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Meet our Workshop Facilitators: WHITI HEREAKA (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa) is a playwright and novelist. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) from the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University and is a trustee of the Māori Literature Trust. In 2007, she wrote her first novel, The Graphologist’s Apprentice, which was shortlisted for Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers Prize South East Asia and Pacific 2011. Her second novel, Bugs, won the Honour Award, Young Adult Fiction, New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, 2014, and the Storylines Notable Book Award, Senior Fiction, 2014.⠀
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In an interview with e-tangata Whiti says "I learned that you can move the reader only if you’ve put some real emotional work into it. It’s the spark of humanity in your writing that readers respond to. It’s not the pretty words or the way your sentences are constructed. All of that helps. But it’s the humanity that people respond to. It’s hard, though, to be vulnerable in such a public way. But it’s also rewarding. I think of my second novel, Bugs, which a lot of young people have responded to. They come up to me and say: 'I finally saw myself in a novel that I can relate to. I can relate to her struggles and her journey.' ⠀
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Head to our website to secure your tickets to our Wahine Maori Writers Workshop. Link in bio⠀
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Meet our Workshop Facilitators: NADINE ANNE HURA (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) is a prolific writer, with essays published on E-Tangata, The SpinOff and Pantograph Punch. Her manuscript was chosen for this years Te Papa Tupu programme by the Māori Literature Trust. She has a background in journalism, education policy and kaupapa Māori research and her essays explore themes of identity, biculturalism, politics and parenting.⠀
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"I'm excited about decolonising our writing. Anything we do together as Māori writers to support each other and to challenge the structures that continually try to 'other' us, feels decolonising. It's an exciting time to be a Māori writer!" ⠀
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Ae Nadine. It is a VERY exciting time.⠀
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Head to our website to secure your tickets to our Wahine Maori Writers Workshop. Link in Bio.⠀
#AWWW2019 #wahine #maoriwriter #manawahine #maori #wellington #wellingtonnz

rupi kaur @rupikaur_ is a #1 new york times bestselling author and illustrator of two collections of poetry. she started drawing at the age of five when her mother handed her a paintbrush and said—draw your heart out. rupi views her life as an exploration of that artistic journey. after completing her degree in rhetoric studies she published her first collection of poems milk and honey in 2014. ⠀
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the internationally acclaimed collection sold well over a million copies gracing the new york times bestsellers list every week for over a year. her long-awaited second collection ‘the sun and her flowers’ was published in 2017. through this collection she continues to explore a variety of themes ranging from love. loss. trauma. healing. femininity. migration. ‘revolution.⠀
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Tickets to our Wellington Writers Workshop on the 23rd March are now LIVE whanau! ⠀
Wahine Maori if you are in Wellington or plan to be, do yourself a massive favour and get yourself a ticket NOW!! There are only 20 tickets to this one-off, intimate and truely inspiring event featuring @whereaka @nadineannehura @hanatapiata @irihipetiwaretini ⠀
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A special thanks to @creativenz⠀
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