• $25,000 CLNZ NZSA Writers’ Award 2023 OPENS – call for applications!

    Posted on 1 June 2023

    The CLNZ | NZSA Writers’ Award of $25,000 is one of the highest non-fiction prizes in New Zealand literature, and is now open for applications. He $25,000 te nui o te Karāti Kaituhi o te CLNZ me te NZSA, te karāti mātua mo ngā pakimaero-pono o ngā momo-tuhinga o Aotearoa. Ka taea e ngā Kaituhi te […]

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  • TEENAGER JOINS ESTABLISHED NAMES ON SHORTLIST FOR NATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS

    Posted on 1 June 2023

    A 16-year-old Kāpiti Coast student is among the writers and illustrators announced today as finalists in the 2023 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, the preeminent celebration of books for Aotearoa’s young readers. Arlo Kelly, one of the Awards’ youngest ever finalists, is vying for the NZSA Best First Book Award with […]

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  • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS- ‘FLYING SOLO’ – ANTHOLOGY OF NZ WRITING

    Posted on 31 May 2023

    Are you interested in submitting your work to be considered for inclusion in a themed anthology on the experience of single parenting? * We want to read your take on ‘solo parenting’ ─ whether humorous, enlightening, or challenging ─ in the genre of your choice: poetry, prose (creative non-fiction), or short fiction. You may be […]

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  • Storylines Notable Book Awards judges announced

    Posted on 30 May 2023

      Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa has announced the judges chosen to select the Storylines Notable Books for 2023 (for books published from 16 November 2022 to 15 November 2023). The panels of six for each of five categories (non-fiction, junior and YA fiction, picture books and books written […]

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  • Creative New Zealand and NZ On Air creative professionals research released 

    Posted on 23 May 2023

      Media release 23 May 2023 Creative professionals are still earning considerably less than other New Zealand wage earners.    Research just released shows that New Zealand’s creative professionals’ median income is $37,000, compared to the median of $61,800 for salary and wage earners. Forty four percent of creative professionals supplement their creative income with […]

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  • Vale to the Great Kevin Ireland 

    Posted on 22 May 2023

    Haera ra to acclaimed New Zealand poet, NZSA Past-President, NZSA Past-President of Honour, long-standing NZSA member and friend to many writers. His health had been deteriorating and he was taken into hospice care on May 18th and died overnight, aged 89.   we’ll stock up books and wine and pie then stop the clocks and […]

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  • Announcing the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2023 winner!

    Posted on 19 May 2023

    Lee Murray is winner of the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2023! The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Lee Murray on winning the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize with her manuscript Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud. The prize was created by the NZSA and […]

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  • Four talented secondary school students awarded NZSA Youth Mentorships in 2023

    Posted on 19 May 2023

    Four talented secondary school students awarded mentorships with professional writers as part of NZ Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Youth Mentorship Programme These young writers will hone their writing skills and develop their craft through the year as part of this programme and we congratulate them on their success. […]

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  • Great Leap Forward by Creative Industries

    Posted on 18 May 2023

    New statistics released by Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) have found that the creative industries have taken new leaps forward – highlighting their importance to Aotearoa.   The latest COVID-19 Cultural Recovery Programme (CRP) Impacts Report has been made public this morning – measuring the period of March 2021 through to March […]

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  • Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2023 Winners’ Announcement

    Posted on 18 May 2023

       Novel that New Zealanders have ‘clasped to their hearts’ wins country’s richest writing prize. Celebrated New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey has won the $64,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for The Axeman’s Carnival – a page-turning novel of depth, pathos and humanity that skilfully infuses […]

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  • Danny Keenan receives the 2023 Michael King Writer’s Fellowship

    Posted on 17 May 2023

    03 APR 2023 It was announced on Friday that Dr Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti ki Te Ātiawa) is the 2023 recipient of Michael King Writer’s Fellowship. Congratulations Danny! Danny will use the fellowship to support the writing of his new work is called In Sickness and In Health: A Cultural History of Three Māori Pandemics 1895-2021. It’s an […]

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  • Books without barriers: a practical guide to inclusive publishing

    Posted on 12 May 2023

    27 April 2023 | resources-for-editors Books without barriers is written and designed by members of IPEd’s Accessibility Initiative Working Party. It outlines the barriers to reading that people with print disability may experience if their needs are not supported, and describes how to avoid creating these barriers at each stage of the publishing process.   The guide is […]

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