• Four cash grants awarded to support local writers 

    The 2022 Copyright Licensing New Zealand and New Zealand Society of Authors  Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Research Grants have been awarded to four writers in Aotearoa. The $5,000 grants support local writers who wish to undertake research for a fiction or non-fiction writing project.  The selection panel, Deborah Challinor, David Eggleton and […]

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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2023 Writers in Residence Programme

    The Michael King Writers Centre is pleased to announce that next year’s programme of residencies at the historic Signalman’s House on Takarunga Mt Victoria in Devonport, Auckland, is now open for applications. Writers awarded a residency can look forward to peaceful accommodation, the use of a writing studio, a supporting stipend and the opportunity to […]

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  • Chris Tse is New Zealand’s next poet laureate

    When queer Asian-Kiwi writer Chris Tse started reading and writing poetry at the age of 16, he felt he’d finally found something he could pursue. “Poetry has always been this constant. It’s the thing I reach for, for comfort and connection, it’s helped me make wonderful friendships and relationships with people. It’s been a significant part of […]

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  • Tsunami poem wins National Schools Poetry Award 2022

    26 August 2022 Joshua Toumu’a, a Year 12 student from Wellington High School, has won the 2022 International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award with a poem that creates a vivid snapshot of the aftermath of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai eruption and the ensuing tsunami. Joshua, who is of Tongan, Papua New Guinean, […]

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  • Brown Ink – Script Development

    Playmarket’s Brown Ink development programme is looking for Māori and Pasifika writers with the best new and original work.   The programme offers playwrights a development workshop with a professional script advisor and actors dedicated to helping you develop your play. Plays selected for development for Brown Ink that have gone to professional productions include Still […]

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  • Book launch: Jumping Sundays by Nick Bollinger

    Join Auckland University Press and Unity Books to celebrate Nick Bollinger’s latest book – Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Auckland launch is part of the Auckland Writers Festival and is also the book’s official launch day – this Thursday 25 August. The event starts at 5pm […]

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  • Keri Hulme’s generous koha for Māori writers

    The original manuscript of the bone people, by legendary author Keri Hulme (Kāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe), will be auctioned at Dunbar Sloane on the 11th of August, this year. Keri Hulme was the first New Zealander to win the prestigious Booker Prize in 1985. She was also the first writer to win the Booker Prize, […]

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  • NZ Author Magazine – Spring 2022 – Read the latest issue of our quarterly magazine!

    NZ Author – Spring 2022 – Issue 330 is out! In this edition we chat to Emma Sidnam, winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, for her novel Backwaters; as well as Paula Browning as she reflects about her time at CLNZ. And we’re still on the road with our Regional Roadshow for local writers! […]

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  • Join the CNZ webinar exploring how Asian NZ audiences engage in the arts

    On Tuesday 6 September 2022, 9am-10.30am, Creative New Zealand will be hosting a live Q+A webinar exploring how Asian New Zealand audiences engage in the arts, and the market for Asian arts in Aotearoa New Zealand. You’re invite you to attend the online event on 6 September and to share the invitation with anyone you […]

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  • WORD Christchurch Masterclasses and Workshops

    From investigative journalism, poetry, editing, “imaginative risk”, personal essays, memoir, character and setting, to DIY badge and zine making – WORD Christchurch Festival 31 August – 4 September have you covered with an amazing suite of masterclasses and workshops. Learn from some of the best practitioners! Full Programme HERE WORD is hosting live and conversations […]

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  • Farewell Jann Medlicott

    We farewell Jann Medlicott, who passed away at her home on Friday. She had been bravely fighting cancer for several years. Jann is the generous donor of the Acorn Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Jann was cremated in a private service on Saturday. Read this tribute from writers and the Book […]

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  • Doug Preston, President of the Authors Guild writes about the case against Internet Archive and what it means for authors – The Bookseller

    In 2006, Internet Archive began a programme of scanning copyrighted books en masse and distributing digital copies over the internet to anyone who wanted them, anywhere in the world, without the permission of authors or publishers, and without paying a dime. Today, Internet Archive distributes free copies of about three million works in their entirety […]

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