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The NZBooklovers.co.nz 2019 Book Awards
NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction Book 2019 A Change of Key by Adrienne Jansen (Escalator Press) Crystal Reign by…
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Youth Mentorship Programme Seeks Emerging Young Writers
Four secondary school students will each have the opportunity to be mentored by one of New Zealand’s best professional authors in order to develop their…
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2019 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Literary Awards
2019 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Literary Awards Writers working in the Mind Body Spirit genre have until 31 March to enter the 2019 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Literary Awards. There are…
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Two writers receive NZSA Waitangi Day Literary Honours
Two writers making waves on the international scene have been awarded Waitiangi Day Literary Honours by the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc). This year’s recipients…
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MANDY HAGER WINS THE PRESTIGIOUS STORYLINES MARGARET MAHY MEDAL
Mandy Hager Multi-award-winning Wellington-based author Mandy Hager is the winner of the 2019 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal…
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Manus Island detainee wins major Australian Book Award
Detained Manus refugee wins Australia’s richest literary prize Behrouz Boochani Behrouz…
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Emerging writer wins trans-Tasman mentorship with publisher
JS Michaels The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc), Hachette Australia and Hachette New Zealand…
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NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grant + Residency – Recipient Announced
The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and Auckland War Memorial Museum are delighted to announce the recipient of the NZSA Auckland Museum Research +…
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New Year’s Honours – congratulations to our literature sector recipients
Our poet laureate, Associate professor Selina Tusitala Marsh, past NZSA president Rosemary Wildblood, author and academic Dr Paula Morris, author and historian Edmund Bohan, poet and academic Dr Karlo…
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2019 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellow will explore stigma and stereotypes
The 2019 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship will help a playwright challenge Asian stereotypes and a poet press against the silence and stigma connected to New Zealand’s history of forced…
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‘Scalp-prickling dazzler of a novel’ wins Adam Foundation Prize
A sharp, funny, ‘white-hot burn’ of a novel has been awarded the 2018 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing by Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters…
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Paula Morris is the 2018 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
The French Riviera and New York –Two Game Changing Destinations for Three Prolific NZ Artists Time, space, and inspiration are what dreams are made…
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