• Have you entered books into the NZ Booklovers Awards 2023? Now open

    Booklovers NZ now has four categories for books published in 2022: NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction Book 2023, sponsored by Lighthouse PR We are looking for the best in storytelling, a novel we couldn’t put down. NZ Booklovers Award for Best Lifestyle Book 2023, sponsored by Benefitz Cooking, wine, architecture, lifestyle, home and […]

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  • 2022 ARA HISTORICAL NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTS ANNOUNCED

    14 September 2022 Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), in partnership with Australia’s leading essential building and infrastructure services provider ARA Group, is excited to announce the Longlists for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize. This year’s Longlists explore a diverse range of powerful themes, from reinvention and the meaning of truth, through to mischievous, fast-paced fables […]

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  • Applications Invited For 2023 Randell Cottage Writers Residency

    Applications are now open for one of New Zealand’s top writing residencies: the 2023 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship. The fellowship comprises a generous stipend, funded by CNZ and currently set at $28,500, and six months’ rent-free accommodation in one of Wellington’s oldest heritage homes. “We’re incredibly proud to be offering New Zealand […]

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  • $25,000 CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award awarded to Ōtepoti Writer and Poet Iona Winter

    Iona Winter has been awarded the 2022 Copyright Licensing New Zealand and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) $25,000 Writers’ Award for her creative non-fiction project, ‘A counter of moons’. (Warning: this article contains discussion of suicide. Links to information about where to access help can be found […]

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  • Emerging Māori Writer in Residence – Te Herenga Waka

    About the residency The Emerging Māori Writer’s Residency was established in 2019 by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, with the support of Creative New Zealand. It runs for three months in the first half of each year, funding dependent, and includes a writing room, a mentor from the Māori arts community, and a stipend […]

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  • Nine to Noon’s Short Story Competition is back

    Radio New Zealand Short Story Competition This year it will be judged by author Harry Ricketts and Rebecca Reilly. Entries open September 5 and close on September 30, 2022. The top five winners will be announced on Friday 28 October, and those stories will be purchased by RNZ and recorded and broadcast on Nine to […]

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  • CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants 2022 – now open for 2022!

    7 SEPTEMBER 2022 Each year a portion of the revenue allocated to the CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants 2022 is made available in a contestable fund.   In 2022, $75,000 is available to support strategic projects that demonstrate New Zealand publishing sector growth. The amount applicants apply for is up to them, with the number of […]

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  • Booker Prize Announces Its 2022 Shortlist

      Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 Shortlist Author Nationality Title Publisher, Imprint NoViolet Bulawayo Zimbabwean Glory Penguin Random House, Vintage, Chatto & Windus Percival Everett American The Trees Influx Press Alan Garner British Treacle Walker  HarperCollins, Fourth Estate Shehan Karunatilaka Sri Lankan The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Sort of Books Claire Keegan Irish Small […]

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  • Fetisov Journalism Awards 2022 – How to Enter

    Entries to the competition must be submitted before October 1st, 2022 (23:59 UTC). The total prize fund is 520,000 CHF. Three winners in each category share a monetary prize of 130,000 CHF (including taxes, as stipulated by the legislation in force): The first prize winner receives 100,000 CHF and a unique silver statuette designed and handcrafted in Switzerland. […]

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  • CNZ Canterbury Uni – Residency in Creative Writing 2023

    Job Title: Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence Location: Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand Closing date: Sunday, 25 September, 2022 Te Kaupeka Toi Tangata | Faculty of Arts Full-time at 37.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE) 6 or 12 month fixed-term opportunity Competitive salary of $72,000 (for 12 months, pro-rated for 6 months) What You Will Do […]

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  • Close up of Paula Morris. She is wearing a scarf around her neck

    Paula Morris MNZN – Announced as a 2022 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate

    The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi welcomes seven new Laureates to our over 100-strong artist alumni.   Established in 2000, the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate Awards celebrate and empower New Zealand’s most outstanding artists across a vast range of disciplines. Each Laureate is recognised for their outstanding practice as well as their significant impact, and […]

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  • Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced

    29 August 2022 Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category are: Adult crime novel                 Once There Were Wolves (Charlotte McConaghy, Hamish Hamilton) Highly commended Unforgiven (Sarah Barrie, HQ Fiction) Young adult crime novel The Gaps (Leanne Hall, Text) […]

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