• 2020 TEXT PRIZE FOR YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S WRITING – SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

    Posted on 13 May 2020

      Text is delighted to announce that seven manuscripts have been shortlisted for the 2020 $10,000 Text Prize for young adult and children’s writing… The winner of the 2020 Text Prize will be announced in an online event on Wednesday 20 May.   THEREFORE I AM by Miranda Luby Sarah is determined to leave her […]

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  • Australia Reads receives $100K in federal funding, announces Reading Hour date change

    Posted on 5 May 2020

    The Australia Reads campaign has received $100,000 in funding from the federal government, it announced today.   Chair of the Australia Reads committee, Hachette ANZ CEO Louise Sherwin-Stark, said the government support would ‘significantly amplify our campaign on the benefits of reading and motivate all Australians to get back into a regular reading habit’. The […]

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  • Storylines Notable Book Awards 2020 – virtual flyer now available

    Posted on 24 April 2020

    Storylines Notable Books List 2020     The 2020 Storylines Notable Books List, for the highest quality books in five genres published during 2019, is now available online.   It is compiled by the Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust from over 110 entries from publishers by expert panels of authors, teachers, librarians, academics and parents. […]

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  • Nosy Crow’s Free Digital Book for Kids About COVID-19 Takes Off

    Posted on 22 April 2020

    from Publishing Perspectives  by Olivia Snaije With Axel Scheffler’s illustrations and Hugh Bonneville’s narration, Nosy Crow’s ‘Coronavirus: A Book for Children’ has been downloaded more than 700,000 times. Illustration by Axel Scheffler for ‘Coronavirus: A Book for Children,’ Nosy Crow Editor’s note: At this writing, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center indicates that the United […]

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  • CLNZ launches new contestable funding round – Open April 15-Closes April 29

    Posted on 16 April 2020

    Applications are now open for a Special Round of Contestable Fund Grants, with $120,000 available to apply for.   Copyright Licensing New Zealand is running a Special Round of its Contestable Fund Grants in order to support short-term projects that have arisen or been developed to respond to the changed environment in the New Zealand […]

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  • New campaign celebrates Kiwi men and what they read BLOKES vs BOOKS

    Posted on 11 April 2020

    New campaign promotes Kiwi men as readers A new online campaign launching on April 12 will focus on New Zealand men and their reading habits. In these days of staying home to stop the spread of Covid-19, there’s never been a better time to crack open a good book, or listen to a story. Blokes […]

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  • Welcome to the Stay Home Book Club – new READ NZ initiative

    Posted on 9 April 2020

    A new website launched today encourages Kiwi kids to explore new and familiar stories during the national lockdown. Stay Home Book Club is a new online reading challenge from Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (formerly NZ Book Council). Primary and intermediate-aged children are invited to register for free and choose their team to play for. […]

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  • FIRST CHAPTERS Shining a light on new New Zealand books in limbo

    Posted on 8 April 2020

    Thursday 9 April 2020 New Zealand publishers have had to delay the publication of many New Zealand books in recent weeks, most of which they anticipate releasing to fanfare in May 2020. So how do readers find out what’s coming from New Zealand publishers, and how do we keep desperate readers satiated in these days […]

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  • BolognaFiere Announces an Online Rights Trading Option

    Posted on 2 April 2020

    April 1, 2020 In an attempt to maintain its place in international rights for children’s and YA content, Bologna Children’s Book Fair follows its cancellation with news of an online trading program. At the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2020 news conference announcing the programming that would be postponed and then canceled in the coronavirus COVID-19 […]

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  • David Hill: what it takes to be a professional writer

    Posted on 1 April 2020

    “…I wept all over the last pages, they are tear blotched…”   In the latest episode of the NZSA Oral History Podcast Season 3 we hear from David Hill who has been writing full-time in New Zealand for over 30 years. David is probably best known for his writing for children and young adults but he […]

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  • NZ Library Storytimes during COVID-19 – LIANZA/SLANZA LIMITED PERMISSIONS

    Posted on 27 March 2020

     Guidelines for libraries, schools and early childhood education centres Schools, libraries and early childhood education centres are keen to ensure that New Zealand children are still able to enjoy all that a good book has to offer during these unsettling times. Providing storytimes for children through online platforms is something that New Zealand authors and […]

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  • The Coalition for Books: Writers and Books join the Pasifika Festival

    Posted on 10 March 2020

    The recently established Coalition for Books will be placing writers centre stage at the upcoming Pasifika Festival, to be held in Auckland across the weekend of 14th – 15th March. Writers including Poet Laureate David Eggleton and rising star Tayi Tibble will be amongst those performing on stages throughout the two-day event, with its expected […]

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