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Dan Davin Literary Foundation Writer in Residence 2021 – Expressions of Interest
In 2021 the Dan Davin Literary Foundation is calling for expressions of interest from established New Zealand short story writers to undertake a Writer in Residence based in Invercargill for 3-6 weeks. This is a new residency which we host on a biennial basis and started in 2019. This residency has been made possible through […]
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Book Aid International’s Year of 2020: 867,567 Books sent to refugee camps in 19 Countries
HOME Read Publishing Perspectives here January 13, 2021 By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Solar lamps as well as hundreds of thousands of books were in play in 2020 as Book Aid International’s logistics team and donor-publishers got books to refugee camps as well as libraries. Eunice Eyi Dotse, a student in Ghana, studies with […]
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49th UK Costa Book Awards name category winners
The Costa program, named for its coffee-company sponsor, is among the Top 10 most influential prize programs in this market in which the awards organizations themselves compete with each other perhaps even more energetically than publishers and authors do. The winners’ announcements lag the year for which they’re awarded. And in addition to these […]
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Publisher’s Weekly 2020 Person of the Year: The Book Business Worker
Time to celebrate all those in the publishing chain who make it happen – from book warehouse workers to editors, booksellers, reviewers et al. Celebrating all those involved in the publishing ecosystem looks like a good way to start 2020. Read more here :https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/85158-pw-s-person-of-the-year-the-book-business-worker.html How the workers in the publishing ecosystem kept it all […]
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New Years Honours for NZ Literature 2020
New Year Honours: 2021 31 Dec, 2020 For full list see the NZ Herald The 2021 New Years Honours are out today. Here is the list of writers and literary sector figures honoured in this year’s awards. Many congratulations to all those who received recognition. ORDER OF NEW ZEALAND (ONZ) Distinguished Professor Dame Mary Anne […]
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LITERARY EXCELLENCE FROM AOTEAROA’S QUEER WRITERS SHOWCASED IN SIXTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL February 10-14, 2021
samesame but different LGBTQIA+ Literary Festival February 10-14, 2021 Aotearoa’s only LGBTQIA+ literary festival, samesame but different returns for its sixth year as part of the Auckland Pride Festival, with an entirely free programme for the first time ever! In 2021, the festival will be a year of firsts. Thanks to Proud Centres, the main […]
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Genre-defying work wins 2020 Adam Foundation Prize
17 December 2020 A genre-defying work that examiners describe as being “of great significance” has been awarded the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) 2020 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi, Tsawout First Nation, Coast Salish) is a takatāpui multimedia artist and writer. She […]
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NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award – Recipient Announced!
We are delighted to announce the winner of the NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award 2020 – writer Safia Archer. With 78 entries for this award, the selection panel of Ivy Alvarez and Michelle Elvy had a tough time deciding on a winner. Safia Archer, will use the award to work on her memoire. Safia Archer […]
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Calling for Submissions – Middle Distance VUP Jan 11 – March 1
Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand Edited by Craig Gamble 14TH DEC 2020 CRAIG GAMBLE Middle Distance emerged, like many good things do at VUP, from our daily morning coffee meeting. We were discussing our literary magazine Sport, and thinking it might be time for it to evolve into something new. Middle Distance is part of a new […]
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gDm- GRIMDARK OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS Jan 25 – Horror writing
ANNOUNCEMENT: OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR #27 COMING SOON! DECEMBER 16, 2020 The horror and grimdark genres are like the two cousins who sneak away from parties to set fire to things. These genres often go hand in hand, such as in books like The Aching God by Mike Shel or The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle. These […]
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Turbine | Kapohau 2020 a varied and vital record of these strange times
17 December 2020 The latest Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington graduates feature alongside new and established writers in online literary magazine Turbine | Kapohau 20. The online journal is designed by Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auahua o Te Ao—International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) alumna Rachel O’Neill, with te reo Māori guidance from Anahera Gildea. […]
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Cloud Ink Press is now open for submissions for the 2021 ‘Fresh Ink’ anthology – until 28 February 2021
The year 2020 has been – among many significant experiences – the year of the Coronavirus. What are we as both individuals and as collective society to make of the wider and deeper effects, beyond the health crisis itself? How can writers and storytellers, across multiple forms, address the human aspects of the Covid-19 crisis, […]
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