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ARTISTS, WRITERS, CREATIVES, MEDIA ORGS NEED URGENT SUPPORT – Germany leads the world
Germany Has Rolled Out a Staggering €50 Billion Aid Package For Small Businesses That Boosts Artists and Galleries—and Puts Other Countries to Shame “Artists are not only indispensable, but also vital, especially now,” says the country’s culture minister. Kate Brown, March 25, 2020 Angela Merkel and Monika Grütters. Photo: Christian Marquardt/Getty Images. The […]
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From The Spin Off: Publisher of NZ Listener, Woman’s Weekly, North & South to shut down!
APRIL 2, 2020 COPIED FROM THE SPIN OFF BAUER MEDIA NZ ASSETS FOR SALE! HUGE LOSS AND A SERIOUS BLOW TO NZ MEDIA! The Spinoff | Staff writers The Covid-19 crisis in media has claimed NZ’s biggest magazine publisher, Bauer Media, and the government says it didn’t seek help through its business assistance initiatives. […]
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David Hill: what it takes to be a professional writer
“…I wept all over the last pages, they are tear blotched…” In the latest episode of the NZSA Oral History Podcast Season 3 we hear from David Hill who has been writing full-time in New Zealand for over 30 years. David is probably best known for his writing for children and young adults but he […]
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Ōrongohau/Best New Zealand Poems 2019: new voices on the wind
The 2019 edition of the online anthology Ōrongohau/Best New Zealand Poems is now live, featuring 25 poems chosen by acclaimed poet Hera Lindsay Bird. Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) has published the anthology annually since 2001, with support from Creative New Zealand. Lindsay Bird, described by recent UK […]
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NZ Library Storytimes during COVID-19 – LIANZA/SLANZA LIMITED PERMISSIONS
Guidelines for libraries, schools and early childhood education centres Schools, libraries and early childhood education centres are keen to ensure that New Zealand children are still able to enjoy all that a good book has to offer during these unsettling times. Providing storytimes for children through online platforms is something that New Zealand authors and […]
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‘Normal Rules Don’t Apply’ – Creative NZ Explains Funding
26 Mar 2020 Reproduced from The Big Idea. Emergency funding support – or lack of it – has been the arts’ hottest topic. Creative New Zealand fronts up to The Big Idea. There’s a well-worn adage that “life is a series of moments.” Some of them shape us more than others, their imprint forever altering […]
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Introducing NZ Writers Read
With so many festivals, book launches and readings cancelled due to covid-19 we are aware that promoting your work just became a lot harder. That’s why we are launching ‘NZ Writers Read’, dedicated playlists on our Youtube channel of authors reading from their work. We want to have ‘NZ Writers Read Children’s Books’, ‘NZ Writers […]
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Update on New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa PEN NZ Inc – life in the time of Covid-19.
NZSA support government measures to contain Covid-19 and are following protocols All those who use our office space are observing the 4 week lockdown and working from home. NZSA physical office is closed for the next 4 weeks – or until we get the okay from government. NZSA programmes and awards are still running! CompleteMS and […]
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Creative New Zealand’s first phase COVID-19 response, $16m
Kua takoto te manuka The leaves of the manuka tree have been laid down We promised to provide more information about our Emergency Response Package we announced last Friday. Please see our update below. Creative New Zealand can now confirm its Emergency Response Package, announced on Friday in response to COVID-19, will include a first […]
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The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has secured a partnership to provide quality resources for editors.
IPEd and Biotext–Macquarie University sign MoU A memorandum of understanding (MoU), agreed between IPEd and Biotext Pty Ltd and Macquarie University, as joint publishers of the Australian manual of style and the website StyleHub, will advance the editing profession across Australia and New Zealand. The Australian manual of style is a soon-to-be-released, comprehensive, online style […]
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C. K. Stead’s riveting second memoir, taking us from graduate school to Smith’s Dream and the Springbok Tour.
You Have a Lot to Lose A Memoir 1956 – 1986 C.K. Stead Publishing 21 May 2020 Auckland University Press 9781869409128, $49.99 New Zealand’s most extraordinary literary everyman – poet, novelist, critic, activist – C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, […]
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‘This is a scary time’: coronavirus emergency fund set up for UK authors
Author Philip Pullman said the grants of up to £2,000 designed to meet urgent need ‘will be enormously reassuring’ A £330,000 emergency fund for authors is being launched to support those facing “unmanageable” losses from the cancellation of events, book tours and school visits during the coronavirus pandemic. The Society of Authors, which launched the […]
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