NZIBS office is OPEN and taking new enrolments for courses starting  . . . . . . . 20 September. Exactly 72% of the year has gone already. If you have big plans for 2010, you'd better start your engine today. Take the first step.

Speak to Brian Morris 0800 - 801994. There's a free test of your aptitude for writing or proofreading or photography. Check your skill level on the telephone. No obligation.

   Brian Morris knows how to turn your writing and spelling and photography skills into income-earning opportunities.

   Being a good speller and a person who knows grammar means you could get work as a proofreader or editor. Call for details 0800-801994. Telephone is open 24/7. Even if it's 3am, call and leave a message. We will call you back in the morning.

Big news for short story writers. The new How To Write Short Stories course is now available.
Joan Rosier-Jones is the course creator. That means a lot to people who respect Joan's ability and her reputation. Just 8 parts. That means you can be in, learn, write short stories and graduate within a few months.

Bigger news. This new course can be delivered electronically, or on paper. Your choice. Please tell your writing friends in Donegal, Durham or Detroit. We can take them as students.

New Short Story Competition, starts today. Closes midnight 31 July. 

This competition asks you to write the complete short story in exactly 100 words. So your story must have a beginning, a middle and an end. For this competition you're limited to two characters.
For this competition, let's make it an obviously winter setting. Do that how you will, but the reader should somehow know it is set in winter.

I hope every writer will enter. It doesn't matter that you are studying Proofreading or Photography or Journalism. Write a 100w story. There's just two weeks left . . .

Post your entries in FICTION section. The prize is a book from the Brian Morris library. 

Congratulations Karen Phillips who won the student category of the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition 2009.