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The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival programme out
New Zealand’s one and only official Booktown has lifted the cover on its latest festival, announcing a literary line-up of 99 presenters and 55 events. The sixth Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival runs 6-9 May and promises to be a bestseller for all ages, including those who like some fish and chips with their author experience. “We […]
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Announcing Going West Festival’s ‘Different Out Loud’ Season: Video Collaborations between Poets and Filmmakers.
Different Out Loud Going West Festival announces a brand-new approach to celebrating live poetry with Different Out Loud, a collection of thoughtful video collaborations between Aotearoa poets and filmmakers. Themed around the word ‘coastal’, these integrated pieces by some of our best poets and finest screen artists will air online from 12 April 2021. […]
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Asia Pacific Writers Translators – Meridian now open for submissions from their members.
Submissions Open Now! APWT have teamed up with Joao Roque Literary Journal on a special edition Asia Pacific of the Mind. Drunken Boat, one of the world’s oldest electronic journals of the arts, announces the publication of Meridian, an anthology collaboration with the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators. Not an APWT member? Information on memberships available here: https://www.apwriters.org/become-a-member/ […]
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New Zealand’s richest short story prize launches with acclaimed writer Patricia Grace as Chief Judge for 2021
The Sargeson Prize launches Thursday, April 1, offering New Zealand’s richest short story prize to local writers, with more than $8000 in prize money available across two categories. Now in its third year, the competition is named for celebrated New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson and is sponsored by the University of Waikato. It was […]
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Kyle Mewburn continues on Episode 2 of NZSA Oral History Podcast
“I’m writing for certain children, for what they need…I’m not trying to have a generic, bland thing.” Season 4 of the NZSA Oral History podcast continues with part 2 of Naomi Arnold’s 2020 oral history interview with Kyle Mewburn. Naomi and Kyle talk about the issues authors face, both on and off the page, and […]
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Call for submissions for poetry anthology
‘Up Flynn Road, across Cook Strait, through the Magellanic Cloud…’ the title of our planned poetry anthology is taken from the poem Meditations upon walking a Dog by Dean Ballinger. We are looking for unpublished travel poems that take the reader on journeys into the immediate neighbourhood, within New Zealand, overseas but also into imaginative spaces, […]
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Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2020 tracks a tumultuous year
31 March 2021 The latest edition of the online anthology Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems is now live, featuring 25 poems chosen by New Zealand Poet Laureate David Eggleton. www.bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz. The International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has published the anthology annually since 2001, with support […]
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Playwrights b4 25 is back for 2021 – open for submissions
For this 2021 competition, Playmarket is interested in writers under 25 who take risks and throw care to the wind, as well as those who write strong, conventional plays. Write about anything you like that matters to you in any way you like, for any kind of audience you like. In partnership with Auckland Live. […]
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Storylines celebrated the winners of its major awards at a special event in Auckland on Sunday 28 March
2021 Storylines award-winners honoured At the Storylines Margaret Mahy National Awards Day, recipient of the 2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy Award for lifetime achievement in children’s literature, Julia Marshall, gave the 2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy lecture.Her lecture outlined the genesis of and influences on her publishing company Gecko Press, but more importantly, perhaps, looked at the […]
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Landing Press’s new project for 2021 open now – an anthology of poems about housing
Here’s Landing Press’s new project for 2021: an anthology of poems about housing Whether you own a house, rent or are homeless, housing is a source of nostalgia and comfort, a source of stress and fear, a changing landscape in Aotearoa New Zealand. We want to hear anything you have to say about housing. We […]
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Caren Rangi, ONZM appointed as Chair of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa
Media release: 25 March 2021 Ministry of Culture and Heritage Caren Rangi has been appointed as the new Chair of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand’s governing body) for a three-year term. Ms Rangi will be the first Pacific Chair and third woman to hold this role of […]
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FfFast Fibres Poetry 8 call for submissions
FfFast Fibres Poetry 8 call for submissions The theme of Fast Fibres Poetry 8 this year is open. We invite poets with a strong Northland connection to submit 3 of their best poems. Please include a two-line biographical statement. Deadline: June 11 Send submissions by email:fastfibres@live.com Note: Each poem should preferably be no longer than […]
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