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National Schools Poetry Award 2023 Winner
Poem about family stories wins National Schools Poetry Award 2023 Liberty Beck, student at Takapuna Grammar, is the 2023 winner of the National Schools Poetry Award. Liberty won the award with her poem X-MANGOES-X-SNAKES-X-RED PAPER BOATS-X. “X-MANGOES-X-SNAKES-X-RED PAPER BOATS-X is a poem I’ve been writing for a while now, and it’s a story I’ll […]
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Congrats to Ruben Mita – winner of a fine line Featured Student Poet
Ruben Mita has been awarded a free years’ NZSA membership for taking out top spot in the ‘a fine line’ student poet competition. Ruben Mita is a poet, musician and ecology student in Pōneke. He has been published in Starling, Landfall, takahē, Tarot and Sweet Mammalian and won the 2022 Story Inc. IIML Poetry […]
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GET COMPETITIVE FOR NPD 2023
The full events programme for Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2023 will be announced on 2 August, but inspired poets should head to the NPD Competition Calendar to get into the poetry groove prior to the big day itself on 25 August. Creative organisers have put together a range of delightful challenges for you.Our first […]
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COMPETITION – POETS ON THE WRITERS WALK
The Wellington Writers Walk & Wellington Branch of The New Zealand Society of Authors invite you to enter our competition, POETS ON THE WRITERS WALK. For Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day we’re celebrating the poets and poems that feature in the iconic Wellington Writers Walk. Write a poem that responds to one of five challenges based […]
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Give Given Words a try this August! National Poetry Day
Given Words returns for its eighth year with a new invitation to play with words. This year the words have been chosen by students of López de Arenas Secondary School in Marchena (Andalusia, Spain) and all you have to do is write a poem which includes all five words and send it in before midnight […]
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Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2022 channels the renewable energy of poetry
14 April 2023 The latest edition of the online anthology Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems (BNZP) is now live. This issue features 25 poems chosen by acclaimed poet and Starling journal founder Louise Wallace from thousands published in 2022. “I tried to pick poems that were the poet’s best, that surprised me with […]
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Emma Neale to judge $1000 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems
11 April 2023 International Writers’ Workshop NZ Inc (IWW) is thrilled to announced that New Zealand poet Emma Neale will judge The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems in October. The competition, which has been made possible by a bequest from the late Jocelyn Grattan in memory of her mother, Kathleen, is […]
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Register events to unleash the power of poetry across Aotearoa 25 August
National Poetry Day is scheduled for 25 August 2023, and as its administrators open registrations for events and seed-funding, they are inviting organisers across the motu to join in to unleash the uplifting power of poetry. Robin McDonnell, CEO of Poetry Day sponsor Phantom Billstickers, says that when company founder Jim Wilson witnessed the […]
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Pasifika Festival Feb 2023 The Coalition for Books
The Coalition for Books had its first stand at the Pasifika Festival this weekend and has produced its third catalogue for Pasifika Books. Download the new Pasifika catalogue Feb 2023 HERE Thanks to Dorothy Butler Bookshop for all their organisation and support.
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Coalition for Books at Matatini this weekend – Come visit
Come visit the Coalition for Books stand – P21 at Matatini this week and weekend. Huia Publishers also have a big stand down by the kai. Te Matatini catalogue HERE – OUT TODAY!
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UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage comes to Wellington for FREE events
Verb Wellington and British Council New Zealand and the Pacific have collaborated to bring UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage to Wellington on 11 – 12 March to take part in two free events that focus on the importance of libraries and of literature. Natasha Beckman (Country Director, British Council New Zealand and the Pacific) […]
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Dan Disney wins the 2023 Porter Prize
Dan Disney was named the overall winner of the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize at an online ceremony on 19 January 2023 for his poem ‘periferal, fantasmal’. The Porter Prize – Australia’s most prestigious poetry competition – is worth a total of $10,000. This year’s judges – Sarah Holland-Batt, Des Cowley and James Jiang […]
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