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PEN International WWC meeting online – Our Writing, Our Resistance
WWC Annual Meeting Online Our Writing, Our Resistance 7 and 8 March 2022 (13:00 – 16:00 Greenwich Mean Time) The first PEN International WWC meeting for 2022 is due to be hosted in a couple of weeks. The meeting will be spread over two days, and over that time the regular business of the WWC […]
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Call to action for RNZ & TVNZ – BPM
Cabinet will soon decide on the Radio New Zealand (RNZ) and Television New Zealand (TVNZ) merger proposal. It could be one of the most important decisions ever made about public media in New Zealand.We (at Better Public Media – BPM) don’t know yet what the proposal is, but we do know that the way it […]
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Asia Media Centre on the hunt for new voices
10 NOVEMBER 2021 New voices on Asia One of the Asia Media Centre’s goals is to increase the number of voices talking about Asia-relevant issues in the New Zealand media. We are looking for diverse perspectives from people who love writing and/or photography, and have a passion for or experience with Asia. “New Voices” is looking […]
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Courage Day Commemoration (also known as International Day of the Imprisoned Writer) November 15
Join the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc to mark Courage Day 2021 (also known as The Day of the Imprisoned Writer) in Aotearoa, New Zealand, today – Monday 15 November – and throughout the week. Courage Day recognises writers who defend the right to free speech, and […]
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‘PEN International: An Illustrated History’ awarded Best Book of the Year at Frankfurt
PEN’s Centenary book has been awarded the Kiran and Pramod Kappor Prize as the Best Book of the Year in all categories and by unanimity of the judges from the Motovun Group of International Publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week. Edited by Carles Torner and Jan Martens, the authors of PEN International. An Illustrated […]
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TE HĀ O TE KUPU National Māori Writers Hui March 18-20, 2022 – new date!
TE HĀ O TE KUPU ~ tāngia ki te whenua ~ Join us at Te Poho o Rāwiri Marae, Tūranga nui a Kiwa (Gisborne) Hui*. Booking details HERE *Original date 26-28 November 2021. Postponed due to Covid19 restrictions. Te Hā o te Kupu 2022 National Māori Writers Hui March 18-20, 2022 Te Hā o Ngā […]
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UK and NZ agree to $1-billion free trade deal – NZ Herald – copyright
October 21, 2021 Read Article Here: UK and New Zealand agree to $1bn free trade deal – NZ Herald “For its part, New Zealand will eliminate tariffs on 100 per cent of tariff lines on British imports on the day the agreement comes into force. The agreement will also change New Zealand’s copyright laws, which […]
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International concern about Internet Archive-National Library deal
André Chumko STUFF, Oct 18 2021 An international group of authors including Sir Philip Pullman are concerned about the National Library’s partnership with the Internet Archive. “To find that a great national library like that of New Zealand is collaborating in a scheme to break the cherished copyright laws and give our work away for […]
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Sir Philip Pullman writes to the National Library
Read the letter from the President of the UK Society of Authors, Sir Philip Pullman to Rachel Esson and Minister Tinetti about the Internet Archive. Here: Philip Pullman UK SoA To Hon Jan Tinetti – Minister for Internal Affairs Rachel Esson – National Librarian 30 September 2021 Dear Jan Tinetti and Rachel Esson, […]
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Bestselling authors call on publishers to name #TranslatorsOnTheCover
‘Name the translator in the same breath as you name the author’ say authors, including Bernardine Evaristo, Sarah Waters, Preti Taneja, Katie Kitamura, Simon Schama, Max Porter, Tracy Chevalier and more. On International Translation Day 2021 #TranslatorsOnTheCover was launched, calling on every writer to ask their publishers for cover credits for the people who translate […]
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Sarah Forster – 2021 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award Winner
Many congratulations to Sarah Forster, winner of the 2021 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award Wellington’s Sarah Forster has been named as the recipient of the 2021 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award for outstanding service to children’s and young adult literature and reading.Christine Young, chair of Storylines Trust says the award acknowledges the work Sarah has done […]
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Creative NZ welcomes additional $5 million from Government to support the arts sector through Delta
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Carmel Sepuloni announced today that the Government is providing a targeted support package of reprioritised funding to help the arts and culture sector respond to the challenges of the Delta variant. The Government has brought forward $37.5 million which will span across protecting jobs and supporting at-risk organisations, key […]
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