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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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National Schools Poetry Award 2023 Winner
Poem about family stories wins National Schools Poetry Award 2023 Liberty Beck, student at Takapuna Grammar, is the 2023 winner of the National Schools Poetry Award. Liberty won the award with her poem X-MANGOES-X-SNAKES-X-RED PAPER BOATS-X. “X-MANGOES-X-SNAKES-X-RED PAPER BOATS-X is a poem I’ve been writing for a while now, and it’s a story I’ll […]
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Faber Writing Academy – NZ courses
Start to Write w/ Ruby Porter Have you always wanted to write fiction? Everyone needs to start somewhere, and Start to Write is the course designed to get you across the basics, as you begin to generate ideas and get your very first words down on the page. Thursdays 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm (NZDT), 12 – 26 […]
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MICHELLE ELVY EIGHT-WEEK COURSES, July – November 2023
Contact: General information All welcome! These courses are designed to encourage exploration and discussion, while advancing your own writing. Classes are dynamic, with newcomers and experienced writers sharing a common, congenial space. We meet in Zoom; 2 hours each week for 8 weeks. Intensive reading, writing and sharing! Historical Fiction Exploring the elements […]
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NEWSROOM: Penguin axes legendary publisher (Braunias)
Steve Braunias – An excerpt from his piece published on READING ROOM Steve Braunias is the literary editor of Newsroom’s books section ReadingRoom, a noted writer at the NZ Herald, and the author of 10 books. COMMENTS BY Beverley Short, Kathleen Healam New Zealand’s literary community responds to the shock dismissals at Penguin Random […]
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