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2025 Moth Short Story Prize winners
We’re delighted to reveal this year’s Moth Short Story Prize winners, as chosen by Evie Wyld! Wyld chose (Un)Tethered by Australian author Clare Roche as her first prize winner. “It took me right back to the loneliness of having a small baby,” she says, “the specific physical horror of it – a really beautiful rendering […]
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Emma Neale wins the Janet Frame Prize 2025
IN MEMORY OF JANET FRAME WHO WAS BORN 101 YEARS AGO ON THIS DAY. The Trustees of the Janet Frame Literary Trust are delighted to announce that the 2025 recipient of the Janet Frame Prize is acclaimed Ōtepoti Dunedin novelist and poet Emma Neale, who will receive a gift of $10,000 from an endowment fund […]
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award commemorates the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Founding President of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, and his pioneering role in promoting national unity and development. The Award, and its associated accolades, are presented annually to outstanding writers, intellectuals, and publishers, as well as young talent whose […]
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Write Room Screenwriter Residency 2026 – Call for Applications
*FOR FILM & TELEVISION SCREENWRITERS ** Application deadline: 5pm, Mon 20 October 2025 Programme Dates: 26 January – 15 August 2026 This opportunity is for a Wellington-based screenwriter hailing from film, television, web-series, theatre, radio, journalism or other literary backgrounds; with a feature film or TV series at a stage that will benefit from focused […]
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‘Vibrant, quirky, deliciously Kiwi’ winner of 2025 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize announced
Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand, Little Moa, and the Margaret Mahy Estate are thrilled to announce Emma Collicott as the winner of the Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize for 2025. This year, entrants were tasked with reimagining the swashbuckling classic The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate. The judges praised Emma’s choice to use watercolours […]
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Strangest literary award returns to the Surrey
Entries for the 2025 residency award are open until Sunday, September 14. They must be emailed to stephen11@xtra.co.nz with the subject line in screaming caps THE 2025 SURREY HOTEL WRITERS RESIDENCY AWARD IN ASSOCIATION WITH NEWSROOM AND MR AND MRS FRIZZELL. Send in a brief covering letter outlining the project you have in mind, and […]
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NOW OPEN! Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Prize money: $10,000 Closing: 13 October 2025 Judges: Judith Bishop, Felicity Plunkett, and Anders Villani Celebrating twenty-two years of world poetry, Australian Book Review welcomes entries to the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected poetry awards. The prize – worth a total of AU$10,000 – is open to all […]
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Asia New Zealand Foundation Research Grants
The next round of Foundation Research Grants opens on 1 September. The programme offers grants of up to $5,000 to support international travel and fieldwork for researchers undertaking contemporary, forward-looking projects in Asia. We are looking for research projects that help grow New Zealand’s understanding of Asia in key policy areas, such as: regional and […]
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Robert Sullivan is the new Poet Laureate
Today’s National Poetry Day festivities are further elevated by the announcement of Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) as New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2025–2028, an honour conferred this morning by the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa. Robert’s recent collection, Hopurangi — Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka (Auckland University Press), was recently […]
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New $100K Fund To Bolster Pacific Storytelling
Gretchen Le Roche (left) and Gerardine Clifford-Lidstone (right). More Pacific stories are set to be published and made accessible thanks to a new $100,000 fund. Creative New Zealand’s (CNZ) commitment to the Pacific has been bolstered – entering into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry for Pacific Peoples. In their first formal agreement together, […]
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Congratulations to Cristina Sanders, winner of the NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award 2025
NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award 2025 goes to Cristina Sanders! The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Cristina Sanders on winning the NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award 2025. Cristina Sanders will use the award to continue research into her time-travel story of colonial governor, Sir George Grey. Cristina says: […]
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Poem acknowledging unspoken loss wins 2025 National Schools Poetry Award
Keiko Bruce, a year 13 student from One Tree Hill College in Auckland, is the winner of the 2025 National Schools Poetry Award. Her poem ‘Guilt Tank’ reflects on the words we frequently don’t say. “Originally, I titled this poem Grief Diary because it felt like an intimate reflection of sorrow,” Keiko (pictured), says. “I later renamed […]
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