Vanda SymonVanda Symon’s Celtic roots come via Fiji and her Campbell seafaring great-grandfather. She is the writer of the Sam Shephard detective series and The Faceless. Symon is a three-time finalist for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Fiction, and her novel Overkill has been long listed for the 2019 CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger.
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- Workshop: Self Starters - SOLD OUT
- Guiding Lights - CANCELLED
- Crossing Genres
- Crossing Boundaries – Form & Content in Poetry & Storytelling
- Escaping the Humdrum
- Workshop: Lusting for Words – Writing Romance SOLD OUT
- Navigating the Stars – Māori Creation Myths - SOLD OUT
- Women, Past & Present
- At the Drop of a Hat
- Schools Programme
- Love in the Time of Covid – A Chronicle of a Pandemic
- Workshop: Seeds of Poetry SOLD OUT
- Magical Rights
- A New Plaque: Essie Summers
- Things OK with You?
- The Language of Flowers
- Drawing the World
- NZ Crime – What's Going On?
- The Books that Made Me
- Rivers, Riptides & Roads
- Walking the Heartland
- Writing Romance in the 21st Century
- The Wilder Years: Selected Poems
- Rocketing to Fame
- Story Time Double Decker Bus
- The Historical Novel: Germany
- Mapping Dunedin's Stories
- A Posse of Poets
- Decolonisation – Activating Allies
- Writing for Children
- Politics of Poetry
- Girl in the Mirror
- Placing Fantasy Inside the Real World
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