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Applications open for Michael King Writer’s Fellowship 2021
2 Feb 2021 Creative New Zealand is calling for applications from established New Zealand writers for the Michael King Writer’s Fellowship, valued at $100,000. The fellowship is awarded every two years to authors of any literary genre, who have already published a significant body of work, to support their work on a major project over two or more […]
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Barcelona’s Pontas Literary Agency Opens a Mentoring Prize for Authors
The JJ Bola Emerging Writers Prize comes with £1,000 and a contract at the Pontas Agency, and is geared to writers from ‘Black, ethnic minority, LGBTQ+, and working-class backgrounds.’ Submission Deadline: March 15 The Pontas Literary and Film Agency in Spain will have been in business for 29 years in May, and in a new announcement provided […]
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2021 Wright-Murray Residency for Speculative Fiction Writers in NZ – open for entries
2021 Wright-Murray Residency for Speculative Fiction Writers in NZ Call for Applications The Wright-Murray Residency for Speculative Fiction Writers is once again seeking applications from New Zealand writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Now in its second year, the residency, co-founded by award-winning author Lee Murray and philanthropist Chloe Wright ONZM, offers the winning writer […]
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Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for 2021 awarded to publisher Julia Marshall
Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa Julia Marshall has been selected as the 2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal winner, for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to New Zealand children’s literature, and will be presented with her medal and deliver the 2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy lecture on 28 […]
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Youth, Diversity and Vitality Reflected in Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist
Books that explore issues of identity, domestic life, war, food, our natural world and our people are among the 40 works of poetry, prose and non-fiction longlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards announced today. The works, selected from 179 entries, range from intimate to global in scale and traverse cultural, historic, artistic […]
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Tautai Oceania Internships Programme 2021 – applications open for interns and hosts
Tautai Oceania Internships Programme 2021 After suspending Internships for 2020 due to COVID-19 Tautai are delighted to announce that the Tautai Oceania Internships Programme has re-launched for 2021! Applications are open from 25th January – 19th March 2021. Tautai is thrilled to open applications for the Tautai Oceania Internships Programme 2021. The Programme […]
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Congrats to SST 2020 short story competition winner, Kirsten McDougall
2020 Sunday Star Times short story competition Congratulations to Kirsten McDougall whose entry Walking Day has taken out top honours and a $5000 prize in the open category of the Sunday Star-Times short story competition for 2020. Read the Story here on STUFF
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AWP Writing Competitions in the USA – open to all – Feb deadlines
Writing Opportunities in the US – open to all AWP Award Series – Association for Writers and Writers Programmes AWP sponsors the Award Series, an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works. The competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence and is available to published […]
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Michalia Arathimos is the New Writer in Residence for Waikato University 2021
The University of Waikato is set to welcome Michalia Arathimos as the Writer in Residence for 2021. She will start in her new role after Easter and her residency project will be her third novel, Sojourn, which is set in the Waikato. This position is jointly funded by the University of Waikato and Creative New […]
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49th UK Costa Book Awards name category winners
The Costa program, named for its coffee-company sponsor, is among the Top 10 most influential prize programs in this market in which the awards organizations themselves compete with each other perhaps even more energetically than publishers and authors do. The winners’ announcements lag the year for which they’re awarded. And in addition to these […]
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New Years Honours for NZ Literature 2020
New Year Honours: 2021 31 Dec, 2020 For full list see the NZ Herald The 2021 New Years Honours are out today. Here is the list of writers and literary sector figures honoured in this year’s awards. Many congratulations to all those who received recognition. ORDER OF NEW ZEALAND (ONZ) Distinguished Professor Dame Mary Anne […]
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