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Call for judges of the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
2 OCTOBER 2024 The organisers of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are inviting expressions of interest from members and followers of the children’s literature community who would like to be considered as judges of the 2025 awards. Applications to judge are now open to all those with suitable qualifications and […]
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Calling all writers! Applications are now open for the 2025 Sargeson Fellowship
1 October 2024 The Frank Sargeson Trust is calling for applications from published New Zealand writers for the 2025 Sargeson Fellowship. This prestigious Fellowship, named in memory of New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson, is offering in 2025 an increased stipend of $26,000 to write fulltime on a project(s). The Sargeson Fellowship may be shared by […]
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Love of books and reading foremost with Kiwi Kids Whitcoulls Top 50
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2024 On the eve of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Term 3 holidays, Whitcoulls announce their influential 2024 Kids’ Top 50 Books list; an annual event for over 25 years and one Kiwi children respond to with enthusiasm. Whitcoulls Book Manager, Joan Mackenzie, says, “This year, 36% of books on the Top 50 are […]
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Announcing the 2024 Janet Frame Memorial Lecture
Friends and Elephants Saturday, 9 November 2024 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Hannah Playhouse, 12 Cambridge Terrace, Wellington Barbara was awarded the 2024 President of Honour in recognition of her contribution across the literature sector in Aotearoa. Barbara writes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, is a literary agent, and editor. She has received […]
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Congratulations to Steph Matuku, winner of the inaugural NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award
Inaugural NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award goes to Steph Matuku! The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Steph Matuku on winning the inaugural NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award 2024. Steph Matuku, who has written several books for young people, will use the award to help complete the writing of […]
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Danyan Chen travels to Aotearoa for MKWC Residency
New Zealand China Friendship Society – Rewi Alley Fellowship 23 September 2024 Danyan Chen has been selected as the fifth Chinese writer to travel to Aotearoa for an eight week residency at the Michael King Writers Centre from September to November. Danyan is a renowned author known for her impactful contributions to both fiction and […]
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Dr Jacqueline Leckie, winner of the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2024!
Dr Jacqueline Leckie is awarded the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship for 2024! The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Dr Jacqueline Leckie on winning the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2024 to work on her biography with the working title Meg Campbell (1937–2007): Aroha and Resistance. This […]
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PANZ Design Awards winners 2024
Māori and Pasifika designers have taken out the top honours at the 2024 PANZ Book Design Awards, held in Auckland this evening. The supreme award, the Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen BookData, went to Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen (Massey University Press), a tribute […]
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2024 QuietManDave Prize: £1,000 Flash Fiction and Non-Fiction Prizes
The QuietManDave Prize celebrates short-form writing and the life of someone who loved to experience new places, art and events and write about them. The 2024 QuietManDave Flash Fiction and Flash Non-Fiction Prize is open to entries. The Prize offers awards of £1,000* for Flash Fiction and £1,000* Flash Non-Fiction as well as runner-up prizes. Submissions […]
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Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing 2025
Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand Full-time 37.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE) 6 month fixed-term opportunity Competitive salary of $82,000 (for 12 months, pro-rated for 6 months) Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā! He hiahia, he pūkenga nōu ki te mahi a te Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence? Nāia te pōwhiri […]
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Ockham NZ Book Awards 2025 Judges’ Announcement
Award-winning writers, journalists, reviewers, respected academics, curators and booksellers are among the 12 experts selected to judge the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction will be judged by novelist, short story writer and lecturer in creative writing Thom Conroy (convenor); bookshop owner and reviewer Carole Beu; and […]
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The Michael King Writers Centre announces 2025 Residencies
This year’s Michael King Writers Centre residency selection panel once again had their work cut out for them with over 100 applications received for the 16 residencies planned across 2025. There were 125 applicants totalling 613 individual applications across all of the available categories. A continuing trend is the high number of applicants in the […]
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