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Bucking the trend: New Zealanders still love to read – Read NZ National Reading Survey 2025
The latest National Reading Survey commissioned by Read NZ Te Pou Muramura reveals that despite a bleak international backdrop, our reading rates are remaining steady – and even increasing in some areas. The 2025 survey, released today, shows a slight increase in the number of adults who have read a book in the last […]
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2025 Storylines Award Shortlists and Winners
Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal Winner: Paula Green Link to the lecture: https://www.storylines.org.nz/award/storylines-margaret-mahy-medal-and-lecture-award/ Storylines Janice Marriott Mentoring Award Winner: The Goose Bay Gang and the Secret Treasure Madeleine Roberts Storylines Te Kahurangi Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira Award for a work originally written in te reo Māori, in association with Huia Publishers Winner: Te Taniwha […]
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2025 COMMONWEALTH SHORT STORY PRIZE SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
Tuesday 15 April 2025 World’s most global literature prize shortlists 25 writers from 18 countries Judging panel praise stories that are ‘relevant, vibrant and essential reading’ Selected from almost 8,000 entries, the stories range from historical fiction to satire, via crime and speculative writing, family dramas and coming-of-age stories Writers tackle ambitious and challenging […]
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Ngā Kaituhi Māori – Gisborne Hui 9-12 October 2025
Pānui 2# Tui, tui, tui, tuhia! E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā iwi kaituhi tātou, tēnā tātou katoa. Following our first Pānui of 12 March, Ngā Kaituhi Māori are thrilled to announce the programme for the forthcoming third hui at Poho-o-Rāwiri marae, Gisborne, 9-12 October 2025. REGISTRATION PORTAL Our registration portal is […]
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WeCreate Creative Export Explainer
March 27 2025 | News WeCreate have launched a Creative Export Explainer report that sets out how the creative industries sell to the world, where barriers to creative trade exist, and how the government might help the sector to derive greater value from exporting. Click here to read the report
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2025 Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Excited preparations are underway at the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau oTākupu (PANZ) as we ready for our return to Bologna Children’s Book Fair. The Aotearoa New Zealand collective stand will have a strong Māori and Pasifika presence this year, so we hope you will swing by to experience the diverse and unique offering. We’re particularly […]
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Poetry set to take centre stage: August 22
Registrations now open for Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2025 Friday 22 August 2025 is set to be a day where words take flight and poetry pulses through the streets, libraries, parks, bookshops, and unexpected corners of Aotearoa. Now in its 28th year, Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day invites communities nationwide to create, share, […]
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NZSA CompleteMS Programme 2025 opens
Do you have a completed draft of your manuscript that’s ready to take to the next level? Poetry, fiction, short fiction, non-fiction… Apply now for the NZSA Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa CompleteMS Manuscript Assessment Programme. The NZSA CompleteMS assessment programme is open for applications until 28 May 2025. CompleteMS is for writers who have completed a manuscript through […]
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Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki launches ambitious, wide-ranging 2025 programme
For 26 years Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki has showcased some of the world’s most celebrated storytellers and thinkers. Between 13 – 18 May, tens of thousands of people from all over the country will once again take their pick from a jam-packed programme of over 170 events across a range of venues and […]
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Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki offers a sneak-peek of the 2025 programme
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki is thrilled to reveal the first five names for the 2025 Festival, ahead of the full programme announcement on Wednesday 12 March. Esteemed author and illustrator Gavin Bishop O.N.Z.M. (Tainui, Ngāti Awa) is the Festival’s 2025 Honoured Writer. In his rich career he has published 70 books; written for […]
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Beyond the runway: Alice in Wonderland and the re-enchantment of the adult mind
Wednesday 12 March, 6pm – 8pm, Te Papa, Espresso Café, Level 4 Tickets: $45 (incl a delicious High Tea!) Book now: online at Te Papa. “Kids! Never become complacent” wrote Vivienne Westwood in her introduction to one of her favourite books – Alice in Wonderland: a cry for our age of climate crisis, the rise of the […]
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The 2025 NFFD competition is open!
Send your best 300 words Submissions open through 30 April The 2025 judges for the national competition are the award-winning writers Brannavan Gnanalingam and Vana Manasiadis. The 2025 youth judge is Shilo Kino. How to enter can be found on the NFFD Competition page. More about the 2025 international youth competition later this month. MICRO MADNESS A free competition open to […]
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