{"id":32956,"date":"2016-08-17T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T22:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32956"},"modified":"2016-08-17T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T22:46:47","slug":"whats-coming-up-wordchristchurch-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/whats-coming-up-wordchristchurch-more\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Coming Up: WORDChristchurch &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27467\" style=\"width: 101px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/ruffians-roughnecks-a-new-post-series\/etching_keep-of-winds-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27467\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27467\" class=\"wp-image-27467 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/etching_keep-of-winds-91x150.jpg\" alt=\"credit: PJ Fitzpatrick\" width=\"91\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/etching_keep-of-winds-91x150.jpg 91w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/etching_keep-of-winds-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/etching_keep-of-winds-622x1024.jpg 622w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/etching_keep-of-winds.jpg 1437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 91px) 100vw, 91px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">International Man of Mystery&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Firstly, thank you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall of Night<\/a> reader, Kristen Blount, for <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/08\/12\/the-wall-of-night-character-series-kristen-blount-features-raven\/\" target=\"_blank\">a wonderful guest post <\/a>on the series&#8217; character, Raven, whom she dubbed an &#8220;international man of mystery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next in this mini series will be coming up on Friday 19, this time courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/skyseastone.net\/jvstin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Weimer<\/a>, who has visited with me here <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/01\/18\/an-avid-reader-special-paul-weimers-five-most-anticipated-reads-of-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">before <\/a>and whom you may also know from SF Signal and The Skiffy and Fanty show.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">WORDChristchurch &#8212; Next Week!<\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_26431\" style=\"width: 146px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/coming-up-this-week-21-27-july\/wordchch-homeimage\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26431\" class=\"wp-image-26431 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wordCHCH-HomeImage-136x150.png\" alt=\"wordCHCH-HomeImage\" width=\"136\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wordCHCH-HomeImage-136x150.png 136w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wordCHCH-HomeImage-272x300.png 272w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wordCHCH-HomeImage.png 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WORD Christchurch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Also coming up &#8212; and only next week now &#8212; is the WORDChristchurch festival with a wonderful line up of books and writing, reading and writing events, including the <strong>Making It Overseas<\/strong> panel I&#8217;m on with\u00a0 fellow writers Ben Sanders (Crime) and Tania Roxborough (YA; historical). We\u2019re all published overseas and crime author Vanda Symon will be talking to us about the journey. Here are the details again:<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Sunday 28 August, 3-4 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> The Box, The Piano \u2014 156 Armagh Street, Central City (near the Isaac Theatre Royal)<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The Inaugural National Writers\u2019 Forum &#8212; Next Month<\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_32850\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/07\/28\/happening-soon-the-inaugural-national-writers-forum-17-18-september\/nwf_logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32850\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32850\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-32850\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/NWF_logo-150x57.jpg\" alt=\"National Writers' Forum\" width=\"150\" height=\"57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/NWF_logo-150x57.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/NWF_logo.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Writers&#8217; Forum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This very exciting event is to be held in Auckland\u00a0 on 17-18 September and I am delighted to be giving a Masterclass on &#8220;Building Fantastic Worlds&#8221; &#8212; right up my alley, one might say. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/07\/28\/happening-soon-the-inaugural-national-writers-forum-17-18-september\/\" target=\"_blank\">the initial press release here<\/a> and you can link here to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalwritersforum.org.nz\/programme\/\" target=\"_blank\">programme<\/a>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, thank you to The Wall of Night reader, Kristen Blount, for a wonderful guest post on the series&#8217; character, Raven, whom she dubbed an &#8220;international man of mystery.&#8221; The next in this mini series will be coming up on Friday 19, this time courtesy of Paul Weimer, who has visited with me here before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19,10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-funstuff","category-general","category-guest-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32961,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956\/revisions\/32961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}