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Writing for Justice Fellowships
PEN America’s Writing for Justice Fellowship commissions writers—emerging or established—to create written works of lasting merit that illuminate critical issues related to mass incarceration and catalyze public debate. The Fellowship aims to harness the power of writers and writing in bearing witness to the societal consequences of mass incarceration by capturing and sharing the stories […]
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Same Same but Different launch inaugural Peter Wells Short Fiction Contest
Welcome to the inaugural Peter Wells Short Fiction Contest.2/10/2019With the amazing support of Rainbow New Zealand Charitable Trust, Same Same but Different are again running a short fiction writing award. From 2020 it celebrates the life and work of our founder, Peter Wells. First prize is $1000 cash for the winning story, $500 for the runner […]
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2019 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement: winners announced
[ An illustrated memoir for children, a novel which inspired a screen adaption starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, and translations of Romanian and Medieval Latin poetry are among the multitude of extraordinary achievements of this year’s winners of the Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement. They are multi-talented illustrator and children’s writer, Gavin Bishop (Ng?ti Pukeko, Ng?ti […]
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NZSA Canterbury Branch Annual Heritage Book & Writing Awards 2019 – shortlists announced
Awards Ceremony October 24 Canterbury Branch Annual Heritage Book & Writing Awards 2019 The NZ Heritage Book Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday 24 October 2019 7 – 9pm at St Michael and All Angels 99 Oxford Tce. The standard this year is exceptionally high. NZSA Canterbury have received 72 Heritage Book entries and 30 […]
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Congratulations to NZSA member Sue Wootton -announced as 2020 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow
The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship established in 1970 and is the only privately funded fellowship in New Zealand. The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship is for an established creative writer to spend three months or more in Menton, in southern France, to work on a project or projects. The residency is open to creative writers across […]
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Call for judges of the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
The organisers of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are calling for expressions of interest from members of the children’s literature community who wish to be considered as judges of the 2020 awards. The NZ Book Awards Trust is inviting expressions of interest for judges for the 2020 NZ Book Awards […]
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Landfall essay competition joint winners profound and persuasive
Wellington writer Tobias Buck and London based New Zealand writer Nina Mingya Powles are the joint winners of the 2019 Landfall Essay Prize. Mr Buck’s winning entry, ‘Exit. Stage Left.’, deals with issues of prejudice and bias from the perspective of a man who ‘is the colour of cotton candy or pink marshmallows’, whose hair […]
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2019 Pikihuia Awards Winners Announced
The winners of the Pikihuia Awards for short stories were announced last Saturday at Te Wharewaka o P?neke. On a wet Wellington afternoon wh?nau, friends and supporters of M?ori literature and arts came together to celebrate and acknowledge the success of 23 M?ori writers. The judges had the important job of selecting the winners […]
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2019 Ngaio Marsh award winners announced
2019 Best Crime Novel to NZSA veteran: Dame Fiona Kidman https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018713340/winners-of-the-ngaio-marsh-crime-fiction-awards Dame Fiona Kidman gave a moving acceptance speech for Best Novel: The winner was This Mortal Boy, by Dame Fiona Kidman – which also took out the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards this year. This Mortal Boy was written […]
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CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants 2019 Awarded
“The overall quality was high and the upper end of the list strong. We could have easily added many more to the shortlist.”– David Veart, 2019 Judging Panel Convener The 2019 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Research Grants have been awarded. The $5,000 grants support New Zealand writers who wish […]
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Foundation laureate awarded to Fearnley
Dunedin author Laurence Fearnley has won what she describes as a morale-boosting award that further proves the abilities of the city’s writers. Fearnley was the only South Island-based winner of an Arts Foundation laureate, announced last weekend, and the only writer among the 10 laureate awards that celebrate artistic pursuits from dance to design. The […]
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2020 Burns Fellows named
The University of Otago has announced a series of award-winning writers and artists as its Burns Fellows for 2020. The five prestigious fellowships are announced every year, and fellows receive a stipend for between six months and one year, and space on campus to pursue their projects . Next year’s Robert Burns Fellow will be […]
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