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Ground-breaking Māoripublisher recognised for her life’s work at Book Industry awards
Robyn Bargh CNZM (Te Arawa) has been honoured with the 2018 Book Industry Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of her foundation and directorship of Huia Publishers, and her continuing leadership in M?ori literature. The Book Trade Industry Awards were announced at a celebratory dinner at The Rydges in Auckland. Booksellers NZ Chair Juliet Blyth […]
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National Schools Poetry Award celebrates New Zealand’s poets of the future
A year 13 student at Wellington’s Queen Margaret College has won first place in the 2018 International Institute of Modern Letters’ (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award, with her poem ‘Vignettes’. Ilena Shadbolt receives a prize of $500 and the opportunity to attend a poetry masterclass with poets James Brown and Hera Lindsay Bird at the […]
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WIN A WEEK AT THE MICHAEL KING WRITERS CENTRE AND A ONE-ON-ONE CRAFT SESSION WITH PAULA MORRIS
Writers attending the National Writers Forum in September can enter to win a package of two valuable prizes offered by the Michael King Writers Centre, Aotearoa New Zealand’s national writers’ facility and literary centre. The two prizes are a week’s accommodation at the centre; and a one-on-one craft workshop with the award-winning writer Paula Morris, […]
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Menton Fellowship open for applications NOW
The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship allows a writer to spend no less than three months in Menton, France, with access to a writing room beneath the terrace of Villa Isola Bella, where Katherine Mansfield did some of her most important writing. The Fellowship has been offered annually from 1970. Previous recipients include Carl Nixon, Kate […]
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Judges announced for 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
An experienced panel of 12 judges – including prize-winning writers and poets, as well as historians, academics, curators and one of the country’s most respected booksellers – will select the best books published this year for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, which will bestow $53,000 on its 2019 winner, […]
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Ashton Wylie Awards:Book Revealing the ‘crisis of human habitat’ Wins Major Award
A Dunedin-based architect who retrained as a theologian has won this year’s $10,000 Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Award. Murray Rae, who completed his PhD in theology at King’s College, London and is Professor of Theology at Otago University, was honoured with the award for his book Architecture and Theology: The Art of […]
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Michael King Writers’ Centre – applications for residencies open
Applications for the MKWC 2019 Residency Programme have opened. Fifteen residencies for periods of two to five weeks each are on offer. Four of the residencies are specifically for Maori or Pasifika writers. New in this year’s programme is a change to the University of Auckland Residency, now split into four time slots across the […]
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“LANDMARK TITLE” TAKES TOP HONOURS IN NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
“A landmark title which will stand the test of time” has been crowned the country’s best book for young readers. Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story by Christchurch writer and illustrator Gavin Bishop received the top honour at the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, announced tonight at an exuberant event at […]
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CLNZ Contestable Fund 2018 – $75,000 OPEN NOW
If you’re working on a project that aims to make a positive impact on New Zealand writing and publishing, you should consider applying for a CLNZ Contestable Fund Grant. This year, $75,000 is available to support strategic projects that demonstrate New Zealand publishing sector growth. Each year, a portion of the revenue collected by Copyright Licensing New Zealand […]
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Landfall Essay Competition – Now open
In 1997 Landfall celebrated its 50th anniversary. To mark the occasion, then editor Chris Price launched the Landfall Essay Competition, sponsored by Otago University Press. From 2009, the competition has been an annual award. The purpose of the competition remains as it was at the outset: to encourage New Zealand writers to think aloud about New Zealand culture, and […]
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GRAPHIC NOVEL HAS BEEN LONG-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER FOR THE FIRST TIME
Man Booker, one of the world’s most prestigious English-language book prizes, has announced its 2018 nominees—including the first graphic novel to make the longlist in the prize’s history. Sabrina, by Nick Drnaso, tells the story of a missing woman and the people trying to piece together what happened. “It’s a perspicacious and chilling analysis of the […]
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It was a ‘full house’ for the overall winner of the PANZ Book Design Awards 2018
New China Eyewitness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley and the art of museum diplomacy edited by James Beattie and Richard Bullen (Canterbury University Press), designed by Aaron Beehre took home the accolades and the awards for two categories plus the best overall book design, at the PANZ Book Design Awards announced on Thursday 26 July at […]
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