Consummate in his Craft: Joe Bennett
Metropol catches up with one of New Zealand’s most prolific and successful writers about putting pen to paper. It was in a cricket pavilion in Cheltenham that Joe Bennett wrote a letter in brown ink on pink notepaper to a school in New Zealand. Fed up with his teaching job and having just suffered […]
The flashest fiction: National Flash Fiction Day
Up and down the country writers are pounding their keyboards, pausing only to scratch their heads as they scrabble to craft a flash little story that will be awarded the flashest little 300 words in Aotearoa. Last year’s National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD) competition saw Christchurch writer – and former Metropol scribe – Rachel Smith, […]
