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We regularly hold social events and industry-related debates and/or training. Any person involved in books in New Zealand is welcome to attend LPF
sessions – publishers, editors, assistant editors, production managers, production assistants, designers, publicists, sales teams, typesetters,
proofreaders, indexers and others. Freelancers, self-employed people and newcomers to the publishing industry are welcome as well as staff of larger companies.
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Winter is definitely here and so the Auckland Local Publishers Forum invites you to mix and mingle at our annual Midwinter Drinks. Escape the cold for an evening of warm conversation and catch-ups! Snaffle a raffle, ace the quiz and check out the bar that is just perfect for a bunch of bibliophiles like us! Where: The Library, 1 Pakenham Street East
When: Thu 29 July, 5.30–7pm
Cost: $10 (includes light refreshments and one drink)
To help us plan for the event, please RSVP to mail@lpf.org.nz
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Events Wednesday, 28 April 2010 PANZ is delighted to launch our 2010 After 5 programme with a special international guest. Will Atkinson, Sales and Marketing Director from Faber and Faber is visiting Auckland and will be our speaker. Always at the forefront of new developments, Will's discussion will include some of the outstanding initiatives which retain Faber's position at the forefront of the industry: the newly formed Faber Finds imprint; digitisation; The Faber Academy; the Independent Alliance and more. Date: Tuesday 11 May
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: The Booklover, Hurstmere House, Cnr Hurstmere Road and Anzac Street, Takapuna, Auckland
Admission: $10 (includes a glass of wine)
A truly iconic name within the book world, Faber and Faber remains in 2010 one of the last of the great independent publishing houses. With the great depth of its backlist, featuring books by no fewer than eleven Nobel Laureates and six Booker Prize-winners as well as a thriving frontlist, the company continues to go from strength to strength. Will Atkinson is currently Sales and Marketing Director of Faber . He started his career in Waterstones, then a five strong chain, in 1985. He held a number of management jobs, finishing by running the Hampstead branch. In 1994 he went to Faber. Since then he has held no fewer than 9 job titles in sales and marketing roles, proving that they thought he was absolutely brilliant, but had no idea what at. Closely associated with the Independent Alliance, which was launched in 2005, he has also been Chair of the Independent Publishers Guild and is recognised as a champion of the independent sector. He was awarded a Nibbie for Sales person of the year in 2004, shortlisted for Industry Achievement in 2007 and winner in 2008. He won an Outstanding contribution award to Independent bookselling sector at the IBF conference in September 2009. He has sat on the board of the Edinburgh book festival and currently sits on the advisory board of the University of Stirling publishing course.
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The Local Publishers Forum AGM is to be held on Thursday, 18 March, 5.30pm (for a 6pm start) at the Penguin New Zealand offices on Apollo Drive. ALL WELCOME.
Please advise of any agenda items and RSVP to mail@lpf.org.nz
Drinks & nibbles provided.
News Thursday, 17 December 2009 Call for ApplicationsThe
University of Auckland/Creative New Zealand Writer-in-Residence
at the Michael
King Writers’ Centre 2010
The University of Auckland and the Michael King Writers’ Centre are calling for applications for a joint six-month writer’s residency in 2010.
The residency, supported by Creative New Zealand, will take place between July and December, during the University’s second semester. A stipend of $30,000 is offered.
News Thursday, 17 December 2009 Call for applications for 2010
The Michael King Writers’ Centre is calling for applications for the first Maori writer’s residency at the centre in 2010. The residency is being offered with the support of Te Waka Toi, the Maori Arts Board of Creative New Zealand.
Events Friday, 20 November 2009 3 December 2009
Come one, come all!
The world-famous-in-Auckland Local Publishers Forum Christmas Party
is being held on 3 December, 5.30 p.m. at One 2 One, 121 Ponsonby Road.
Events Wednesday, 05 August 2009 5 October 2009
Book indexers are invited to take part in a one-day advanced-level training course in Wellington on Monday, October 5. It will cover topics for fashioning professional back-of-book indexes, including the creation of subheadings, filing considerations for names, especially Māori and Aboriginal names, editing and proofing indexes, being a freelancer and quoting for jobs. The tutor will be Tordis Flath, founder of the New Zealand branch of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers, an ANZSI-registered indexer and winner of the ANZSI Medal.
The course is not for beginners. Participants should have done an ANZSI introductory or intermediate course or have experience producing indexes for publishers or institutions. The course will run from 9.15am to 5pm at Turnbull House in Bowen Street. The cost is $225 for ANZSI members and $275 for non-members. To register or ask for details, email Tordis Flath at indexing @ paradise.net.nz.
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