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The prestigious 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award – open now for entries
Submissions are open for the prestigious 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the world’s most lucrative literary prizes! The submissions process is online, and entries are welcomed from all countries, in Arabic, as well as in other languages. More details: https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/default.aspx Winners across nine categories will each receive a career-changing prize of AED 750,000 […]
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Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 longlist announced
30 June 2020 The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Shadow of Doubt (S L Beaumont, Paperback Writers) Trust Me, I’m Dead (Sherryl Clark, Oldcastle Books) Whatever it Takes (Paul Cleave, Upstart Press) One Single Thing (Tina Clough, Lightpool Publishing) Girl from the Tree House (Gudrun Frerichs, […]
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Copyright review update
Copyright review update Jenny Nagle and Mandy Hager met with Kris Faafoi, the Minister responsible for the Copyright Review, last week. They were accompanied by Paula Browning (pictured) and Pat Walsh from CLNZ and Tom Rennie and Julia Marshall from PANZ. This meeting was our long-awaited opportunity to present the industry’s strong concerns regarding […]
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Owen Marshall on the Work of Writing
“…As well as the imaginative (or the magical) aspect of writing where the inspiration strikes, there’s the craft aspect of it where it’s just a matter of sitting there doing the job…” In our last episode of the NZSA Oral History Podcast Season 3 we hear from Owen Marshall. Owen Marshall is a celebrated New Zealand […]
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REPORT SHOWS KIWIS OVERWHELMINGLY PREFER PHYSICAL BOOKS
WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE, 2020 A new report from the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has revealed Kiwis still vastly prefer print books, with sales of physical books growing while demand for ebooks has shrunk. Despite significant investment by publishers in digital formats, ebooks makeup just 7.2% of total trade and education sales in […]
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition now open
17 JUN 2020 Calling all young poets! Entries are now open for the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition. Send us your previously unpublished original poem and be in to win a copy of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020. Winning poems will be published in the 2021 edition of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, and each poet and […]
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Going West Writers Festival 2020 Goes Virtual
Going West Writers Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary with the launch of its treasure trove of curated audio files, available via podcast to lovers of words and ideas from Friday, 19 June. Festival producer, James Littlewood says the limitations brought about by COVID-19 prompted the team to pull together a long-held dream of bringing […]
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Bauer magazines sold to Mercury Capital
17 Jun, 2020 Bauer Media Group confirmed details first published in the Australian Financial Review that Mercury Capital has bought both the Australian and New Zealand operations of the media company. “Bauer Media remains committed to magazine publishing,” said Bauer Media chief operations officer Veit Dengler today. more here
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45 International Orgs call for release of imprisonment of Kurdish journalist Nedim Turfent
Today, the International Press Institute (IPI), PEN International, Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) and 42 undersigned organisations mark the 1,500th day of Kurdish journalist Nedim Türfent’s imprisonment with a renewed call for his immediate and unconditional release. Türfent, who was predominantly reporting on the Kurdish issues, was detained on May 12, 2016, shortly […]
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Storylines Joy Cowley Award 2021 – Entries are now OPEN
The Storylines Joy Cowley Award was established in 2002 when Storylines contacted Scholastic New Zealand, one of Joy’s publishers, asking them to join with Storylines in creating an award that would recognise the exceptional contribution Joy Cowley has made to children’s literature and literacy in New Zealand and internationally. The Storylines Joy Cowley Award […]
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PIP McKAY – NZSA Member wins International First Pages 2020
Congratulations to Pip McKay as Winner of the International First Pages Prize for The Telling Time. Her debut novel of impossible love and soul-destroying secrets where two young women fight to overcome adversity and transport the reader from Yugoslavia, to 1950’s New Zealand, and back again has won the Winner of the International First Pages […]
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CREATECH UK CEO, CogXspeech – The relationship between creative and tech is more important than ever…
8 June 2020 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) Caroline Dinenage’s keynote speech at the CogX Createch Stage Thank you for that introduction, and many thanks for inviting me to speak here today. I’m delighted to be participating in Createch 2020 at CogX. Let me start by saying two things: First, that […]
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