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2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards Winners Revealed
Our heartfelt congratulations go out to the recently announced winners of the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards. Now in its fifteenth year, the annual Ngaio Marsh awards celebrate excellence in Aotearoa crime, mystery and thriller novels. This year’s winners were: Rotorua author Claire Baylis, who won Best First Novel for her harrowing examination of jury beliefs […]
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2025 Kaipukahu University of Waikato Writer in Residence Open for Applications
Each year the University of Waikato invites applications for the position of Writer in Residence, tenable for twelve months from early January. The position is jointly funded by the University of Waikato and Creative New Zealand. It is open to poets, novelists, short story writers, dramatists, and writers of serious non-fiction. The appointment is made on […]
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Selina Tusitala Marsh Announced as 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow
Poet, author, and academic Selina Tusitala Marsh ONZM, FRSNZ has been awarded the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, becoming the first Pasifika writer to receive this honor and marking a significant moment in recognising Pacific voices in Aotearoa New Zealand’s literary landscape. The Fellowship will enable her to live and write in Menton, southern France, […]
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Beyond whodunnit: 2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards finalists announced
From stem cell research to sexual assault juries, the dangers of a surveillance society to mental health and animal abuse, the finalists for the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards offer readers a diverse array of page-turning mysteries and thrills entwined with societal issues, set against a variety of locales and eras from Renaissance Florence and Nazi […]
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Submissions open for 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
13 AUGUST 2024: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The New Zealand Book Awards Trust Te Ohu Tiaki i Te Rau Hiringa has today opened submissions for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. These prestigious awards provide recognition of, and promote excellence in, the best books for adult readers published annually in Aotearoa. Titles with release dates […]
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Inaugural Lynley Dodd Children’s Writers Award Recipient Announced: J L Williams
The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi is thrilled to announce the inaugural recipient of the Lynley Dodd Children’s Writers Award: Janine Williams, known to many by her pen name J.L. Williams. Whangarei-based author Janine is known for her compelling historical junior fiction and dedication to crafting stories that capture young readers’ hearts across the […]
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The most beautifully designed books in Aotearoa -2024 PANZ Book Design Awards
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) established the awards to promote excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best book design in Aotearoa New Zealand. This year’s judges, Anna Brown (convenor), Massey University, Te Kani Price, Huia Publishers, Simon Waterfield, Lift Education, and Chloe Blades, Unity Books, faced the daunting […]
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Kiwi readers vote for record number of new books in annual Whitcoulls Top 100 List
MEDIA RELEASE Under strict embargo until Monday, July 22, 2024, 5:00am The 2024 Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List has changed by an astonishing 42 percent the bookseller reveals, as they announce their 2024 Top 100 Books List today Whitcoulls Book Manager Joan Mackenzie attributes this to a collective surge of enthusiasm for writers who are […]
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Mātātuhi Foundation announces new funding pool
Mātātuhi Foundation is excited to announce that grant applicants can now apply for up to $20,000 in funding in our October funding round, which closes on 31 October 2024. In previous years, the maximum grant per project was $5,000. To mark our 12th funding round, the Mātātuhi Foundation has released a revised set of funding criteria to […]
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Call for nominations for Ngā Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi Awards 2024
Nominate Now! Tuku tono mai! Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa is calling for public nominations to honor outstanding toi Māori artists at the Ngā Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi Awards 2024. Recognise the contributions of Māori artists in our communities. Three award categories are open for nomination, each with a $10,000 prize: Ngā Tohu […]
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Poisons, pandemic, and a pregnant detective: 2024 Ngaio Marsh Award longlist revealed
A neurodivergent expert on toxic botanicals, a harrowing exploration of jury deliberations, a high-tech thriller from an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, a desperate mother searching for her son as lockdown kicks in, a gay sleuth in Renaissance Florence, and the return of a beloved fictional detective are among the diverse books named today on the longlist for […]
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Announcing the winner of the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel
July 15, 2024 Jeffrey Buchanan has been named the winner of the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for his manuscript The Birds Began to Sing. Buchanan wins a publishing contract with Text and a NZ$10,000 advance against royalties. The prize is awarded annually to an unpublished manuscript by a New Zealand writer, and celebrates the life […]
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