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WRITERS ON MONDAYS 2026: IIML July 6-Sept 28
WRITERS ON MONDAYS: save the date Writers on Mondays 2026 provides a season of acclaimed authors and bold new literary talent Winter is here, and so is Writers on Mondays! From 6 July to 28 September 2026, Writers on Mondays is celebrating Aotearoa’s literary culture with a series of free lunchtime events. This free event […]
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Call for judges of the 2027 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
As the positive impact of the mid-May announcement of winners at the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards continues to be felt nationwide, the awards’ organisers are now on the search for judges for the 2027 awards. The New Zealand Book Awards Trust Te Ohu Tiaki i Te Rau Hiringa has opened the call for […]
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EMERGING VOICES RECOGNISED ALONGSIDE ESTABLISHED WRITERS IN 2026 CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS SHORTLIST
6am, Wednesday 10 June The shortlist for the 2026 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, announced today, recognises a generation of writers who are drawing confidently on culture, language and identity to tell stories and create books that feel unmistakably of current-day Aotearoa. That’s evident in distinct ways across the shortlist, […]
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Michael King Writers Centre Announces Recipients of International Exchange
9 June 2026 New Zealand writer Hazel Phillips and Australian writer Nam Le have been announced as the recipients of the 2026 New Zealand-Australia residency exchange, an international residency programme held by Varuna, the Australian National Writers House in collaboration with the Michael King Writers Centre in Auckland. The three-week residency exchange will take […]
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DANZ announce the 2026 shortlisted books
Picture Books: Bapa’s Last Canoe by Maree McCarthy Yoelu and illustrated by Samantha Campbell (Nee Fry) (Magabala Books) The Boab Tree written and illustrated by Helen Milroy (Fremantle Press) The Colours of Home written and illustrated by Sally Soweol Han (Thames & Hudson Australia) Chapter Books: Ava Spark: Hello I’m Here by Alex Field […]
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PLR Survey Explainer – NLNZ Survey due June 4
If you are registered for PLR you recently received a survey about changes to the regulations that administer the PLR scheme. NZSA has been lobbying for change to the more outdated aspects of the PLR legislation for almost a decade, and it is fantastic to have some updates on the table this year. Digital Lending […]
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2026 Book Industry Awards Finalists
Aotearoa New Zealand Bookshops, publishers, audiobooks and booksellers’ picks: Aotearoa’s book industry celebrates NZ excellence 2026 Book Industry Awards Finalists announced for Bookshop of the Year, Publisher of the Year, the Booksellers Choice Award and Audiobook of the Year. Every book that finds its way into a reader’s hands is the result of countless […]
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UPDATED SCAM ADVICE
The Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain publish new guidance to help authors protect themselves against scammers. An alarming increase in fraudulent activity targeting authors has led the Society of Authors (SoA) and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) to join together to issue urgent new guidance outlining measures writers can take […]
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Ngā Kaituhi Māori – NZSA emerging-writer programme recipients 2026
May 19, 2026 Ngā Kaituhi Māori and The NZ Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa have announced the recipients of the NZSA Ngā Kaituhi Māori Mentorship & Kupu Kaitiaki Programmes for 2026. We are pleased to congratulate the four emerging writers who have each been selected for the Mentorship Programme, with a six-month opportunity […]
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A NEW CHAPTER: AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL WAITUHI O TĀMAKI IS A RECORD BREAKER
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki 2026 (AWF26) has broken all ticket records, making it the biggest event ever in the Festival’s 27 year history. Booklovers streamed through the Aotea Centre and surrounding venues between 12 – 17 May. Ticket sales were over 15% up on 2025 with two more events still to come […]
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‘Outrageously good’ debut takes top fiction honours at 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Poet, memoirist and scholar Ingrid Horrocks has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize at the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her fiction debut, All Her Lives, a story collection that follows nine different women across nine different life stages as they resist, nurture and transform. It is the first time in five […]
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Wellington Writers Walk – new sculpture in te reo Māori coming to Wellington waterfront
Wellington Writers Walk is excited to announce that a new sculpture with text in te reo Māori is to be installed on Wellington waterfront. The plan is to have the sculpture installed in time for Matariki 2026, and Wellington Writers Walk is running a Boosted Campaign to cover the final installation costs for this […]
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