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Ockham 2025 Shortlists announced
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2025 Finalists Announced Dazzling books that ‘address our moment’s most urgent concerns’ The $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be contested by three former winners of the award – Laurence Fearnley, Kirsty Gunn and Damien Wilkins – and Commonwealth […]
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International Mother Language Day 2025: Take Action for Andrzej Poczobut (Belarus)
“Andrzej Poczobut, a voice for the silenced, is paying a devastating price for his unwavering commitment to truth and justice. Locked away, deprived of the very freedoms he seeks to protect, his persecution is a chilling reminder of the lengths to which the Belarusian authorities will go to crush dissent. PEN International stands with Andrzej […]
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International Authors Forum (IAF) General Meeting 2025
Artificial Intelligence With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) systems, we introduced our AI principles last year to guide discussions and policymaking. These principles set out key considerations and emphasized the importance of a comprehensive legal framework that addresses copyright, privacy, data protection, and competition and consumer protection laws. Such a framework is essential […]
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The 2025 NFFD competition is open!
Send your best 300 words Submissions open through 30 April The 2025 judges for the national competition are the award-winning writers Brannavan Gnanalingam and Vana Manasiadis. The 2025 youth judge is Shilo Kino. How to enter can be found on the NFFD Competition page. More about the 2025 international youth competition later this month. MICRO MADNESS A free competition open to […]
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THE 2024 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® FINAL BALLOT
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) today announced the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. Congratulations to all NZSA members shortlisted. Superior Achievement in an Anthology Ajram, Sofia — Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (Ghoulish Books) Costello, Rob — We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures (Running Press) […]
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NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 Shortlists
The NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 shortlist, announced today, features a mixture of debut authors and well-known writers. Books by Tina Shaw, Riley Chance, Rebekah Ballagh, Mandy Hager, Stacy Gregg and James Russell are among the diverse titles nominated for the NZ Booklovers Awards, along with exciting new writers and outstanding debut books. With five categories […]
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Writers & Publishers AI survey results – CLNZ 2025
This report summarises the data collected in the “Writers and Publishers AI Survey”. Throughout the report, all percentages are rounded to whole numbers. Key terms are in bold and defined in the footnotes. The survey was structured into three parts. Data collection Responses were collected via a weblink distributed through electronic direct mail and social […]
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Entries for the 2025 Pikihuia Awards are now open
This year the Pikihuia Awards will celebrate 30 years of supporting and nurturing Māori writers. Held biennially, the Pikihuia Awards have welcomed short story submissions in both te reo Māori and English. Following the exciting new categories introduced in 2023, The Māori Literature Trust is proud to announce that we are again adjusting the genre […]
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Burning, bestselling and beautiful books nominated for 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
THURSDAY 30 JANUARY 2025 Popular books that pack a punch and have hit the mark with readers across the motu in the past year have also found favour with the judges of the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, who reveal their longlists today. Unforgettable and amusing memoirs, novels that move and unnerve, illustrated books […]
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Witi Ihimaera named Royal Society of Literature International Writer 2024
Royal Society of Literature International Writers 2024 10 December 2024 ~ This Reading Life The RSL International Writers honour is a relatively new award ‘recognising the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English, and the power of literature to transcend borders to bring people together.’ I confess that I had not heard of this before and would […]
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Warning AI Alert from Hugh Stephens
Read on blog or Reader Hugh Stephens Blog Read on blog or Reader Writers! Do You Know your Drafts on MS Word are being Scooped by Microsoft to Build its AI Algorithm? But You Can Stop This From Happening (Read On). By hughstephensblog on January 18, 2025 (NB Microsoft has denied these claims and you can read their […]
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The Peter Wells Short Fiction Contest 2025
The Peter Wells Short Fiction Contest is an opportunity for Aotearoa-based LGBTQIA+ authors. The contest runs near the end of each year, and the winners are announced during our festival in February. First prize is $1,000 for the winning story, $500 for the runner-up and $500 for the best writing by a promising young writer […]
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