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How to watch the Ockham NZ Book Awards ceremony LIVE on Wednesday 11 May
It’s Ockham week and here’s how to watch the Ockham NZ Book Awards ceremony LIVE on Wednesday 11 May from 7pm! A change in venue and continued precautions around Covid have restricted our audience capacity for the much-anticipated Ockham New Zealand Book Awards this Wednesday 11 May, but there are several ways you can join […]
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The Proverse Prizes – OPEN for entry!
OPEN FOR ENTRY NOW! The International Proverse Prizes for writing submitted and previously unpublished in English (may be in translation). Entry is open to all who are at least 18 years old, whatever their place of birth, residence, nationality or citizenship. Closing date: 30 June 2022 New, emerging and experienced writers are all warmly invited […]
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Poetry at Piha | The Listening Sand – Going West April 30 Free
Poetry at Piha | The Listening Sand Free Event Saturday 30 April, 2pm – 5pm North Piha Glade and Beach Registration essential: info@goingwestfest.co.nz Ready for a unique environmental writing experience? We’re once more unleashing real-time poetry crea tion on the iron sands of Piha. Gather in the glade at North Piha for a delightful poetry […]
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Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2021 sheds new light on the ‘ordinary’ world
The latest edition of the online anthology Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems (BNZP) is now live, featuring 25 poems chosen by acclaimed poet and Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington alumna Kate Camp (pictured). The International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has published the anthology annually since […]
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Ff Fast Fibres Poetry 9: call for submissions
The theme of Fast Fibres this year is family/whānau: extended, immediate, household, group, ancestral, close, community. What does family mean to you? We invite poets with a strong Northland connection to submit 3 of your best poems. Please include a two line biographical statement. Deadline: June 10, 2022 Email submissions to: fastfibres@live.com Each poem should […]
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Register for the 25th National Poetry Day on 26 August
Aotearoa’s countrywide celebration of poetry is preparing to mark its 25th anniversary with plans for the broadest range of events and promotions yet, as registrations open for participation in Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day on 26 August 2022. National Poetry Day co-ordinator Erica Stretton says that after two years of largely online events, the NPD […]
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World Poetry Day: Take action for Maung Yu Py (Myanmar)
“The story of Maung Yu Py, is the story of all those who are detained, harassed and persecuted for exposing injustices and defending freedom of expression through poetry. The PEN community stands in solidarity with Maung Yu Py and all poets who are silenced in Myanmar and across the world. Their voice must be heard.” […]
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Going West – 2 LIVE Events in April
Determinedly returning from the virtual quagmire of zoomed connections, Going West presents two lively in-person experiences during April: Shifted Ground, an intimate literary salon; and The Listening Sand, a unique outdoor environmental writing experience. Shifted Ground is an intimate literary salon in the theatre of Lopdell House. You will hear new works from poetry stars […]
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Shifted Ground coming up in April – Going West live events
We’ve been hard at work in order to deliver our next Going West live events! Shifted Ground is coming up in early April, and it will be an intimate literary salon exploring the varied terrains of Aotearoa, both geographic and historical; cultural and contested. There’ll be performance, kōrero, music, photography and cinema. In Ghost Stories, poets Serie […]
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NZ Poetry Society Competition for 2022 is now open for entries
Our competition is open to all members and non-members, worldwide, with members receiving an entry fee discount. There are cash prizes to be won in each category, and all entries are eligible to be published in our anthology. Our annual anthology includes all placed and commended poems, as well as a selection of other favourite […]
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National Flash Fiction Day competition is open!
June 22 is our shortest day of the year — and the day we know and love as National Flash Fiction Day! So send in your best 300 words – deadline is 15 April, 2022. The judges for the 2022 National Flash Fiction Day competition are the acclaimed Anne Kennedy and Kiri Piahana-Wong. The youth competition […]
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Haiku Down Under 2022
poetry from the edge Being held via Zoom from October 7-9, 2022, this new initiative to connect writers from New Zealand, Australia and beyond will use workshops, prompted writing sessions and presentations to celebrate our seasons, people, landscapes and seascapes, vernacular language, and flora and fauna. When: October 7-9, 2022 Where: Online What: Presentations and […]
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