NMIT Blog Network

Review of BBC podcast on Roger Deakin’s book Waterlog

by jennik

I listened to a Radio 3 Documentary in which wild swimming enthusiast Alice Roberts examines the legacy of Waterlog by the late Roger Deakin. Here are some of my thoughts …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Sunday 13th September 2020

I’m All Shook Up!

by jennik

I don’t often go to the theatre. I’m too busy, it’s too expensive, I prefer to go to music performances when I have the time and money. I took part …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Wednesday 9th September 2020

A visit to Founders Park

by jennik

I visited Founders Park as part of my course work for the Diploma in Writing for the Creative Industries at NMIT last week. Our tutor, Kerry Sunderland, took us to …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Saturday 5th September 2020

Hitting the wall (and what to do about it)

by jennik

It happens to all of us. A week ago, it happened to one of my classmates. I was trying to offer support and encouragement, all the while running full-tilt in …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Friday 4th September 2020

Zooming with grace

by jennik

‘Great, I’ll organise a zoom meeting and we can discuss it face to face.’ A class at NMIT taught via zoom. Image: Jenni Komarovsky A year ago, most people wouldn’t …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Friday 21st August 2020

Review of ‘Terminal 2’ by Annetta Zelley

by jennik

The second item that I chose to review from Issue 1 of kiss me hardy is Annetta Zelley’s short story ‘Terminal 2’, which I recognise as coming from the ‘Two …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Thursday 20th August 2020

Review of ‘Walking Through the Forest’ by Jesse Palmer

by jennik

We’ve been set a class exercise – to review two items from kiss me hardy, NMIT’s online literary and arts journal. The first item that I chose to review from …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Thursday 20th August 2020

Getting your short stories published

by jennik

Have you written a great short story that you want to get published soon? Perhaps even earn some money from it? I do! I’ve been scouring the internet, looking for …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 18th August 2020

A visit to the Nelson Mail

by jennik

When I was a young teenager, I was inspired by the movie All the President’s Men to be a journalist. How exciting it would be to investigate and expose political …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Wednesday 12th August 2020

The thief

by bellana

Kedaethiel Kingdom  •  North Island  •  Laevell town  •  789 LE (Laevell Era) Wading through a mass of Laevell citizens dressed all in colourful, “blessing spring” festival attire. In a royal …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 12th November 2019

Space metal

by bellana

Ignoring the pain in my shoulder, I manoeuvred my craft through the smaller pocket’s of debris my external claw wouldn’t be able to pick up and regularly checked my scanner …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 12th November 2019

Demoted angels

by bellana

‘Sweetheart, do you mind if I borrow your cellular phone for a moment.’ A strange man held out his hand for a female bystander’s phone, captivated by this person, she …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 12th November 2019

Desperate metamorphosis – The vegetarian

by bellana

While scanning over the bookshelves at the library, seeing a book titled, ‘The vegetarian’, while being one, was interesting. Would it actually be about someone with the same diet as …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 12th November 2019

Slip Away | Poem

by flowerhobo

For our poetry class we have been asked to write a Villanelle poem. And while I struggled to come up with an idea at first, after working out my first …

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 24th September 2019

Why risks are no risk at all — WANDERER

by bellana

This is an excerpt from the first chapter of my manuscript, Wanderer. A 30-year-old man, David Lee-Jacobson, who’s whole life fell apart without ever truly being together, dies. David’s soul moves on to the space beyond life, but his body remains alive, inhabited by a soul who’s never had a body of their own.

DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Sunday 18th August 2019