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Introducing the Aotearoa Photobook Awards 2022
The new Aotearoa Photobook Awards are designed to reward outstanding photobooks produced between 21 January 2020 and 17 January 2022 by New Zealand photographers. Finalists will be announced after 29 January 2022 and the Awards presented at the opening of the Photobook/NZ Festival at Te Papa on Friday 4 March. The Awards are run by […]
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Vivid, absorbing story cycle wins 2021 Adam Foundation Prize
A novel-in-stories set in contemporary rural Northland, which examiners describe as “shades of Elizabeth Strout in the effortless interplay of stories” has been awarded the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) 2021 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. Sharron Came works as a regulatory strategist for renewable energy company, Mercury. She wrote the winning manuscript, Peninsula, as […]
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Tragicomedy wins top scriptwriting prize at Te Herenga Waka
A feature film script about three young women thrown together by a pop song has been awarded the 2021 David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Written by Georgie Wright as part of her 2021 Master of Arts folio at the University’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), the […]
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Hybrid book launch for Lizzie Harwood’s Polaroid Nights
In today’s global pandemic environment, Lizzie Harwood’s Auckland novel, Polaroid Nights, will launch both in real-life and online tonight – Thursday, 9 December. At Auckland’s XuXu Dumpling Bar, author Lizzie Harwood will read from Polaroid Nights and take part in a Q&A with Auckland hospo icon Krishna Botica. There will be some words from her […]
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Judges and new sponsor announced for 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Award-winning authors, librarians, a children’s bookseller and reviewer, as well as respected proponents of te reo and te ao Māori, make up the two panels of experts selected to judge entries in the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Educationalist and author Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith, who was a judge in the […]
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NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2022
Award for fresh writing with a ‘unique and original vision’ The NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize celebrates the life and work of the writer Laura Solomon. As set by Laura, the main criteria for the exciting prize is for new writing with a ‘unique and original vision’. Published and unpublished writers are invited to […]
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Rose Lu selected as 2022 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence
Tramper, software engineer, essayist and now novelist Rose Lu is to be the 2022 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow. Lu will be using her six months at Randell Cottage in Wellington’s historic Thorndon village to write her first novel. Currently untitled, the project follows the story of Moon, a second-generation Chinese-New Zealander, and […]
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Soulful storytelling shines at NZ’s biggest short story awards
The story of a lonely, tormented schoolboy has captured the heart of a celebrated New Zealand poet and novelist to win the top prize in this year’s Sunday Star-Times short story awards. Dominic Hoey’s story 1986 is a sharply observant social commentary on the Grey Lynn neighbourhood in the days before gentrification, told through the eyes of a […]
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Michael King Writers Centre Announces Winners of 2021 Signals – Young Writers Awards
Michael King Writers Centre are delighted to receive a very strong field of over 70 submissions from around the country for the inaugural Signals Young Writers Awards 2021. Judge Kate de Goldi, gave this feedback: “All the shortlisted entries were interesting – real talent and, importantly, extremely well-developed craft skills. I think the thing that […]
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NZHA 2021 Prize Winners
Following the Prize Giving session on Friday, the outgoing NZ Historical Association Executive are delighted to confirm the winners of the 2021 NZHA Prizes: The W.H. Oliver Prize for the Best Book on Any Aspect of New Zealand History Joint Winner: Bain Attwood, Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People (Cambridge University Press). Joint […]
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2021 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition Winners Announced
The 2021 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition winners have been announced by the NZSA Auckland Branch today, see below for all details. In announcing the winners for 2021, Graeme praised the high standard of writing from the top ten shortlisted stories, “I found it extremely difficult to select a winner, and only after several re-readings […]
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Allen & Unwin New Zealand announces a major new commercial fiction writing prize!
Could you be the next Jodi Picoult, Rose Carlyle or Jacqueline Bublitz? Is there a manuscript in your bottom drawer just waiting to be finished? Have you got a burning idea for a bestselling novel? We are delighted to announce the inaugural annual Allen & Unwin New Zealand Commerical Fiction Prize. The winner will be […]
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