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2024 Australasian Shadows Awards Winners
The winning entries in the 2024 Australasian Shadows Awards have been announced! Congratulations to the winners and to everyone who made the shortlists. The winners were announced at the awards ceremony at Conflux 19, held recently in Canberra. Short Fiction Winner: “Archive of the Dead” by Pamela Jeffs (SNAFU: AI Insurrection, Cohesion Press) Shortlist: […]
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Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2025 – winners announced
The winners of the 2025 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize have been announced. The competition is now in its fifteenth year, and this year attracted 150 poems from New Zealand, the USA and Germany. This year’s competition was judged by poet Robert Sullivan. This year’s winner is Helen Williford-Lower from Te Matau-a-Māui (Hawkes Bay) for […]
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The 2025 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition Shortlist
SHORT LIST An adaptable man by Hayden Pyke A Cigarette at Taurua Stream by Anna Scaife Double Helix by Elizabeth Kelsey Father figures by Jemma Richardson Inside by Tim Saunders Janus-faced Survival Mode by Sharni Wilson Meatless by Shelley Burne-Field Minotaur by Lee Hana One Week to Live by Michael Botur On the Couch by […]
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Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ Fiction Prize
The Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ Fiction Prize has been created to support New Zealand writers and to give our readers fantastic, home-grown stories that resonate. The winner will be awarded a publishing contract with an advance against royalties of $NZD 10,000. The competition will be open to all unpublished full-length commercial fiction manuscripts between 70,000 […]
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NZSA member Anna Cleary wins Allen & Unwin NZ 2025 Fiction Prize
October 6, 2025 Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand is pleased to announce that the winner of our 2025 Fiction Prize is Tauranga writer, Anne Cleary. Her winning entry, Apple Man, is a hugely engaging psychological thriller about a young boy who goes missing while on a fishing trip with his father. We received more […]
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Anthropic Settlement: Updates
UPDATE NOVEMBER 1 NEW: Writers Beware Summary of Anthropic Settlement – What You Need to Know UPDATE OCTOBER 2: Bartz v. Anthropic PBC is a class action lawsuit under the Copyright Act brought by authors on behalf of copyright holders against Anthropic PBC, an AI company. The Class of copyright holders — consisting of authors and publishers […]
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The Commonwealth Short Story Prize opens for entries
The prize is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country aged 18 and over. Submissions should be made via the online entry form, which is available via the link above. The eligibility requirements and entry rules can be found here. Writers have until 11.59pm GMT on 1 November 2025 to enter […]
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Winners of The Surrey Hotel Writers Residency Announced
Ōtaki writer Joanna Cho has won the $3000 first prize in the 2025 Surrey Hotel writer residency award, announced live on air just before 2pm today by Jesse Mulligan on his RNZ Afternoons show. And Lord of the Rings actor Bruce Hopkins, who captured the public imagination these past few weeks of the contest when […]
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University Bookshop Summer Writer in Residence
In association with Robert Lord Writers Cottage and City of Literature Dunedin, New Zealand @dunedincityoflit, this residency is open to emerging writers who are normally resident in New Zealand and write for adults, young adults or children. They may write in any genre including poetry, drama, fiction, narrative non-fiction, graphic novels, biography, autobiography, essays or literary criticism. This six […]
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Call for judges of the 2026 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
The organisers of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are calling for expressions of interest from members and followers of the children’s literature community who are keen to be considered as judges of the 2026 awards. Awards are presented in six categories: Picture Book, Junior Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Non-Fiction, Illustration […]
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Skills in the Creative Sector & Te Pūaotanga – The New Dawn
Time to back the creative sector The launch of two significant reports about the creative/creative tech sector earlier this month highlighted its importance to New Zealand’s fortunes. Skills in the creative sector by well-known economist Shamubeel Equab revealed New Zealand’s creative sector is having a much bigger impact on the country’s economy than commonly perceived but […]
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KUPU Māori Writers Festival Programme
EPIC LINE-UP OF MĀORI STORYTELLERS WILL CONVERGE ON ROTORUA FOR FOURTH KUPU MĀORI WRITERS FESTIVAL Next month, KUPU Māori Writers Festival will bring acclaimed authors and exciting new talent from across the motu to Rotorua on 17–18 October. The festival will be closely followed by the Pikihuia Awards, held at Te Puia on Sunday 19 […]
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