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Pasifika Writer in Residence – Te Herenga Waka
Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand (On-site) Kōrero mō te tūranga – About the role Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington invites applications for the Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence 2025 position with Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao – International Institute of Modern Letters, Kelburn Campus. Applications are invited from emerging Pasifika writers in all areas of literary […]
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Playmarket: Adam Play Award winners 2025
Playmarket is pleased to announce the winner of the ADAM NZ PLAY AWARD for 2025: Alex Medland for We’re Gonna Kill Billy. At just 24 years old, Alex is the youngest recipient of the award in its 18 year history. The Adam NZ Play Award recognises and celebrates the best in unproduced writing for the theatre. Playmarket Director/Tumuaki Murray Lynch announced […]
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Australasian Shadows Awards 2024
The 2024 Australasian Shadows Awards shortlists have been announced! Congratulations to everyone who made the shortlists. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at Conflux 19, to be held in Canberra in October. Short Fiction “The Absolute” by Aaron Dries (Grimdark Magazine) “The Gift” by Chuck McKenzie (Daft Notions, self-published) “We Have Children […]
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NZSA Call out for CLNZ Board role: Author Director
April 2025 Appointment of an Author Director Copyright Licensing New Zealand The Position Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) is seeking a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc (NZSA) to join its Board of Directors. This appointment process is being undertaken by the Board to […]
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Mountain Book Awards Finalists 2025
With such a high calibre of entries, the judges are going to have a tough (but very enjoyable) challenge in selecting the winners! We’re delighted to be able to announce our Book Competition finalists as follows: Highly Commended Northbound: Four Seasons of Solitude on Te Araroa by Naomi Arnold Southern Faces: An Introduction to Rock […]
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Applications now open for the 2026 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
Applications for one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prestigious and long-running Fellowships are now open – closing 11pm Friday 30 May 2025. For over fifty years, since 1970, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship has enabled a New Zealand writer to live and work for three months or more in Menton, southern France, with access to […]
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STREETSIDE: BRITOMART – AWF’s first event promises a riotous evening of words and creativity
Storytellers will take over the Britomart precinct in the heart of Tāmaki Makaurau for a riotous evening of words and creativity on Friday 9 May. STREETSIDE: BRITOMART is a one-night-only festival which is completely free and open to all. The fun runs from 6 – 8pm with events across seven Britomart venues and provides a […]
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VERB WELLINGTON ANNOUNCES THREE WRITERS RESIDENCIES
Verb Wellington is delighted to announce a new Children’s Writers Residency and a Home-Based Residency to run in 2025. Applications open for both residencies on 28 April, as well for the Katherine Mansfield House & Garden Writers Residency which has been running annually since 2020. “We are thrilled to offer two new opportunities for […]
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The Plaza Poetry Prize Winners
NZSA member, Wes Lee, has been awarded second and third prize in The Plaza Poetry Prize 2025, selected by the judge, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz. The winning, commended, and shortlisted poems (for an individual poem with a maximum length of 60 lines) have been announced on The Plaza Prizes website. ‘Reading the finalist poems for the […]
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Script to Screen mentorship programme recipients
Script to Screen welcomes eight new filmmakers to the South Shorts Mentorship Programme! From July to November, the participants will embark on an incredible journey of development led by acclaimed screenwriter and director Briar Grace-Smith (Cousins, Rūrangi, Waru). Briar has led the mentorship for South Shorts since 2018, and in this time has had a […]
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Michelle Elvy gets Barr Cottage Auckland Council residency
Artist plans seascape series at Auckland regional park 23 Apr 2025 Michelle Elvy, Auckland Council’s 2025 artist in residence, hopes to find inspiration at Huia An established writer with an affinity for the ocean is thrilled to have the opportunity to live at the idyllic seaside Barr Cottage in Huia, as Auckland Council’s regional parks’ artist in […]
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Sir Julius Vogel 2025 Award Winners
Professional Categories Best Novel Echoes of Earthshine Mel Harding-Shaw Coruscate Press Best Youth Novel The Moonlight Bridge Mike Gwyther Qualia House Best Novella or Novelette We Who Remain Nikky Lee Deadset Press Best Short Story N-spired Learning B.T. Keaton SpecFicNZ Best Artwork Cover of “Artificial Sweetener: Tales of AI: 100% Written by Humans” Melissa Gunn […]
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