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The Michael King Writers Centre announces 2024 Residencies
1 December 2023 This year’s Michael King Writers Centre residency selection panel once again had their work cut out for them with the highest number of applications ever received for the 17 residencies planned across 2024. There were 141 applicants totalling 538 individual applications across all of the available categories. A continuing trend is the […]
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Ngaio Marsh Award winners 2023
2023 Ngaio Marsh Award winners Presented at a special Ngaios-WORD Christchurch event and pub quiz MCed by Kiwi crime queen & NZSA President Vanda Symon. Congratulations to the 2023 winners: – Best Non-Fiction: MISSING PERSONS by Steve Braunias – Best First Novel: BETTER THE BLOOD by Michael Bennett – Best Novel: REMEMBER ME by Charity Norman
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JUDITH BINNEY FELLOW & Writing Awards Announced 2024
JUDITH BINNEY FELLOW 2024 Dr Marco de Jong Dr Marco de Jong is a Pacific historian and lecturer at the AUT Law School. He was raised in Tāmaki Makaurau with ties to Papa Puleia in Sāmoa. Marco’s work details the history of the environmental movement in the Pacific Islands with a particular focus on anti-nuclearism, […]
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Successful recipients of the 2023 CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants announced
29 November 2023 We are excited to announce the successful recipients in this year’s round of Contestable Fund Grants, with a total of $75,000 granted. Applications were invited for projects that had clearly defined and measurable outcomes that aligned with the Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Cultural Fund’s objectives. The Contestable Fund is part of […]
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New Zealand Historical Association Prizes 2023 announced
November 28, 2023 Best Postgraduate essay prize: Ereni Pūtere, ‘Te Aho Mutuka Kore: The Role of Weaving in Māori Memory’ Mary Boyd Prize for the best article on any aspect of New Zealand history published in a refereed journal: Martin George Holmes, “Rise and Fall of the Brotherhood of St Andrew in the Anglican Diocese […]
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The 2023 winner of IWW The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems is Caroline Masters
International Writers’ Workshop NZ Inc 27 November 2023 International Writers’ Workshop NZ is delighted to announce that Caroline Masters from Tāmaki Makarau / Auckland is the 2023 winner of The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems, and Sarah Scott from Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington, is runner-up. The competition was judged by Emma […]
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Siobhan Harvey wins Landfall Essay competition
Protection for queer communities and their rights lies at the heart of this year’s Landfall Essay Competition winning essay, ‘A Jigsaw of Broken Things’ by Siobhan Harvey. Powerful and unflinching, Harvey uses her memories like stepping stones as she examines the violence and prejudices that repress queer communities worldwide. ‘The essay interlaces my personal […]
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Shelley Burne-Field named as 2024 Emerging Māori Writer in Residence
23 November 2023 Award-winning kaituhituhi Shelley Burne-Field (Sāmoa, Ngati Mutunga, Ngati Rārua, Pākehā) has been appointed as the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and Creative New Zealand Emerging Māori Writer in Residence for 2024. Ms Burne-Field writes fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. She comes from Te Matau-a-Māui […]
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Submissions open for 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Entries have opened for the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, with an increase in the prize money on offer. The New Zealand Book Awards Trust Te Ohu Tiaki i Te Rau Hiringa is now inviting submissions for these annual awards that recognise and celebrate the best books for young readers […]
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Landfall and non/fictionLab announce collaboration for 2024
Otago University Press is excited to announce that Landfall and RMIT University’s non/fictionLab are coming together to commission a series of essays on the topic of ‘making space’. The essays will be trans-Tasman collaborations; each will include at least one writer with connections to Aotearoa and at least one with connections to Australia. Up to […]
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NZSA is now a Registered Charitable Entity
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaithu o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc has been successful in its application to become a charity. As of October 19, 2023 NZSA is now a registered charitable entity CC61705. It is also now a donee organisation.
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Auckland Branch Christmas Networking meeting
NZSA Auckland branch Christmas Network meeting is on Saturday 2nd December at Freemans Bay School, 95 Wellington Street, Ponsonby. RSVP here Feel free to bring wine, dress up Christmassy, and we’ll provide the rest. There will be an auction of sponsored items and the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Graeme Lay Short Story competition. […]
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