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WE CAN BUILD A NEW UTOPIA – Arts Regional Trust
Arts Regional Trust WE CAN BUILD A NEW UTOPIA. The Arts Regional Trust commissioned Rosabel Tan to speak with leading “architects of imagination” about how they’re reimagining Aotearoa’s post-Covid ngā toi arts and culture sector. It’s a confronting and radical conversation. Read here:
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First Pages Prize open for applications
The First Pages Prize supports emerging writers worldwide. To date, we’ve awarded US$18,000 in prize packages to 19 past winners. In 2020, NZ author Pip McKay won with the opening of her historical fiction, The Telling Time. We welcome entries of the first 5 pages of a longer work of fiction or creative nonfiction. […]
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Youth, Diversity and Vitality Reflected in Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist
Books that explore issues of identity, domestic life, war, food, our natural world and our people are among the 40 works of poetry, prose and non-fiction longlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards announced today. The works, selected from 179 entries, range from intimate to global in scale and traverse cultural, historic, artistic […]
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Three Authors’ Associations Address Status of Audible.com Talks
A coalition of author organizations in the US and UK calls for more transparency from Audible to give authors ‘a true picture of how their income is being calculated.’ By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘We Will Continue Our Dialogue’ As we reported in late November, Audible‘s initial response to what writers called #Audiblegate was soundly rejected as inadequate […]
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Tautai Oceania Internships Programme 2021 – applications open for interns and hosts
Tautai Oceania Internships Programme 2021 After suspending Internships for 2020 due to COVID-19 Tautai are delighted to announce that the Tautai Oceania Internships Programme has re-launched for 2021! Applications are open from 25th January – 19th March 2021. Tautai is thrilled to open applications for the Tautai Oceania Internships Programme 2021. The Programme […]
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Congrats to SST 2020 short story competition winner, Kirsten McDougall
2020 Sunday Star Times short story competition Congratulations to Kirsten McDougall whose entry Walking Day has taken out top honours and a $5000 prize in the open category of the Sunday Star-Times short story competition for 2020. Read the Story here on STUFF
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Vale: Derek Challis (1930-2021) BY Michelle Leggott on NEWSROOM
Derek Challis, son of the legendary author Robin Hyde, died last Thursday. Michelle Leggott pays tribute He opens a suitcase and there they are, the precious manuscript notebooks written by his poet mother Iris Wilkinson aka Robin Hyde. We are in Dunedin for a Hyde conference. Yes, says Derek Arden Challis, I put them in […]
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Kiwi Kids Read Kiwi Books
An online bookstore, Kiwi Kids Read Kiwi Books, has been launched to link New Zealand authors and illustrators creating books for children and teens with book buyers and young readers around the country. The brainchild of Wanaka author Kate Gordon, the bookstore went live mid-November with eight founding authors who have written an array of […]
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AWP Writing Competitions in the USA – open to all – Feb deadlines
Writing Opportunities in the US – open to all AWP Award Series – Association for Writers and Writers Programmes AWP sponsors the Award Series, an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works. The competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence and is available to published […]
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Michalia Arathimos is the New Writer in Residence for Waikato University 2021
The University of Waikato is set to welcome Michalia Arathimos as the Writer in Residence for 2021. She will start in her new role after Easter and her residency project will be her third novel, Sojourn, which is set in the Waikato. This position is jointly funded by the University of Waikato and Creative New […]
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PEN AMERICA: FAQs on free speech and the Capitol Hill insurrection
Last week’s lawless insurrection on Capitol Hill raised a series of questions about free speech, the First Amendment, and protest rights. Should presidents be banned from Twitter and Facebook? Should tech companies refuse to host social networks sites like Parler? What defines “hate speech” and “incitement”? This statement was originally published on pen.org on 11 January […]
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