Keryn Powell
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I've begun the year by reading one of the most dense, incredible books I've ever picked up: Iain McGilchrist's The Master and his...
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Keryn Powell
Jun 28, 20231 min read
June’s Blog 2023. Juggling stories.
I was on a writing course with Elizabeth Knox as guest speaker a few years ago. I remember her saying at one point in her career she was...
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Keryn Powell
Mar 2, 20231 min read
No words.
February’s Blog 2023 The notes I’d started for a February blog were abandoned mid-month when Cyclone Gabrielle raged through our...
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Keryn Powell
Feb 3, 20231 min read
Blog for January 2023
Semicolons. Recently, I started Ursula le Guin’s book about writing, Steering the craft. In the introduction the second sentence says...
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Keryn Powell
Dec 24, 20221 min read
Blog for November 2022
Musing at Mahia In early November I was lucky enough to be able to sneak off to Mahia Peninsula for a few days of writing, reading and...
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Keryn Powell
Nov 4, 20221 min read
Blog for October 2022
Writing off and writing on Writing off. We are saying a slightly premature farewell to our beautiful-ugly 2007 Fiat Multipla. We have...
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Keryn Powell
Sep 6, 20221 min read
Blog for September 2022
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant” (Emily Dickinson 1263) Recently, I went to a fabulous workshop in the Ahuriri version of NZSA...
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Keryn Powell
Jul 15, 20221 min read
Blog for July 2022
Spurred on by the positive reviews to Before the Rising… Hawkes Bay Today Review #1 Hawkes Bay Today Review #2 NZ Doctor Review …I have...
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Keryn Powell
May 24, 20221 min read
Blog for May 2022
Before the Rising finally rose. We had a wonderful book launch at Wardini Books in Napier on 12th May. Terrifying but wonderful! A few...
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Keryn Powell
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Blog for 1 April 2022
I’ve got to the middle of my first draft of ‘Fight’ and am now researching juvenile detention centres in Australia. It’s hard to do. Max...
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Keryn Powell
Mar 5, 20221 min read
Blog for 1 March 2022
On this day there are many, many more important things happening than my book release. A David and Goliath war is raging in Ukraine....
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Keryn Powell
Feb 1, 20221 min read
Proof of a proof
And so it begins. Isla and I inspected the proof of 'Before the Rising' last week. I was excited. Isla, not so much. Next up is ordering...
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Keryn Powell
Jan 4, 20221 min read
A Stare From the Chair
I have spent a lot of time sitting on this very chair, staring not at the camera, but at the computer screen, trying to understand the...
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