• How to be Award Winning Before Publishing: CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award and Research Grants

    Bevan Sanson at The Big Idea interviewed 2019 Writers’ Award winner, Rebecca Macfie, and one of the 2019 Research Grant recipients, Gigi Fenster, about the impact of winning these awards. Originally published on The Big Idea: Recognition, time, money. All writers know the importance any of these three commodities can have on their work. So […]

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  • Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher buys company for $1

    Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher has purchased Stuff from its Australian owners Nine Entertainment for $1. The chief executive was returning the company to New Zealand ownership, with the sale expected to be completed by 31 May. “Our plan is to transition the ownership of Stuff to give staff a direct stake in the business […]

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  • READING INCREASES IN LOCKDOWN – Nielsen London – reading hours double!

    Two in five UK adults say they are consuming books more since lockdown, with readers almost doubling their total reading hours per week. London, 13 May 2020​ Nielsen Book today published the latest research on UK book consumer habits during the lockdown. Online interviews with a nationally-representative sample of 1,000 UK adults revealed that readers […]

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  • TAUTAI FALE-SHIP Home Residencies

    ARTIST CALLOUT for TAUTAI FALE-SHIP Home Residencies 🐚🏠💕   Applications due Friday 5th June at midday – APPLY NOW! Moana artists make some of their best work at home; at the kitchen table, in living rooms surrounded by family, in bedrooms and garages, in home studios where we feel safe and connected to those around […]

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  • Nominations for 2020 Prime Minister’s Awards are now live

      Creative New Zealand is now calling for nominations for  The Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement.    These annual awards recognise New Zealand writers who have made a notable contribution to New Zealand literature in the genres of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. New Zealanders are invited to submit a nomination. The 2019 winners were Fleur […]

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  • Blackball Writer’s Residency – open for applications.

    WEST COAST OPPORTUNITY FOR WRITERS   The village of Blackball (pop. 300) on the West Coast of the South Island has both a history of good writing and good writers plus a tradition of activism. It offers a Readers and Writers Festival, a Writer’s Retreat and now, thanks to Creative NZ support, a Writer’s Residency. […]

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  • CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants 2020

    Four Cash Grants to Support NZ Writers Receive a $5,000 grant to help you research your latest fiction or non-fiction writing project.  All New Zealand writers welcome to apply from today! In support of New Zealand writers who wish to undertake research for a fiction or non-fiction writing project, the 2020 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) […]

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  • A NEW $30,000 LITERARY PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION – NOW OPEN

    With prize money of $30,000, the new ARA Historical Novel Prize gives Australian and New Zealand historical novelists the chance to be recognised in a class of their own, with the most significant prize purse for any genre-based prize in Australasia.   The ARA Historical Novel Prize has been made possible by the generosity of […]

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  • CLNZ/NZSA $25,000 Writers’ Award 2020

    Applications Open Early to Support Writers   $25,000 award to a New Zealand writer one of the highest non-fiction prizes in New Zealand literature presented by the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) brought forward by three months to support NZ writers CLNZ and NZSA have brought forward the application process for […]

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  • The Raymond Carver Short Story Contest – open April 1 – May 15

    Open April 1 – May 15 each year. $2500 in cash prizes, plus 3 literary agents will read your work. We accept stories from all over the world and many winners have gone on to have successful careers as published authors. Past guest judges include Aimee Bender, Ben Fountain, Pinckney Benedict, Susan Perabo, and Christopher […]

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  • The Novel Prize – open for entries April 1 – July 1 GMT

    Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions are pleased to announce The Novel Prize, a new biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world.   The Novel Prize offers $10,000 to the winner, and simultaneous publication of their novel in the UK and Ireland […]

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  • CLNZ launches new contestable funding round – Open April 15-Closes April 29

    Applications are now open for a Special Round of Contestable Fund Grants, with $120,000 available to apply for.   Copyright Licensing New Zealand is running a Special Round of its Contestable Fund Grants in order to support short-term projects that have arisen or been developed to respond to the changed environment in the New Zealand […]

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