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Announcing READERS AND WRITERS AKAROA (RAWA) June 10-11 2023
READERS AND WRITERS AKAROA (RAWA) SAVE THE DATE 10–11 June, 2023 The Akaroa Community Arts Council, in association with the New Zealand Society of Authors, is delighted to host its inaugural symposium, Readers and Writers Akaroa 2023. Building on a successful foundation of creative writing events in the past few years, we are branching out […]
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Turbine | Kapohau writers off to a flying start
16 December 2022 This year’s issue of Turbine | Kapohau, the annual online literary journal of the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o te Ao, is now live. The journal showcases brand new fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry from the 2022 Master of Arts (MA) in Creative Writing […]
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New record number of journalists jailed worldwide A record total of 533 journalists are currently detained worldwide, according to the annual round-up of violence and abuses against journalists published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The number of those killed has increased again this year – to 57– while 65 journalists are being held hostage and […]
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Asian Artists’ Fund – open – Foundation North and CNZ
Asian Artists’ Fund 2023, a partnership fund with Creative New Zealand. Applicants can apply for up to $35,000. KEY DATES Applications Open: Now Application Close: Friday, 3 March 2023 Decision: 12 weeks from the closing date. Apply Now Open for applications The Asian Artists’ Fund is a step towards addressing funding inequities for Asian artists through targeted project grants. […]
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UK Society of Authors – Dec 2022 – UK Author median incomes dropped 60% since 2006!
A profession struggling to sustain itself ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006 The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) has published a report of their fourth survey into authors’ earnings – carried out by CREATe – with the stark headline that the median income of full-time professional […]
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How I write: Dystopian thriller author M. C Ronen on the writers who have influenced her
Published in STUFF by Andre Chumko Dec 15 M. C Ronen (pen name of Maya Cohen-Ronen) is a Wellington-based, multi-award-winning author of three dystopian thrillers, The Liberation Trilogy. She is a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA), a proud mother of two children, two dogs and one rabbit, and is an activist […]
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“Wholesome, consoling love story” wins Adam Foundation Prize
15 December 2022 L- R: Damien Wilkins, Verna Adam, and Olive Nuttall. An hilarious but emotionally powerful novel is the winner of the 2022 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML). Olive Nuttall wrote the winning manuscript, Kitten, as part of her 2022 […]
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Playful and powerful collection wins the 2022 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry
15 December 2022 An engaging and generous collection of poems about Sāmoan family and community has won the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) 2022 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry. Author Nafanua Purcell Kersel (Faleālupo, Malaelā, Mosula, Tuaefu) is a poet of the Sāmoan diaspora with a degree in social anthropology. She wrote the winning […]
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Modern Commedia play wins University scriptwriting prize IIML
14 December 2022 A full-length theatre play giving traditional Commedia dell’Arte a modern spin has been awarded the 2022 David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML). Written by Ella Yiannett as part of her 2022 Master of Arts folio at the IIML, […]
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NZCYP Judges announced for 2023
Convenor of judges Nicola Daly is an Associate Professor at the University of Waikato, where she is codirector of the Waikato Picturebook Research Unit and teaches courses in children’s literature. Nicola’s research focus is the use of languages in picture books, and she has received several fellowships to pursue this interest, including at the International Youth Library […]
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JOHN SUMMERS RECEIVES 2022 JANET FRAME AWARD FOR PROSE
Janet Frame Literary Trust Announcement Award Celebrates 70th Anniversary of Janet Frame’s Most Famous Prize Wellington writer John Summers will this week receive the 2022 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Imaginative Prose, worth $7000. John Summers has published two books of short non-fiction, The Mermaid Boy (2015) and The Commercial Hotel (2021). His writing […]
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Protecting Australian artists – Australia’s Albanese government moves to protect creative rights
The Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP 24 November 2022 Media Release The Albanese Government is committed to copyright laws that protect Australian artists and enable them to earn a living from their creative works. The Attorney-General’s Department will release an issues paper for public consultation as the first stage of a review into whether […]
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