The Magus and His Protégés

“Do creative writing courses work? Judge for yourselves.” The Guardian’s literary gossip column reports on the findings of a recent NZ Listener poll naming the country’s top 10 authors under 40. Six of them – Catherine Chidgey, Tim Corballis, Kate Duignan, Paula Morris, Emma Neale, and Emily Perkins – are graduates of Bill Manhire’s productive creative writing programme at Victoria University. Damien Wilkins, Chad Taylor, Charlotte Grimshaw and Craig Marriner completed the talented ten.


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JLo Shares Moment She First Spotted Parris Goebel

JLo Shares Moment She First Spotted Parris Goebel

In anticipation of the release of her ninth studio album, Jennifer Lopez recently spoke to the NZ Herald’s Jenni Mortimer, with the singer sharing the moment she first spotted the New…