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JOAN ROSIER-JONES - NEW ZEALAND WRITER / MENTOR / MANUSCRIPT ASSESSOR
I have been interviewed extensively by the press, on radio and television and have taken part in readings and festivals. I have also spoken to a wide range of groups - Zonta, Rotary, Friends of the Library etc. about my life and work over the years.
On-goingly I am a mentor and manuscript assessor for the NZ Society of Authors.
I began my working life as a school teacher and now combine this with my writing as a creative writing tutor. Many of my students have achieved success. I have taught at:
University of Auckland Unitec as an elective module in their Bachelor in CommunicationsNew South Wales Writers Centre, Sydney, AustraliaSeminars throughout New Zealand - Timaru, Oamaru, Nelson, Christchurch, Kapiti Coast, Cambridge, Whangarei.Community Education Service, Wanganui*Writers' Retreats, Auckland and Marlborough Sounds*Corbans Estate Arts CentreUxbridge Arts CentreMonthly Creative Writing session Borders bookstore, 2000 - 2003.New Zealand Writers GuildLocal Auckland high schools - Beginners, Advanced, Master ClassNZ Book Council's Writers in Schools programme*New Zealand Institute of Business Studies (Distance learning)*Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT)* On-going.
For several years I was been a preliminary judge in the "Sunday Star Times" Short Story competition. I have also acted on the assessment committee for the Sargeson Trust Buddle Findlay Fellowship and been judge for many writing groups' competitions. |
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Publication History
The Stars Go Down revised, produced by Wanganui Repertory Theatre as part of the Literary Festival, September 2011.
Waiting for Elizabeth, historical novel set in Tudor Ireland currently with an agent in UK, 2011.
Crossing the Alps, novel to be published as both e-book and hard copy by Bluewood Publishers, 2011.
Writer in Residence, NZ Society of Authors' Top of the South Branch, 2010.
Correspondence course for New Zealand Institute of Business Studies, Writing a Murder Mystery Novel, 2010
Correspondence course for New Zealand Institute of Business Studies Writing the Short Story, 2009.
The Murder of Chow Yat, non-fiction work, pub. Stead & Daughters, 2009.
Children's Writing in New Zealand, a bi-lingual book in English and Mandarin on New Zealand children's writers jointly written with Annie Shih, published in Taiwan, June 2009.
Booklets, Getting Published, The Business of Writing and Marketing Your Book written and/or adapted for NZ Society of Authors, 2008
Wanganui Literary Tour - exploring Wanganui's rich literary history; written and presented on several occasions either as a bus or walking tour. Researched and collated information, 2005 - 2006.
Correspondence course for New Zealand Institute of Business Studies based on Writing Your Family History, 2006.
Writing Your Family History (revised edition), pub. Random House, 2005.
Crossing the Alps, shortlisted for the Richard Webster Popular Fiction Award, 2004.
Researched and wrote a historical walk for the Glenfield Ward of the North Shore City Council, 2002.
For four years from 2001 I wrote a monthly column (English version) on writing for children in New Zealand for the Mandarin Daily, Taiwan. Twenty-four prominent New Zealand writers were featured.
So You Want to Write- a Guide to Creative Writing, Tandem Press, 2000.
Novel, YES, David Ling 2000.
Advanced course, Writing Your First Novel, commissioned for N. Z. Institute of Business Studies, 2000 for distance learning students.
Publicising Your Book written for New Zealand Society of Authors, 2000.
Non-fiction book commissioned Tandem Press, Writing Your Family History, pub.1997.
Received $7,000 grant from Creative New Zealand, 1997.
Novel, Mother Tongue pub. David Ling Publishing, 1996.
Radio rights to Voyagers were bought and I was commissioned to write the adaptation, broadcast on National Radio, 1991.
Novel, Canterbury Tales pub. Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.
Weekly travel column for Television New Zealand's Teletext, 1988-92.
Novel, Voyagers pub. Hodder & Stoughton, 1987.
Literary Fund's Writers' Bursary $10,000, 1986, allowed me to leave full-time work and complete my second novel, Voyagers.
Novel, Cast Two Shadows pub. Hodder & Stoughton, 1985.
Play, The Stars Go Down, was produced 1985. Finalist for best New Zealand play in the Theatre Federation's One Act Play Contest, and had a season at the Maidment Theatre.
I have had short stories published, placed in competitions and anthologised; articles published in such magazines as Metro, Next & Quote Unquote, A.A. Magazine, Air New Zealand Inflight Magazine; reviews Wanganui Chronicle; reviews and opinion pieces New Zealand Books.
My work has been discussed in The Dictionary of New Zealand Literature ed. T.Sturm. |
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JOAN ROSIER-JONES
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