-
2025 Pikihuia Awards open
Submissions close April 30 This year the Pikihuia Awards will celebrate 30 years of supporting and nurturing kaituhi Māori! Held biennially, the Pikihuia Awards have welcomed short story submissions in both te reo Māori and English. Submissions are now open for the 2025 Pikihuia Awards! Click below to read more about the 2025 Pikihuia […]
Continue reading -
Poetry set to take centre stage: August 22
Registrations now open for Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2025 Friday 22 August 2025 is set to be a day where words take flight and poetry pulses through the streets, libraries, parks, bookshops, and unexpected corners of Aotearoa. Now in its 28th year, Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day invites communities nationwide to create, share, […]
Continue reading -
Submissions open for 2025 ARA Historical Novel Prize – Adult Novel & YA categories
The $150,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize is open for submissions in two categories – Adult and Children & Young (CYA) Adult. $100,000 will be awarded to the Adult category winner, with an additional $5,000 awarded to each of the remaining two shortlisted authors. In the CYA category, the winner receives $30,000, while the two […]
Continue reading -
NZSA CompleteMS Programme 2025 opens
Do you have a completed draft of your manuscript that’s ready to take to the next level? Poetry, fiction, short fiction, non-fiction… Apply now for the NZSA Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa CompleteMS Manuscript Assessment Programme. The NZSA CompleteMS assessment programme is open for applications until 28 May 2025. CompleteMS is for writers who have completed a manuscript through […]
Continue reading -
New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2025 International Residency with Australia
The Michael King Writers Centre in association with Varuna, The National Writers’ House in Katoomba, NSW, Australia is pleased to announce for the fourth time, a residency in Australia for New Zealand writers. The writer awarded the residency will receive return flights to Sydney, four weeks accommodation and meals at Varuna and the opportunity to […]
Continue reading -
New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2025 International Residency with China
The Michael King Writers Centre in association with the Shanghai Writers’ Association is pleased to announce the call for applications for a New Zealand writer to hold a residency in Shanghai. The successful writer will receive accommodation in an inner-city apartment, a stipend towards living expenses and return economy class air travel. Writers will take […]
Continue reading -
Michael King Writers Centre 2025 Australian Residency
Applications are Now Open! The Michael King Writers Centre in association with Varuna, The National Writers’ House in Katoomba, NSW, Australia is pleased to announce for the fourth time, a residency in Australia for New Zealand writers. This four week residency is open to mid-career or established writers who have had a book published in […]
Continue reading -
Mike Riddell Writer’s Residency 2025
Applications are once more invited for the Mike Riddell Writer’s Residency. The residency, which offers twelve weeks to an established writer (or six weeks each to two writers) in Ōtūrēhua during the winter months was established in memory of local writer and resident Mike Riddell, who died in March 2022. The residency includes accommodation and […]
Continue reading -
The Rush Cottage Writers Residency 2025
Hawke’s Bay Readers & Writers Trust, in conjunction with Black Barn Retreats, is excited to invite applications for the second ever Rush Cottage Writers’ Residency. The online application form opens March 10th, and the team urges writers to act promptly, as the cut-off is 50 and last year they received that number in three days! […]
Continue reading -
Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing 2025
Te Kaupeka Toi Tangata | Faculty of Arts · Full-time at 37.5 hours per week · 6 month fixed-term opportunity · $82000 per annum (pro rata) Āu Mahi | What You Will Do This fixed-term Residency seeks to foster New Zealand writing by providing a full-time opportunity for a writer to work on an approved […]
Continue reading -
The 2025 NFFD competition is open!
Send your best 300 words Submissions open through 30 April The 2025 judges for the national competition are the award-winning writers Brannavan Gnanalingam and Vana Manasiadis. The 2025 youth judge is Shilo Kino. How to enter can be found on the NFFD Competition page. More about the 2025 international youth competition later this month. MICRO MADNESS A free competition open to […]
Continue reading -
Summer Writing Seminars University of Auckland
Hone your skills as a writer in this packed programme of in-depth craft seminars led by experienced teachers, including our creative writing staff, award-winning writers Paula Morris and Selina Tusitala Marsh. This year we also offer Sunday workshops for in-depth discussion of student work. Each workshop is limited to eight participants. If you are accepted […]
Continue reading