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Sydney Writers Festival Podcast series released
Sydney Writers’ Festival Playlist by Sydney Writers’ Festival Australia’s largest celebration of literature, stories and ideas. Bringing together the world’s best authors, leading public intellectuals, scientists, journalists and more. Subscribe to podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify RSS feed OR CLICK HERE 435 clips in playlist: Reckoning and Retribution Lucia Osborne-Crowley’s I Choose Elena and […]
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Sydney Writers Festival – on line event RICHARD FLANAGAN: The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
Richard Flanagan: The Living Sea of Waking Dreams 29 September ONLINE EVENT BOOK TICKETS Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan joins Jennifer Byrne for a fascinating discussion about his highly anticipated new novel The Living Sea of Waking Dreams. An ember storm of a novel, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is Flanagan at his best. In a world of perennial […]
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Love in the Time of COVID: A Chronicle of a Pandemic
E karanga e te iwi e! Call for submissions and introduction Love in the Time of COVID: A Chronicle of a Pandemic has evolved from a conversation – or, rather, a series of conversations – between friends, colleagues and family about how and where we could meet during lockdown to tell our stories, share our […]
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Todd New Writer’s Bursary 2020
The annual Todd New Writer’s Bursary allows a promising published writer or presented playwright, at an early stage of their career, to work on an approved project. Value: $20,000 Closing date 25 Sep 2020, 1.00pm Details here
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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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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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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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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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Cloud Ink seeks new submissions
Cloud Ink will be accepting submissions during the month of OCTOBER 2020. Cloud Ink Press was formed by a group of Masters of Creative writing alumni from the Auckland University of Technology. To keep submissions manageable, until now we have limited manuscript submissions to AUT creative writing alumni only. The time has come for […]
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Tāmaki Poems – New Zealand Poetry Society
CALL FOR POEMS – Tāmaki Poems Press Release for New Zealand Poetry Society 11 August 2020 Tāmaki Poems is a community-generated poetry project, centred on a map of Auckland compiled by Mr Leslie Kelly in 1940. In the lead up to the opening of Tāmaki Herenga Waka – Auckland Stories early next year, our new permanent […]
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Allen & Unwin announces major new Crime Fiction Prize worth $25,000
ATTENTION ALL CRIME AND THRILLER WRITERS! Why wait to make crime pay? Is there a manuscript in your bottom drawer just waiting to be finished? Have you got a burning idea for the perfect crime . . . on paper? We are thrilled to announce the inaugural annual Allen & Unwin Crime Fiction Prize. The […]
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NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award 2020 – apply between 7 August and 31 October 2020
NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award 2020 Award of $3,000 available to writers over the age of 35yrs The Lilian Ida Smith Award is offered by the NZ Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa PEN Inc (NZSA) thanks to a bequest from Lilian Ida Smith, a music teacher of Whanganui who had a keen […]
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