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Writing
Quick links
Libraries are full of ideas, information and books — all using the written word. This page links to resources and materials for people who want to improve their writing or get material published.
Writing courses
- CINCH: authorship or creative writing
- Find courses and organisations in Canterbury.
- Christchurch school for young writers
- Our article on the Pulse, our website for teens.
- Hagley Writers’ Institute
- Writing courses, events and masterclasses. Based at Hagley Community College.
- Writing Courses
- Courses and workshops around New Zealand from the New Zealand Book Council.
Getting published
- Advice for teens
- Our collection of selected websites for online publishing for teenagers.
- How to get published
- Tips for writers from the New Zealand Book Council.
- Marketing Books in New Zealand
- Items in our catalogue.
- Poetry opportunities
- Submission guidelines from the New Zealand Poetry Society.
- Publishers
- Links in our Internet Gateway to publishers’ websites.
- Writing and illustrating for children
- New Zealand publishers’ requirements and addresses.
Writing for the web
- Quality Web Content.
- Articles about writing web content by Rachel McAlpine.
- Contented
- New Zealand writer Rachel McAlpine runs line writing courses. Has blog full of useful tips.
- New Zealand Government Web Standards
- Official standards including web content
- WriteMark
- New Zealand organisation which promotes and awards plain English standards of writing.
Writing competitions and prizes
- Redraft
- Redraft is published annually and it’s open to any teenage writer in New Zealand. Read previous editions of Redraft.
- Writing prizes
- Awards for essays and/or unpublished works from our Literary Prizes section.
Websites
- Books, Literature and Reading.
- Our collection of selected websites including festivals and events, publishers and organisations.
- International Institute of Modern Letters / Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o te Ao
- At Victoria University, Wellington.
- Journalists’ Training Organisation
- New Zealand Institute of Business Studies.
- Distance learning courses in journalism, travel writing, family histories etc.
- Whitireia Polytechnic.
- Offers several writing and publishing courses.
- Writer’s Organisations
- WriteMark
- The WriteMark website contains articles and information about writing in plain English.
