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Verb Readers & Writers Festival programme release
Spring has sprung and Verb’s celebrating with the release of their festival programme! It is packed full of inspiring conversations, radical possibilities, and great times with good people. You are all warmly invited to come along to the Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022 joint celebration launch on Tuesday 13 September. Join us for the […]
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Fetisov Journalism Awards 2022 – How to Enter
Entries to the competition must be submitted before October 1st, 2022 (23:59 UTC). The total prize fund is 520,000 CHF. Three winners in each category share a monetary prize of 130,000 CHF (including taxes, as stipulated by the legislation in force): The first prize winner receives 100,000 CHF and a unique silver statuette designed and handcrafted in Switzerland. […]
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CNZ Canterbury Uni – Residency in Creative Writing 2023
Job Title: Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence Location: Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand Closing date: Sunday, 25 September, 2022 Te Kaupeka Toi Tangata | Faculty of Arts Full-time at 37.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE) 6 or 12 month fixed-term opportunity Competitive salary of $72,000 (for 12 months, pro-rated for 6 months) What You Will Do […]
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Paula Morris MNZN – Announced as a 2022 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate
The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi welcomes seven new Laureates to our over 100-strong artist alumni. Established in 2000, the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate Awards celebrate and empower New Zealand’s most outstanding artists across a vast range of disciplines. Each Laureate is recognised for their outstanding practice as well as their significant impact, and […]
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Record 7000 Children Join Reading Initiative as Schools Fight Literacy Decline
Wellington, 1 September 2022 New Zealand’s most loved children’s authors and illustrators are being live-streamed to hundreds of classrooms around the country as a free reading initiative designed to combat declining literacy rates and spark a lifelong love of reading takes off. More than 7000 children in over 230 classrooms and libraries around the country […]
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National online talanoa Sept 14 – Oct 05
The Coalition for Books wants to support more tagata Moana writers into publishing and are eager to learn more about their journey to getting started. With support from Creative New Zealand, the Coalition for Books will devise a national strategy for Moana creatives trying to break into the industry. It’s holding a month-long online […]
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Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced
29 August 2022 Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category are: Adult crime novel Once There Were Wolves (Charlotte McConaghy, Hamish Hamilton) Highly commended Unforgiven (Sarah Barrie, HQ Fiction) Young adult crime novel The Gaps (Leanne Hall, Text) […]
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THE AUSTRALIAN CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION- 2022 NED KELLY AWARDS
2022 Winners THE AUSTRALIAN CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS OF THE 2022 NED KELLY AWARDS. The Australian Crime Writers Association received 135 entries for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards, in another strong year of crime writing. The entries were narrowed to a shortlist of 19 books, across the four award categories: […]
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PRESENTING THE CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNERS – 2022
Congratulations to all CBCA Winning and Honours Authors, Illustrators and Publishers for 2022 Download the Winners – 2022 in PDF Watch the special 2022 Book of the Year announcement on YouTube THE BOOK OF THE YEAR: OLDER READERS Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers in […]
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Shadbolt House: A New Writer’s Residency
The house once owned by the writer Maurice Shadbolt has taken a giant step towards becoming a writer’s residency, under the management of Going West, the longest-running literary festival in Aotearoa. Auckland Council voted unanimously on August 25 to transfer the Titirangi house once owned by writer Maurice Shadbolt to the Going West Trust. Auckland […]
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Cash for Screenwriters
Here’s a two great development funding opportunities for screenwriters! NZ Writers Guild is proud to say that we now administer development funding for screenwriters-only in both feature film and series development, they are: Seed and Seed Advanced for screenwriters looking to write a first draft of a feature film screenplay Seed = $7,500 + $2500 […]
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Ngaio Marsh 2022 Finalists announced
Congratulations to these NZ writers shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Awards, announced this week.
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