A big thank you to the Mangere Otahuhu local board for sponsoring our upcoming 4th Mana Mangere writers' collection of short stories and Poetry.
This particular collection for 2021 (as we had a rest in 2020 due to the global pandemic) is our response/s to the COVID-19 pandemic with the theme of "Intergenerational Echoes".
This year, we have 9 workshops whereby writers or emerging writers can come together at our local library and can either write, discuss, read or consider opinions on their writing.
It's a safe space where feedback can be given with editing and proofreading which is offered free of service without having to pay someone to do it.
It's also open to any i.e. the very young, teens, adults, seniors and anything in between with the goal of capturing some of the experiences that different people in our society had during the COVID-19 lockdowns of level 4, 3, 2 and 1.
I'm thankful to our local librarian manager, Sonia Munro, who has made this possible with the help of Renee Tanner, who is our local arts broker who's support has been very helpful as well as Lemauga Lydia Sosene who is the Chairperson of the local board, who's been supportive right from the beginning.
We're looking forward to launching this book hopefully in May/June of this year and hopefully outside any lockdowns although we could still launch it online through Zoom or even Facebook live. A very big thanks to so many who have supported us right from the start in our families etc. who've made this dream possible for our local writers...
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