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THE 2024 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® FINAL BALLOT
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) today announced the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. Congratulations to all NZSA members shortlisted. Superior Achievement in an Anthology Ajram, Sofia — Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (Ghoulish Books) Costello, Rob — We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures (Running Press) […]
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Summer Writing Seminars University of Auckland
Hone your skills as a writer in this packed programme of in-depth craft seminars led by experienced teachers, including our creative writing staff, award-winning writers Paula Morris and Selina Tusitala Marsh. This year we also offer Sunday workshops for in-depth discussion of student work. Each workshop is limited to eight participants. If you are accepted […]
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NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 Shortlists
The NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 shortlist, announced today, features a mixture of debut authors and well-known writers. Books by Tina Shaw, Riley Chance, Rebekah Ballagh, Mandy Hager, Stacy Gregg and James Russell are among the diverse titles nominated for the NZ Booklovers Awards, along with exciting new writers and outstanding debut books. With five categories […]
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The ASLA DANZ Children’s Book Award Announces its 2025 Longlists!
Twenty-nine books have made the longlist for the 2025 ASLA DANZ Children’s Book Awards, selected by over 110 children and teenagers from across Australia and New Zealand. The longlist came from an outstanding field of 135 books made up of Graphic Novels, NonFiction, Poetry, and Young Adult Novels celebrating diverse people and communities in a […]
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Writers & Publishers AI survey results – CLNZ 2025
This report summarises the data collected in the “Writers and Publishers AI Survey”. Throughout the report, all percentages are rounded to whole numbers. Key terms are in bold and defined in the footnotes. The survey was structured into three parts. Data collection Responses were collected via a weblink distributed through electronic direct mail and social […]
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New name for Sargeson Fellowship
6 February 2025 The Sargeson Trust is delighted to announce that the 38-year-old Sargeson Fellowship will from 2026 be known as the Ireland Wilson Sargeson Fellowships. For almost four decades, the Sargeson Fellowship has supported scores of Aotearoa New Zealand writers in the memory of distinguished author and generous mentor Frank Sargeson. Under the new […]
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Farewell to Brian Turner
NZSA member Brian Turner has died. …” A major New Zealand author, primarily as a poet of the Otago landscape but also as a sometimes intensely argumentative essayist with a very real loathing of forces and people wishing to destroy the Otago landscape, Turner died yesterday morning, at sunrise, after a heart attack.” Poet, environmentalist, […]
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Samesame But Different 2025 Festival Programme
The very first Samesame But Different festival in 2016 saw Peter Wells provide a space for LGBTQIA+ writers and readers to come together in a unique way. In 2025 we are celebrating the 10th SSBD festival! As we reflect on ten years of Samesame But Different, this festival is an opportunity to celebrate milestones, remember […]
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Entries for the 2025 Pikihuia Awards are now open
This year the Pikihuia Awards will celebrate 30 years of supporting and nurturing Māori writers. Held biennially, the Pikihuia Awards have welcomed short story submissions in both te reo Māori and English. Following the exciting new categories introduced in 2023, The Māori Literature Trust is proud to announce that we are again adjusting the genre […]
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HarperCollinsPublishers ANZ: Karen Ferns retires and Sandy Weir new NZ General Manager
Changes at HarperCollins From Jim Demetriou CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER HarperCollinsPublishers Australia & New Zealand It is with mixed emotions that I announce the retirement of our New Zealand General Manager, Karen Ferns. Karen’s extraordinary career in publishing began in the 1980s at Penguin, where she rose to the position of Marketing Director. She then […]
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2025 IPEd Student Prize shortlist announced
Four students from two Australian universities have made the shortlist for the 2025 Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) Student Prize. The shortlisted students are: Portia Abbott, a Master of Writing and Publishing student at RMIT University, for her essay “One book (doesn’t) fit all: Suggestions for more dyslexia-friendly print books”. Portia’s essay was an industry […]
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Fulbright-CNZ Pacific Writer’s Residency
Applications are now open for the 2025 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency. This award is for an established New Zealand writer of Pacific heritage to carry out work on a creative writing project exploring Pacific identity, culture or history at the University of Hawai‘i for three months. “During my stay in Hawai’i I gained […]
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