Literary Salon | NZSA Otago Southland

Join authors from the Otago Southland brand of the New Zealand Society of Authors at this Salon event in Queenstown. Three different local authors will read and talk about their work, followed by a Q&A session. A wonderful opportunity to meet writers and discover new books.

Featuring:

Bethany Rogers
B.G. Rogers is a short story writer and poet. Her work has been published internationally, commended by Aesthetica Magazine, shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize and longlisted for the New Zealand Flash Fiction Day competition. In 2021, she was selected for the NZSA Mentor Programme for emerging writers. Rogers was a founding trustee of the Queenstown Writers Festival and has facilitated workshops on short story writing and poetry for both adults and children. Her short story collection, Kaleidoscopes in the Dark, was released in 2022.

Camille Khouri
Camille Khouri is a Queenstown-based writer with a passion for Young Adult fiction and short stories. She works as a freelance journalist and copywriter, writing for architectural magazines and creating content and copy for an array of businesses. A long-time member of the New Zealand Society of Authors, she has been placed in several short story competitions and currently has a YA novel out for submission. She lives with her husband, two sons and an ever-changing menagerie of pets.

Franciska Soares
Franciska Soares headed a faculty after having earned two Master’s degrees at uni. A flurry of life events—COVID, the loss of her hearing—freed her to focus on her very first love: writing. Her publications include They Whisper in My Blood, a family saga of lust, love and second chances, and A Smatter of Minutes, a feel-good coming-to-wisdom story of a chef blighted by the memory of the foggy day in February when as a toddler she found her parents melting.

Hosted by:

Michelle Elvy
Michelle Elvy is a writer, editor and manuscript assessor based in Dunedin. In 2020, in addition to her other editing work, she is teaching at 52|250 A Year of Writing. Michelle is Assistant Editor for the international Best Small Fictions series, Reviews Editor Landfall (previously Reviews Editor of takahē) and founder of Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction and National Flash Fiction Day NZ. Her anthology work includes Flash Fiction International (W. W. Norton 2015; associate editor), Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (CUP 2018; co-editor) and Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand, edited with Paula Morris and James Norcliffe (forthcoming 2020). This year, she is curating, with Witi Ihimaera, Love in the Time of COVID: A Chronicle of a Pandemic.