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NZSA Announces Hamilton Roadshow October 15
Hamilton Regional Roadshow 9AM – 4PM, SUNDAY 15 OCTOBER, TRUST WAIKATO, 4 LITTLE LONDON LANE, HAMILTON What’s on: Welcome and Opening Kōrero with Vanda Symon Workshops: Make ’em laugh – write funny with Kathryn Burnett; Write like it’s 2023: making your poetry new with Anne Kennedy; Out damned plot: the plot, the sub-plot, the twist? with Vanda Symon; How to write captivating nonfiction for […]
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The 2023 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition is now open
· Exclusive to NZSA members. The 2023 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition is now open. · $500 first prize, $250 second prize, $100 third prize. · Closes 5pm, Monday 23 October 2023. · Only $10 to enter. Enter online! Conditions of entry: The competition is open exclusively to all NZSA members. All […]
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Call for Applications – CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants now open
Each year a portion of the revenue allocated to the CLNZ Cultural Fund is made available in a contestable fund. In 2023, up to $75,000 is available to support strategic projects that demonstrate New Zealand publishing sector growth. The amount applicants apply for is up to them, with the number of successful recipients varying each […]
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Sargeson Fellowship 2024
Calling all writers! Applications for the 2024 Sargeson Fellowship are now open. The Fellowship offers published New Zealand writers the opportunity to write full-time, free from financial pressures. It provides an annual stipend of $20,000, and where available, the Sargeson Centre adjacent to the University of Auckland. The fellowship falls between February and October and […]
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Storylines Saturday Sessions
Children’s and Young Adult Writing Workshops Join us for the Storylines Saturday Sessions featuring workshops and talks with award-winning and bestselling authors/ illustrators. Heather McQuillan, Belinda O’Keefe, Gavin Bishop and James Norcliffe will each present a workshop to inspire both established and new writers. Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador Alan Dingley will join […]
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Over $25,000 of Booksellers Tokens will be distributed this week to school libraries affected by cyclone Gabrielle, thanks to the fundraising project Books Back Better.
4:00 PM, 7 September 2023 Hawkes Bay author and NZSA member Mary-anne Scott initiated the recovery project along with a group of Hawkes Bay authors, school librarians and booksellers. They teamed up with SLANZA (School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) and Booksellers Aotearoa NZ to create the Books Back Better project in March 2023. Mary-anne […]
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ASA makes submission to NSW Government’s Arts and Culture Policy
The ASA has called for a coordinated funding framework and more direct investment in writers and illustrators in a submission to the NSW Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy consultation. The consultation for the new Arts policy opened in July this year, and seeks to use the Federal Government’s National Cultural Policy, Revive, as a starting […]
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A New Approach (ANA) is a think-tank in Australia that works to build an ambitious, innovative policy and investment environment for arts, culture and creativity.
ANA’s published its latest report yesterday ; To-Scale-main-report-ANA.pdf (newapproach.org.au) Cultural and creative industries earned 87 percent of their income – the largest proportion – from sales and services, new research by arts and culture think tank A New Approach (ANA) reveals. To Scale: Mapping Financial Inflows in Australian Arts, Culture and Creativity found Australian cultural […]
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Aotearoa New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2024 Writers in Residence Programme
Media Release 1 September 2023 The Michael King Writers Centre is pleased to announce that next year’s programme of residencies at the historic Signalman’s House on Takarunga Mt Victoria in Devonport, Auckland, is now open for applications. Writers awarded a residency can look forward to peaceful accommodation, the use of a writing studio, a supporting […]
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POETS ON THE WRITERS WALK competition results
At a salon for Poetry Day at City Gallery Wellington on Friday 25 August, competition judge Janis Freegard announced the winners of the POETS ON THE WRITERS WALK competition run by Wellington Writers Walk and the Wellington Branch of New Zealand Society of Authors for Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2023. You can find full […]
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2023 CLNZ Research Grants: Four cash grants awarded to support local writers
Media Release August 30, 2023 Four cash grants awarded to support local writers The 2023 Copyright Licensing New Zealand and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Research Grants have been awarded to four writers in Aotearoa. The $5,000 grants support local writers who wish to undertake research for […]
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JOIN NEW ZEALAND’S BIGGEST ANNUAL ONLINE BOOK CLUB: TOGETHER WE READ SEP 27 – OCT 11
From 27 September to 11 October booklovers from around the country are invited to join thousands of other readers in New Zealand’s biggest online book club, Together We Read. This year the chosen book is local author Charity Norman’s Remember Me, a heartfelt, page-turning suspense novel. All you need to take part is a […]
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