Cloud Ink

May 2017 Newsletter

Congratulations!

 

* Anne Kayes on the publication in April of her novel Tui Street Tales.   Anne won the Tom Fitzgibbon Award in 2015.  Her book has been published by Scholastic.

* Siobhan Harvey, elected as President of the New Zealand Society of Authors at the AGM in May.

* Christel Jeffs on the publication of her first novel The Gumdigger's Wife.  It is available through Amazon. 

 

Up to date with Cloud Ink

 

Anne Kayes has resigned from the Executive of Cloud Ink Press in order to concentrate on the launch of her successful children’s stories, and to start a sequel.  We wish her all the very best.

 

Check out this awesome review of Tui Street Tales by Anne Kayes in the New Zealand Herald.

We welcome Alana Cooke, who has joined the Executive of Cloud Ink.

 

As a mature student Alana went to University where she studied English, Russian Literature, History, Music and Fine Arts, majoring in English. She went on to do BA Hons in English and thereafter did a MA in English Literature, graduating in 2006. Her thesis was based on the structure of Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve. Always interested in writing and the written word, she completed a Master of Creative Writing at AUT graduating in 2010. Currently she is working on her second novel. 

On 3 July, thanks to the New Zealand Society of Authors and Auckland Art Gallery, there will be a Writers' Lounge session on 'Publishing in the New Age'.  Cloud Ink Press's Thalia Henry, Eunoia Publishing's Rod Fee, and Mary Egan Publishing's Sophia Egan-Reid will be answering questions from host Catriona Ferguson.  The session will be at 12 noon in the Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium.

We have a number of projects on the horizon, and are aiming for three publications this year and at least the same next year.  Helen McNeil's book A Striking Truth was well received and in the months since the launch has had a number of favourable reviews including in The Listener and Pantograph Punch.

Fresh Ink

 

We're excited to announce that our next publication to be launched will be our anthology, Fresh Ink in August. It includes a selection of original writing by New Zealand authors that reflects the diversity of voices, styles, and themes current in the writing landscape. There is a wonderful selection of stories, poems and extracts from novels, from thirty five different writers. Some of the authors are unpublished and others are already well known and award winning - including poets Maris O’Rorke and Siobhan Harvey, and award winning story writer Patricia Hanifin and novelist Joan Taylor to name a few.  Check out the bios of all of our authors and artists on the Cloud Ink website, by clicking here.  Congratulations to all!

 

We wish to acknowledge Suzanne Day who has designed the cover.  She says, "The bellbird/ korimako is well known for its beautiful voice — a Māori saying for a fluent, graceful speaker is: He rite ki te kopara e ko nei i te ata. (It is like the bell-bird singing at dawn.) — so feel this is an appropriate symbol for an anthology of wonderful and talented NZ voices. The collage-style illustration conveys the collection and unity of these diverse voices."

 

Beneath Pale Water

 

In October, Cloud Ink will launch Thalia Henry’s novel, Beneath Pale Water.  Set in the high country of the South Island, the story is one of identity and recovery.  Delia, a sculptor, lost her partner in an accident.  Working through her grief with her art, and using a local model, she befriends Luke who looks remarkably like the man she lost.  Dominated by the impressive landscapes of Lake Aviemore and Kurow, Delia and Luke’s lives become intertwined as scenes from the past and relationships from the present threaten to overwhelm their future.

 

Thalia is a teacher and has a Master of Creative Writing with first class honours. This will be her first novel.

A Case of Dates

 

Events

14 - 18 June

22 June

29 - 30 June

30 June - 2 July

13 - 16 July

19 - 25 July

28 - 30 July

August

October

 

Seoul Book Fair

National Flash Fiction Day

New York Poetry Book Festival

Word Cafe, Raglan

Mildura Writers' Festival (Australia)

Hong Kong Book Fair

Marlborough Book Festival

Publication of Fresh Ink

Publication of Beneath Pale Water

 

Closing Dates for Awards and Competitions

 

31 May

 

31 May

25 June

 

21 June

30 June

 

30 June

7 July

16 July

31 July

19 November

No closing date

 

Bridport Prize (UK) - poem, short story, flash fiction

Exit Earth Short Story

National Literary Bloomsbury Children's Publishing Award

McLennan Poetry Prize

Miami Book Fair De Groot Prize (unpublished novel)

The Brighton Prize

Pennine Ink Short Story Competition

HG Wells Short Story Competition

Landfall Essay Competition

Bath (UK) - Novel Award (Children's)

Writers' Forum

 

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