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Hachette Aotearoa NZ announces the winner of the Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize for 2022
Hachette Aotearoa NZ and the Margaret Mahy Estate are thrilled to announce Jessica Twohill as the winner of the Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize 2022. The judging panel said Twohill’s illustrations of Margaret Mahy’s iconic children’s book The Witch in the Cherry Tree were “thoughtful, full of humour and packed with detail.” The judging panel also loved the world building […]
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Four cash grants awarded to support local writers
The 2022 Copyright Licensing New Zealand and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Research Grants have been awarded to four writers in Aotearoa. The $5,000 grants support local writers who wish to undertake research for a fiction or non-fiction writing project. The selection panel, Deborah Challinor, David Eggleton and […]
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Aotearoa New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2023 Writers in Residence Programme
The Michael King Writers Centre is pleased to announce that next year’s programme of residencies at the historic Signalman’s House on Takarunga Mt Victoria in Devonport, Auckland, is now open for applications. Writers awarded a residency can look forward to peaceful accommodation, the use of a writing studio, a supporting stipend and the opportunity to […]
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Chris Tse is New Zealand’s next poet laureate
When queer Asian-Kiwi writer Chris Tse started reading and writing poetry at the age of 16, he felt he’d finally found something he could pursue. “Poetry has always been this constant. It’s the thing I reach for, for comfort and connection, it’s helped me make wonderful friendships and relationships with people. It’s been a significant part of […]
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Tsunami poem wins National Schools Poetry Award 2022
26 August 2022 Joshua Toumu’a, a Year 12 student from Wellington High School, has won the 2022 International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award with a poem that creates a vivid snapshot of the aftermath of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai eruption and the ensuing tsunami. Joshua, who is of Tongan, Papua New Guinean, […]
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Brown Ink – Script Development
Playmarket’s Brown Ink development programme is looking for Māori and Pasifika writers with the best new and original work. The programme offers playwrights a development workshop with a professional script advisor and actors dedicated to helping you develop your play. Plays selected for development for Brown Ink that have gone to professional productions include Still […]
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Book launch: Jumping Sundays by Nick Bollinger
Join Auckland University Press and Unity Books to celebrate Nick Bollinger’s latest book – Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Auckland launch is part of the Auckland Writers Festival and is also the book’s official launch day – this Thursday 25 August. The event starts at 5pm […]
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Keri Hulme’s generous koha for Māori writers
The original manuscript of the bone people, by legendary author Keri Hulme (Kāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe), will be auctioned at Dunbar Sloane on the 11th of August, this year. Keri Hulme was the first New Zealander to win the prestigious Booker Prize in 1985. She was also the first writer to win the Booker Prize, […]
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Sir Julius Vogel Award Winners – 2022
The winners of the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for 2022, recognising works from the 2021 year are now available. 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Awards The 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Awards winners have been announced. The awards recognize excellence in science fiction, fantasy, or horror works created by New Zealanders and New Zealand residents. The Sir Julius Vogel […]
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Congratulations to the winners of 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults!
The 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have just wrapped up and congratulations to all the winners! Atua: Māori Gods and Legends, by Gavin Bishop (Puffin, Penguin Random House) cleaned up, winning the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and $7,500; the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction and $7,500; and […]
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Adam NZ Play Award 2023
Submissions are now open for the 2023 Adam NZ Play Award. Awards may be given in the following categories: – Best Play – Best Play by a Māori Playwright – Best Play by a Pasifika Playwright – Best Play by a Woman Playwright – McNaughton South Island Play Award – Dean Parker Adaptation or Non-Fiction Award The […]
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Verb Residency open for applications
Verb Wellington and Katherine Mansfield House & Garden invite writers from anywhere in Aotearoa to apply opportunity to spend time in one of the world’s most vibrant literary cities to focus on your writing. For three weeks between 23 October – 13 November 2022 you will have a dedicated writing space at Katherine Mansfield’s birthplace […]
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