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NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2019
$10,000 Opportunity for Writers. Calling for applications from writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama with a literary track record, who are currently working on a new project. This annual Fellowship is awarded each year to a mid-career or senior writer to work on a project that shows a high level of literary merit and […]
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Chromacon 2019 – a review
Chromacon 2019 – Auckland – was an expo where a large group of visual artists got together to show off their work at the Aotea Centre, Auckland, on Queens Birthday Weekend. This included illustrators, digital artists, and graphic novelists. Why would a writer go to this? From my perspective, if I was looking for an […]
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NZCYA AWARDS SHORTLIST SHOWS STRENGTH OF NEW ZEALAND CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING
New Zealand’s children’s publishing is in fine health. That’s the verdict of the judges for the 2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults after they faced the daunting challenge of whittling down a shortlist for this year’s awards. “The quality of submissions was impressive this year,” says convenor of judges Crissi Blair. […]
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An Honest Look at the Writing Life: Ian Cross on the NZSA Oral History Podcast
In the next episode of our NZSA Oral History Podcast Series we hear from Ian Cross. Ian Cross began writing his first novel The God Boy (published in 1957) while on a journalism fellowship at Harvard University. The book was a critical success and was turned into a film and an opera. Yet by 1959 and the […]
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Fake News v Press Freedom – Lies, Defamation and Digital Truth
WHALE OIL: One man’s fight to save his reputation, then his life Truth is stranger than fiction. For Auckland businessman Matt Blomfield, the truth is stranger than strange. In May 2012, Blomfield found himself the target of a vicious online attack; the work of Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater. The attack came out of the […]
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The Newest Episode of the NZSA Oral History Podcast Features Elsie Locke
In the next episode of our NZSA Oral History Podcast Series we hear from Elsie Locke. Elsie was a leader and writer for the New Zealand peace movement, living through almost the whole of the violent twentieth century. But to most New Zealanders she is best known for her children’s writing – at one time almost […]
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2019 Wallace Foundation Short Fiction Contest Winners Announced
The winners of this year’s Wallace Foundation Short Fiction Contest were announced at a special event during the Auckland Writers Festival last Saturday. Stories must be original, unpublished works of fiction and may be on any theme. The word limit is 2000 words. Samesame but different is delighted to announce the winners: Overall winner – […]
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Auckland Writers Festival Continues Its Record-Breaking Run
People of all ages flocked to the 2019 Auckland Writers Festival this week, which broke its previous attendance record with more than 82,000 seats filled across seven days of tremendous conversations, inspiring performances and theatres filled with laughter at venues throughout the city’s centre. The Festival, which has seen year-on-year growth in the last eight […]
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2019 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel awarded to Tom Remiger’s Soldiers
Tom McLean, writing as Tom Remiger, is the winner of the 2019 Michael Gifkins Prize for his novel, Soldiers (shortlisted as The City). Remiger receives a publishing contract with Text and a NZ$10,000 advance against royalties. The award was accepted on his behalf this afternoon at a party held during Auckland Writers Festival week. The […]
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Canadian Lawmakers Recommend Sweeping Progressive Improvements to Copyright Law – Music to our ears…
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage yesterday released its long-awaited report on artist remuneration, as part of Parliament’s Statutory Review of the Copyright Act. Titled Shifting Paradigms, the report makes twenty-two key recommendations focused on strengthening the rights of artists to control and earn from their work in the digital age. The Writers’ Union of […]
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100 NZ Stories, 100 Days: author starts short story campaign
Northland author and NZSA member Michael Botur has launched a programme of publishing short stories every day for the next 100 days on social media and is encouraging other Kiwi writers to do the same. Botur said the #100NZStories100days campaign doesn’t hinge on any significant date. Rather, it’s about keeping short fiction writing in the […]
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OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS 2019 WINNERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT
OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS 2019 WINNERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT ‘Urgently Relevant’ Novel Wins Country’s Richest Literary Award Dame Fiona Kidman has won this year’s $53,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her novel, This Mortal Boy, a work described by the judges as ‘moving, memorable, authentic and urgently relevant to […]
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