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Selina Tusitala Marsh Announced as 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow
Poet, author, and academic Selina Tusitala Marsh ONZM, FRSNZ has been awarded the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, becoming the first Pasifika writer to receive this honor and marking a significant moment in recognising Pacific voices in Aotearoa New Zealand’s literary landscape. The Fellowship will enable her to live and write in Menton, southern France, […]
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Site for NZ readers spotlights local books in digital formats: KETE Books
News release July 2, 2024 Kete Books, the website dedicated to helping readers discover New Zealand books and authors, has been rebuilt and is now live, connecting New Zealanders to their local books in all formats at an enhanced level. Created by The Coalition for Books, ketebooks.co.nz is the place to discover reading ideas and inspiration, find […]
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$25,000 CLNZ NZSA Writers’ Award 2024 OPENS
The CLNZ | NZSA Writers’ Award of $25,000 is one of the highest value non-fiction prizes in New Zealand literature, and is now open for applications. He $25,000 te nui o te Karāti Kaituhi o te CLNZ me te NZSA, te karāti mātua mo ngā pakimaero-pono o ngā momo-tuhinga o Aotearoa. Ka taea e ngā […]
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Record-breaking attendance signals a new era for Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki
May 20, 2024 The Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki has broken all attendance records, ushering in a bold and exciting new era for the Southern Hemisphere’s largest literary festival. Held at Auckland’s Aotea Centre from 14 – 19 May, attendance reached a record high of more than 85,000. The programme was designed to […]
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 Winners
‘Disturbing, smart, and funny as hell’ novel wins country’s richest writing prize. Internationally acclaimed New Zealand writer Emily Perkins MNZM has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Lioness – a smart, multi-layered, laugh-out-loud novel exploring wealth, class and female mid-life reckoning. Ms […]
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CLNZ NZSA 2024 Research Grants Open
Applications open for cash grants to support NZ writers Applications are now open for the CLNZ | NZSA Research Grants to help writers research a fiction or non-fiction writing project. Kua tuwhera ināianei ngā tono mō ngā Karāti Rangahau o te CLNZ | NZSA hei āwhina atu māu e rangahau tō hinonga, tō kōrero paki, […]
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EMERGING PASIFIKA WRITER IN RESIDENCE 2024
EMERGING PASIFIKA WRITER IN RESIDENCE 2024 Funded by Creative New Zealand. Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington invites applications for the Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence 2024 position with the International Institute of Modern Letters, Kelburn Campus. The residency is for three months in the second half of 2024. There is […]
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Literary heavyweights vie for top fiction prize in Ockham NZ Book Awards
WEDNESDAY 6 MARCH 2024 Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton faces off against critically acclaimed former national award winners Emily Perkins, Pip Adam and Stephen Daisley for the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, as finalists in the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards announced today. The four novelists are joined by a further 12 […]
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Coalition for Books releases 2024 Pasifika Books catalogue
Pasifika Books 2024 catalogue Our books, our stories View the digital catalogue Download a printable version With thanks to HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand and Vitale Lafaele, and New Zealand for illustrations from A Canoe Before the Wind. Social tiles — download and share Hashtags: #OurBooksOurStories #ReadAotearoa Please tag: The Coalition for Books Kete Books Visit your local […]
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2023 Prime Minister Award recipients: Linda Tuhiwai Smith (non-fiction), Lee Murray (fiction), and Tusiata Avia (poetry).
A writer of speculative fiction, a scholar of indigenous studies, and a poet, performer and children’s book author are the recipients of the 2023 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement. All three have had international recognition and awards, as well as being celebrated at home. This year’s recipients are: Fiction: Lee Murray – an award-winning […]
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Creative NZ new investment policy – sign up to information sessions
Join Creative New Zealand to learn about the new funding opportunities and support on offer for artists, collectives and arts organisations from 2024. You’re invited to our online information and Q+A sessions taking place from 15 to 27 November. Early in the year, we asked what the future of arts development in Aotearoa New Zealand […]
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Pacific Islanders in Publishing
Pacific Islander writers Kealani Netane, Keala Kendall, and Dr. Manuia Heinrich are launching Pacific Islanders in Publishing, a volunteer-run website database that promotes Pacific Islanders’ books. The website includes resources for creatives looking to break into publishing, recent Pacific Islander book releases, book influencers, independent presses, and bookstores. The cofounders’ mission is to amplify, connect and […]
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