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Auckland Writers Festival announces 2022 schools programme
We are delighted to deliver the 2022 Schools Programme Hōtaka Kura 23-25 August. with the generous support of the Freemasons Foundation. Through this programme we hope to inspire young writers and readers and celebrate the love of story. This year’s featured writers include: international award-winning poet & novelist Kwame Alexander (USA) LV*; editor and junior fiction writer Sue Copsey (NZ); quantum physicist […]
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Joint Statement from Pen International members (incl NZ) Situation of Artists in Time of War and Crisis
Situation of Artists in Time of War and Crisis Wednesday 9 March 2022 – 2:08pm Read the briefing in full The Human Rights Council in Session Joint Oral Statement 49th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Thank you, Mr. Vice President, On behalf of PEN International, Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), a project […]
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Shifted Ground coming up in April – Going West live events
We’ve been hard at work in order to deliver our next Going West live events! Shifted Ground is coming up in early April, and it will be an intimate literary salon exploring the varied terrains of Aotearoa, both geographic and historical; cultural and contested. There’ll be performance, kōrero, music, photography and cinema. In Ghost Stories, poets Serie […]
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NZ Representation at Bologna and Shanghai Children’s Book Fairs 2022/ Huia & Beatnik up for Bologna Award
PANZ is delighted to welcome Maria Leonardi as manager of the PANZ stand at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which runs from 22 to 25 March. Maria is organising the NZ stand and also coordinating meetings to present books from the exhibiting publishers. Well-known in the international publishing world, Maria was until recently the editorial […]
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All in for Arts: He waka toi e eke noa nei tātou 2022
The great All in for Arts: He waka toi e eke noa nei tātou pivot continues! To everyone feeling the turbulence right now; we’re with you. Hā ki roto – breathe in. Hā ki waho – breathe out. And onwards. Introducing: All in for Arts: He waka toi e eke noa nei tātou – the […]
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NZSA CompleteMS Programme 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 now open for applications. Thirteen successful applicants will receive essential critical feedback on an advanced work, moving it closer to […]
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National Flash Fiction Day competition is open!
June 22 is our shortest day of the year — and the day we know and love as National Flash Fiction Day! So send in your best 300 words – deadline is 15 April, 2022. The judges for the 2022 National Flash Fiction Day competition are the acclaimed Anne Kennedy and Kiri Piahana-Wong. The youth competition […]
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PEN International WWC meeting online – Our Writing, Our Resistance
WWC Annual Meeting Online Our Writing, Our Resistance 7 and 8 March 2022 (13:00 – 16:00 Greenwich Mean Time) The first PEN International WWC meeting for 2022 is due to be hosted in a couple of weeks. The meeting will be spread over two days, and over that time the regular business of the WWC […]
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He whakangungu tuhi pukapuka pikitia
Know an emerging Māori writer with a passion for writing children’s stories? We, the Māori Literature Trust/Te Waka Taki Kōrero, are hosting a workshop on writing Māori language picture books. So join us, and/or share this opportunity with people you know. Ka toro atu ki te ao pukapuka, mai i te kākano o te whakaaro […]
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Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts 2022 revised Writers programme is live!
Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts is back! This time with a revised Writers programme that can operate safely and viably under the Red light setting restrictions, and that you can experience wherever you are. Online events Our new online platform gives you access to more than 30 Writers talks, classical music and other performances […]
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Haiku Down Under 2022
poetry from the edge Being held via Zoom from October 7-9, 2022, this new initiative to connect writers from New Zealand, Australia and beyond will use workshops, prompted writing sessions and presentations to celebrate our seasons, people, landscapes and seascapes, vernacular language, and flora and fauna. When: October 7-9, 2022 Where: Online What: Presentations and […]
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Longlists for New Zealand’s premier literary awards revealed
Books exploring politics, fashion, social change, war, contested histories and family relationships sit alongside works celebrating our natural world and the enduring legacies of our activists and artists in the longlists for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Forty poetry, prose and non-fiction titles make up the longlists announced today. Selected from an impressive […]
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