The Speakers
Yvonne Lindsay
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New Zealand born – to Dutch immigrant parents, at the age of fifteen, totally inspired by the books she’d read, she tried her hand at her first romance novel.
After many scribblings, years, secretarial and sales rep jobs, marriage and two kids later, she eventually learned that to really be a writer you had to actually finish a book, so she did and won a few awards along the way, including the Romance Writers of Australia 1999 Emma Darcy Award and the Romance Writers of New Zealand 2004 Clendon Award.
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Nalini Singh
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Born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand, Nalini has been writing as long as she can remember. Her stories always held a thread of romance (even when she was writing about a prince who could shoot lasers out of his eyes). She also spent three years living and working in Japan and is now living back in New Zealand. So far, she has worked as a lawyer, a librarian, a candy factory general hand, a bank temp and an English teacher; not necessarily in that order. Some might call that inconsistency but she calls it grist for the writer’s mill. She is a prolific author and is on the New York Times best sellers list.
http://www.nalinisingh.com/bio.html
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Graham Reid
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Graham was born in Scotland and educated in New Zealand, graduating from Auckland University. In the 80s he founded and edited his own magazine, he has done radio, and was the New Zealand correspondent for America’s Billboard magazine. Most notably, he was a senior journalist at the New Zealand Herald for 17 years. As a freelancer, his current writing has appeared in the Herald, Art News, Idealog, Life and Leisure, Weekend magazine, the Herald on Sunday, Real Groove and elsewhere. He has travelled extensively through Europe, Asia and the United States. Graham was described by the Herald’s editor-in-chief as a “true renaissance man”, and has a list of awards as long as your arm. His first book ‘Postcards From Elsewhere’ won the 2006 Whitcoulls Travel Book of the Year award and he has recently published a second, ‘The Idiot Boy Who Flew’.
http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/biography/
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Siobhan Harvey
Siobhan’s poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies in UK, US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Recently featured in the Australasian on-line magazine Snorkel 1, in New Zealand her work has been published in Poetry New Zealand, JAAM & Catalyst. She reviews & writes literary articles for national press, and is a lecturer and tutor in Creative Writing at The University of Auckland. (nzpoetsonline)
http://www.ccecourses.auckland.ac.nz/staff.cfm?upi=shar186
http://www.randomhouse.co.nz/Author_Display_32.aspx?CategoryId=121850
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Joan Rosier Jones
Joan was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has lived in London (England), Wellington and Auckland and now resides in Wanganui. She began her working career as a teacher and now combines the two loves of her life – writing and teaching. ‘If I’m not writing, the next best thing is to be talking about it’. She has five novels and two how-to-write books to her name.
http://www.learntowrite.co.nz/index.php?func=about
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Melinda Szymanik
Melinda lives in Auckland and is a writer for children and young adults. She gained a Master of Science in Zoology at The University of Auckland and later a Diploma in Business Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in English at Massey University. Since 2003, she has had short stories published in the Australian School Magazine and the New Zealand School Journal. Her picture book The Were-Nana won the Children’s Choice Awards in the 2009 NZ Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. She was short-listed for the Joy Cowley Award in 2003 and 2006.
http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Szymanik,%20Melinda
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Jan Gow
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Jan Gow has been a genealogist, tutor, and lecturer at local, national, and international level since 1985; she has served on the APG (Association of Professional Genealogists) Board and is a past President of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists. Owner, since 1987, of Beehive Books and, since 1992, of Hooked on Genealogy Tours – preparing and taking genealogists to Salt Lake City for 3 weeks and thence to the UK. Jan has taught Family History Research in Auckland Community colleges since 1985. In 2006 Jan was awarded the Australasian Federation of Family History Organizations (AFFHO) Award for Meritorious Service to Family History.
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Joyce Irving
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Joyce was given a love of words by her father and music by her mother. These developed into a love of the english language in both prose and poetry. She has written columns for local newspapers, and stories and poetry for magazines. She founded the Manurewa Theatre and was a founder member of Theatre Corporate. More recently she has had roles in TVCs, TV serials, short films and last week a Warner Brothers production. She has edited a cookbook for The International Writers Workshop; of which she has been a member for some thirty years, and is a member of NZSA. Currently Joyce has a full-time writing workload; re-writing bible stories for a children’s CD, her memoirs, her own cookbook with anecdotes, and is hoping to publish a collection of short stories and poetry next year.
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