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Next Generation Short Story Awards
Aiming to honor and celebrate the creative talents of short story and poetry writers worldwide. We’re currently accepting submissions for the 2026 awards. Here are the key details: Submissions accepted: Short stories and poems (5,000 words or less) Categories: 30+ Deadline: February 26, 2026 Winners’ Prizes: Winners in each category receive $75 cash prizes, gold […]
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The Children’s Booker Prize
The prize, to be awarded annually from 2027 and supported by AKO Foundation, will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12 years old. The inaugural £50,000 award for children’s fiction will open for submissions in spring 2026, with the shortlist of eight books announced in November 2026. The winner, to be […]
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Meet Your 2025 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow: Fiona Samuel
Award-winning writer, director and actor Fiona Samuel MNZM has been named the 2025 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow, recognising her outstanding contribution to New Zealand’s stage and screen. The Fellowship will enable Fiona to live and write in Menton, southern France, for three months, with all expenses covered. “The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship will allow me […]
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Meet Your 2025 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureates
We’re thrilled to announce eight new Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureates – outstanding practising artists recognised for their world-class work and profound impact on Aotearoa New Zealand’s culture and communities. Each Laureate receives a $50,000 gift — no strings attached — given in recognition of their extraordinary contribution to date and as a nudge to keep […]
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2026 William Saroyan International Prize For Writing
— Call for Submissions — Deadline for entries: January 30, 2026 Submissions are now being accepted for the 12th William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Two prizes of $5,000 each are given for works of fiction and nonfiction. The awards, co-sponsored by Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation, are intended to encourage new or […]
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Takahē NZ nominations for international prizes
A record of Takahē’s editors’ recent nominations for international literary prizes, including The Pushcart Prize, The Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction. Best Small Fictions 2025 Petra Nyman ‘Baby Flesh‘ Iona Winter ‘The curve of the hill home‘ Zac Hing ‘One Summer‘ Gregory Bennett ‘Heat Death of the Internet‘ Per Olvmyr ‘INSTRUCTIONS FOR BOILED POTATOES‘ The […]
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Pikihuia Awards: WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Te Waka Taki Kōrero – Māori Literature Trust is proud to announce the six winners and nine highly commended writers of the 2025 Pikihuia Awards, celebrating emerging Māori writers in te reo Māori and English, and mid-career Māori writers through the Keri Hulme Award. Poetry – te reo Māori, judged by Hēmi Kelly WINNER: Aperahama […]
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Tasmin Prichard wins 2025 Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize
Tasmin Prichard has won this year’s Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize for their essay, ‘Four Hours in the Dark, Forgetting’, a quiet and intimate retelling of their experience undergoing gender-affirming top surgery. ‘I’d always meant to write about surgery, but the idea took a while to percolate and it took nearly three years until I was […]
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Lynn Jenner wins 2025 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award
Poet Lynn Jenner has won the 2025 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award for her manuscript ‘The Gum Trees of Kerikeri’, a collection set in Te Tai Tokerau Northland that reflects on place, history and belonging through finely observed details. Jenner started writing her manuscript in late 2024 and wrote through summer, autumn and winter. ‘Days of […]
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Catherine Chidgey Beats Global Superstars, Making History as Kiwis’ Favourite Author
Waikato author Catherine Chidgey has been voted the New Zealand public’s favourite author in the world in The Women’s Bookshop’s Top 50 Women Writers of the Last 50 Years survey. It is the first time a New Zealand author has taken the top spot in the 20 years the competition has been running. Ms Chidgey […]
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2026 Adam NZ Play Award Submissions
Submissions are now open for the 2026 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 We are very grateful for the generosity of the Adam Foundation who enable […]
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2026 Robert Burns Fellow – Rachel O’Neill
Poet, film maker, and artist Rachel O’Neill says they’re excited to relocate to Ōtepoti from Te Whanganui-a-Tara to undertake the 12-month fellowship. “The Robert Burns Fellowship supports writers to be bold, imaginative and maybe an extra bit courageous, too, to discover new capabilities through doing things differently, or doing different things. “Receiving the fellowship means I can continue to […]
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