• 2020 creative writing competition opens today Otago University

    Posted on 30 July 2020

    Monday 20 July 2020 Have a go … the University’s annual creative writing competition for Otago students and staff opens today – with the theme “only connect…”. The University’s second annual creative writing competition for students and staff opens for entries today. Writer 2020 offers all staff and students at all of Otago’s campuses the opportunity […]

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  • 2020 Awards: Virtual events to bring Books Alive for Aotearoa’s young readers

    Posted on 29 July 2020

    Wednesday 29 July From the most remote backblocks to our biggest cities, Kiwi kids around the country will be able to get up close with Aotearoa’s best children’s authors and illustrators thanks to the wonders of the internet and the hard work of some very dedicated librarians. If there’s a silver lining to the COVID-19 […]

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  • Booker Prize 2020 longlist announced

    Posted on 29 July 2020

    28 July 2020 The longlist for the 2020 Booker Prize has been announced.   The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$90,000) prize are: The New Wilderness (Diane Cook, Oneworld) This Mournable Body (Tsitsi Dangarembga, Faber) Burnt Sugar (Avni Doshi, Hamish Hamilton) Who They Was (Gabriel Krauze, Fourth Estate) The Mirror and The Light (Hilary Mantel, Fourth Estate) Apeirogon (Colum McCann, […]

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  • 2021 Gifkins Prize Open for Entries

    Posted on 24 July 2020

    Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc are thrilled to announce that submissions for the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel are now open. The prize, which celebrates the life and work of the writer and agent Michael Gifkins, seeks fiction manuscripts by […]

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  • 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize open for entries

    Posted on 19 July 2020

    2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize First prize: $AU$6,000 Four other shortlisted poets: $AU$1,000 Closes: 11:59 pm, 1 October 2020 Judges: Lachlan Brown, John Hawke, A. Frances Johnson, and John Kinsella Click here to enter the 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the seventeenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open from 15 July […]

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  • Miles Franklin Literary Award won by Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch for her novel The Yield

    Posted on 17 July 2020

    ABC Arts By arts editor Dee Jefferson Wiradjuri author Tara June who has won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award — Australia’s most prestigious writing prize, and one of its richest at $60,000 — for her novel The Yield. Key facts about the award The Miles Franklin Award was first awarded in 1957 It was established […]

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  • Applications open for Te Papa Tupu 2020

    Posted on 17 July 2020

    Once again, aspiring Māori writers have the opportunity to build their confidence in Te Papa Tupu, a writing programme developed by the Māori Literature Trust and administered by Huia Publishers.   Six chosen writers will spend six months working alongside a mentor to develop their manuscript and improve their writing skills, all to meet the […]

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  • Young Writer in Residence – DUNEDIN

    Posted on 16 July 2020

    A four week residency (13 September to Friday 9 October) in the Robert Lord Writers Cottage (Dunedin) to write, and participate in the NZ Young Writers Festival (24-27 September).    The residency is open to New Zealand writers aged 18-35. The writer will present an event within the 2020 NZYWF, which may be work/work in progress […]

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  • BOOKS ALIVE CALENDAR IS LAUNCHED

    Posted on 8 July 2020

    LIANZA AND NZ BOOK AWARDS TRUST LAUNCH 2020 NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS BOOKS AND SHORTLIST New Zealand libraries have an association with the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults that stretches back to 1945, and in 2020 they are still playing a central role in sharing the […]

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  • ARTS FOUNDATION ICON – 2020 WRITER JOY COWLEY

    Posted on 8 July 2020

    CONGRATULATIONS TO LONG-TIME NZSA MEMBER  JOY COWLEY – ARTS FOUNDATION ICON FOR 2020 Discipline:  Writer Awards:   Icons 2020 Highlight:  “The day I’m no longer in touch with young people, is the day I stop writing for them, because the energy flows from them and goes back to them.” – Joy Cowley ONZ DCNZM OBE   […]

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  • Creative New Zealand announces its COVID-19-driven investment plan for the next 12 months

    Posted on 7 July 2020

    Close on the heels of a heavily subscribed $29 million emergency response to COVID-19, Creative New Zealand has announced further funding to help the arts sector adapt in uncertain and unpredictable times. Creative New Zealand will devote the additional $25 million in new money announced by the Government in May, to a 12-month programme of […]

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  • Surrey Hotel-Newsroom writer’s residency award for 2020 announced

    Posted on 6 July 2020

    Congratulations to NZSA member Mia Gaudin   “The grand winner of the 2020 Surrey Hotel-Newsroom writer’s residency award is novelist Mia Gaudin. A graduate of the IIML in Wellington, she has been awarded seven nights accommodation at the strange and wonderful Surrey Hotel in Grey Lynn, Auckland, and also receives free breakfast and the hotel’s […]

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