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Perfect Online Pitch – Publishers are Live
The NZSA opens Perfect Online Pitch for the second year! Searching for a publisher for your completed manuscript? Sign up for Perfect Online Pitch between 3pm Monday 5 August to midnight Wednesday 7 August. This is your opportunity to pitch your (polished) manuscript to a leading New Zealand publisher and, if successful, to submit your […]
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NZSA Announces Dunedin Regional Roadshow
Ōtepoti | Dunedin Regional Roadshow 9AM – 4:15PM, SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2024, DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY, 30 THE OCTAGON, DUNEDIN What’s on: Welcome and Opening Kōrero with Barbara Else MNZM and Emma Neale Workshops: Taking the Past out of the Archive with Cristina Sanders; Words of Art with Lynley Edmeades; Sensing the Edit with Tracey Slaughter; Creating Suspense with Vanda […]
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The most beautifully designed books in Aotearoa -2024 PANZ Book Design Awards
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) established the awards to promote excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best book design in Aotearoa New Zealand. This year’s judges, Anna Brown (convenor), Massey University, Te Kani Price, Huia Publishers, Simon Waterfield, Lift Education, and Chloe Blades, Unity Books, faced the daunting […]
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Protect and manage your intellectual property with MyCreativeRights Catalogue
Catalogue is a secure cloud-based creative rights management system where you can safely document, organise, and store records of creative works, legal agreements and other supporting documents in one safe location. In today’s world of generative AI tools, some of which use writer’s material without their permission, it has become more important than ever to […]
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Kiwi readers vote for record number of new books in annual Whitcoulls Top 100 List
MEDIA RELEASE Under strict embargo until Monday, July 22, 2024, 5:00am The 2024 Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List has changed by an astonishing 42 percent the bookseller reveals, as they announce their 2024 Top 100 Books List today Whitcoulls Book Manager Joan Mackenzie attributes this to a collective surge of enthusiasm for writers who are […]
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Mātātuhi Foundation announces new funding pool
Mātātuhi Foundation is excited to announce that grant applicants can now apply for up to $20,000 in funding in our October funding round, which closes on 31 October 2024. In previous years, the maximum grant per project was $5,000. To mark our 12th funding round, the Mātātuhi Foundation has released a revised set of funding criteria to […]
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Launch of audiobooks platform in NZ offers significant opportunities for local bookstores and publishers
Global audiobooks platform Libro.fm has launched in New Zealand and is set to be a major disruptor in an industry that is seeing year-on-year double digit growth. The Seattle-based social purpose corporation is the only audiobook e-tailer in the world that directly supports local bookstores, with consumers given an option to select a local […]
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NZSA CompleteMS 2024 results -new stories by talented writers win NZSA manuscript assessments
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc announce the writers who will receive manuscript guidance through this year’s CompleteMS programme. Powerful manuscripts crafted by thirteen accomplished writers, have been chosen to take part in this year’s programme. Writers spend months polishing their stories for entry into this competitive […]
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2024 Te Tauihu Short Story Awards results – congratulations to finalists and winners
2024 Te Tauihu Short Story Awards results Te reo Māori category: FIRST PRIZE: Ko te Haerenga by Atakohu Middleton HIGHLY COMMENDED: Ko te rā tū tēnei by Hāmihi Duncan HIGHLY COMMENDED: Te hapori karawēne by Dr Darryn Joseph Judge Vaughan Rapatahana said: “I think that, without any doubt, our first prize winner is Ko te […]
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This Way Lies Madness – anthology call for submissions
In the tradition of Poe’s ‘A Tell-tale Heart’ and Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, This Way Lies Madness (publishing September 2025) will bring together a twisted tangle of dark stories featuring monstrous manifestations of trauma and guilt, paranoia and persecution, anxiety, addiction, and crippling terror. In these pages, readers should expect to find madness in all its forms, […]
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Call for nominations for Ngā Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi Awards 2024
Nominate Now! Tuku tono mai! Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa is calling for public nominations to honor outstanding toi Māori artists at the Ngā Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi Awards 2024. Recognise the contributions of Māori artists in our communities. Three award categories are open for nomination, each with a $10,000 prize: Ngā Tohu […]
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Poisons, pandemic, and a pregnant detective: 2024 Ngaio Marsh Award longlist revealed
A neurodivergent expert on toxic botanicals, a harrowing exploration of jury deliberations, a high-tech thriller from an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, a desperate mother searching for her son as lockdown kicks in, a gay sleuth in Renaissance Florence, and the return of a beloved fictional detective are among the diverse books named today on the longlist for […]
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