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Writers Guild Strike settlement – key wins
WRITERS GUILD STRIKE – USA Key victories include a 5% increase in minimum wages, improved residuals for streaming, and protections against AI exploitation. Writing Rooms Standards – A minimum of three writers for shows up to six episodes and up to six writers for series of 13 episodes or more – standards crucial […]
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New NZSA Live! Podcast episode with this year’s Janet Frame Memorial Address
The 2023 Janet Frame Memorial Lecture was given by the NZSA President of Honour 2022-2023, Witi Ihimaera-Smiler in November 2023. The prestigious position of NZSA President of Honour, is bestowed on a senior writer and long-serving member in recognition of their contribution to writing and writers and the literary arts sector in Aotearoa. The aim of […]
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Courage Day Commemoration (also known as the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer) November 15
Join the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc to mark Courage Day 2023 (also known as The Day of the Imprisoned Writer) in Aotearoa, New Zealand – 15 November – and throughout the week. Courage Day recognises writers who defend the right to free speech, and those who […]
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NZSA Canterbury Branch Christmas: Quiz and Comp Celebration!
Join us on Thursday the 14th of December for the NZSA Canterbury Christmas party! 6pm at Toi Auaha (5 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch Central City). This year we’ll be celebrating with a short story and poetry competition. If you’d like to enter, please RSVP HERE by the 10th of December, and include a copy of your […]
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Landfall and non/fictionLab announce collaboration for 2024
Otago University Press is excited to announce that Landfall and RMIT University’s non/fictionLab are coming together to commission a series of essays on the topic of ‘making space’. The essays will be trans-Tasman collaborations; each will include at least one writer with connections to Aotearoa and at least one with connections to Australia. Up to […]
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NZSA is now a Registered Charitable Entity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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