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OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN’S WRITERS – Storylines & NZSA – Meet Australian agents on zoom
On Saturday 8 October at 3pm Storylines, in association with NZSA, hosts a webinar for children’s and young adult writers and illustrators featuring two key publishing figures in Australia: leading literary agent Alex Adsett, and one of Australia’s most influential children’s publishers Clare Hallifax. This is a unique opportunity for authors and illustrators to learn what publishers look […]
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Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa are to host the 2022 Pacific Arts Summit on 11 – 13 October at Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington
Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa are to host the 2022 Pacific Arts Summit on 11 – 13 October at Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington Creative New Zealand brings together Pasifika artists, practitioners and organisations to talanoa about the future of Pacific arts. Creative New Zealand is inviting creatives of Pacific heritage to register their in-person attendance […]
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2022 New Zealand Young Writers Festival: Next week! 29 September
The eighth NZYWF will bring a tentacular feast of literary action near the Octagon on the cusp of October. Join us for our Festival Opening with Rebecca Hawkes (MC) for kai, kōrero, and kinship, as we launch our inky festival into the eight-mosphere. Music from Keira Wallace and short performances from Te Kahui (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti […]
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Read NZ Te Pou Muramura 2022 Address – Dame Fiona Kidman
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura is delighted to announce Dame Fiona Kidman as the author that will deliver its 2022 address The heart of the matter. Marking the 50th birthday of the organisation, Dame Fiona’s Pānui spans her own personal reading journey to her job as founding secretary of the then New Zealand Book Council, […]
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NZ Bookshop Day October 1-8, 2022
NZ Bookshop Day It’s on! In celebration of NZ Bookshop Day 2022, Booksellers Aotearoa is hosting a nationwide bookmark treasure hunt, 1-8 October 2022. More Here: NZ Bookshop Day : Booksellers NZ • Only one entry per person, per day through bookmark hunt at one location/ bookstore. • Only one entry per […]
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$25,000 CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award awarded to Ōtepoti Writer and Poet Iona Winter
Iona Winter has been awarded the 2022 Copyright Licensing New Zealand and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) $25,000 Writers’ Award for her creative non-fiction project, ‘A counter of moons’. (Warning: this article contains discussion of suicide. Links to information about where to access help can be found […]
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Storylines Story Tour visits Taranaki schools and libraries 12 – 16 September
The Storylines Story Tour visits schools and libraries: Monday 12 September- Waitara, New Plymouth Tuesday 13 September-Inglewood, Kaimata Wednesday 14 September- Stratford, Eltham Thursday 15 September- Hawera, Manaia Friday 16 September – Opunake, Oakura, New Plymouth Presenting the Taranaki Storylines Story Tour are inaugural Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador for Children – Ben […]
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Verb Readers & Writers Festival programme release
Spring has sprung and Verb’s celebrating with the release of their festival programme! It is packed full of inspiring conversations, radical possibilities, and great times with good people. You are all warmly invited to come along to the Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022 joint celebration launch on Tuesday 13 September. Join us for the […]
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National online talanoa Sept 14 – Oct 05
The Coalition for Books wants to support more tagata Moana writers into publishing and are eager to learn more about their journey to getting started. With support from Creative New Zealand, the Coalition for Books will devise a national strategy for Moana creatives trying to break into the industry. It’s holding a month-long online […]
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Te Hui Ahurei Reo Māori o Te Whanganui-a-Tara | The Māori Language Festival of Wellington
Te Hui Ahurei Reo Māori o Te Whanganui-a-Tara, the Māori Language Festival of Wellington, is happening across Pōneke this September to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Māori language petition delivered to Parliament in September, 1972. With te reo Māori focused arts and events, many of the whānau-friendly experiences are either free, or you […]
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Philip Matthews wins 2022 Reviewer of the Year award at Voyager Media Awards (again)
WINNER: Philip Matthews | newsroom.co.nz JUDGES: Anthony Byrt & Gilbert Wong “In one of the reviews in his submission, Philip Matthews writes: “We’re living through a painful and fast-moving time.” His calm and astute assessments of Charlotte Grimshaw and C.K Stead’s books position each at a respective front in the culture wars. That is not novel but […]
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Four cash grants awarded to support local writers
The 2022 Copyright Licensing New Zealand and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Research Grants have been awarded to four writers in Aotearoa. The $5,000 grants support local writers who wish to undertake research for a fiction or non-fiction writing project. The selection panel, Deborah Challinor, David Eggleton and […]
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