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Call for judges of the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
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 2023 awards. Applications are invited from members of the public with relevant experience, and from the literature community. Suitable candidates […]
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$25,000 CLNZ NZSA Writers’ Award OPENS – call for applications!
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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NZSA Heritage Book Awards 2022 – applications open 1 June to 1 Aug 2022
Applications are open for the NZSA Heritage Book Awards 2022 The NZSA Heritage Book Awards are proudly bought to you by the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (NZSA) and celebrate New Zealand writers who have published work in the previous year to the opening date of the awards. First established […]
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New Zealand’s National Writer-Residency Organisation Announces the Recipient Of The Inaugural 2022 International Residency with Australia
The Michael King Writers Centre in association with Varuna, The National Writers’ House in Katoomba, NSW, Australia is pleased to announce Gina Cole as the recipient of this new residency for New Zealand writers. Gina will receive return flights to Sydney, four weeks accommodation and meals at Varuna, a NZ$5,000 stipend and the opportunity to […]
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Kiwi Writer Makes Literary History
In a world first, Tauranga author, Lee Murray, doubled her Bram Stoker Award® achievements of last year, receiving a further two prestigious literary awards at a gala event hosted by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) at the Curtis Hotel in Denver, USA on 14 May. Named for the author of the seminal horror novel Dracula, […]
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NZ Booklovers Awards 2023
Entries open now for the NZ Booklovers Awards 2023. ‘We are thrilled to be offering the NZ Booklovers Awards for a fifth year, to recognise the talented authors we have in New Zealand,’ says Karen McMillan. ‘We are delighted to announce a new award for 2023, The Junior Fiction Children’s Book Award, to join our […]
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Announcing the shortlist for the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize
Announcing the shortlist for the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel. The author of the winning manuscript will receive a contract for world rights […]
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2022 Winners’ Announcement
‘Intense, Clever and Sexy as Hell’ Novel Wins Country’s Richest Writing Prize Wellington novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Pākehā) has won the $60,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Kurangaituku – a richly imagined contemporary retelling of […]
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Applications open for cash grants to support NZ writers
Applications are now open for the CLNZ | NZSA Research Grants to help you research for your fiction or non-fiction writing project. Kua tuwhera ināianei ngā tono mō ngā Karāti Rangahau o te CLNZ | NZSA hei āwhina atu māu e rangahau tō hinonga, tō kōrero paki, tō kōrero pono rānei. Four grants valued at […]
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How to watch the Ockham NZ Book Awards ceremony LIVE on Wednesday 11 May
It’s Ockham week and here’s how to watch the Ockham NZ Book Awards ceremony LIVE on Wednesday 11 May from 7pm! A change in venue and continued precautions around Covid have restricted our audience capacity for the much-anticipated Ockham New Zealand Book Awards this Wednesday 11 May, but there are several ways you can join […]
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2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Shortlists announced
Judges hail ‘memorable and urgent stories that captured the concerns of their respective communities…. reflecting a complex and afflicted planet’ Ambitious and wide-ranging variety of styles, storytelling traditions and themes – from family dramas, to explorations of love and loss, exploitation, betrayal and scandal, and the ‘hurts of history’ Twenty-six outstanding stories have been shortlisted […]
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NZSA member Shelley Burne-Field a finalist in Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2022
CONGRATULATIONS TO SHELLEY-BURNE-FIELD – A 2022 SHORT STORY FINALIST! Shelley’s story ‘Speaking in tongues’ is about loss of language, about community, and about being seen and heard. Shelley Burne-Field (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Rārua) is a fiction writer and graduate of both Te Papa Tupu and Master of Creative Writing at the University of Auckland. A […]
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