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Poetry set to take centre stage: August 22
Registrations now open for Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2025 Friday 22 August 2025 is set to be a day where words take flight and poetry pulses through the streets, libraries, parks, bookshops, and unexpected corners of Aotearoa. Now in its 28th year, Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day invites communities nationwide to create, share, […]
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Lil O’Brien wins the Rush Cottage Residency
Hawke’s Bay Readers & Writers Trust & Black Barn Vineyards Retreats announces that Lil O’Brien (AK), is this year’s recipient of The Rush Cottage Writers’ Residency. Lil is the author/editor of two books: Not That I’d Kiss A Girl and OTHERHOOD. This is the first writers’ residency she has won. “I’m delighted to get this […]
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Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki launches ambitious, wide-ranging 2025 programme
For 26 years Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki has showcased some of the world’s most celebrated storytellers and thinkers. Between 13 – 18 May, tens of thousands of people from all over the country will once again take their pick from a jam-packed programme of over 170 events across a range of venues and […]
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Ockham 2025 Shortlists announced
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2025 Finalists Announced Dazzling books that ‘address our moment’s most urgent concerns’ The $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be contested by three former winners of the award – Laurence Fearnley, Kirsty Gunn and Damien Wilkins – and Commonwealth […]
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Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki offers a sneak-peek of the 2025 programme
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki is thrilled to reveal the first five names for the 2025 Festival, ahead of the full programme announcement on Wednesday 12 March. Esteemed author and illustrator Gavin Bishop O.N.Z.M. (Tainui, Ngāti Awa) is the Festival’s 2025 Honoured Writer. In his rich career he has published 70 books; written for […]
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HAMLIT, FEBRUARY 22- 23, 2025
www.hamiltonartsfestival.co.nz/tag/hamlit/ Part of Hamilton Arts Festival -Toi Ora ki Kirikiriroa, 21 February-2 March 2025 HamLit is an exciting new series of bookish events taking place in the glorious Hamilton Gardens this coming February. A literary festival within a festival, HamLit will serve up a stimulating smorgasbord of events for readers and writers. A captivating […]
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WORD Christchurch Festival 2024 Programme Announcement Aug 27 – Sept 1
A dazzling array of words and performance takeover Ōtautahi Christchurch in August More than 100 writers, thinkers and performers from New Zealand and around the world will take to the streets, schools and theatres of Ōtautahi Christchurch offering a feast of fresh ideas, music, powerful stories and creative escapes during WORD Christchurch Festival which runs […]
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 Winners
‘Disturbing, smart, and funny as hell’ novel wins country’s richest writing prize. Internationally acclaimed New Zealand writer Emily Perkins MNZM has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Lioness – a smart, multi-layered, laugh-out-loud novel exploring wealth, class and female mid-life reckoning. Ms […]
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PUKAPUKA ADVENTURES Free Family Fun Ak May 18-19
Come and enjoy a free family weekend at the Auckland Writers Festival. From 18 – 19 of May, Pukapuka Adventures will take over the top floor of the Aotea Centre. Expect book readings, dancing, singing, drawing, zine-making, crafting activities and more. The interactive line-up has been inspired by all the wonderful words and illustrations from newly […]
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Prominent writers pull out of PEN AMERICA literary festival, citing Gaza
March 15, WASHINGTON POST: A group of writers including Lorrie Moore and Michelle Alexander announced Thursday that they are pulling out of this year’s PEN AMERICA World Voices Festival, citing the organizer’s inaction over the war in Gaza. In a letter published on Lit Hub, the writers criticized literary nonprofit PEN America for failing […]
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Auckland Writers Festival announces unbeatable lineup for this year’s Festival – world’s top writers light up New Zealand this May
The Auckland Writers Festival today unveils the full Festival programme with more than 40 international authors and 200 events live in Auckland this autumn Full Festival programme is available here. The 2024 Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki reveals one of the starriest lineups in years, inviting New Zealanders to spend a week with […]
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Literary heavyweights vie for top fiction prize in Ockham NZ Book Awards
WEDNESDAY 6 MARCH 2024 Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton faces off against critically acclaimed former national award winners Emily Perkins, Pip Adam and Stephen Daisley for the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, as finalists in the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards announced today. The four novelists are joined by a further 12 […]
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