• 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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  • Te Hui Ahurei Reo Māori o Te Whanganui-a-Tara | The Māori Language Festival of Wellington

    Te Hui Ahurei Reo Māori o Te Whanganui-a-Tara, the Māori Language Festival of Wellington, is happening across Pōneke this September to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Māori language petition delivered to Parliament in September, 1972. With te reo Māori focused arts and events, many of the whānau-friendly experiences are either free, or you […]

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  • Chris Tse’s “Life-Changing Opportunity” As NZ’s Latest Poet Laureate

    26 Aug 2022  from THE BIG IDEA A big announcement on National Poetry Day – find out the reaction to the “glam-rock poetry superstar’s” appointment and the difference he plans to make. Chris Tse collects accolades at a phenomenal rate – it would be alarming if it wasn’t so impressive. His latest is one that […]

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  • Philip Matthews wins 2022 Reviewer of the Year award at Voyager Media Awards (again)

    WINNER: Philip Matthews | newsroom.co.nz JUDGES: Anthony Byrt & Gilbert Wong “In one of the reviews in his submission, Philip Matthews writes: “We’re living through a painful and fast-moving time.” His calm and astute assessments of Charlotte Grimshaw and C.K Stead’s books position each at a respective front in the culture wars. That is not novel but […]

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  • Hachette Aotearoa NZ announces the winner of the Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize for 2022

    Hachette Aotearoa NZ and the Margaret Mahy Estate are thrilled to announce Jessica Twohill as the winner of the Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize 2022. The judging panel said Twohill’s illustrations of Margaret Mahy’s iconic children’s book The Witch in the Cherry Tree were “thoughtful, full of humour and packed with detail.” The judging panel also loved the world building […]

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