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Ngā Aho Shorts Development Lab 2025
Discover the Aho Shorts Development Lab — a unique opportunity for Māori writers, directors, and producers to develop short film projects through mentorship and wānanga. Refine your script, vision, and pitch to unlock funding opportunities. We’re seeking passionate creatives ready to lead and bring authentic Māori stories to life. Open to all experience levels—apply now […]
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AAANZ Art Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) For 2025 – Entries Close 8 August
The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes […]
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Two Lines Press Open Submissions Calls
Open call! Two Lines Press is excited to open a focused submissions call for translations of literature from Asia and Oceania. We highly encourage submissions of work from less-represented languages and from BIPOC, women, and/or queer authors and translators. https://www.catranslation.org/books/submit-work/
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Pasifika Writer in Residence – Te Herenga Waka
Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand (On-site) Kōrero mō te tūranga – About the role Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington invites applications for the Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence 2025 position with Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao – International Institute of Modern Letters, Kelburn Campus. Applications are invited from emerging Pasifika writers in all areas of literary […]
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NZSA Call out for CLNZ Board role: Author Director
April 2025 Appointment of an Author Director Copyright Licensing New Zealand The Position Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) is seeking a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc (NZSA) to join its Board of Directors. This appointment process is being undertaken by the Board to […]
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Announcing the 2nd Mercedes Webb-Pullman Poetry Award
Webb-Pullman Poetry Award Webb-Pullman Family 30 April, 2025 Entries are now open for the second Mercedes Webb-Pullman Poetry Award, which in 2025 will again be $500 NZD. In honour of Mercedes’ support for Palestinian rights, her passionate resistance to injustice, and in light of the current genocide in Gaza, the topic for this […]
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Applications now open for the 2026 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
Applications for one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prestigious and long-running Fellowships are now open – closing 11pm Friday 30 May 2025. For over fifty years, since 1970, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship has enabled a New Zealand writer to live and work for three months or more in Menton, southern France, with access to […]
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VERB WELLINGTON ANNOUNCES THREE WRITERS RESIDENCIES
Verb Wellington is delighted to announce a new Children’s Writers Residency and a Home-Based Residency to run in 2025. Applications open for both residencies on 28 April, as well for the Katherine Mansfield House & Garden Writers Residency which has been running annually since 2020. “We are thrilled to offer two new opportunities for […]
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Big news for the Landfall Essay Competition!
First up, it has a new name: the Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize. And we’re thrilled that Tina Makereti, a previous winner, will be joining us as a very special guest judge this year! The winner will receive $3000 and a year’s subscription to Landfall, and the winning essay will be featured in our milestone Landfall […]
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Ngā Kaituhi Māori – Gisborne Hui 9-12 October 2025
Pānui 2# Tui, tui, tui, tuhia! E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā iwi kaituhi tātou, tēnā tātou katoa. Following our first Pānui of 12 March, Ngā Kaituhi Māori are thrilled to announce the programme for the forthcoming third hui at Poho-o-Rāwiri marae, Gisborne, 9-12 October 2025. REGISTRATION PORTAL Our registration portal is […]
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Storylines Tessa Duder Award for Young Adult novels, sponsored by Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand, now open for entries
Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand is looking forward to finding the next big Young Adult novel, after publishing not one, but two excellent YA books from their first time sponsoring the Storylines Tessa Duder Award. The critically acclaimed Bear by Kiri Lightfoot (Allen & Unwin NZ, Feb 2025) won the 2024 Storylines prize and […]
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2026 Judith Binney Fellowships and Writing Awards
The Judith Binney Trust is pleased to announce that applications for the 2026 Judith Binney Fellowships and Writing Awards will open on 12 May 2025. If you are interested in applying please visit www.judithbinneytrust.org.nz for further information. For others, we would be grateful if you would circulate this information to the people in your […]
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