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Mātātuhi Foundation to sponsor prestigious Best First Book Awards
NEWS RELEASE – 8 August 2023 The Mātātuhi Foundation, established to support the growth and development of the literary landscape of Aotearoa, has formally assumed the sponsorship of the Best First Book awards at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Set up in 2018 by the Auckland Writers Festival, the organisation holds a biannual […]
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Call for proposals: Samoa House Research Residency Programme 2023
Samoa House Library (SHL) is now accepting proposals from arts & arts-related practitioners for our Research Residency Programme 2023. There are 2 residencies available each including a stipend of $5,000, open to individuals, groups or collectives. SHL’s research residencies offer practitioners from art or art-related fields the opportunity to focus on their research practices in […]
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Entries now open for 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Entries now open for 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards The New Zealand Book Awards Trust Te Ohu Tiaki i Te Rau Hiringa is now inviting submissions for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. These prestigious awards promote excellence in, and provide recognition of, the best books for adult readers published annually in New […]
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$5K Surrey Hotel 2023 Writers Residency open til August 20
The heavily atmospheric Surrey Hotel in Auckland. Photo by 2018 residency award winner Naomi Arnold FIRST PUBLISHED AUG 2, 2023 THIS ARTICLE ABOUT THE AWARD IS TAKEN FROM THE NEWSROOM SITE TO PROMOTE THE AWARD. PLEASE CLICK BELOW TO READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE ON NEWSROOM Steve Braunias is the literary editor of Newsroom’s […]
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Aotearoa NZ Review of Books ‘Book Reviewing Mentorships’ offered to NZSA
The Aotearoa NZ Review of Books is offering NZSA members four book-reviewing mentorships. Mentees will receive $200 to write a sample review and revise it after feedback from their mentors. This review can serve as a calling card to help new reviewers get commissions from a range of media. To be eligible you […]
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Ockham New Zealand Book Award entries open August 3
Submissions for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, for books published between 1 January and 31 December 2023, will open on Thursday 3 August. The first tranche of entries is for books published January to August 2023. To find out more about how to enter when the time comes, or to check […]
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Ka Pānui Tātou i Tāmaki Makaurau / We Read Auckland 2023
Auckland Libraries presents We Read Auckland 2023, a free festival celebrating writers and readers of Tāmaki Makaurau. Witi Ihimaera is named as the first ever patron of Auckland Council Libraries’ Ka Pānui Tātau i Tāmaki Makaurau / We Read Auckland festival, celebrating diverse stories across Tāmaki Makaurau this August. We Read Auckland is an […]
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Congrats to Ruben Mita – winner of a fine line Featured Student Poet
Ruben Mita has been awarded a free years’ NZSA membership for taking out top spot in the ‘a fine line’ student poet competition. Ruben Mita is a poet, musician and ecology student in Pōneke. He has been published in Starling, Landfall, takahē, Tarot and Sweet Mammalian and won the 2022 Story Inc. IIML Poetry […]
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The Writers Union of Canada calls for AI justice
July 20, 2023 Open Letter to AI Developers Dear Member, The Writers’ Union of Canada has been studying and discussing the question of artificial intelligence as related to creative professions for many years. Concerns that scanned books would be used for unlicensed “machine learning” were included in submissions made during the Google Books court action […]
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Aotearoa’s best bookshop and top publisher revealed – 2023 Aotearoa Book Industry Awards
Lamplight Books, a recently established bookstore in the Auckland suburb of Parnell, has been named Bookshop of the Year at the Aotearoa Book Trade Industry Awards, held this evening in Rotorua. Organised jointly by Booksellers Aotearoa NZ and the Publishers Association of NZ Te Rau o Tākapu, the awards celebrate the outstanding booksellers and publishers in Aotearoa’s […]
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BOOKS ALIVE EVENTS TO ATTRACT HUNDREDS OF TAMARIKI
Hundreds of students in Christchurch and Wellington are set to be entertained and enlightened by finalists in the 2023 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults at Books Alive events in the immediate lead up to the awards ceremony. In Ōtautahi on 4 August, WORD Christchurch will host a selection of shortlisted […]
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2023 Pikihuia Awards Finalists
The Finalists for this year’s Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers was announced July 13. Robyn Bargh, Chair of Te Waka Taki Kōrero | The Māori Literature Trust is thrilled with the number and quality of entries. “The range of submissions is very impressive; the Pikihuia Awards are a chance to reconnect with some previous […]
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