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Paula Green Honoured with 2025 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal
The Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki is delighted to announce poet Paula Green as the 2025 recipient of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, New Zealand’s most prestigious honour for children’s and young adult authors, illustrators and publishers. Paula is a champion of children’s literature in Aotearoa New Zealand, giving outstanding service […]
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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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The 2024 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition winners
NZSA PRESS RELEASE: 16 DEC 2024 The 2024 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition winners were announced by the NZSA Auckland Branch at their 7 December meeting. This annual competition has once again celebrated the vitality of short story writing in New Zealand. In his judge’s report, Graeme Lay writes: This is the thirteenth year of […]
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2025 Sargeson Fellows Announced
New Zealand writers Kate Duignan and Rachael King have been awarded the prestigious 2025 Sargeson Fellowship. The Fellowship is a national literary award which for the past 37 years has offered published New Zealand writers the opportunity to focus on their craft in a sustained way. Named in memory of New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson, […]
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The 2024 edition of Turbine | Kapohau available now
This year’s issue of Turbine I Kapohau, the annual online literary journal of the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML)—Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o te Ao, is now live. The journal showcases new fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry from the 2024 Master of Arts (MA) in Creative Writing workshops at the IIML, as well as […]
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Multigenerational Italian Australian novel and poems of loss and longing feature in prize-winning writing
Left to right: Kate Duignan (MA workshop convenor), Gil Ostini (Adam Prize winner), Elizabeth Knox (supervisor), and Damien Wilkins (IIML director). A novel about a haunted Italian Australian family and a poetry collection of friendship, loss and longing have been awarded the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing and the Biggs Family Prize in Poetry by […]
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‘Distinctively Kiwi’ flatting drama wins top prize
Left to right: Ken Duncum, Alaina Wilks, Alexander Nebesky, Jennifer Wilton. A television drama series tracing a week in the lives of a group of students living on Castle Street in Dunedin has been awarded the 2024 David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Written by Alaina Wilks as […]
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Longlist announced for the Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award (the Rosie). One of the richest awards for editors in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, the Rosie recognises excellence in editing. The nominated editors have demonstrated a commitment and dedication to their craft by supporting a […]
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Three outstanding writers recognised with the 2024 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement
Internationally renowned children’s author Dame Lynley Dodd, historian and environmentalist Neville Peat, and multi-talented poet Apirana Taylor are being recognised for their contributions to literature with this top literary award. The Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement is presented annually in three categories: fiction, non-fiction and poetry. The award is managed by Creative New Zealand […]
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2024 CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants Announced
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) is excited to announce the successful recipients in the 2024 round of Contestable Fund Grants, with a total of $75,000 granted. This year we received 92 applications, the highest ever number of applications for a Cultural Fund award. Applications were invited for projects that had clearly defined and measurable outcomes […]
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Gretchen La Roche to head Creative New Zealand
04 Dec 2024 The Arts Council is delighted to announce the appointment of Gretchen La Roche as the next Chief Executive of Creative New Zealand. The Chair of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, Kent Gardner, says Gretchen stood out in a strong field of candidates. ‘Gretchen gave us confidence that she is […]
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Charlotte Grimshaw is the NZSA 2025 President of Honour
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa is delighted to announce that Charlotte Grimshaw is the NZSA 2025 President of Honour. This prestigious honour is bestowed on a senior writer and long-serving NZSA member in recognition of their contribution to writing, writers and the literary arts sector in Aotearoa. NZSA’s 2025 President of Honour, […]
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