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CNZ IIML Writer in Residence 2025 – open for applications
Writer in Residence The Writer in Residence is an annual appointment to foster New Zealand writing, with support from Creative New Zealand. Applications are now open for the 2025 position, with a deadline of 30 September 2024. This is a full-year residency. About the residency The Writer in Residence appointment is jointly funded by Te […]
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Call for judges of the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
June 7th 2024 It may be one of the most rewarding reading jobs in the country: judging Aotearoa’s annual national book awards. Now, potential candidates for the role are being asked to put their hands up as the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards open the call for expressions of interest in being one of […]
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Raise the Roof for Randell Cottage: Live Letters
Media release June 7, 2024 Letters read live in support of historic writer’s cottage The lost art of letter writing and reading will be reignited at Live Letters, a special fundraising event on July 15. Raise the Roof for Randell Cottage: Live Letters brings together an eclectic group of literary luminaries to read aloud poignant, […]
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National Flash Fiction shortlists 2024
The 2024 NFFD Short List! Readers can find the NFFD Short List on our site today. NFFD invites everyone to attend an event near you on June 22 and come hear the best small stories in Aotearoa! All info about this competition is posted at the NFFD site, here. The youth lists are announced and […]
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Local New Zealand publisher Exisle Publishing launches the international Children’s Publishing Academy with a writing competition
Dunedin-based book publisher Exisle Publishing has launched an international Children’s Publishing Academy aimed at supporting budding children’s book authors. The Children’s Publishing Academy provides a forum where authors can have the opportunity to learn from a leading children’s publishing professional as well as from other published authors. ‘Breaking through as a children’s author is […]
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BIG NAMES FEATURE ON NATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD SHORTLIST
For immediate release, Thursday 6 June 2024 Books that will delight and inform – from big names such as Joy Cowley, Gavin Bishop, Stacy Gregg, Tessa Duder and Donovan Bixley as well as talented newcomers – have been announced today as finalists in the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. The […]
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SLANZA: Building on Structured Literacy: We Need to Fund School Libraries
Media Release 30 May 2024 The School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (SLANZA) is concerned by the absence of funding in today’s budget announcement for essential school library resources to address the falling literacy rates in Aotearoa New Zealand. “Whilst we applaud the allocation of funds to structured literacy programmes, we are concerned that […]
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$25,000 CLNZ NZSA Writers’ Award 2024 OPENS
The CLNZ | NZSA Writers’ Award of $25,000 is one of the highest value 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 […]
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The five regional winners of the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The Commonwealth Foundation is delighted to announce the five regional winners of the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize: Reena Usha Rungoo (Mauritius) for the Africa region Sanjana Thakur (India) for the Asia region Julie Bouchard (Canada) for the Canada and Europe region (translated from French into English by Arielle Aaronson) Portia Subran (Trinidad and Tobago) for […]
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Allen & Unwin NZ announces Children’s List and new Publishing Director
Allen & Unwin New Zealand is delighted to announce the newly created role of Publisher at Large for Jenny Hellen who is handing over her role as Publishing Director to Michelle Hurley. Jenny will continue to publish some of her bestselling authors such as Chelsea Winter, Ruth Shaw, Lotta Dann and Doug Gold and will […]
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Have you published a Māori book between Matariki 2023 and Matariki 2024?
If so, The Māori Literature Trust wants to hear from you! The MLT is compiling a list of Māori Books for an upcoming series, to celebrate the many Māori books that have been brought into te ao Mārama in the past year. Please note that this is not an award or competition, but an opportunity to […]
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Emma Hughes wins Landfall Young Writers Essay comp 2024
Emma Hughes has been announced as the 2024 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition winner for her moving essay, ‘Fourteen Robyns’. ‘Fourteen Robyns’ is a narrative essay about visiting a Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa clinic (formerly known as Family Planning) and witnessing the different lives that intersect in the emotionally charged space of the waiting room. […]
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