• NZSA is now a Registered Charitable Entity

    Posted on 13 November 2023

    The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaithu o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc has been successful in its application to become a  charity. As of October 19, 2023 NZSA is now a registered charitable entity CC61705. It is also now a donee organisation.

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  • Auckland Branch Christmas Networking meeting

    Posted on 13 November 2023

    NZSA Auckland branch Christmas Network meeting is on Saturday 2nd December at Freemans Bay School, 95 Wellington Street, Ponsonby.   RSVP here  Feel free to bring wine, dress up Christmassy, and we’ll provide the rest. There will be an auction of sponsored items and the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Graeme Lay Short Story competition. […]

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  • The Diaspora Grows Louder – Books by Aotearoa’s South Asian Writers

    Posted on 7 November 2023

    Published on KETE Books and RNZ Saraid de Silva curates a selection of recent books by Aotearoa’s South Asian writers. Find more information about the books in this selection here. I’m lucky that so many of my literary heroes are South Asian. As a teenager, reading the work of writers like Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, […]

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  • Keri Hulme’s legacy honoured in new award for Māori writers at the 2023 Pikihuia Awards

    Posted on 28 October 2023

    28 October 2023 Poet essa may ranapiri took out the Keri Hulme Award at the Pikihuia Awards held in Wellington last night. This was the first time the award has been offered. It results from Keri Hulme’s wish to support Maori writers by setting up a fund from the sale of the original manuscript of […]

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  • Everything I know about Books – author events

    Posted on 27 October 2023

    Public author events in celebration of Everything I Know about Books: An insider look at publishing in Aotearoa 18 October – 10 November 2023 To celebrate the launch of Everything I Know About Books: An insider look at publishing in Aotearoa, public author events will be held at participating bookstores across the country. The publication was […]

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  • Introducing BookHub: The game-changing online sales tool for NZ

    Posted on 7 October 2023

    On National Bookshop Day, 7 October 2023, BookHub – a bookselling website created by Booksellers Aotearoa NZ and CircleSoft in collaboration with New Zealand’s independent bookstores – will go live.   With BookHub, consumers can buy the book they want online directly from participating NZ independent bookstores in just a few clicks. Launched with a […]

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  • Emerging writers to read at the 2023 Janet Frame Memorial Lecture by Witi Ihimaera President of Honour

    Posted on 5 October 2023

    Following the NZSA President of Honour Janet Frame Memorial Lecture by Matua Witi on November 9th at VERB, five young writers will read briefly from their work to showcase the great future for Aotearoa New Zealand writing.       ESSA MAY RANAPIRI   essa may ranapiri (Waikato-Tainui, Ngaati Raukawa, Te Arawa, Ngaati Puukeko, Clan […]

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  • Construction impacts on National Library Wellington’s service hours – DISRUPTION FROM NOV 1

    Posted on 4 October 2023

    NOTE TO WRITERS AND RESEARCHERS FROM THE NATIONAL LIBRARY   With heavy construction work scheduled for the National Library building in Wellington, from 1 November 2023 there will be a reduction of service hours until the end of the year. National Library’s reduced service hours will be 10am to 2pm, Monday to Friday, while Saturday […]

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  • NZSA President of Honour Witi Ihimaera will deliver the 2023 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture

    Posted on 2 October 2023

    You are invited to hear NZSA President of Honour Witi Ihimaera    deliver the 2023 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture     The NZSA Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) appoints a President of Honour each year from the ranks of its revered and senior members. This year, NZSA President of Honour, Witi Ihimaera DCNZM, QSM, will deliver the […]

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  • NZSA Announces Hamilton Roadshow October 15

    Posted on 15 September 2023

    Hamilton Regional Roadshow 9AM – 4PM, SUNDAY 15 OCTOBER, TRUST WAIKATO, 4 LITTLE LONDON LANE, HAMILTON What’s on: Welcome and Opening Kōrero with Vanda Symon Workshops: Make ’em laugh – write funny with Kathryn Burnett; Write like it’s 2023: making your poetry new with Anne Kennedy; Out damned plot: the plot, the sub-plot, the twist? with Vanda Symon; How to write captivating nonfiction for […]

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  • Over $25,000 of Booksellers Tokens will be distributed this week to school libraries affected by cyclone Gabrielle, thanks to the fundraising project Books Back Better.

    Posted on 7 September 2023

    4:00 PM, 7 September 2023 Hawkes Bay author and NZSA member Mary-anne Scott initiated the recovery project along with a group of Hawkes Bay authors, school librarians and booksellers. They teamed up with SLANZA (School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) and Booksellers Aotearoa NZ to create the Books Back Better project in March 2023. Mary-anne […]

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  • POETS ON THE WRITERS WALK competition results

    Posted on 31 August 2023

    At a salon for Poetry Day at City Gallery Wellington on Friday 25 August, competition judge Janis Freegard announced the winners of the POETS ON THE WRITERS WALK competition run by Wellington Writers Walk and the Wellington Branch of New Zealand Society of Authors for Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2023. You can find full […]

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