• NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grant + Residency Now Open for Applications

    Posted on 10 October 2019

    NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grant + Residency Now Open for Applications Applications are now open for a $5000 research grant and residency for writers wishing to work on a project that will utilise the resources of the Auckland Museum Library as part of the manuscript’s development. The grant also offers the recipient the opportunity […]

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  • Wellingtonian wins inaugural Sargeson Prize short story competition – congrats to NZSA members Sam Keenan, Elizabeth Morton, Kathryn van Beek & Xiaole Zhan

    Posted on 10 October 2019

        Thursday 10 October 2019   Judge says short story writing in New Zealand is in excellent health.   Celebrating New Zealand literary talent, the inaugural Sargeson Prize was awarded last night – the country’s richest short story prize – with Wellingtonian Sam Keenan (NZSA Mentee 2016) taking out $5000 and first place in […]

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  • 2020 Calibre Essay Prize open for entries

    Posted on 10 October 2019

    Click here to enter the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize Prize money: $7,500 Closing: 15 January 2020, 11:59 pm Judges: J.M. Coetzee, Lisa Gorton, and Peter Rose Entries are currently open for the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize, worth a total of AU$7,500. The Calibre Essay Prize is open to all essayists writing in English. We seek […]

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  • 2020 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellowship

    Posted on 10 October 2019

    Randell Cottage Writers Trust Applications are now open for the 2020 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship. The fellowship comprises a stipend, currently set at $22,000, and six months’ rent-free accommodation in one of Wellington’s oldest colonial buildings. We’re looking for writers whose work has already been published and well received. We particularly want […]

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  • Writing for Justice Fellowships

    Posted on 8 October 2019

    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

    Posted on 7 October 2019

    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

    Posted on 7 October 2019

    [ 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

    Posted on 3 October 2019

    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

    Posted on 3 October 2019

    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

    Posted on 1 October 2019

    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

    Posted on 1 October 2019

    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

    Posted on 20 September 2019

      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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