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Member Profile

The Top of the South Branch ​of ​the ​New Zealand Society of Authors


Chris Stuart

I have always been a storyteller. In the throes of youth, mainly around the campfire of here and overseas, I told stories that made people laugh, cry and think. Now I have put pen to paper.
 
I returned to New Zealand after more than twenty years and decided to settle in Nelson, which has a strong arts and craft culture and a lifestyle which I was sure would nurture my writing skills. I started off writing non-fiction and short stories and won the Elyne Mitchell Writing Award (Short Stories) and have been a judge for this since 2013.


​I recently completed a crime novel which was launched in July 2020.  This novel started out as an autobiography, but I didn't have enough faith in who I was to write about myself and I was in a situation where I had no one to talk to about the process so I gave up in despair.  However, I am not a quitter and I believed I had a good story to tell, and one which incorporated the humanitarian world, a world in which I spent many years working.  The result is For Reasons of their Own, the story of a tenacious, yet flawed policewoman who finds a body in a mud filled swamp on the outskirts of Melbourne and sets out to prove that the murder is personal and not political.  This is the first of a planned series featuring DI Gray and her colleague Constable Pip MacMahon.  
 





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Listen here to Chris's interview on Fresh FM
Community Radio on 29 August 2020

  • Welcome!
  • About Us
  • NEWS/EVENTS
    • Coming Events
    • Regular Events
    • Radio Show
    • Newsletters
  • MEMBER PROFILES
  • LOCAL SERVICES FOR WRITERS
    • Beta Readers
    • Book Design
    • Editing, Proofreading
    • E-publishing
    • Illustration/ Photography
    • Manuscript Assessment
    • Promotion, Publicity, Distribution
    • Self-publishing & Printing
  • RESOURCES & PUBLICATIONS
    • Publications
    • Writing Groups
  • Page & Blackmore Competition
  • WRITERS' TRAIL
    • Nelson/Tasman >
      • Cliff Fell/Mapua Waterfront
      • Helen McKinlay
      • Karen Stade
      • Margaret Mahy/Crinkum-Crankum Tree
      • Maurice Gee/Maitai River
      • Maurice Gee/Botanical Reserve
    • Marlborough >
      • Eileen Duggan/Tuamarina
      • Katherine Mansfield/Koromiko
      • Katherine Mansfield/Anakiwa
      • Ernest Berry/Blenheim
      • Renwick Museum & Watson Memorial Library
      • Taylor River Writers' Walk
    • West Coast >
      • Bill Pearson/Greymouth
      • Jenny Pattrick/Denniston
  • JOIN The NZ Society of Authors
  • CONTACT
  • Page & Blackmore 2 Competition