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Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2024 is a nest of singing birds
If art is a window into society, it’s clear Aotearoa New Zealand’s obsession with birds is as strong as ever, judging by the prevalence of birds in this year’s Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems selection, now available to view online. “I am not an ornithologist or bird-nut! It has fallen this way and I have no […]
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2025 Sargeson Prize seeks New Zealand’s best short fiction writers
Entries are now open for the 2025 Sargeson Prize, New Zealand’s most prestigious short story competition, with a newly increased first prize of $15,000. Last year’s winner, Wellington-based writer Benn Jeffries, is encouraging fellow writers to back themselves and enter. Mr Jeffries won the 2024 Open Division with his topical and politically charged story ‘Greywacke’, […]
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2025 Pikihuia Awards open
Submissions close April 30 This year the Pikihuia Awards will celebrate 30 years of supporting and nurturing kaituhi Māori! Held biennially, the Pikihuia Awards have welcomed short story submissions in both te reo Māori and English. Submissions are now open for the 2025 Pikihuia Awards! Click below to read more about the 2025 Pikihuia […]
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WeCreate Creative Export Explainer
March 27 2025 | News WeCreate have launched a Creative Export Explainer report that sets out how the creative industries sell to the world, where barriers to creative trade exist, and how the government might help the sector to derive greater value from exporting. Click here to read the report
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Dear Brooke van Velden, please pick up
Printed in Newsroom March 26, 2025 Riley Chance claims in his angry story in ReadingRoom about the failures of the Public Lending Right (PLR) that the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and its members are happy with and doing nicely from the current PLR system. Au contraire. The lack of any progress to […]
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2025 Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Excited preparations are underway at the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau oTākupu (PANZ) as we ready for our return to Bologna Children’s Book Fair. The Aotearoa New Zealand collective stand will have a strong Māori and Pasifika presence this year, so we hope you will swing by to experience the diverse and unique offering. We’re particularly […]
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Books scraped in the LibGEN dataset by Meta?
Illegal Intellectual Property Use is Theft March 24, 2025 Over the weekend, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works have been used in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the one that journalist Alex Reisner made available for the Books3 AI […]
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Applications for the 2025 DRF Writers Award are now invited.
£10,000 will be presented to a first-time writer whose submission demonstrates outstanding literary talent and who needs financial support to complete their work. The two runners-up will each receive £1,000. Submissions should take the form of 15,000-20,000 words of a work in progress, fiction or non-fiction, which is not under option or contract. Applicants may […]
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National Library Heritage Campus Transition
The new archival building in Wellington will be ready for occupation in mid-2025. Relocation of kaimahi into the building signals the Heritage Campus coming to life and the transition of collections and holdings to their new home. Considering the immense scale of the move, access to some holdings, collections and records will be affected during […]
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NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 Winners Announced
Lauren Keenan, Christall Lowe, Steph Matuku, Rachael King, Claire Mabey and Kristin Kelly are winners in the 2025 NZ Booklovers Awards announced today. ‘We are delighted to announce six award-winning books that families in New Zealand will enjoy for many reasons,’ says NZ Booklovers Director Karen McMillan. ‘Our winning novel combines the best of […]
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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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IPEd announces shortlist for 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award. The shortlisted editors are: Kimberley Davis for Under the weather: A future forecast for New Zealand by James Renwick (HarperCollins New Zealand) Emma Hutchinson for Getting to know the birds in your neighbourhood by Darryl Jones […]
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