• Seven Days Walking – Going West poets offer provocations

    Posted on 1 December 2022

    We love bringing you innovative ways to connect with New Zealand authors. Which is why we are delighted to be partnering with the Urban Walking Festival to extend their delightful project Seven Days of Walking: writing to inspire walking delivered to your phone by text message. We teamed up with UWF to add new commissions […]

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  • Noelle McCarthy named as 2023 International Institute of Modern Letters Writer in Residence

    Posted on 1 December 2022

    Bestselling memoirist and well-known radio broadcaster Noelle McCarthy has been appointed as the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence for 2023. Ms McCarthy’s first book, the memoir Grand, was published this year and has been a breakout success with readers and critics […]

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  • Legendary Author Joy Cowley Draws Thousands of Spellbound Young Kiwis to Special Online Event

    Posted on 1 December 2022

    Wellington,1 December 2022 More than 4,000 young Kiwi booklovers in schools and libraries across the country attended a very special online event yesterday, where legendary author Joy Cowley read from her classic tale The Tiny Woman’s Coat (illustrated by Giselle Clarkson from Gecko Press) and answered questions about her love of reading, writing, and penning […]

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  • NZSA Mentor Programme 2023 – open for applications

    Posted on 1 December 2022

    For Writers! Apply now to be mentored by an established writer, poet, playwright. The NZ Society of Authors Mentor programme 2023 seeks applications from writers looking for professional development, a safe space to discuss their work, intellectual community, role models, accountability and substantive feedback. The NZSA Mentor Programme is designed to give beginning or emerging writers who demonstrate potential […]

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  • Announcing the winners of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement

    Posted on 1 December 2022

    Pictured from left: James Norcliffe, Stephanie Johnson, Vincent O’Malley Announcing the winners of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement Spanning an impressive range of genres, the work of the three recipients of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement represents some of the very best in New Zealand literature. Fiction writer Stephanie […]

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  • The Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2023 – ENTRIES NOW OPEN

    Posted on 28 November 2022

    The Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2023 – ENTRIES NOW OPEN Open to residents of Australia and New Zealand, the prize is for short stories up to 3,000 words having an island, or island-resonant, theme. The competition is run by Forty South Publishing, the largest book publisher in Tasmania and publisher of Forty South Tasmania magazine. Judges for the […]

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  • A winning way with words. The 2022 Sunday Star-Times short story awards are announced

    Posted on 28 November 2022

    A winning way with words – The 2022 Sunday Star-Times short story awards are announced A tale of two of life’s casualties in a portrait that is wistful and poignant has scooped the top prize at this year’s Sunday Star-Times short story awards. Wellingtonian Bernard Steeds won the open category, with his entry Home. This year’s […]

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  • Tina Makereti wins 2022 Landfall Essay Competition

    Posted on 23 November 2022

    Otago University Press: Tina Makereti has been announced as the winner of the 2022 Landfall Essay Competition with her striking essay about her journey surviving breast cancer. Lumpectomy is an exploration of the body and its boundaries. In writing that is both poised and honest, Tina shares what surprised her about cancer and what she […]

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  • Coalition for Books & KETE – Summer Reading Guide

    Posted on 23 November 2022

    The Coalition for Books is delighted to partner with Booksellers New Zealand to produce the Summer Reading Guide 2022.  For the first time, a lift-out NZ section features all of the best pukapuka leading into Christmas, and as with previous Coalition campaigns, this section will be distributed via the Listener at the end of this […]

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  • The recipients of the 2022 Contestable Fund Grants – $73,000 granted

    Posted on 22 November 2022

    CLNZ is excited to announce the successful recipients in this year’s round of Contestable Fund Grants. Applications were invited for projects that had clearly defined and measurable outcomes that align with the Cultural Fund’s objectives. There were a total of 38 applications received, covering a wide range of topics and subjects, with funding contributions made […]

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  • Auckland Poet Margaret Moores wins $1000 Poetry Prize

    Posted on 22 November 2022

    Auckland poet Margaret Moores, is the winner of The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems in 2022 and Lincoln Jaques, also of Auckland, is runner-up. This prestigious prize, enabled by a bequest from the Jocelyn Grattan Charitable Trust, has been organised by International Writers’ Workshop NZ Inc (IWW) since 2009, and over the […]

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  • Nominees 2022 RSF Prize

    Posted on 21 November 2022

    Here is the list of nominees for the 2022 RSF Prize. Fifteen journalists and media outlets from all over the world have been shortlisted for their outstanding and essential work in support of the freedom to inform. Here are the exceptional histories on their website. This year is the 30th edition of this prize. Thirty years […]

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