• 2024 Judith Binney Fellowships and Writing Awards

    Posted on 14 June 2023

    · The Judith Binney Trust is pleased to announce that applications for the 2024 Judith Binney Fellowships and Writing Awards will open on 3 July 2023.     For information about the Fellowships and Awards, please see www.judithbinneytrust.org.nz Applications close at 5pm on 25 August 2023.  The Fellowship and Awards are scheduled to be announced in November 2023 for […]

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  • Melinda Szymanik awarded 2023 Shanghai Writing Residency

    Posted on 12 June 2023

    Michael King Writers Centre    12 June 2023 New Zealand China Friendship Society Residency Exchange After a break in the residency exchange programme due to the global pandemic, we are very happy to announce that, Melinda Szymanik has been selected as the fourth New Zealand writer to join the Shanghai Writers’ Association’s International Writing Programme. […]

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  • Call for judges of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

    Posted on 6 June 2023

      The organisers of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are calling for expressions of interest from readers with a deep knowledge of New Zealand literature who would like to be considered as judges of the 2024 awards. Applications are welcomed from the literature community and from members of the public with relevant experience. Suitable […]

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  • 2023 FOUNDER LECTURE Witi Ihimaera, DCNZM, DCM – FRIENDS OF THE TURNBULL

    Posted on 5 June 2023

    2023 FOUNDER LECTURE Witi Ihimaera, DCNZM, DCM Acclaimed author, anthologist and librettist Indigenous Envoy: The Māori writer as New Zealand practitioner and indigenous artisan Taiwhanga Kawhau Auditorium, lower ground floor, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, Molesworth St, Thorndon Witi will speak at 6.00pm. Following the Lecture, we will celebrate the 50th […]

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  • 2023 King’s Birthday and Coronation Honours list – Book community gongs

    Posted on 5 June 2023

    Congratulations to those in the literary community who have been honoured this weekend: CNZM – To be Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit: Mr Colin Charles James – For services to journalism and public policy – NZSA member ONZM – To be Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit: Mr Nicolas Alfred […]

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  • Winners for the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Awards, for the 2022 calendar year

    Posted on 5 June 2023

      Professional Categories Best Novel A Rake of HIs Own A.J. Lancaster Camberion Press Best Youth Novel The Rarkyn’s Familiar Nikky Lee Parliament House Press Best Novelette How to Marry a Winged King A.J. Lancaster FaRoFeb Best Novella How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster) Marie Cardno Paper Road Press Best Short […]

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  • AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Posted on 3 June 2023

    02 June 2023 Auckland Writers Festival |Waituhi O Tāmaki is thrilled to announce one of the UK’s leading literary industry talents as its new Artistic Director – ushering in a bold and exciting new era for New Zealand’s largest and most anticipated annual festival of books and ideas. Lyndsey Fineran, Deputy Head of Programming, international programme and […]

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  • $25,000 CLNZ NZSA Writers’ Award 2023 OPENS – call for applications!

    Posted on 1 June 2023

    The CLNZ | NZSA Writers’ Award of $25,000 is one of the highest non-fiction prizes in New Zealand literature, and is now open for applications. He $25,000 te nui o te Karāti Kaituhi o te CLNZ me te NZSA, te karāti mātua mo ngā pakimaero-pono o ngā momo-tuhinga o Aotearoa. Ka taea e ngā Kaituhi te […]

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  • TEENAGER JOINS ESTABLISHED NAMES ON SHORTLIST FOR NATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS

    Posted on 1 June 2023

    A 16-year-old Kāpiti Coast student is among the writers and illustrators announced today as finalists in the 2023 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, the preeminent celebration of books for Aotearoa’s young readers. Arlo Kelly, one of the Awards’ youngest ever finalists, is vying for the NZSA Best First Book Award with […]

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  • Storylines Notable Book Awards judges announced

    Posted on 30 May 2023

      Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa has announced the judges chosen to select the Storylines Notable Books for 2023 (for books published from 16 November 2022 to 15 November 2023). The panels of six for each of five categories (non-fiction, junior and YA fiction, picture books and books written […]

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  • Announcing the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2023 winner!

    Posted on 19 May 2023

    Lee Murray is winner of the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2023! The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Lee Murray on winning the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize with her manuscript Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud. The prize was created by the NZSA and […]

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  • Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2023 Winners’ Announcement

    Posted on 18 May 2023

       Novel that New Zealanders have ‘clasped to their hearts’ wins country’s richest writing prize. Celebrated New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey has won the $64,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for The Axeman’s Carnival – a page-turning novel of depth, pathos and humanity that skilfully infuses […]

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