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The latest news and updates from the Kiwi Writers team.

Read about the achievements of your fellow writers, from reaching a personal goal to getting published.

Contests and Events in New Zealand such as the Katherine Mansfield Award, Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition and NZ Book Council events.

The Kiwi habitat to chat about your current work in progress, vent about writer's block or life getting in the way and make recommendations of fiction and writing resources.

The forum for new members to introduce themselves.

The forum where people can ask questions about site navigation and functionality, request a feature or report a bug.

The place where characters are rescued, plots put back on course and helpful hints.

A forum for posting links to websites, reviews of books, pointers to articles, heads up on magazines and of course comments on all of the above.

The place to advertise personal challenges so other members can join you. Chat about your progress and cheer each other on.

The New Year Novella challenge asks you to write 20,000 words in January. A great way to get you back writing in the New Year.

The ultimate challenge - get a book published! Good luck everyone.

We don't start small. Write a 7500 word short story in over the extended Waitangi Weekend.

Write 50,000 words in the 30 days of June. There's a long weekend and bad weather to keep you indoors.

For all those short, sharp and seriously silly Zing Thing challenges.

For the month of August, to finish something, anything!

Brainstorm and share story ideas, discuss world building, outlining and other pre-writing tasks here.

Get down and dirty and get those words flowing.

You've got the raw material now it's time to turn it into a masterpiece. The nuts and bolts of writing, writing technique and all you need to know to polish that story to perfection.

Post snippets of your story here for critique or to share.

Are you working to get your story published? Discuss the query, submission and subsequent publication process.

Our first international forum!