New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa

Have Your Say on Sustainable Creative Careers!

Last year Creative New Zealand and NZ On Air engaged research company Colmar Brunton to survey a range of creative professionals, aged 16 and over, who earned at least some income from their creative work, on aspects of their creative careers. They published the research in May this year, identifying three joint...
How to Be a Happy Self-Publisher

NZSA Auckland Branch Meeting | Friday 4 October at 6.15 pm | AUT Tower, Cnr of Rutland and Wakefield St, City Central | Floor 12, Room 1211. Being a Happy Self-Publisher Dave from The CopyPress sees too many self-published authors with boxes of books riddled with errors no one will buy! He is attending...
Nelson: Writers at Lunchtime

The next Writers at Lunchtime meeting takes place on Wednesday 2 October, 11.30 am to 1.30 pm. The guest speaker at 12.30 pm will be Annika Ohlson-Smith. Annika was a founder member of the Top of the South branch of NZSA and has long been a member of the Nelson...
Hawke's Bay Readers & Writers Festival

Hawke's Bay Readers & Writers Festival.
In Conversation: Liz Nugent and Fiona Sussman

Join Ngaio Marsh Awards and Te Manawa for a special evening with two award-winning storytellers. Liz Nugent, a #1 bestselling author who was named Irish Woman of the Year in Literature in 2017, chats to Auckland writer Fiona Sussman about life on and off the page, from dealing with the...
CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants 2019 Awarded

“THE OVERALL QUALITY WAS HIGH AND THE UPPER END OF THE LIST STRONG. WE COULD HAVE EASILY ADDED MANY MORE TO THE SHORTLIST.” – DAVID VEART, 2019 JUDGING PANEL CONVENER The 2019 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Research Grants have been awarded. The...
Tauranga Arts Festival

Tauranga Arts Festival is running a series of writing workshops over Labour Weekend – tickets available through the festival website (click on the titles below to access a description of each workshop). Writing for Middle Readers: Kate De Goldi https://www.taurangafestival.co.nz/event/boundary-riding-workshop-320 When: 9.30am-3.30pm; Saturday, October 26 Where: The Terraces, Baycourt Theatre, Durham St, Tauranga Cost:...
2019 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition

Open exclusively to all NZSA members $500 first prize, $250 second prize, $100 third prize Opens 16 August, closes 4pm, Friday 4 October Brought to you by NZSA Auckland Branch Conditions of entry The competition is open to all NZSA members. All entries must be original and not previously...
NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2019 recipient

Christchurch writer Frankie McMillan is the recipient of the NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2019 Frankie McMillan will use the fellowship to work on a novella. She says: 'I’m thrilled and enormously grateful to be the recipient of the Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship, 2019 -2020. I intend to put the grant towards...

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NZSA is the principal representative for the professional interests of writers. Protecting basic rights to freedom of expression, working to improve income and conditions, promoting New Zealand writing and literary culture. Developing and creating a community for writers.

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The NZ Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) has been representing the interests of NZ writers since 1934. We are a community of writers who are proud to include some of New Zealand’s finest writers as members. NZSA fights for freedom of expression through our affiliation to International PEN.

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Have Your Say on Sustainable Creative Careers!
23 September 2019
Last year Creative New Zealand and NZ On Air engaged research company Colmar Brunton to survey a range of creative professionals, aged 16 and over, who earned at least some income from their creative work, on aspects of their creative careers. They published the research in May this year, identifying three
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2019 Pikihuia Awards Winners Announced
20 September 2019
The winners of the Pikihuia Awards for short stories were announced last Saturday at Te Wharewaka o Pōneke. On a wet Wellington afternoon whānau, friends and supporters of Māori literature and arts came together to celebrate and acknowledge the success of 23 Māori writers. The judges had the important
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RESOLUTION: THE DEMOCRACY OF THE IMAGINATION MANIFESTO
20 September 2019
RPRESENTED BY Presented by Jennifer Clement, PEN International President Per Wästberg, Emeritus PEN International President and Chair of the Nobel Prize for Literature Eric Lax, PEN International Vice President Nayantara Sahgal, PEN International Vice President Ngugi wa Thiong’o, PEN International Vice President Paul Muldoon, PEN America Board Member ARGUMENT Within
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