new and imaginative choral works. Chartwell grew up in rural Zimbabwe and started playing the mbira when he was four years old. Now living in Devon, Chartwell will bring the traditional songs of his youth to the group. A frequent visitor to the U.K., Brendan will bring a selection of traditional American gems and lush originals.
EarthSpirit is a beautiful retreat centre five miles outside of Glastonbury, in scenic Somerset. The centre lies between two nature reserves and a two minute walk from St. Andrew's church, which has a 1,700 year old yew tree in the cemetery. The centre is based around a converted long barn, with oak timbers and stone walls. The feeling is medieval but with modern comforts like under-floor heating and a large woodstove. The high roof and skylights create a light, airy atmosphere.
The price for this week will be announced by January, 2015.
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4/26/2012 (2 years ago)
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There is an opposite side to Benedict XVI's "dream." We may call it Pope Benedict XVI's "nightmare." The nightmare happens when this inclination or thirst for justice is corrupted, disordered, or misguided, so that instead of being a force for good, it actually becomes a force for evil. The nightmare arises when this inclination for justice is tied to a misunderstanding of (or rejection of) God, or a misunderstanding of (or rejection of) man.
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
4/26/2012 (2 years ago)
Published in Living Faith
Keywords: Justice, Common Good, Social Doctrine, Corruption, sin, Andrew Greenwell, Esq
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - In our last article, we wrote about Pope Benedict XVI's "dream." This "dream" is reason's answer to the fact that men and women of good will have an inclination for justice, that we may assume that the world was well-made by a benevolent God, that-as a whole-justice does not seem to occur as we should expect in a world well-made. Our inclinations toward justice are not satisfied.
Those realities led Plato and Cicero and other philosophers to suggest the possibility-by adopting myths and dreams-of an eternal life, with just judgment, where justice finally its day. They suggest this as a tentative hunch, as something plausible but beyond reason and the evidence of the senses. Hence the only way it comes to us is by myth and dream.
However, for Christians, the reality, the objective truth of this "dream" or this "myth" has become revealed, and its truth is seized by Faith when we accept Jesus as God's justice, when we accept Jesus crucified, Jesus resurrected, Jesus who will come again to judge the living and the dead. In Faith, our inclinations towards justice are satisfied in the hope that justice, in the Final Judgment, will have its day.
But there is an opposite side to this "dream." We may call it Pope Benedict XVI's "nightmare." The nightmare happens when this inclination or thirst for justice is corrupted, disordered, or misguided, so that instead of being a force for good, it actually becomes a force for evil. The nightmare arises when this inclination for justice is tied to a misunderstanding of (or rejection of) God, or a misunderstanding of (or rejection of) man.
Nightmares of justice occur if we are materialists, if we refuse to believe in spiritual realities-in God, and in the spiritual nature of man meant for communion with God in a life in eternity. If there is no eternity and no God to set things right sometime in the future, then we are compelled to set things right in the here-and-now irrespective of the cost. The noble saying fiat iustitia ruat caeulum-may justice be done though the heavens fall-becomes downright demonic if it becomes fiat iustitia sine caelo-may justice be done without regard to heaven.
The traditional saying does not violate the injunction that we may not do evil that good may come. (cf. Rom. 3:5-8) The second materialistic notion justifies any means, good or evil, to achieve what is seen as good. So we have, per exempla, Stalin's Gulags and the West's abortion mills. Horrible injustices justified by the pursuit of a perverted sense of justice without regard to God or to man.
Without belief in the true God our efforts are in ultimately fruitless, in fact not only fruitless, but they bear poisonous fruit. (Deut. 29:18; Matt. 7:17) "Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain." (Ps. 127:1). In his 2010 Lenten message where he discusses these issues, Pope Benedict XVI quotes St. Augustine: "if 'justice is that virtue which gives every one his due . . . where, then, is the justice of man, when he deserts the true God?"
In his encyclical Spe salvi, Pope Benedict XVI elaborates on how the interaction of materialistic atheism corrupts the human inclination toward justice so as to make it nightmarish. Benedict XVI states that the atheism of the 19th and 20th centuries was, at heart, a moralistic venture, that is to say, an expression of man's thirst or inclination for justice. Those philosophical and political systems built upon atheism were built upon a "protest against the injustices of the world and of world history." Faced with injustice, these moralists blamed God, and rejected him.
And this is where the nightmare came in: "Since there is no God to create justice, it seems man himself is now called to establish justice. . . . . [T]he claim that humanity can and must do what no God actually does or is able to do is both presumptuous and intrinsically false. It is no accident that this idea has led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice; rather, it is grounded in the intrinsic falsity of the claim. A world which has to create its own justice is a world without hope. No one and nothing can answer for centuries of suffering. No one and nothing can guarantee that the cynicism of power-whatever beguiling ideological mask it adopts-will cease to dominate the world." Spe salvi, 42.
The inclination for justice is not only nightmarish when it is acted upon without regard to truth of God, it is also nightmarish when we do it without regard to truth of man. There is, Pope Benedict XVI observes in his Lenten reflection, "a permanent temptation within man: to situate the origin of evil in an exterior cause. Many modern ideologies deep down have this presupposition: since injustice comes 'from outside,' in order for justice to reign, it is sufficient to remove the exterior causes that prevent it being achieved." Rousseau may be the poster boy for someone who succumbed hook, line, and sinker to this temptation.
But this Rousseauian anthropology does not conform to the truth of man or the truth of injustice. "Injustice, the fruit of evil, does not have exclusively external roots; its origin lies in the human heart, where the seeds are found of a mysterious cooperation with evil," Pope Benedict XVI tells us.
A correct anthropology-one that recognizes that man is wounded and that he sins-is needed to avoid a nightmare of justice. This anthropology must recognize that outstanding fact of which G. K. Chesterton quipped in his book Orthodoxy is "the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved," and which anyone "can see in the street."
In his 2010 Lenten reflections, Pope Benedict XVI reflects on the effect of sin on injustice. "[M]an is weakened by an intense influence, which wounds his capacity to enter into communion with the other. By nature, he is open to sharing freely, but he finds in his being a strange force of gravity that makes him turn in and affirm himself above and against others: this is egoism, the result of original sin."
We have to be freed of this inner selfishness, this tendency toward egoism, this hitch in us that overemphasizes our "due" over the "due" of the other. This is not achieved by force, but by grace.
As the Pope explains, the Hebrew notion of justice in the Old Testament-sedaqah-ties in faith in God with justice to the needy. The virtue of justice has therefore an upward and outward valence.
"Sedaqah, in fact, signifies on the one hand full acceptance of the will of the God of Israel; on the other hand, equity in relation to one's neighbor (cf. Ex 20, 12-17), especially the poor, the stranger, the orphan and the widow (cf. Dt 10, 18-19). But the two meanings are linked because giving to the poor for the Israelite is none other than restoring what is owed to God, who had pity on the misery of His people."
In fact, the Pope tells us, there can be no justice unless we experience a sort of internal "exodus." We must be saved from the hand of the "Egyptians" within us, which is to say those tendencies in us that hold as in selfish thrall, and prevent us from being free.
But if God is to set us free from nightmares, he must first hear our cry, which means we must first believe in him. It is God who delivers. It is God who effects that deliverance, but in doing so he demands that we do justice to our brothers, in particular, the poor, the stranger, and the slave.
Indeed, sedaqah has two dimensions, it is a twined virtue. It is impossible to have sedaqah with regard to God and be unjust to one's brother. St. John captures the twined notion of sedaqah perfectly when he says, "If we say we love God and hater our brother, we are a liar." (1 John 4:20). Our Lord captured it likewise when he asked us to pray to God the Father to forgive us our injustices against Him, as we forgive our brothers' injustices against us.
To conform to that divine injunction of loving God and neighbor requires an "exodus," an "exodus" that requires us to cross over the "illusion of self-sufficiency, the profound state of closure, which is the very origin of injustice." We must escape ourselves and reach out to God and to our brother; without crossing over this personal "Red Sea," we never will achieve justice.
How do we break away from the "state of closure," the solipsism or selfishness which prevents our communion with God and with others of our kind? Who is the Moses that shall lead us to the Promised Land?
Jesus is the agent, the "I am" of our "exodus" away from this "state of closure" into justice. The Pope elaborates in his 2010 Lenten message: "What then is the justice of Christ? Above all, it is the justice that comes from grace, where it is not man who makes amends, heals himself and others. The fact that "expiation" flows from the "blood" of Christ signifies that it is not man's sacrifices that free him from the weight of his faults, but the loving act of God who opens Himself in the extreme, even to the point of bearing in Himself the "curse" due to man so as to give in return the "blessing" due to God (cf. Gal 3, 13-14)."
This seems impossible. This seems too good to be true. This does not smell like the justice defined as giving each man his "due." In a sense it scandalizes that sense of natural justice.
The Pope agrees. He asks rhetorically: "What kind of justice is this where the just man dies for the guilty and the guilty receives in return the blessing due to the just one? Would this not mean that each one receives the contrary of his 'due'?"
Indeed, in seeing God's justice in Christ, we confront a paradoxical justice, one that transcends the limits of our experience. In Jesus, "we discover divine justice, which is so profoundly different from its human counterpart."
"God has paid for us the price of the exchange in His Son, a price that is truly exorbitant. Before the justice of the Cross, man may rebel for this reveals how man is not a self-sufficient being, but in need of Another in order to realize himself fully. Conversion to Christ, believing in the Gospel, ultimately means this: to exit the illusion of self-sufficiency in order to discover and accept one's own need-the need of others and God, the need of His forgiveness and His friendship."
This conversion requires Faith, not emotion based upon sentiment, not science based upon empirical fact. "So we understand how Faith is altogether different from a natural, good-feeling, obvious fact." We can have feelings and be good scientists and be proud. But to have Faith, one must come as a little child, one must be humble.
"[H]umility is required to accept that I need Another to free me from "what is mine," to give me gratuitously "what is His." . . . . Thanks to Christ's action [on the Cross and in the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist in particular], we may enter into the "greatest" justice, which is that of love (cf. Rm 13, 8-10), the justice that recognizes itself in every case more a debtor than a creditor, because it has received more than could ever have been expected."
"Strengthened by this very experience," and only within that experience of Faith in the Risen Lord, "the Christian is moved to contribute to creating just societies, where all receive what is necessary to live according to the dignity proper to the human person and where justice is enlivened by love."
Faith in Jesus-which requires a rightly ordered understanding of God and of man (for Jesus is the God-Man)-is therefore the indispensable formula for avoiding nightmares of justice.
Jesus. He is the preventative of Benedict XVI's nightmare. Jesus is the divine "dreamcatcher," the device which allows only good dreams to filter through and protects against nightmares of justice.
Andrew M. Greenwell is an attorney licensed to practice law in Texas, practicing in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is married with three children. He maintains a blog entirely devoted to the natural law called Lex Christianorum. You can contact Andrew at email@example.com.
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