Joseph, Vivienne

Vivienne Joseph

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD20

1. Thank-You Note
2. Don’t You Think?
3. Loss Of Identity
4. Peter Peter, Pumpkin Eater Had A Wife
5. Encounter Group
6. Woman ’77
7. A Desirable Property
8. Stillbirth
9. Hypocrite
10. Sex Films
11. Heredity
12. In The Camp Of The Chameleon
13. Black Beads
14. Clearing The Lines
15. A Refusal To Accept
16. This Day
17. Thoughts & Patterns
18. Sewing For The Disabled
19. Work Of Fiction
20. Storm At Peka Peka
21. Those Horses
22. Rilke
23. Ngaio
24. By Moonlight
25. By Return Mail
26. The Departure
27. Rites Of Season
28. Error
29. Wintering
30. Framed
31. Settling In
32. Rainbows
33. Visit to Back Beach

Bio / Bibliography:

Vivienne Merrill (writes as: Vivienne Joseph).

I was born in Wellington. My two daughters are married and I have one son currently living in Brisbane. I have been living on the Kapiti Coast for about 12 years but have also lived in Australia and England for short periods.

I grew up in Johnsonville (in my grandfather’s house) near Wellington and attended Johnsonville Main Primary school and Onslow College. I am more than halfway through my B.A. at Massey as an extramural student.

My early occupations (as a teenager) included working on a dairy farm, as a veterinary nurse and office work. I have worked in bookshops and as a sales rep selling books. From 1991-1994, I started up the Wellington office of a paper, Trade & Exchange, and worked as manager for three years.

I have been a regular contributor to the School Journal since 1979 (titles available ex SJ Catalogue). I worked as a regular scriptwriter for ‘Grandpa’s Place’ a RNZ programme for pre-school children. I wrote a monthly page for The NZ Listener for 3 years in which I reviewed books for children and interviewed visiting authors. I teach night classes in writing for children at Kapiti, Mana and Tawa Colleges; also, a short course at Whitireia (Paraparaumu Campus). I tutor weekend courses in writing for adults once a month at Kapiti and Mana Colleges. For the past two years I have I tutored the module Writing for Children which is a part of the Whitireia (Porirua) full time course in writing. I enjoy visiting schools and running writing workshops.

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

2002: Educational Book. In The Spring, Learning Media NZ.
2002: Teenage novel, The Thin Line, Mallinson Rendel, 2002. Shortlisted in NZ Post Children’s Book Awards, 2002
2001: Picture book. Baby Bumble and the Sock Pirates, Mallinson Rendel Publishers Ltd.
2000: Ed. Book. Ugly Mug, Learning Media for dist. in America.
1999: Junior novel. The A. O. K Project, Mallinson Rendel Publishers Ltd.
1999: Ed. Book. A Very Clever Possum, Learning Media NZ.
1998: Junior novel. Raindancer, Mallinson Rendel Publishers Ltd.
1997: Picture book. The Penguins’ Day Out, Mallinson Rendel Publishers Ltd.
1996: Teenage novel. Worlds Apart, Mallinson Rendel Publishers Ltd.
1994: Story. ‘In Training’, published in Sun Days & Moon Nights, Mallinson Rendel Publishers Ltd.
1994: Ed. Book. New Tricks, Thomas Nelson (Aust.).
1983: Poetry. Reading Skill Builder, Reader’s Digest Services Pty Ltd. N.S.W.
1981: Stories, Survivors, series of remedial readers, Govt. Printer NZ.

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS:

The A. O. K Project - Honourable Mention in the 2001 UNESCO Prize for Children’s and Young People’s Literature in the Service of Tolerance.
Worlds Apart, listed in the White Raven Catalogue of ‘International Books of Excellence’, 1997.
A Desirable Property, (pub. John Mclndoe) awarded P.E.N. Best First Book of Poetry, 1984
Won the Air NZ (Australasian) Short Story Competition, 1980.