# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Creating Writers with Zirk van den Berg
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 am – Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 am
- **Event Description**: Long-term Browns Bay resident Zirk Van Den Berg shares insights into choosing to write, what to write, and tips on how to go about writing a novel. This will be a practical session for would-be writers.
Zirk is the author of 10 published novels, a volume of short stories and a memoir, writing in both English and Afrikaans. Two of his works were published in New Zealand. Nobody Dies (Random House 2004) received good reviews and I Wish. I Wish (Cuba Press, 2020) was shortlisted for the NZ Booklovers Award. 

Please email Zirk if you would like to join him: zirkvdb@gmail.com
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/auckland/creating-writers-with-zirk-van-den-berg/200029025466825
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029025466825?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=auckland-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Auckland
- **state**: AU
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630
- **lat**: -36.71459
- **long**: 174.74678
- **full address**: 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630, New Zealand

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: East Coast Bays Library (Browns Bay) (https://allevents.in/org/east-coast-bays-library-browns-bay/25998774)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630, New Zealand
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** East Coast Bays Library (Browns Bay)
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Creating Writers with Zirk van den Berg ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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