Incidentally, if you did want to check out the product of the scriptwriting course mentioned below, there’ll be an opportunity this Friday 8 October at 1pm in the City Gallery in Wellington.

It’s the final event in the International Institute of Modern Letters Writers on Friday series, and it happens to feature members of the MA Scriptwriting workshop presenting dramatised readings from their works-in-progress.

Actors will be performing the work of documentary maker Marian Evans, short film/prose writer Wiremu Grace, researcher/historian Megan Ritchie, actor/playwright Matthem Saville and 'chick noir' writer Donna Wright, all of whom are nearing the end of their MA year with Ken Duncum, the workshop convenor.

Have a look – if the scripting blows your skirt up, as they say, you have a few weeks to get your application in.