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Lead Tutor: Sue Emms

www.sueemms.webs.com

Sue Emms lives in Hamilton and has been writing seriously since 1998. Her first love is fiction, but this is closely followed by nonfiction and poetry. She has been published in New Zealand, England, on-line and in the USA and has worked as a manuscript assessor, editor and competition judge. Sue has published two novels to excellent reviews, Parrot Parfait and Come Yesterday and was recently placed both 1st and 3rd in the Timaru Festival of Roses poetry competition with her poems Shadowboxing and Secrets. Judge Simon Snow said of Shadowboxing: ‘This poem stood head and shoulders above all other entries.’

Tutor: Jenny Argante

Born in an elephant stable in India, Jenny Argante has a postgraduate teaching qualification from Garnett College in London, and is also a Chartered Librarian. She has taught English literature and creative writing for many years, and has always written, mainly for the journal market, in a professional capacity. Jenny has a wide body of publishing credits worldwide that encompass literary and popular writing; poetry, romantic novels, short stories, essays and how-to books. She has broad experience as an editor, her most recent publications being This Side of the World and Poetry Pudding, Raupo Publishing. She is also co-ordinating editor of Bravado: a literary arts magazine from the Bay of Plenty.

Tutor: Owen Bullock

Owen Bullock has published poetry, songs, haiku (and its related forms), stories, scripts, essays and reviews. His work has appeared widely in New Zealand, and overseas in Australia, USA, UK, Croatia, Japan and Canada. He has been an editor of SPIN/Kokako and Bravado magazines and edited Poetry NZ 35-37. Owen has a Masters Degree from the University of Waikato. His thesis, Making Canons and Finding Flowers - A Study of Selected New Zealand Poetry Anthologies, was published by VDM, Germany, in 2008. Owen was a guest tutor on the subject of Tanka poetry at Haiku Aotearoa 08 in Christchurch. He won the Vanguard section of the World Haiku Review's October 08 edition. His most recent publication is Four Tellings, a collaborative haibun (Post Pressed, Australia, 2009). He won second prize in the New Zealand Poetry Society's International Poetry Competition this year, and was also commended in the Haiku section.

Susan Brocker

Susan Brocker began her writing career as a travel writer, but now writes fiction and nonfiction, for older children and teenagers. Her books have been published worldwide. Her most recent publications are by Harper Collins: Restless Spirit, an adventure story about a desperate race to save a wild Kaimanawa stallion in 2007. Saving Sam came out in 2008 and Brave Bess, the true story of the ANZAC horses sent overseas in 1914 was published in 2009. Susan has a history degree and loves writing about animals, history, and different cultures.
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