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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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NZ Mountain Film & Book Competitions Open
Adventure creatives, it’s your time to shine! The NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival is back for its 23rd edition, celebrating the best in adventure storytelling through film and literature. Mark your calendars: the festival will take place in Wānaka (20–24 June) and Queenstown (26–27 June), with the Online Film Festival running throughout July. Entries are […]
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Lee Murray made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Award-winning speculative fiction writer and poet Lee Murray has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2025’s New Year’s Honours List. Lee’s success as a writer of speculative fiction and literary mentor was recognised with the 2023 Prime Minster’s Award for Literary Achievement (Fiction). We’re excited to see her career, […]
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2025 ABR Science Fellowship
This Fellowship, worth $5,000, offers a unique opportunity to make a substantial contribution to the magazine in the area of science writing. Applications are now open and close on January 20. What is the ABR Science Fellowship? The ABR Science Fellowship is intended to advance the careers of science writers and to augment ABR’s coverage of […]
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Call for entries: Rod Oram Memorial Essay Prize
Calling all young writers! To honour our great friend and esteemed colleague, Rod Oram, we are calling for essays from young people campaigning for a more equitable, sustainable and compassionate world. Rod Oram was a revered journalist and environmentalist, known for his rigorously researched and passionate commentaries on business, government and wider society – and […]
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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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