• Ngā Pae Rewa Pū Kōrero – NZSA Te Kaituhi Māori Wānanga – Motueka

    Labour Weekend 2024, Te Awhina Marae, Motueka   FRIDAY 25TH OCT                3 PM               PŌWHIRI 4.30 PM          KAI WHAKANOA WHAKAWHANAUNGATANGA MANAWHENUA MIRIANA STEPHENS & ROPATA STEPHENS TE MATU – MOTUEKA HIGH SCHOOL 6 PM               DINNER MOTUEKA STATE CINEMA 7 PM        […]

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  • Māori Literature Trust – Te Hā publishing seminar Wgtn

    If you’re a kaituhi Māori, interested in how you can have your writing published, whether traditionally or self-published and live in Pōneke, Wellington, you can’t miss these upcoming workshops by the Māori Literature Trust. The event will be from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm on Saturday, September 21st. Secure your spot by emailing Nicole programme@mlt.org.nz […]

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  • The Michael King Writers Centre announces 2025 Residencies

    This year’s Michael King Writers Centre residency selection panel once again had their work cut out for them with over 100 applications received for the 16 residencies planned across 2025. There were 125 applicants totalling 613 individual applications across all of the available categories. A continuing trend is the high number of applicants in the […]

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  • Applications for the CLNZ 2024 Contestable Fund Grants open Friday 13 September

    Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) is excited to announce that applications for the 2024 round of Contestable Fund Grants are open from 9:30am on Friday 13 September. We have $75,000 available to support strategic projects that demonstrate New Zealand publishing sector growth. The Contestable Fund Grants are made possible through the CLNZ Cultural Fund. Applications are […]

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  • Nine to Noon Short Story competition opens

    Nine to Noon Short Story competition opens RNZ is looking for stories of 2000 words, submitted by Friday 29 September. The top five winners, chosen by Judges Harry Ricketts and Tina Makareti, will be adapted for radio and broadcast on Nine to Noon in November. They’ve had a terrific response the last couple of years […]

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  • University Book Shop Summer Writer in Residence In Association With Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage Trust

    INTRODUCTION The University Book Shop Summer Writer in Residence Award, in association with the Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage Trust, is open to emerging writers who are normally resident in New Zealand and write for adults, young adults or children. They may write in any genre including poetry, drama, fiction, narrative non-fiction, graphic novels, biography, autobiography, […]

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  • Perfect Online Pitch – Publishers are Live

    The NZSA opens Perfect Online Pitch for the second year! Searching for a publisher for your completed manuscript? Sign up for Perfect Online Pitch between 3pm Monday 5 August to midnight Wednesday 7 August.  This is your opportunity to pitch your (polished) manuscript to a leading New Zealand publisher and, if successful, to submit your […]

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  • NZSA Announces Dunedin Regional Roadshow

    Ōtepoti | Dunedin Regional Roadshow 9AM – 4:15PM, SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2024, DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY, 30 THE OCTAGON, DUNEDIN What’s on: Welcome and Opening Kōrero with Barbara Else MNZM and Emma Neale Workshops: Taking the Past out of the Archive with Cristina Sanders; Words of Art with Lynley Edmeades; Sensing the Edit with Tracey Slaughter; Creating Suspense with Vanda […]

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  • Protect and manage your intellectual property with MyCreativeRights Catalogue

    Catalogue is a secure cloud-based creative rights management system where you can safely document, organise, and store records of creative works, legal agreements and other supporting documents in one safe location. In today’s world of generative AI tools, some of which use writer’s material without their permission, it has become more important than ever to […]

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  • NZSA CompleteMS 2024 results -new stories by talented writers win NZSA manuscript assessments

    The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc announce the writers who will receive manuscript guidance through this year’s CompleteMS programme. Powerful manuscripts crafted by thirteen accomplished writers, have been chosen to take part in this year’s programme. Writers spend months polishing their stories for entry into this competitive […]

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  • This Way Lies Madness – anthology call for submissions

      In the tradition of Poe’s ‘A Tell-tale Heart’ and Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, This Way Lies Madness (publishing September 2025) will bring together a twisted tangle of dark stories featuring monstrous manifestations of trauma and guilt, paranoia and persecution, anxiety, addiction, and crippling terror. In these pages, readers should expect to find madness in all its forms, […]

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  • Call for nominations for Ngā Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi Awards 2024

    Nominate Now! Tuku tono mai! Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa is calling for public nominations to honor outstanding toi Māori artists at the Ngā Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi Awards 2024. Recognise the contributions of Māori artists in our communities. Three award categories are open for nomination, each with a $10,000 prize: Ngā Tohu […]

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