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ARPA—Australasian Religious Press Association meets in Auckland

ARPA—Australasian Religious Press Association meets in Auckland

25–27 August at the Rydges Hotel Auckland the annual Australasian Religious Press Association conference and awards are held with the kick-start as a 12.15pm lunch on Friday 25th..

  • Designer babies

    Last year US scientists successfully edited viable human embryos. In a report for The Verge, Alessandra Potenza observed: “Gaining the ability to edit human DNA is the first step toward one day allowing scientists to prevent babies from being born with incurable diseases or disabilities.

  • Summing up of the 2017 Young Writers’ Conference

    The first thing we can say is that everyone is looking forward in anticipation to the 2018 young writers conference in New Zealand after such a delightful time on the Sunshine Coast on the 12 August this year.

  • Young writers’ Best Articles of 2017—Part two

    Each year the Australian and New Zealand statisticians collate the four sets of points from the panellists who mark the young writers in the Press Service International–Christian Today program and from those points the Best Article of each young writer is determined.

  • Young writers' Best Articles of 2017—Part one

    Each year the Australian and New Zealand statisticians collate the four sets of points from the panellists who mark the young writers in the Press Service International—Christian Today program and from those points the Best Article of each young writer is determined.

  • 2017 Young Writers' Conference awards listings

    The 2017 Young Writers' Conference awards listings are a thing to celebrate. The young writer program is coordinated by Press Service International in conjunction with Christian Today and has 85 young people submitting a monthly article for publication.

  • Four winners—2017 Tony Dunkerley Sport Writer Award

    Jeremy Dover, David Goodwin, Wes Tronson and Josh Hinds have all been deemed as the 2017 Tony Dunkerely 'Sport Writers Award' winners presented on Saturday at the annual Young Writers’ Conference held on the Sunshine Coast at the Alexandra Park Conference Centre.

  • New Zealand's Matthew Joils and Australia's Haydn Lea take out 'Theology' Awards

    New Zealand's Matthew Joils and Australia's Haydn Lea are the celebrated winners of the 2017 $500 Basil Sellers Young Writer 'Theology Award' presented on Saturday at the annual young writer conference held on the Sunshine Coast at the Alexandra Park Conference Centre.

  • International young writer winners for 2017

    West Indies young writers scooped the international young writer awards for 2017. Their certificates were emailed after the 12 August conference held on the Sunshine Coast at the Alexandra Park Conference Centre.

  • New Zealand's Irenie How and Australia's Peter Brookshaw win respective 'Tronson' Awards

    New Zealand's Irenie How and Australia's Peter Brookshaw are the celebrated winners of the 2017 $500 Basil Sellers Young Writer 'Tronson Award' for Consistency presented on Saturday ...

  • Cheryl McGrath 2017 Basil Sellers Young Writer Award winner

    Melbourne's Cheryl McGrath is the celebrated winner of the 2017 Australian $1000 Basil Sellers Young Writer Award presented on Saturday at the annual young writer conference, held on the Sunshine Coast at the Alexandra Park Conference Centre.

  • 2017 Young Writers’ Conference—News angles and blogging

    The 2017 Young Writers' Conference was held on the Sunshine Coast at the Alexandra Park Conference Centre with the key speakers Mark Furler on news angles and John Lemmon on blogging in a Christian context.