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The prestigious 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award – open now for entries
Submissions are open for the prestigious 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the world’s most lucrative literary prizes! The submissions process is online, and entries are welcomed from all countries, in Arabic, as well as in other languages. More details: https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/default.aspx Winners across nine categories will each receive a career-changing prize of AED 750,000 […]
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Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 longlist announced
30 June 2020 The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Shadow of Doubt (S L Beaumont, Paperback Writers) Trust Me, I’m Dead (Sherryl Clark, Oldcastle Books) Whatever it Takes (Paul Cleave, Upstart Press) One Single Thing (Tina Clough, Lightpool Publishing) Girl from the Tree House (Gudrun Frerichs, […]
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Storylines Joy Cowley Award 2021 – Entries are now OPEN
The Storylines Joy Cowley Award was established in 2002 when Storylines contacted Scholastic New Zealand, one of Joy’s publishers, asking them to join with Storylines in creating an award that would recognise the exceptional contribution Joy Cowley has made to children’s literature and literacy in New Zealand and internationally. The Storylines Joy Cowley Award […]
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PIP McKAY – NZSA Member wins International First Pages 2020
Congratulations to Pip McKay as Winner of the International First Pages Prize for The Telling Time. Her debut novel of impossible love and soul-destroying secrets where two young women fight to overcome adversity and transport the reader from Yugoslavia, to 1950’s New Zealand, and back again has won the Winner of the International First Pages […]
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Creative NZ announces a further $13million in its Covid 19 response
MEDIA RELEASE 9 JUNE 2020 Creative New Zealand has dug deep to respond to the extraordinary volume of applications for its COVID-19 Emergency Response Package, investing an additional $13 million in its now closed first phase of arts funding. Arts Council leadership on Friday (5 June) approved the organisation drawing on further reserves to increase […]
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Oho! The Surrey Hotel writer’s residency is back up and running
JUNE 10, 2020 Steve Braunias Steve Braunias edits Newsroom’s books section, ReadingRoom, is an author and a noted writer for the NZ Herald. READINGROOM Steve Braunias announces the 2020 Surrey Hotel writer’s residency in association with Newsroom. Yowsa! O brave new world of Level One! O let the good times roll, again. And in the […]
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The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2021
The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize is for an outstanding debut poetry book collection by a poet, in the English language. The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize is valued at €10,000 and will be adjudicated by a panel of judges nominated by the John Pollard Foundation, and the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre […]
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Announcing Pantograph Punch New Mini Writing Residency
The Pantograph Punch and Gus Fisher Gallery offer a mini writing residency and applications are now open. By PANTOGRAPH PUNCH READ MORE HERE The writing residency will take place during the exhibition The Medium is the Message at Gus Fisher Gallery from August 1 – October 17 2020. During the two-week residency, the selected writer in […]
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Write about architecture and win!
https://www.nzia.co.nz/explore/news/2020/write-about-architecture-and-win Enter the annual Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing and win cash prizes in two categories. This year’s architectural writing competition offers two possible themes: 1) Write about a building in your community that you know well. Why does the building interest you? What role does it play? How does it bring people together? […]
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NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2020
$10,000 Opportunity for Writers. Calling for applications from writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama with a literary track record, who are currently working on a new project. This annual Fellowship is awarded each year to a mid-career or senior writer to work on a project that shows a high level of literary merit and […]
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ANNOUNCING THE 2020 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLIST
We reveal this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist, in the Prize’s 25th year. The shortlist was announced as a special online event on the Women’s Prize for Fiction social channels by Chair of the Judges Martha Lane Fox. Martha said: “We are all living in challenging, sad and complex times so incredible stories provide hope, a […]
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blackmail press call for submissions issue # 44 Spring 2020.
In times of uncertainty, difficulty and change, artists and writers often hold the space to give voice to the speechless, shape to the invisible, meaning to the ambiguous. blackmail press call for submissions issue # 44 Spring 2020. blackmail press is an online poetry journal, created to give poets, students and poetry lovers in […]
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