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Category Archives: Competitions
vicbooks’ Facebook Thing. With Prizes. Many Prizes.
We’re merging our cafe and bookshop Facebook pages. It’s a streamlining thing; a commingling, a joining of forces, almost an absorption. We want our books to share the joy of the brew, the demitasse, some joe. Think of it as … Continue reading
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Things to See & Do – Visits and Competitions
Events: Christopher Paolini visiting Wellington June 28th Teenage writer Christopher Paolini, whose dragon series – Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr and Inheritance – took the fantasy world by storm, will be speaking at an evening event in Wellington on Thursday, June 28th. … Continue reading
vic and VUP – it’s a Facebook thing of prizes and free stuff.
vicbooks and Victoria University Press have teamed up to bring you six weeks of give-aways and prizes. We take alternate weeks to offer different prizes – and there is no limit to the number of times you can enter. Sure, … Continue reading
vicbooks’ Man Booker Competition Winner 2011
The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize has been announced, and the winner of our competition has been chosen – congratulations Eda! Two people managed to select 5 out of the 6 shortlisted titles (forcing us to bring out the … Continue reading
vicbooks’ Man Booker Competition 2011
The longlist for the Man Booker Prize has been announced, thirteen titles of excellence to be winnowed down to a list of six come the 6th of September. Between now and then we are running a competition to see who … Continue reading
Scrawl Poetry Winner – Hera Lindsay Bird with ‘The Memory of Light’
vicbooks’ Scrawl Poetry Competition, on National Poetry Day, with the gratefully received help of… and …is pleased to announce Hera Lindsay Bird as the winner of our Scrawl Poetry Competition. We received many entries for the poetry competition this year, entries … Continue reading
Scrawl Poetry Highly Commended Selections
vicbooks’ Scrawl Poetry Competition on National Poetry Day We had many entries of great quality, from amongst them our judge, Ingrid Horrocks, has selected those poems she believes deserve high commendation. The list of highly commended poems are: Evolution – … Continue reading
Writing Tips for Poetry – Scrawl
As we did for short stories, we now do for the poetry side of our Scrawl writing competition. Poetry, we think, is more difficult to write – if only because it takes a more refined knowledge of grammar, form, cadence, … Continue reading
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