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Winner of 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize
July 15, 2024 Jeffrey Buchanan has been named the winner of the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for his manuscript The Birds Began to Sing. Buchanan wins a publishing contract with Text and a NZ$10,000 advance against royalties. The prize is awarded annually to an unpublished manuscript by a New Zealand writer, and celebrates the life […]
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Book Launch – Gifkins Winner Tina Shaw’s A House Built on Sand
A House Built on Sand A House Built on Sand (previously titled My Rose) is the gripping story of a mother–daughter relationship, with a mother who battles her unreliable memory to unravel a mystery from her past. Maxine has been losing things lately. Her car in the shopping centre carpark. Important work files—and her job […]
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Book Event – Takapuna
Author Talk by: Lee Murray author of Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud and winner of the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2023! Grounded in real historical events, Lee has taken the ancient legend of the fox spirit to tell the hidden tales of women of the Chinese diaspora in Aotearoa – of isolation, […]
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Tracy Farr is winner of the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2024!
Announcing the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2024 winner The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Tracy Farr on winning the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize with her manuscript Wonderland. The prize was created by the NZSA and the Solomon family to fulfil the wishes of […]
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Beatson Fellowship 2024 – NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship applications open
A $10,000 Opportunity for Writers Applications open for NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2024 Calling for applications from writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama with a literary track record, who are currently working on a new project. The Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship is awarded each year to a mid-career or senior writer […]
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Nationwide Book Launches Rere Takitahi
Rere Takitahi/Flying Solo Anthology IN A COMPREHENSIVE, MULTI-GENRE ANTHOLOGY, FIFTY NEW, EMERGING, ESTABLISHED, AND VETERAN WRITERS EXPLORE THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF SOLO-PARENTED AND ALTERNATIVELY-STRUCTURED FAMILIES IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND. Edited by JCL Purchase & AJ Woolf with an introduction by Professor Paul Spoonley, this wide-ranging, eclectic anthology — which includes short and micro fiction, poetry, […]
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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 Kaituhi […]
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An Introduction to the Novella-in-Flash – A Webworkshop with Michelle Elvy
NZSA Webworkshop on 10am-12pm, Thursday 20 June A look at the fragmented-connective storytelling of the novella-in-flash (NIF). In this workshop, we’ll look at the big-picture view of structure, voice and world-building, plus the focus of each piece, with its own internal logic. We’ll consider different kinds of small fictions, and how patterns and breaks in […]
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Why Writing an Essay is Like Following a River – A Webworkshop with Lynn Davidson
NZSA Webworkshop on 6pm – 8pm, Tuesday 20 August In this workshop we will look at the way creative essays follow a thought or idea in a discursive way, allowing for divergence, connections, and surprise. Lynn Davidson writes poetry, memoir, essays and fiction. She had a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2013 and a Bothy Project Residency […]
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From Stray Poems to Collection: A Webworkshop with Mikaela Nyman
NZSA Webworkshop on 10am-12pm, Wednesday 31 July Do you have a notebook, laptop or a drawer of poems waiting to be organised and assembled into a chapbook, book, or a series, but you’re not sure how to go about it? In this workshop award-winning poet Mikaela Nyman will share tips to help you shape your […]
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Gifkins Prize Shortlist!
Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel 2024 – Shortlist announcement! Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel. Four standout manuscripts by New Zealand writers have been shortlisted for […]
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NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award
We are proud to announce the launch of the NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award which supports the completion and/or publication of new fiction by mid-career fiction writers from New Zealand. The NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award was established by novelist Tina Shaw to encourage the development of great novels by mid-career fiction writers who are working […]
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