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Vivienne Plumb is a writer of Australian and New Zealand heritage, based in Wellington, she writes poetry, fiction and drama. She has been the recipient of many awards including the Bruce Mason Playwrighting Award, the Hubert Church Award (for fiction), first place in the N.Z. Poetry Society international competition, and a Sargeson Fellowship. More recently she was the 2014 Ursula Bethall writer-in-residence at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch; and has also been a resident writer in Sydney, Hong Kong, Nebraska, and on the University of Iowa’s International Writers’ Programme, U.S.A.

Her most recent publications include Twenty New Zealand Playwrights (non-fiction, N.Z., 2013), and The Glove Box (fiction, Sydney, 2014). A new compendium of her past-published most popular writing, accompanied by images from the Auckland artist Glenn Otto, is to be published during 2016.

Her poetry collections include Salamanca, Nefarious (poems and parables), Crumple, Scarab (a chapbook), and The Cheese and Onion Sandwich and Other New Zealand Icons (prose poems). Her work has been published in N.Z. and overseas and has been translated into Polish, Mandarin, Slovenian, German and Malaysian.

She also works teaching and mentoring creative writing students, and holds a Doctor of Creative Arts (Australia). She has acted as a judge for many N.Z. poetry competitions including for the N.Z. Poetry Society and for the annual N.Z. Flash Fiction competition.

Plate in the Mirror 2016 – poetry competition judge.

29 years old going on 60. Single. Female. A nondescript brown Asian. Sprinkled with a weird sense of humor. Shows characteristics of Brachydactyly Type A2 with congenitally malformed fingers and a small body frame.

Nicked “LeaFruit” by friends, she is an asocial freak-of-nature with love for landscapes and quality-alone-time. She used to frequent music lounges, had an alcoholic life episode, an introvert mutant from the day she was born but passes for normal, ordinary and average. Through alter-egos named “Aelhtere” & “Bien,” she engages in word-plays and off-key crooning ambient in garage sounds, barking dogs, and highway traffic Doppler effects. Her poetry has been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.

Wes is a Wellingtonian poet. Her chapbook of short stories Cowboy Genes was published by Grist Books at the University of Huddersfield and launched at the Huddersfield Literature Festival in March 2014. She was the 2010 recipient of The BNZ Katherine Mansfield Literary Award. Most recently she was selected as a finalist in the Troubadour Poetry Prize in London; shortlisted for The Cork Literary Review Poetry Manuscript Prize in Ireland, and The London Magazine’s Short Story Competition 2014. Her poetry has recently appeared in Poetry London, Magma, Riptide, Westerly, The Stony Thursday Book, Going Down Swinging, Landfall, and Dazzled: The University of Canberra Vice- Chancellor’s Poetry Prize Anthology. Her poetry has also been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.

IKA WANTS TO SWIM WITH YOU – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Ika is MIT Faculty of Creative Arts’ literary/arts journal
editors Robt Sullivan & Anne Kennedy
calling for contributions: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, visual art and photography
electronic documents preferred
limit: 8 poems, 8 images,<7000 words of prose
inquiries welcome
deadline 1 may 2014
ikajournal@gmail.com

SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL WRITERS’ PROGRAMME
inviting applications for residency
post or email application to the Michael King Writers’ Centre
before closing date of 7 March
for details:
http://www.writerscentre.org.nz/international_residency.php
or email manager@writerscentre.org.nz