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2025 Sargeson Prize seeks New Zealand’s best short fiction writers
Entries are now open for the 2025 Sargeson Prize, New Zealand’s most prestigious short story competition, with a newly increased first prize of $15,000. Last year’s winner, Wellington-based writer Benn Jeffries, is encouraging fellow writers to back themselves and enter. Mr Jeffries won the 2024 Open Division with his topical and politically charged story ‘Greywacke’, […]
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2025 Pikihuia Awards open
Submissions close April 30 This year the Pikihuia Awards will celebrate 30 years of supporting and nurturing kaituhi Māori! Held biennially, the Pikihuia Awards have welcomed short story submissions in both te reo Māori and English. Submissions are now open for the 2025 Pikihuia Awards! Click below to read more about the 2025 Pikihuia […]
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Applications for the 2025 DRF Writers Award are now invited.
£10,000 will be presented to a first-time writer whose submission demonstrates outstanding literary talent and who needs financial support to complete their work. The two runners-up will each receive £1,000. Submissions should take the form of 15,000-20,000 words of a work in progress, fiction or non-fiction, which is not under option or contract. Applicants may […]
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NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 Winners Announced
Lauren Keenan, Christall Lowe, Steph Matuku, Rachael King, Claire Mabey and Kristin Kelly are winners in the 2025 NZ Booklovers Awards announced today. ‘We are delighted to announce six award-winning books that families in New Zealand will enjoy for many reasons,’ says NZ Booklovers Director Karen McMillan. ‘Our winning novel combines the best of […]
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IPEd announces shortlist for 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award. The shortlisted editors are: Kimberley Davis for Under the weather: A future forecast for New Zealand by James Renwick (HarperCollins New Zealand) Emma Hutchinson for Getting to know the birds in your neighbourhood by Darryl Jones […]
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Submissions open for 2025 ARA Historical Novel Prize – Adult Novel & YA categories
The $150,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize is open for submissions in two categories – Adult and Children & Young (CYA) Adult. $100,000 will be awarded to the Adult category winner, with an additional $5,000 awarded to each of the remaining two shortlisted authors. In the CYA category, the winner receives $30,000, while the two […]
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Lil O’Brien wins the Rush Cottage Residency
Hawke’s Bay Readers & Writers Trust & Black Barn Vineyards Retreats announces that Lil O’Brien (AK), is this year’s recipient of The Rush Cottage Writers’ Residency. Lil is the author/editor of two books: Not That I’d Kiss A Girl and OTHERHOOD. This is the first writers’ residency she has won. “I’m delighted to get this […]
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Michael King Writers Centre 2025 Australian Residency
Applications are Now Open! The Michael King Writers Centre in association with Varuna, The National Writers’ House in Katoomba, NSW, Australia is pleased to announce for the fourth time, a residency in Australia for New Zealand writers. This four week residency is open to mid-career or established writers who have had a book published in […]
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ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 2025
Australian Book Review welcomes entries to the 2025 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, one of the world’s leading prizes for an original short story. The prize – worth a total of AU$12,500 – is open to all writers writing in English. The winner will receive $6,000; second place will receive $4,000 and third place will receive $2,500. All three […]
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Ockham 2025 Shortlists announced
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2025 Finalists Announced Dazzling books that ‘address our moment’s most urgent concerns’ The $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be contested by three former winners of the award – Laurence Fearnley, Kirsty Gunn and Damien Wilkins – and Commonwealth […]
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The Rush Cottage Writers Residency 2025
Hawke’s Bay Readers & Writers Trust, in conjunction with Black Barn Retreats, is excited to invite applications for the second ever Rush Cottage Writers’ Residency. The online application form opens March 10th, and the team urges writers to act promptly, as the cut-off is 50 and last year they received that number in three days! […]
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Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing 2025
Te Kaupeka Toi Tangata | Faculty of Arts · Full-time at 37.5 hours per week · 6 month fixed-term opportunity · $82000 per annum (pro rata) Āu Mahi | What You Will Do This fixed-term Residency seeks to foster New Zealand writing by providing a full-time opportunity for a writer to work on an approved […]
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