• BOOKS ALIVE CALENDAR IS LAUNCHED

    Posted on 8 July 2020

    LIANZA AND NZ BOOK AWARDS TRUST LAUNCH 2020 NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS BOOKS AND SHORTLIST New Zealand libraries have an association with the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults that stretches back to 1945, and in 2020 they are still playing a central role in sharing the […]

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  • ARTS FOUNDATION ICON – 2020 WRITER JOY COWLEY

    Posted on 8 July 2020

    CONGRATULATIONS TO LONG-TIME NZSA MEMBER  JOY COWLEY – ARTS FOUNDATION ICON FOR 2020 Discipline:  Writer Awards:   Icons 2020 Highlight:  “The day I’m no longer in touch with young people, is the day I stop writing for them, because the energy flows from them and goes back to them.” – Joy Cowley ONZ DCNZM OBE   […]

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  • BookBubble podcast: Tayi Tibble

    Posted on 8 July 2020

       READING ROOM Stacy Gregg and Nicky Pellegrino continue their podcast series. Today: an interview with the talented Tayi Tibble. Wellington poet Tayi Tibble was 23 years old when she won the Ockham for best first book of poetry for Poūkahangatus. Of Te Whanau ā Apanui and Ngāti Porou descent, Tayi’s poems speak to beauty, activism, power and […]

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  • Creative New Zealand announces its COVID-19-driven investment plan for the next 12 months

    Posted on 7 July 2020

    Close on the heels of a heavily subscribed $29 million emergency response to COVID-19, Creative New Zealand has announced further funding to help the arts sector adapt in uncertain and unpredictable times. Creative New Zealand will devote the additional $25 million in new money announced by the Government in May, to a 12-month programme of […]

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  • Surrey Hotel-Newsroom writer’s residency award for 2020 announced

    Posted on 6 July 2020

    Congratulations to NZSA member Mia Gaudin   “The grand winner of the 2020 Surrey Hotel-Newsroom writer’s residency award is novelist Mia Gaudin. A graduate of the IIML in Wellington, she has been awarded seven nights accommodation at the strange and wonderful Surrey Hotel in Grey Lynn, Auckland, and also receives free breakfast and the hotel’s […]

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  • Content Presenter: 2020 New Zealand Young Writers Festival

    Posted on 6 July 2020

    Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust The NZ Young Writers Festival is four days of free, fun literary focused events held annually in Ōtepoti/Dunedin.  We welcome young scribes of all stripes and celebrate all forms of wordsmithing including (but not limited to) zines, screen writing, journalism, bloggers, critical content creators, slam poetry, poetry, playwriting, song lyricists, short […]

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  • Finalists Announcement: Mind Body Spirit Book Awards

    Posted on 2 July 2020

    Depth and Breadth of Finalists’ Works Offer Insight and Hope Books by psychotherapists, artists, environmentalists, an astrologer and a Catholic nun -about subjects as wide ranging as human consciousness, depression and creative alchemy -are among the Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Awards finalists announced today. Awards’ judges’ spokesperson Linda Cassells says this year’s Book […]

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  • 2020 MILES FRANKLIN SHORTLIST

    Posted on 1 July 2020

    Today, the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, alongside award trustee Perpetual, announced the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist.    The 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist is: THE WHITE GIRL by Tony Birch (The University of Queensland Press): This novel describes the journey of Odette and her 13-year-old granddaughter Sissy as they struggle to stay together when […]

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  • The prestigious 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award – open now for entries

    Posted on 30 June 2020

    Submissions are open for the prestigious 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the world’s most lucrative literary prizes! The submissions process is online, and entries are welcomed from all countries, in Arabic, as well as in other languages. More details: https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/default.aspx Winners across nine categories will each receive a career-changing prize of AED 750,000 […]

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  • Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 longlist announced

    Posted on 30 June 2020

    30 June 2020 The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are:  Shadow of Doubt (S L Beaumont, Paperback Writers) Trust Me, I’m Dead (Sherryl Clark, Oldcastle Books) Whatever it Takes (Paul Cleave, Upstart Press) One Single Thing (Tina Clough, Lightpool Publishing) Girl from the Tree House (Gudrun Frerichs, […]

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  • Copyright review update

    Posted on 30 June 2020

    Copyright review update   Jenny Nagle and Mandy Hager met with Kris Faafoi, the Minister responsible for the Copyright Review, last week. They were accompanied by Paula Browning (pictured) and Pat Walsh from CLNZ and Tom Rennie and Julia Marshall from PANZ. This meeting was our long-awaited opportunity to present the industry’s strong concerns regarding […]

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  • Owen Marshall on the Work of Writing

    Posted on 24 June 2020

     “…As well as the imaginative (or the magical) aspect of writing where the inspiration strikes, there’s the craft aspect of it where it’s just a matter of sitting there doing the job…”   In our last episode of the NZSA Oral History Podcast Season 3 we hear from Owen Marshall. Owen Marshall is a celebrated New Zealand […]

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