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NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 Shortlists
The NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 shortlist, announced today, features a mixture of debut authors and well-known writers. Books by Tina Shaw, Riley Chance, Rebekah Ballagh, Mandy Hager, Stacy Gregg and James Russell are among the diverse titles nominated for the NZ Booklovers Awards, along with exciting new writers and outstanding debut books. With five categories […]
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The ASLA DANZ Children’s Book Award Announces its 2025 Longlists!
Twenty-nine books have made the longlist for the 2025 ASLA DANZ Children’s Book Awards, selected by over 110 children and teenagers from across Australia and New Zealand. The longlist came from an outstanding field of 135 books made up of Graphic Novels, NonFiction, Poetry, and Young Adult Novels celebrating diverse people and communities in a […]
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New name for Sargeson Fellowship
6 February 2025 The Sargeson Trust is delighted to announce that the 38-year-old Sargeson Fellowship will from 2026 be known as the Ireland Wilson Sargeson Fellowships. For almost four decades, the Sargeson Fellowship has supported scores of Aotearoa New Zealand writers in the memory of distinguished author and generous mentor Frank Sargeson. Under the new […]
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Entries for the 2025 Pikihuia Awards are now open
This year the Pikihuia Awards will celebrate 30 years of supporting and nurturing Māori writers. Held biennially, the Pikihuia Awards have welcomed short story submissions in both te reo Māori and English. Following the exciting new categories introduced in 2023, The Māori Literature Trust is proud to announce that we are again adjusting the genre […]
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2025 IPEd Student Prize shortlist announced
Four students from two Australian universities have made the shortlist for the 2025 Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) Student Prize. The shortlisted students are: Portia Abbott, a Master of Writing and Publishing student at RMIT University, for her essay “One book (doesn’t) fit all: Suggestions for more dyslexia-friendly print books”. Portia’s essay was an industry […]
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Burning, bestselling and beautiful books nominated for 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
THURSDAY 30 JANUARY 2025 Popular books that pack a punch and have hit the mark with readers across the motu in the past year have also found favour with the judges of the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, who reveal their longlists today. Unforgettable and amusing memoirs, novels that move and unnerve, illustrated books […]
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Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2025
• The winning entry will receive a cash prize of $500. • A selection of the best entries will be published in the Forty South Short Story Anthology 2025. TERMS AND CONDITIONS • The prize is for short stories up to 3,000 words, having an island, or island-resonant, theme. • Writers will be citizens of […]
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Witi Ihimaera named Royal Society of Literature International Writer 2024
Royal Society of Literature International Writers 2024 10 December 2024 ~ This Reading Life The RSL International Writers honour is a relatively new award ‘recognising the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English, and the power of literature to transcend borders to bring people together.’ I confess that I had not heard of this before and would […]
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NZ Mountain Film & Book Competitions Open
Adventure creatives, it’s your time to shine! The NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival is back for its 23rd edition, celebrating the best in adventure storytelling through film and literature. Mark your calendars: the festival will take place in Wānaka (20–24 June) and Queenstown (26–27 June), with the Online Film Festival running throughout July. Entries are […]
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Lee Murray made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Award-winning speculative fiction writer and poet Lee Murray has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2025’s New Year’s Honours List. Lee’s success as a writer of speculative fiction and literary mentor was recognised with the 2023 Prime Minster’s Award for Literary Achievement (Fiction). We’re excited to see her career, […]
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2025 ABR Science Fellowship
This Fellowship, worth $5,000, offers a unique opportunity to make a substantial contribution to the magazine in the area of science writing. Applications are now open and close on January 20. What is the ABR Science Fellowship? The ABR Science Fellowship is intended to advance the careers of science writers and to augment ABR’s coverage of […]
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Call for entries: Rod Oram Memorial Essay Prize
Calling all young writers! To honour our great friend and esteemed colleague, Rod Oram, we are calling for essays from young people campaigning for a more equitable, sustainable and compassionate world. Rod Oram was a revered journalist and environmentalist, known for his rigorously researched and passionate commentaries on business, government and wider society – and […]
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