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International author community concerned over reports of Hong Kong Book Bans
17TH AUGUST 2020 FREEDOM OF SPEECH, NEWS The International Authors Forum (IAF) is extremely concerned by reports in the BBC News, The Guardian, Global Times and The Wall Street Journal among others that books by Joshua Wong, prominent protester, and Tanya Chan, Hong Kong politician, have been removed from public libraries as the new Chinese Security Law is implemented in Hong Kong. Bans […]
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Fellowships at the Cullman Center
“The Cullman Center is an unbelievable gift of time—time to settle in, master your material, and then rocket ahead with your work. You come in with an idea for one book but emerge with the seeds for many.” —Karan Mahajan, Fellow 2018-2019 Scope | Criteria and Terms | NYPL/American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships […]
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Aotearoa New Zealand Screen Sector Strategy 2030 Released
AUGUST 23, 2020 Firstly, we are aware that COVID will be impacting on our sector once again and hope you are safe and well in these challenging times. We are pleased to send you the final strategy document. While we are all still focused on getting through the current resurgence phase, it was important to release the […]
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New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2021 Writers in Residence Programme.
The Michael King Writers Centre is pleased to announce that next year’s programme of residencies at the historic Signalman’s House on Takarunga Mt Victoria in Devonport, Auckland, is now open for applications. Writers awarded a residency can look forward to peaceful accommodation, the use of a writing studio, a supporting stipend and the opportunity to […]
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Joint statement: The decline of press freedom in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has wasted little time in curbing its citizens’ liberties by using the new security law to curtail peaceful speech and protests and arrest critics. This was evidenced last week by the arrest of prominent Hong Kong media owner Jimmy Lai, along with other journalists and activists, as well as sanctions against at least […]
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SUBMISSIONS FOR TURBINE 2020 ARE NOW OPEN
Turbine Kapohau literary journal at the International Insitute of Modern Letters through Victoria University of Wellington. Submissions are now open for the 2020 issue, due 2 November FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE SEE www.turbinekapohau.org.nz
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Dionne Christian appointed Reviews Editor for KETE: New books from Aotearoa New Zealand
MEDIA RELEASE 20 AUGUST 2020 The Coalition for Books is delighted to announce that Dionne Christian, former Deputy Editor of Canvas magazine and Arts and Books Editor for the New Zealand Herald, takes over as Reviews Editor of Kete from 19 August 2020. As a long-time supporter of New Zealand books and culture Dionne will, we know, embrace this […]
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UNLEASH THE POWER OF POETRY ON 21 AUGUST 2020 – #NZPoetryDay
National Poetry Day is this Friday, August 21st. The rise in Covid-19 alert levels may have put paid to some of the planned in-person events, but it is still a day to celebrate poetry nationwide. We want to make Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day sing on social media this Friday. To do that, we’d like […]
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US Publishers, Authors, Booksellers Call Out Amazon’s ‘Concentrated Power’ in the Book Market
By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Extraordinary Leverage’ In a letter provided to Publishing Perspectives this morning (August 17), three leading American publishing industry professional organizations tell the House of Representatives’ Antitrust Subcommittee that “a few tech platforms in the digital marketplace” wield “extraordinary leverage over their competitors, suppliers, customers, the government, and the public. “Regrettably,” they write, […]
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NZSA Oral History Project: Funding helps record stories of Otago authors
Thanks to funding from the Otago Community Trust and NZ National Commission for UNESCO, NZSA has been able to record three important oral histories from authors in the Otago region. At the end of July 2020 New Zealand author and oral historian Naomi Arnold, spent a week meeting and interviewing authors Brian Turner, Barbara […]
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New Digital Poetry Journal, Tarot, Calling for Submissions
Tarot is a free-to-access digital poetry journal for progressive Aotearoa voices. Issues are released biannually on 1 June and 1 December. Submissions close 1 April and 1 October. Interested poets may submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems (and a 30-50 word third-person bio) to editor [at] tarotpoetry.nz We are unfortunately not offering remuneration to […]
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Former Poet Laureate the supreme winner at 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Former New Zealand Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh’s first book for children has been judged the supreme winner at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Mophead was awarded the highest prize in children’s publishing – The Margaret Mahy Book of the Year – during a virtual presentation this evening to […]
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