• NEW NZ BOOKS SITE KETE LAUNCHING WITH STUFF TO SHARE REVIEWS

    Thursday 10 September 2020 Kete – the new site devoted to the books of Aotearoa which launches on 15 September – will share reviews of New Zealand books with Stuff to bring the latest releases to readers of Sunday Magazine, Your Weekend and online. Kete is delighted to partner with Stuff, a New Zealand-owned media […]

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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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  • UNLEASH THE POWER OF POETRY ON 21 AUGUST 2020 – #NZPoetryDay

    National Poetry Day is this Friday, August 21st. The rise in Covid-19 alert levels may have put paid to some of the planned in-person events, but it is still a day to celebrate poetry nationwide. We want to make Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day sing on social media this Friday. To do that, we’d like […]

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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 Interested poets may submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems (and a 30-50 word third-person bio) to editor [at] tarotpoetry.nz We are unfortunately not offering remuneration to […]

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  • 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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  • NZSA New Zealand Heritage Literary Awards 2020 – Open for entries

    NZSA Canterbury announces the 2020 NZSA New Zealand Heritage Book Awards are open for entries.  Now in its seventh year, this event is now firmly established on the New Zealand Literary calendar. Past winners have included Fiona Farrell, Fiona Kidman and Brian Turner – and last year’s major winners were Andrew Crowe for his beautiful […]

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  • National Poetry Day 2020 – Poem and Lyric Competition KAIPARA COMPETITION

    National Poetry Day Competitions | 21 August 2020 |   National Poetry Day 2020 – Poem and Lyric Competition THE EBB AND FLOW OF THE KAIPARA The Kauri Museum runs the Poem and Lyric Competition for National Poetry Day in two phases. The Adult competition (over 18) and the student competition. The theme for this […]

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  • 2020 creative writing competition opens today Otago University

    Monday 20 July 2020 Have a go … the University’s annual creative writing competition for Otago students and staff opens today – with the theme “only connect…”. The University’s second annual creative writing competition for students and staff opens for entries today. Writer 2020 offers all staff and students at all of Otago’s campuses the opportunity […]

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  • 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize open for entries

    2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize First prize: $AU$6,000 Four other shortlisted poets: $AU$1,000 Closes: 11:59 pm, 1 October 2020 Judges: Lachlan Brown, John Hawke, A. Frances Johnson, and John Kinsella Click here to enter the 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the seventeenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open from 15 July […]

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  • Two to the Power of Five: The Power of Queer Words.

    Aotearoa’s only LGBTQI+ literary festival, Same Same but Different, is excited to announce a special online winter talk series later this month.  From July 24-26th, Two to the Power of Five: The Power of Queer Words pairs up fascinating queer writers for five fantastic online conversations. The sessions are all free and being held thanks […]

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  • CALLING POETS AND POETRY LOVERS

    NATIONAL POETRY DAY 2020 AUGUST 21   Our nation’s celebration of poetry on 21 August this year may not be official, but it’s still destined to be exciting, diverse, and fantastic. And we’d like to help you spread the word about it, so if you are planning an event, send us details so we can […]

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