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Kete Books Winter Reading catalogue out now
New NZ Books… Here’s a link to the Winter Reading campaign on the Coalition website: https://coalitionforbooks.nz/winterreading2024 This year’s catalogue features exciting new fiction, books for tamariki and rangatahi, a wide range of compelling nonfiction, and a selection of brilliant new books for Matariki. It brings together 77 new books from Aotearoa published in the lead-up […]
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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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Have you published a Māori book between Matariki 2023 and Matariki 2024?
If so, The Māori Literature Trust wants to hear from you! The MLT is compiling a list of Māori Books for an upcoming series, to celebrate the many Māori books that have been brought into te ao Mārama in the past year. Please note that this is not an award or competition, but an opportunity to […]
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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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Emma Hislop is the 2024 Springboard recipient for Literature
SIX ARTISTS. ONE YEAR OF IMPACT. Today, The Arts Foundation announced their 2024 Springboard Award recipients – six outstanding artists at a formative stage in their careers, checking in for a year of mentorship with some of our illustrious artist alumni! Together, they’ll explore the many possible pathways to life as a full-time practicing […]
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Te Kaituhi Māori Hui May 3-5 Tui tui tuhituhia (Come together, write)
Nau mai haere mai e ngā kaituhi Māori! Te Kaituhi Māori is delighted to extend to you an invitation to join us for a three-day wānanga that celebrates and explores the richness of Māori literature, hosted by Te Kaituhi Māori, a new Māori-led kaupapa that is supported by the New Zealand Society of Authors Te […]
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Huia wins 2024 Bologna Prize, Best Children’s Publisher in Oceania region
10 April 2024 Books+Publishing Huia Publishers, based in Aotearoa New Zealand, is the 2024 Oceania winner of the Bologna Prize (BOP) for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year. The Māori-owned independent publisher has been operating since 1991, with a mission to ‘share stories that resonate with our people, that reflect our experiences and that value our culture and […]
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NZSA Kupu Kaitiaki Programme for Kaituhi Māori
Now Open For Applications The aim of this kaupapa is to provide new and emerging kaituhi with valuable feedback from a skilled Kupu Kaitiaki, for the refinement of a part of a manuscript written in te reo Māori. The work can be in the genres of poetry, fiction (excluding plays), short fiction or non-fiction (excluding screenplays and picture books), […]
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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 2024 Māori Books catalogue
Ngā Pukapuka Māori 2024 Ā tātou pukapuka, ā tātou kōrero Māori Books 2024 Our books, our stories Catalogues View the digital catalogue in English View the digital catalogue in te reo Māori Download a printable version in English With thanks to Gavin Bishop (Ngati Pukeko, Ngati Awa, Ngati Mahuta, Tainui) and Penguin Random House New […]
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