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Aotearoa’s most-anticipated literary event of the year reveals 2022 programme
Each year the world-renowned Auckland Writers Festival defines the cultural agenda in Aotearoa. This August, Kiwis will be treated to a marquee line-up of the world’s best and brightest writers and thinkers, as they descend on Tāmaki Makaurau for one week only. Complex times demand rich responses, and if ever there were a time for […]
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The 2022 NFFD Short Lists & 2022 Festival of Flash
Announcing the 2022 NFFD SHORT LISTS Adults and Youth! Find this year’s Short List at the NFFD site, here with the youth Short List atfingers comma toes. Congratulations everyone! And please tune into our FESTIVAL OF FLASH (dets below), with the evening awards night – winners announced then! SUNDAY, 19 June 2022 Celebrating ten years 2012–2022! […]
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Fulbright New Zealand Scholars – Apply Now!
Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Awards are for New Zealand academics, artists or professionals to undertake research and/or lecture in the US. Awards are valued at up to US$37,500 towards three to five months of lecturing and/or research. There are myriad US institutions that host Fulbright NZ Scholar award recipients – universities or colleges, museums, non-profits, […]
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Storylines National Story Tour visits Northland – 13 to 17 June
The Storylines Story Tour visits Northland schools and libraries next week: • Monday 13 June – Warkworth, Wellsford, Kaiwaka, Maungaturoto• Tuesday 14 June – Arapohue, Ruawai and Dargaville• Wednesday 15 June – Opononi, Kaikohe, Okaihau, Kerikeri• Thursday 16 June – Moerewa, Kawakawa, Towai, Motatau, Kamo• Friday 17 June – Whangarei Presenting the Northland Story Tour […]
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NZSA Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa is delighted to announce Witi Ihimaera as the 2022-2023 President of Honour
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa is delighted to announce that Witi Ihimaera is the NZSA 2023 President of Honour. This prestigious honour is bestowed on a senior writer and long-serving NZSA member in recognition of their contribution to writing and writers and the literary arts sector in Aotearoa. Witi Ihimaera celebrates 50 years […]
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Record-breaking number of entries for children’s book awards produce strong shortlist
The 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults attracted a record-breaking 199 entries, with 28 titles announced today as finalists. This is the highest number of submissions ever received for the Awards, which are the preeminent celebration of publishing for young people in Aotearoa. Competing across six main categories, the 2022 finalists […]
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$25,000 CLNZ NZSA Writers’ Award OPENS – call for applications!
The CLNZ | NZSA Writers’ Award of $25,000 is one of the highest non-fiction prizes in New Zealand literature, and is now open for applications. He $25,000 te nui o te Karāti Kaituhi o te CLNZ me te NZSA, te karāti mātua mo ngā pakimaero-pono o ngā momo-tuhinga o Aotearoa. Ka taea e ngā Kaituhi te […]
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NZ Author Magazine – Winter 2022
NZ Author – Winter 2022 – Issue 329 is out! This edition has everything. We say goodbye to our three-year strong President Mandy Hager; we welcome Helena Andrews to the role of Youth Representative on the NZSA National Board; we celebrate NZSA Writer Toolkit, our live and interactive Webworkshops, Māori writers at Kupu 22 Māori […]
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Kiwi Writer Makes Literary History
In a world first, Tauranga author, Lee Murray, doubled her Bram Stoker Award® achievements of last year, receiving a further two prestigious literary awards at a gala event hosted by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) at the Curtis Hotel in Denver, USA on 14 May. Named for the author of the seminal horror novel Dracula, […]
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2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Regional Winners
We are pleased to announce this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize regional winners! The 2022 overall winner will be announced in an online ceremony at 1pm, Tuesday 21 June, and at a special event as part of the Commonwealth People’s Forum in Kigali, Rwanda. Africa ‘and the earth drank deep’ Ntsika Kota (Eswatini) Asia ‘The […]
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Writer’s residence in French Polynesia
Calling writers from Oceania – two months immersion in literary creation in the fenua. Time and resources in support of a writer from the Pacific. The Publishers’ Association of Tahiti and its islands, AETI (Association des éditeurs de Tahiti et des îles), has been working for 20 years to develop reading and the book trade […]
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How to watch the Ockham NZ Book Awards ceremony LIVE on Wednesday 11 May
It’s Ockham week and here’s how to watch the Ockham NZ Book Awards ceremony LIVE on Wednesday 11 May from 7pm! A change in venue and continued precautions around Covid have restricted our audience capacity for the much-anticipated Ockham New Zealand Book Awards this Wednesday 11 May, but there are several ways you can join […]
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