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NZHA 2021 Prize Winners
Following the Prize Giving session on Friday, the outgoing NZ Historical Association Executive are delighted to confirm the winners of the 2021 NZHA Prizes: The W.H. Oliver Prize for the Best Book on Any Aspect of New Zealand History Joint Winner: Bain Attwood, Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People (Cambridge University Press). Joint […]
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2021 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition Winners Announced
The 2021 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition winners have been announced by the NZSA Auckland Branch today, see below for all details. In announcing the winners for 2021, Graeme praised the high standard of writing from the top ten shortlisted stories, “I found it extremely difficult to select a winner, and only after several re-readings […]
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2022 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellows announced
New Zealand poets Dr Anna Jackson and Nathan Joe have been awarded the prestigious 2022 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. Now in its 35th year, the fellowship is a national literary award offering published New Zealand writers the opportunity to focus on their craft full-time. It provides an annual stipend of $20,000 and a eight-month tenure at […]
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Allen & Unwin New Zealand announces a major new commercial fiction writing prize!
Could you be the next Jodi Picoult, Rose Carlyle or Jacqueline Bublitz? Is there a manuscript in your bottom drawer just waiting to be finished? Have you got a burning idea for a bestselling novel? We are delighted to announce the inaugural annual Allen & Unwin New Zealand Commerical Fiction Prize. The winner will be […]
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WORD wraps up for 2021… but wait there’s more
After another tumultuous year, WORD Christchurch Festival wrapped up. You can read reports from nearly all events by the Christchurch Libraries team, who live-blogged throughout, and a run-down of the Foundation Pop-Up Festival on Flat City Field Notes. Best of all, the complete range of sessions in The Piano and the Town Hall are now available […]
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Verb Readers & Writers Festival Programmer 2022 vacancy
Festival Programmer? Verb is looking for a passionate reader with a hankering to formulate conversations and experiences for our Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022. You’ll be working with a wider team of Festival makers to create approximately 55 events that tell a story of the vibrant literary community of which we are a part. […]
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Crystal Arts Trust Master of Creative Writing Prize
The Crystal Arts Trust Master of Creative Writing Prize is a $10,000 Prize for the MCW student who has completed the highest-quality manuscript most likely to succeed commercially. Please join us and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Professor Robert Greenberg and Director of the Master of Creative Writing, Dr Paula Morris for the […]
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Winner of Kathleen Grattan Prize Sequence announced – IWW
Robyn Maree Pickens has been announced today as the 2021 winner of the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems, in an online ceremony.The annual competition is organised by Auckland based writing group, International Writers Workshop (also known as IWW.)Robyn Maree Pickens has won the $1,000 prize for her sequence of poems, entitled ‘Juniper.’ Ōtepoti […]
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All in for Arts He waka toi e eke noa nei tātou 2022
Update: We’re moving to 1-31 March, 2022! The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi and Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa – with the support of Chartwell Trust and the Lion Foundation – are heading on a road trip, shining a spotlight on creativity in a town near you. After kicking off our inaugural regional tour in […]
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Edmeades’ first Landfall is full of treasures and announcements
Landfall 242 is the first edition from new editor Lynley Edmeades, who is the author of two poetry collections and teaches poetry and creative writing on the English programme at the University of Otago. ‘I was really impressed with the overall quality of the submissions,’ she says. ‘I’m excited to be at the receiving end […]
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Historian Dr Ben Schrader announced as 2022 JD Stout Fellow
History scholar Dr Ben Schrader is taking up the JD Stout Fellowship at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington to investigate what we protect through conservation and why. “Cultural heritage helps to fabricate collective social identities,” says Dr Schrader. “I am interested in exploring what motivated people to conserve particular buildings and places in the […]
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Jane Ussher’s ‘Nature – Stilled’ judged NZ’s best designed book
Covid 19 restrictions disrupted this year’s PANZ Book Design Awards, but the nation’s most beautiful books were still celebrated, albeit via a virtual ceremony. Publishers, authors, editors and, most importantly, designers, gathered together online this evening to laud this year’s crop of standout titles. The big winner on the night was Nature – Stilled by Jane Ussher […]
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