Kirsten McDougall is the winner of the Sunday Star-Times short story competition, open category.
Kirsten McDougall’s love of reading and writing has come a long way since her interest in Enid Blyton and Trixie Belden books as a child. The accomplished Wellington author, who works as a publicist and literary manager for Victoria University Press, lives a life surrounded by words. ”That’s just my world.” And now McDougall can add
Sunday Star-Times short story competition open category winner to her CV for her piece,
Walking Day. She takes home the $5000 prize after almost 700 entries were received and blind judged over two categories.
Kaikōura helicopter crash: Shocked friends of Andrew and Lin Davidson gather at family s Ohoka home
16 Dec, 2020 01:56 AM
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Locals raced to help free survivors from the wreckage of a helicopter that came down at a rivermouth north of Kaikōura. Video / Will Trafford
Locals raced to help free survivors from the wreckage of a helicopter that came down at a rivermouth north of Kaikōura. Video / Will Trafford
NZ Herald
Devastated friends of the couple killed in yesterday s horror helicopter crash north of Kaikōura have gathered at their family home.
Pilot Andrew Hamish Davidson, 60, and wife Lin Chen, 39, died when their new helicopter crashed at a stony beach 30km north of Kaikōura at about 12.40pm yesterday while on a family trip.