Students’ Writing Showcase

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Students’ Writing Showcase

In my job, I see lots and lots of great writing, so I’ve created this space to showcase some of it. Here, there will be work from all sorts of projects in schools, community groups and with individuals. You’ll see memoirs, blogs and creative writing. I hope you enjoy it!

Denise McBride

You'll go along for the ride, as Denise brilliantly evokes a childhood train journey. I love how she uses sense detail and a child's point of view to share her memory with us. - Jo Morris...

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Piripi Whaanga

Here is a showcase of Piripi Whaanga, who I met in a memoir class. Piripi was a journalist, with a rich and varied career. Here he reflects on his father, who he describes as an "undercover agent’ in our pale Lower Hutt suburb", He begins with...

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Nicki White

J Nicki has a travel blog, and the piece I’m showcasing here is about my home region of Hawke’s Bay. We worked on other writing, so I can’t take much credit for this, but it’s definitely worth sharing. ...

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Connor Briggs

I love the way Connor Briggs, from Hastings Intermediate, plays with space in these poems, which reflect on the 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake, and on the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown....

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Poem by Te Aroha Mohi

Te Aroha wrote this moving poem about her time in the 2020 lockdown, as part of a writing group at Hastings Intermediate. This group was part of the Connected Project. It was filmed by Dan Betty....

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Megan Williams

Megan took part in both an Introductory and an Advanced series of my ‘Turning Memories Into Memoir’ workshops, and this wonderful piece is the result....

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