-
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 […]
Continue reading -
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 […]
Continue reading -
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 […]
Continue reading -
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 […]
Continue reading -
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 […]
Continue reading -
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 […]
Continue reading -
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! […]
Continue reading -
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 […]
Continue reading -
The 2025 NFFD competition is open!
Send your best 300 words Submissions open through 30 April The 2025 judges for the national competition are the award-winning writers Brannavan Gnanalingam and Vana Manasiadis. The 2025 youth judge is Shilo Kino. How to enter can be found on the NFFD Competition page. More about the 2025 international youth competition later this month. MICRO MADNESS A free competition open to […]
Continue reading -
THE 2024 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® FINAL BALLOT
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) today announced the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. Congratulations to all NZSA members shortlisted. Superior Achievement in an Anthology Ajram, Sofia — Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (Ghoulish Books) Costello, Rob — We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures (Running Press) […]
Continue reading -
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 […]
Continue reading -
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 […]
Continue reading