• Entries now open for 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

    Posted on 3 August 2023

    Entries now open for 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards The New Zealand Book Awards Trust Te Ohu Tiaki i Te Rau Hiringa is now inviting submissions for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. These prestigious awards promote excellence in, and provide recognition of, the best books for adult readers published annually in New […]

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  • $5K Surrey Hotel 2023 Writers Residency open til August 20

    Posted on 2 August 2023

    The heavily atmospheric Surrey Hotel in Auckland. Photo by 2018 residency award winner Naomi Arnold FIRST PUBLISHED AUG 2, 2023  THIS ARTICLE ABOUT THE AWARD IS TAKEN FROM THE NEWSROOM SITE TO PROMOTE THE AWARD.  PLEASE CLICK BELOW TO READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE ON NEWSROOM Steve Braunias is the literary editor of Newsroom’s […]

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  • Growing Playwrights – Playmarket

    Posted on 1 August 2023

    FRIDAY 11 and SATURDAY 12 AUGUST – Auckland Live One awesome development programme with some of Aotearoa’s top playwriting teachers. Two days of sessions – practical skills classes and What I Need sessions. Sessions include: Creating Compelling Characters with Kathryn Burnett  Thinking of Structure with Paul Kalburgi Dialogue and Subtext with Gary Henderson Shaping a Scene with Albert Belz and Stuart Hoar Editing […]

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  • Aotearoa NZ Review of Books ‘Book Reviewing Mentorships’ offered to NZSA

    Posted on 31 July 2023

      The Aotearoa NZ Review of Books is offering NZSA members four book-reviewing mentorships.   Mentees will receive $200 to write a sample review and revise it after feedback from their mentors. This review can serve as a calling card to help new reviewers get commissions from a range of media. To be eligible you […]

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  • 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel: Open for Entries

    Posted on 31 July 2023

    Text Publishing and the NZ Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) are thrilled to announce entries for the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel are now open. The Prize seeks fiction manuscripts by published and unpublished authors who are citizens or permanent residents of New Zealand. It celebrates […]

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  • Photos of 13 New Zealand writers who were selected for the 2023 NZSA Complete MS Assessments

    New stories by talented writers awarded 2023 NZSA manuscript assessments

    Posted on 28 July 2023

    The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc announce the writers who will receive manuscript guidance through this year’s CompleteMS programme. Compelling manuscripts crafted by thirteen talented writers, have been chosen to take part in this year’s programme. Writers spend months polishing their stories for entry into this competitive […]

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  • Ockham New Zealand Book Award entries open August 3

    Posted on 25 July 2023

      Submissions for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, for books published between 1 January and 31 December 2023, will open on Thursday 3 August. The first tranche of entries is for books published January to August 2023.   To find out more about how to enter when the time comes, or to check […]

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  • Ka Pānui Tātou i Tāmaki Makaurau / We Read Auckland 2023

    Posted on 25 July 2023

    Auckland Libraries presents We Read Auckland 2023, a free festival celebrating writers and readers of Tāmaki Makaurau.   Witi Ihimaera is named as the first ever patron of Auckland Council Libraries’ Ka Pānui Tātau i Tāmaki Makaurau / We Read Auckland festival, celebrating diverse stories across Tāmaki Makaurau this August. We Read Auckland is an […]

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  • Congrats to Ruben Mita – winner of a fine line Featured Student Poet

    Posted on 25 July 2023

    Ruben Mita has been awarded a free years’ NZSA membership for taking out top spot in the ‘a fine line’ student poet competition.   Ruben Mita is a poet, musician and ecology student in Pōneke. He has been published in Starling, Landfall, takahē, Tarot and Sweet Mammalian and won the 2022 Story Inc. IIML Poetry […]

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  • DESIGN AWARDS CELEBRATE THE BEAUTY OF PHYSICAL BOOKS

    Posted on 25 July 2023

     Tuesday 25 July The world is turning increasingly virtual, but when it comes to book design Aotearoa’s creatives prefer to celebrate the physical form in all its glory. The finalists for the 2023 PANZ Book Design Awards, announced today, perfectly encapsulate this with the shortlist packed to the brim with beautifully designed books that beg […]

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  • The Writers Union of Canada calls for AI justice

    Posted on 24 July 2023

    July 20, 2023  Open Letter to AI Developers Dear Member, The Writers’ Union of Canada has been studying and discussing the question of artificial intelligence as related to creative professions for many years. Concerns that scanned books would be used for unlicensed “machine learning” were included in submissions made during the Google Books court action […]

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  • Aotearoa’s best bookshop and top publisher revealed – 2023 Aotearoa Book Industry Awards

    Posted on 24 July 2023

    Lamplight Books, a recently established bookstore in the Auckland suburb of Parnell, has been named Bookshop of the Year at the Aotearoa Book Trade Industry Awards, held this evening in Rotorua. Organised jointly by Booksellers Aotearoa NZ and the Publishers Association of NZ Te Rau o Tākapu, the awards celebrate the outstanding booksellers and publishers in Aotearoa’s […]

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