• REPORT SHOWS KIWIS OVERWHELMINGLY PREFER PHYSICAL BOOKS

    Posted on 24 June 2020

    WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE, 2020 A new report from the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has revealed Kiwis still vastly prefer print books, with sales of physical books growing while demand for ebooks has shrunk.   Despite significant investment by publishers in digital formats, ebooks makeup just 7.2% of total trade and education sales in […]

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  • Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition now open

    Posted on 17 June 2020

    17 JUN 2020 Calling all young poets! Entries are now open for the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition. Send us your previously unpublished original poem and be in to win a copy of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020. Winning poems will be published in the 2021 edition of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, and each poet and […]

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  • Going West Writers Festival 2020 Goes Virtual

    Posted on 17 June 2020

    Going West Writers Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary with the launch of its treasure trove of curated audio files, available via podcast to lovers of words and ideas from Friday, 19 June.   Festival producer, James Littlewood says the limitations brought about by COVID-19 prompted the team to pull together a long-held dream of bringing […]

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  • Bauer magazines sold to Mercury Capital

    Posted on 17 June 2020

    17 Jun, 2020 Bauer Media Group confirmed details first published in the Australian Financial Review that Mercury Capital has bought both the Australian and New Zealand operations of the media company. “Bauer Media remains committed to magazine publishing,” said Bauer Media chief operations officer Veit Dengler today. more here

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  • 45 International Orgs call for release of imprisonment of Kurdish journalist Nedim Turfent

    Posted on 16 June 2020

    Today, the International Press Institute (IPI), PEN International, Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) and 42 undersigned organisations mark the 1,500th day of Kurdish journalist Nedim Türfent’s imprisonment with a renewed call for his immediate and unconditional release.   Türfent, who was predominantly reporting on the Kurdish issues, was detained on May 12, 2016, shortly […]

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  • Storylines Joy Cowley Award 2021 – Entries are now OPEN

    Posted on 12 June 2020

    The Storylines Joy Cowley Award was established in 2002 when Storylines contacted Scholastic New Zealand, one of Joy’s publishers, asking them to join with Storylines in creating an award that would recognise the exceptional contribution Joy Cowley has made to children’s literature and literacy in New Zealand and internationally.   The Storylines Joy Cowley Award […]

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  • PIP McKAY – NZSA Member wins International First Pages 2020

    Posted on 11 June 2020

    Congratulations to Pip McKay as Winner of the International First Pages Prize for The Telling Time. Her debut novel of impossible love and soul-destroying secrets where two young women fight to overcome adversity and transport the reader from Yugoslavia, to 1950’s New Zealand, and back again has won the Winner of the International First Pages […]

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  • CREATECH UK CEO, CogXspeech – The relationship between creative and tech is more important than ever…

    Posted on 10 June 2020

    8 June 2020 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) Caroline Dinenage’s keynote speech at the CogX Createch Stage Thank you for that introduction, and many thanks for inviting me to speak here today. I’m delighted to be participating in Createch 2020 at CogX.  Let me start by saying two things: First, that […]

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  • Creative NZ announces a further $13million in its Covid 19 response

    Posted on 10 June 2020

    MEDIA RELEASE 9 JUNE 2020 Creative New Zealand has dug deep to respond to the extraordinary volume of applications for its COVID-19 Emergency Response Package, investing an additional $13 million in its now closed first phase of arts funding. Arts Council leadership on Friday (5 June) approved the organisation drawing on further reserves to increase […]

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  • Oho! The Surrey Hotel writer’s residency is back up and running

    Posted on 10 June 2020

    JUNE 10, 2020 Steve Braunias Steve Braunias edits Newsroom’s books section, ReadingRoom, is an author and a noted writer for the NZ Herald. READINGROOM Steve Braunias announces the 2020 Surrey Hotel writer’s residency in association with Newsroom. Yowsa! O brave new world of Level One! O let the good times roll, again. And in the […]

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  • US ‘Publishing Day of Action’ Calls Out Book Industry’s Racial Disparities – from Publishing perspectives.

    Posted on 10 June 2020

    In Feature Articles by Porter Anderson    June 9, 2020   The rising tide of protest over racial injustice reached publishing in the United States on Monday, as #PubWorkers4BlackLives took to social media for solidarity. #PubWorkers4Justice Following the forthright statement of condemnation made a week ago by the US Association of University Presses (AUP)—in which they condemned “the white supremacist structure upon […]

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  • The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2021

    Posted on 10 June 2020

    The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize is for an outstanding debut poetry book collection by a poet, in the English language.   The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize is valued at €10,000 and will be adjudicated by a panel of judges nominated by the John Pollard Foundation, and the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre […]

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