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Announcing the 2nd Mercedes Webb-Pullman Poetry Award
Webb-Pullman Poetry Award Webb-Pullman Family 30 April, 2025 Entries are now open for the second Mercedes Webb-Pullman Poetry Award, which in 2025 will again be $500 NZD. In honour of Mercedes’ support for Palestinian rights, her passionate resistance to injustice, and in light of the current genocide in Gaza, the topic for this […]
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Applications now open for the 2026 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
Applications for one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prestigious and long-running Fellowships are now open – closing 11pm Friday 30 May 2025. For over fifty years, since 1970, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship has enabled a New Zealand writer to live and work for three months or more in Menton, southern France, with access to […]
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VERB WELLINGTON ANNOUNCES THREE WRITERS RESIDENCIES
Verb Wellington is delighted to announce a new Children’s Writers Residency and a Home-Based Residency to run in 2025. Applications open for both residencies on 28 April, as well for the Katherine Mansfield House & Garden Writers Residency which has been running annually since 2020. “We are thrilled to offer two new opportunities for […]
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The Plaza Poetry Prize Winners
NZSA member, Wes Lee, has been awarded second and third prize in The Plaza Poetry Prize 2025, selected by the judge, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz. The winning, commended, and shortlisted poems (for an individual poem with a maximum length of 60 lines) have been announced on The Plaza Prizes website. ‘Reading the finalist poems for the […]
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Script to Screen mentorship programme recipients
Script to Screen welcomes eight new filmmakers to the South Shorts Mentorship Programme! From July to November, the participants will embark on an incredible journey of development led by acclaimed screenwriter and director Briar Grace-Smith (Cousins, Rūrangi, Waru). Briar has led the mentorship for South Shorts since 2018, and in this time has had a […]
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Michelle Elvy gets Barr Cottage Auckland Council residency
Artist plans seascape series at Auckland regional park 23 Apr 2025 Michelle Elvy, Auckland Council’s 2025 artist in residence, hopes to find inspiration at Huia An established writer with an affinity for the ocean is thrilled to have the opportunity to live at the idyllic seaside Barr Cottage in Huia, as Auckland Council’s regional parks’ artist in […]
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Sir Julius Vogel 2025 Award Winners
Professional Categories Best Novel Echoes of Earthshine Mel Harding-Shaw Coruscate Press Best Youth Novel The Moonlight Bridge Mike Gwyther Qualia House Best Novella or Novelette We Who Remain Nikky Lee Deadset Press Best Short Story N-spired Learning B.T. Keaton SpecFicNZ Best Artwork Cover of “Artificial Sweetener: Tales of AI: 100% Written by Humans” Melissa Gunn […]
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Big news for the Landfall Essay Competition! 📢📢
First up, it has a new name: the Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize. And we’re thrilled that Tina Makereti, a previous winner, will be joining us as a very special guest judge this year! The winner will receive $3000 and a year’s subscription to Landfall, and the winning essay will be featured in our milestone Landfall […]
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In other words, Ōtaki | Kia rerekē te hua, Ōtaki (IOWŌ)
IOWŌ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS In other words, Ōtaki | Kia rerekē te hua, Ōtaki (IOWŌ) New Residencies for Storytellers In other words, Ōtaki (IOWŌ) / Kia rerekē te hua, Ōtaki is delighted to launch its inaugural 10-day residency programme for five Aotearoa storytellers who work with words for positive social change. If you’re a […]
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2024 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Announcement
Now in its 30th year, the 2024 Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier speculative fiction award, attracted more than 830 entries across 15 categories, including 34 nominations in the tri-annual Sara Douglass Book Series Award (totalling over 120 books), and record numbers in the Children’s Fiction category. Aurealis Awards judging coordinator Tehani Croft said, “We are extremely […]
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2025 Storylines Award Shortlists and Winners
Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal Winner: Paula Green Link to the lecture: https://www.storylines.org.nz/award/storylines-margaret-mahy-medal-and-lecture-award/ Storylines Janice Marriott Mentoring Award Winner: The Goose Bay Gang and the Secret Treasure Madeleine Roberts Storylines Te Kahurangi Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira Award for a work originally written in te reo Māori, in association with Huia Publishers Winner: Te Taniwha […]
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2025 COMMONWEALTH SHORT STORY PRIZE SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
Tuesday 15 April 2025 World’s most global literature prize shortlists 25 writers from 18 countries Judging panel praise stories that are ‘relevant, vibrant and essential reading’ Selected from almost 8,000 entries, the stories range from historical fiction to satire, via crime and speculative writing, family dramas and coming-of-age stories Writers tackle ambitious and challenging […]
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