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Inaugural winners of writers’ residency over winter in Maniototo announced
The joint-first recipient of a new writers’ residency is ‘looking forward to swapping the wet maritime climate of Aotea Great Barrier Island for the continental cold of a Maniototo winter’. The island’s Tim Higham will share the residency with Dunedin’s Rhian Gallagher. The two have six-weeks apiece from July to September to work on their […]
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: A new volume of micro fictions celebrating languages of Aotearoa!
National Flash Fiction Day celebrates 10 years: 2012-2022. This year we will publish an anthology of microfictions with the theme ‘Languages of Aotearoa’. This is an open call for submissions for all citizens and residents of Aotearoa New Zealand. We are looking for work from writers with bilingual and multilingual origins/ experiences. The book will […]
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$25,000 CLNZ NZSA Writers’ Award OPENS – call for applications!
The CLNZ | NZSA Writers’ Award of $25,000 is one of the highest 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 Kaituhi te […]
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NZSA Heritage Book Awards 2022 – applications open 1 June to 1 Aug 2022
Applications are open for the NZSA Heritage Book Awards 2022 The NZSA Heritage Book Awards are proudly bought to you by the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (NZSA) and celebrate New Zealand writers who have published work in the previous year to the opening date of the awards. First established […]
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Four talented secondary school students awarded NZSA Youth Mentorships in 2022
Four talented secondary school students awarded mentorships with professional writers as part of NZ Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Youth Mentorship Programme These young writers will hone their writing skills and develop their craft through the year as part of this programme and we congratulate them on their success. […]
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New Zealand’s National Writer-Residency Organisation Announces the Recipient Of The Inaugural 2022 International Residency with Australia
The Michael King Writers Centre in association with Varuna, The National Writers’ House in Katoomba, NSW, Australia is pleased to announce Gina Cole as the recipient of this new residency for New Zealand writers. Gina will receive return flights to Sydney, four weeks accommodation and meals at Varuna, a NZ$5,000 stipend and the opportunity to […]
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NZ Author Magazine – Winter 2022
NZ Author – Winter 2022 – Issue 329 is out! This edition has everything. We say goodbye to our three-year strong President Mandy Hager; we welcome Helena Andrews to the role of Youth Representative on the NZSA National Board; we celebrate NZSA Writer Toolkit, our live and interactive Webworkshops, Māori writers at Kupu 22 Māori […]
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Kiwi Writer Makes Literary History
In a world first, Tauranga author, Lee Murray, doubled her Bram Stoker Award® achievements of last year, receiving a further two prestigious literary awards at a gala event hosted by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) at the Curtis Hotel in Denver, USA on 14 May. Named for the author of the seminal horror novel Dracula, […]
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Aotearoa loves micros! Call for submission
A new volume of micro fictions celebrating languages of Aotearoa! National Flash Fiction Day celebrates 10 years: 2012-2022. This year we will publish an anthology of microfictions with the theme ‘Languages of Aotearoa’. We are looking for work from writers with bilingual and multilingual origins/ experiences. The book will include two kinds of micros and […]
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Books Create Australia & Election results
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) congratulates the Labor party on its election to government, and is looking forward to working with the new Arts Minister to develop a strategic approach to literature, the book industry, and reading, as part of a broader national cultural policy. ASA CEO, Olivia Lanchester, said, ‘We offer our congratulations […]
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2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Regional Winners
We are pleased to announce this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize regional winners! The 2022 overall winner will be announced in an online ceremony at 1pm, Tuesday 21 June, and at a special event as part of the Commonwealth People’s Forum in Kigali, Rwanda. Africa ‘and the earth drank deep’ Ntsika Kota (Eswatini) Asia ‘The […]
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Writer’s residence in French Polynesia
Calling writers from Oceania – two months immersion in literary creation in the fenua. Time and resources in support of a writer from the Pacific. The Publishers’ Association of Tahiti and its islands, AETI (Association des éditeurs de Tahiti et des îles), has been working for 20 years to develop reading and the book trade […]
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