TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY
NZ Writers
Portia Baine and others Mad Honey Re-Draft 13
Winning Writing by New Zealand Teenagers
selected by Tessa Duder & James Norcliffe and edited by Glyn Strange.
Clerestory Press 2014 $34.50pb 137 pp ISBN 978 0 9922 5171 0
Themes: Series/ Short stories
Empathy and understanding, not so many vampires, werewolves
and zombies as in past stories and poetry and although there are some elements of
fascinating fantasy, many of the entries in this collection tend to deal with the here
and now and its problems (and sometimes - delights).
Take note of the writers’ names – you will be likely to come across them again
in major literary awards in the future.
This is the 13th collection of winning writing by NZ
teenagers, collected by the annual Re-Draft competition sponsored by the School
for Young Writers.
Go to: www.schoolforyoungwriters.org/ which will give you background to the
school, details of the annual competition, sources for buying the book if it is
not available in your local bookshop.
Redraft contains the work of
teenagers aged 13-19 at the time of entering and all young writers from 7 to 19
are able to apply for tuition and be given publishing opportunities whether
they live in Christchurch, where the school is based, anywhere else in New
Zealand or off-shore. Write On, the
magazine in which work by young writers aged 7 to 12 is published, comes out 4
times a year. Ask about it!
The deadline for entries for the 2015 Redraft is September 30th.
Year 3 up/ Age 7 up
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