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Storylines Awards 2026 Now Open!
Entries for the 2026 Storylines Manuscript Awards are open – and close 31 October. These prestigious awards support emerging and established Aotearoa NZ writers in creating high-quality books for young readers. Prizes include publication opportunities, cash prizes and mentorship.
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What’s New? Storylines has revised its entry process – all entries are now digital only, with no printed copies required. […] -
Theatremakers Award 2025
Congratulations to the inaugural winners of the Theatremakers Award, Ayush Aditya and Marcus Savelio. Their new work Mic Drop will receive development support from Playmarket over the coming months. Mic Drop is a new hip-hop musical which premiered as part of the NZ Fringe Festival in February of this year. It uses rap as a […]
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THE ASLA DANZ CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD 2026 IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED!
Diversity is more than a label. The right representation matters. And DANZ is creating essential change. It is with great excitement and absolute pleasure that we launch into our third year of celebrating and spotlighting some of the very best diverse children’s literature available in Australia and New Zealand today. After a successful 2024 and 2025 […]
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Bridport Prize Memoir Award
Your own story In your own words We all have a story to tell about ourselves, the good, the bad and the how did I end up there? Celebrate a snapshot of your life, a fragment in time or rear view mirror look at what was and now is. We initially need 5,000 to 8,000 […]
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Booksellers Choice Award 2025 Finalists Announced
We are so excited to announce the finalists for the 2025 Booksellers’ Choice Awards! Adult Award finalists Amma by Saraid de Silva (Moa Press) The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone by Gareth and Louise Ward (Penguin Random House New Zealand) The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour and Jude Dobson (Allen & Unwin New Zealand) […]
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NZSA Northland Short Story Awards
Our short story competitions are now open for entries Adult section – $1000 FIRST PRIZE OPEN TO ALL WRITERS IN NEW ZEALAND Entry fee – $10 per story Young writers from Northland can enter our High school and Year 7&8 sections for free. All information, closing dates and entry forms available at https://northlandauthors.co.nz/competition-details-and…/ Thank you […]
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Now Open! | Enter the $10,000 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
NOW OPEN! Prize money: $10,000 Closing: 13 October 2025 Judges: Judith Bishop, Felicity Plunkett, and Anders Villani Celebrating twenty-two years of world poetry, Australian Book Review welcomes entries to the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected poetry awards. The prize – worth a total of AU$10,000 – is open […]
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Pip Adam receives the Michael King Writer’s Fellowship
Creative New Zealand is pleased to announce Pip Adam as the recipient of the Michael King Writer’s Fellowship (the Fellowship). The $100,000 Fellowship is awarded every two years to an established New Zealand writer of literature to work on a major project. Pip Adam is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her first book, […]
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Asian Artist Fund
The Asian Artists’ Fund is currently open for applications with $650,000 to distribute to artists. Applications close on Wednesday 16 July at 11.59pm. This year the funding stream options include a suite of residencies, recognising the need for artists to have dedicated time and space to experiment, explore, and develop new work. The fund, a co-investment partnership […]
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The 2025 Commonwealth Short Story prize winner
We are delighted to announce Chanel Sutherland as the overall winner of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Chanel, born in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and living in Montreal, Canada, saw off 7,920 entrants worldwide to take the £5,000 prize. In her powerful winning story, ‘Descend’, enslaved Africans share their life stories as the […]
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The July Not Quite Write Prize is coming!
In just 4 weeks, the prompts for the July Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction will drop, and trust us, they’re worth the wait. So, if you’ve been searching for an excuse to escape ‘the horrors’ and dive into writing, now’s your chance. Just ask our recent winner, Louise: ‘I never realised how much an author […]
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2026 Scholastic Asian Book Award
Application Closing Date: 31 Oct, 5:00pm (SGT) Calling all children’s book writers! Submissions are now open for the Scholastic Asian Book Award (SABA). A joint initiative between SBC and Scholastic Asia, this award seeks to reward unpublished manuscripts by children’s authors of Asian origin that capture the unique spirit, experiences and ideas of Asia. The […]
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