• CLNZ NZSA Research Grants 2023 OPEN

    Posted on 11 May 2023

    Applications open for cash grants to support NZ writers Applications are now open for the CLNZ | NZSA Research Grants to help you research for your fiction or non-fiction writing project. Kua tuwhera ināianei ngā tono mō ngā Karāti Rangahau o te CLNZ | NZSA hei āwhina atu māu e rangahau tō hinonga, tō kōrero paki, […]

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  • 2022 Australian Shadows Awards finalists announced!

    Posted on 9 May 2023

    The judges have read everything with great criticism, arguments were had, fights broke out and bodies were buried in shallow graves… *touches earpiece* Errr, okay. I’m being told none of that happened. In fact, all the judges did an amazing job and our huge thanks go out to them. And now, the AHWA is very […]

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  • 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize Shortlist Announced

    Posted on 5 May 2023

    Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel. Five excellent manuscripts by New Zealand writers have been shortlisted for this year’s prize: How to Stop a River by G. M. […]

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  • Kete and Storylines spotlight New Zealand junior and young adult fiction with new bestseller list

    Posted on 4 May 2023

    Kete Books and Storylines have launched a new monthly bestseller list to help showcase and promote the excellent junior and young adult fiction books written and published in Aotearoa New Zealand. View the Aotearoa Children’s Junior Fiction and Young Adult Bestseller List, sponsored by Storylines. Created with data collected by Nielsen BookScan, the new list focuses on […]

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  • The Michael King Writers Centre announces recipients of International Exchange with Australia

    Posted on 3 May 2023

    3 May 2023 New Zealand writer Emma Hislop and Australian writer Fiona Kelly McGregor have been announced as the recipients of the 2023 New Zealand-Australia residency exchange, an international residency programme held by Varuna, the Australian National Writers House in collaboration with the Michael King Writers Centre in Auckland. The four-week residency exchange will take […]

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  • On World Press Freedom Day, PEN International mobilizes in support of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai

    Posted on 3 May 2023

    PEN INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 03 May 2023 (London, UK) –To mark the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day (3 May 2023), PEN International, the literary and free expression organisation, mobilizes its Centres in support of imprisoned journalist, media publisher, activist and writer, Jimmy Lai, who is currently facing a potential life sentence for his […]

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  • Mātātuhi Foundation increase in grants

    Posted on 2 May 2023

      Mātātuhi Foundation’s 10th funding round will be accompanied by a substantial increase in grant amounts. In the upcoming rounds in May and October, applicants can now apply for between $5,000 and $20,000 in funding for a literary project. In previous years, the maximum was $5,000. Since its launch in 2018, the Foundation has funded close […]

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  • 2023 PANZ Book Design Awards entries open

    Posted on 2 May 2023

    The PANZ Book Design Awards were established to promote excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best book design in Aotearoa New Zealand. Entries are judged in nine categories, the Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book, Upstart Press Award for Best Non-illustrated Book, Allen & Unwin Award for Best Commercial Book […]

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  • The New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition 2023

    Posted on 2 May 2023

    Only 31 days to go until our competition closes!! We’ve had entries from the United States, the UK, India, France, Australia and New Zealand. Don’t leave it to the last minute. Enter now. Below you will find links to get your entry form and details on how to enter. The 2023 New Zealand Poetry Society International […]

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  • Freedom to Write Index 2022

    Posted on 28 April 2023

    Introduction In May of 2022, at the PEN America emergency writers congress, Salman Rushdie spoke about global threats to human rights and democracy, including Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine, and said: “It has been said, I have said it myself, that the powerful may own the present but writers own the future, for it is […]

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  • Book launch – Palmerston North

    Posted on 27 April 2023

    “The Democracy Game” will be launched in the Palmerston North Pubic Library on May 11th 5:30pm.

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  • Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Adam NZ Play Awards

    Posted on 17 April 2023

    The 2023 Adam NZ Play Awards, recognise the best in new unproduced writing for the Aotearoa theatre. Albert Belz – ADAM NZ PLAY AWARD WINNER and Best Play by a Māori Playwright – for Supernova. Keagan Carr Fransch – RUNNER UP and Best Play by a Woman Playwright – for Mitochondrial Eve Viki Moananu – […]

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