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NZ Booklovers Awards 2022 Shortlist Announced
The NZ Booklovers Awards 2022 shortlist, announced today, features a mixture of well-known authors and new writers. Books by Stephanie Johnson, Clarke Gayford, Eleanor Ozich, Nicola McCloy, Gavin Bishop, Stacey Morrison and Melinda Szymanik are among the diverse range of titles nominated for the NZ Booklovers Awards, along with exciting new writers and outstanding debut […]
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International Writing Contest Endorsed By Hollywood Celebrity Looking For Diverse Stories From Cultural Artists And Entertainers
The Page Turner Awards is inviting creative authors, writers, and screenwriters from around the globe to enter their writing projects into their 2022 awards, which has just opened. In particular, the awards judging panel is keen to discover unique voices from diverse cultures. The team at Page Turner Awards passionately believes that talented writers can […]
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Aotearoa Photobook Awards 2022 finalists announced
The traces left by burnouts, the elusive life of New Zealand motels and sexism in corporate New Zealand are among the photobook themes in the 10 finalists of new Aotearoa Photobook Awards. The Awards, sponsored by Wakefields Digital, attracted nearly 50 entries from photographic artists and small presses around the country. “These are independent artists’ […]
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Diana Noonan wins Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal 2022
Writer and NZSA member Diana Noonan, author of more than 100 titles for children and young adults, is the 2022 winner of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for lifetime achievement and outstanding contribution to New Zealand’s literature for young people. The premier award is made annually by Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand […]
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University of Waikato announces Diana Clarke as 2022 Writer in Residence
A novel exploring the cult-like logic of internet communities alongside organised religious groups such as Gloriavale and Scientology will be the focus of University of Waikato’s new Writer In Residence, Diana Clarke. Clarke, who has been completing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Utah, has returned home to New Zealand […]
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Longlists for New Zealand’s premier literary awards revealed
Books exploring politics, fashion, social change, war, contested histories and family relationships sit alongside works celebrating our natural world and the enduring legacies of our activists and artists in the longlists for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Forty poetry, prose and non-fiction titles make up the longlists announced today. Selected from an impressive […]
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Call for Entries! $10,000 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing
The Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing is an annual $10,000 prize awarded to an outstanding unpublished manuscript. Since its inception in 2008, the Text Prize has become one of the most renowned prizes for young adult and children’s writing in Australia and New Zealand. Eligible writers can also enter the Steph Bowe […]
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Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition opens
In 2017 Landfall celebrated its 70th birthday. To mark the occasion, University of Otago launched the Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition, an annual award open to writers aged 16 to 21. Essays should not exceed 1500 words. The competition is judged by the editor of Landfall. The winner will be announced and published in each […]
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Mountain Book Competition 2022
We love sharing tales of epic, and often hair-raising adventures set in some of the world’s most remote, often beautiful, sometimes hostile, environments. Celebrating our 20th anniversary this year, the NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival is scheduled to run in Wānaka from 24 to 29 June, in Queenstown June 30 to July 2, and […]
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First Pages Prize 2022
The 2022 First Pages Prize support the emerging writers with cash awards, a tailored edit and an agent consultation. Open to un-agented writers worldwide, the First Pages Prize invites you to enter your first five pages (1250 words) of longer work of fiction or creative nonfiction. Enter MARCH 1 – APRIL 10, 2022 Extended deadline […]
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Aotearoa New Zealand New Year’s Honours lists 2021-2022
NZ Aotearoa New Years Honours full list HERE Slim pickings for the literary sector in the honours list this year, but we note three peripheral sector awards, honoured today: Congratulations to Journalist Rosemary McLeod, who received an Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to journalism and television. Congratulations too to […]
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Announcing the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists
PEN America has announced their Longlists for the 2022 Literary Awards! The Awards are juried by panels of esteemed, award-winning authors, editors, translators, and critics. These authors are committed to recognising their contemporaries, from promising debut writers to those who have had a continuous, lasting impact on the literary landscape. You can learn more about […]
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