• Announcing the 2021 Flash Fiction longlist

    Posted on 31 May 2021

    Writers: please share the news if your title is on the Long List, but please do not share which story is yours while the judges are still deliberating. Thank you!  alphabetically by title:   A Moth in the Clementines Alan Recuperating on a Bed of Rabbits Centripetal Force Cloud Storage Cows Doing the Math Encounter […]

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  • Richard Flanagan gives the Arthur Miller Lecture at the 2021 PEN World Voices Festival May 23

    Posted on 17 May 2021

    Arthur Miller Lecture: Richard Flanagan by PEN America Follow $30 US This event is part of the 2021 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. Visit pen.org/festival to learn more and get tickets for other events. FLASH SALE EXTENDED: For a limited time only, enter the code FLASH21WVF at checkout to receive 25 percent off. PEN America Members get a […]

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  • Sweet Mammalian Journal open for submissions

    Posted on 17 May 2021

    Deadline midnight 30 June Submissions are currently OPEN Send us your writing, be it a roar, purr, or pip-squeak. We ask that you send up to five poems, preferably in a Word document, to sweetmammalian at gmail.com . Spread the word far and wide. We’ll read through the winter, and launch the issue in southern hemisphere springtime. We love writing […]

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  • NZ Mountain Book Festival – Mountain & Adventure Book 2021 shortlists announced

    Posted on 15 May 2021

    The NZ Mountain Book Festival invites authors and photographers to submit their work on the world’s remote places, the environment and adventure sports. We accept submissions under two categories: Mountain and Adventure Narrative for stories and accounts about specific adventures, fiction or non-fiction; and Mountain and Adventure Heritage for guidebooks, coffee table or picture books, […]

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  • A Reflection on 18 months as NZSA President: “A call-out to all writers: come gather round, we need your support . . . “

    Posted on 5 May 2021

    BY MANDY HAGER    MAY 4, 2021     I’ve been a member of NZSA for around 30 years, joining before I published my first book, filled with pride when I could transition from ‘associate’ to ‘full’ membership. Although health and time constraints have meant I’ve rarely attended branch meetings or events, I’ve always read the […]

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  • Get your tickets for the PEN 2021 World Voices Festival now

    Posted on 27 April 2021

    Tickets for PEN America’s 2021 World Voices Festival are available now!  This year’s Festival, Power to the People, will draw together virtual audiences from around the world for a series of more than 20 events across five days. BUY TICKETS NOW Flash Sale: April 26 – May 2 – use code FLASH21WVF for 25% off The […]

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  • Bologna abandons physical events to go digital only

    Posted on 21 April 2021

    Published April 9, 2021 by Mark Chandler The Bologna Children’s Book Fair has cancelled this year’s physical events and will go digital-only owing to the coronavirus pandemic. The event, which will run alongside new general trade publishing strand BolognaBookPlus and Bologna Licensing Trade Fair, had already been postponed from its usual April dates to run […]

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  • The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival programme out

    Posted on 1 April 2021

    New Zealand’s one and only official Booktown has lifted the cover on its latest festival, announcing a literary line-up of 99 presenters and 55 events.   The sixth Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival runs 6-9 May and promises to be a bestseller for all ages, including those who like some fish and chips with their author experience. “We […]

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  • Announcing Going West Festival’s ‘Different Out Loud’ Season: Video Collaborations between Poets and Filmmakers.

    Posted on 1 April 2021

      Different Out Loud   Going West Festival announces a brand-new approach to celebrating live poetry with Different Out Loud, a collection of thoughtful video collaborations between Aotearoa poets and filmmakers. Themed around the word ‘coastal’, these integrated pieces by some of our best poets and finest screen artists will air online from 12 April 2021. […]

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  • Storylines celebrated the winners of its major awards at a special event in Auckland on Sunday 28 March

    Posted on 29 March 2021

    2021 Storylines award-winners honoured At the Storylines Margaret Mahy National Awards Day, recipient of the 2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy Award for lifetime achievement in children’s literature, Julia Marshall, gave the 2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy lecture.Her lecture outlined the genesis of and influences on her publishing company Gecko Press, but more importantly, perhaps, looked at the […]

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  • National Poetry Day 2021 AUGUST 27

    Posted on 20 March 2021

    Phantom National Poetry Day this year is on the 27 August 2021! Are you ready to join in the celebrations? Run an event? PNPD  are opening registration for events today. Please check out their news article for more information or head straight over to www.poetryday.co.nz to register. #NZPoetryDay https://www.nzbookawards.nz/…/we-need-you…/38852…

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  • AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL 11 – 16 MAY 2021 – Programme out now

    Posted on 11 March 2021

    View newsletter in your browser OUR 2021 PROGRAMME IS LIVE!   For six glorious days from 11 to 16 May, we will present over 200 writers with events that include conversation, reading, debate, and performance, as well as schools’, family and free events, ranging fiction, non-fiction, poetry, music, theatre, culture, art and more. This year’s Auckland Writers […]

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