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NZSA Wellington 2025 Books Showcase
For our end-of-year event, NZSA Wellington Branch presents one of the most in-demand events in our annual calendar: NZSA Wellington 2025 Books Showcase. Featuring fifteen books from local authors: Campbell Anderson, Tracy Farr, LP Hansen, Matt Hirshberg, Tony Hopkins, Helen Mae Innes, Tim Jones, Mary McCallum, John Mendzela, Jerry Mushin, Michael O’Leary, Jacqueline Owens, Robyn […]
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NZSA Mentor Programme 2026 – open for applications
For Writers! Apply now to be mentored by an experienced writer / industry expert and grow your writing practice. The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Mentor programme 2026 seeks applications from beginning or emerging writers, with commitment and potential, who are looking for professional development, a safe space to discuss their work, intellectual […]
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Uploading Your Ebook or Print Book to Amazon KDP, with Steff Green
Once you have formatted your manuscript, you may want to take Steff’s other practical, step-by-step module on How to Load an Ebook or Print Book on Amazon KDP. Steff Green is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of the paranormal, gothic, dark, and fantastical. She lives in New Zealand with her cantankerous drummer husband, […]
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RAWA Festival 2026
6-8 March 2026 Kia ora RAWA Readers & Writers, There’s lots happening at RAWA Festival! In this issue, you’ll find exciting updates about our brand-new website, details on ticket sales (including workshops and the festival dinner), and helpful information about accommodation options in beautiful Akaroa. It’s the perfect time to start planning your festival weekend […]
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Writing Fiction from Life, with Rajorshi Chakraborti
As writers of fiction, no matter how great a role our imaginations play in our storytelling, we’re almost always drawing on the real at the same time, in ways big and small, aware and unseen. But what would a greater alertness to this constant interplay bring to our storytelling, if our everyday self and our writing self […]
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Laureates Line Up: A Poetry Reading
Free event – Thursday 27 November, 6pm to 8pm. Refreshments will be served from 5:30pm Te Ahumairangi Ground Floor, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington https://natlib.govt.nz/events/laureates-line-up-a-poetry-reading-november-27-2025 We are excited to invite you to a really special event. Laureates Line Up is a poetry reading event featuring nearly all of […]
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Courage Day 2025 Te Whanganui-a-Tara
Each November, PEN International recognises Day of the Imprisoned Writer. To commemorate this day, the NZSA holds Courage Day, named for the writer James Courage. For Courage Day 2025, NZSA Wellington Branch has curated a diverse evening that crosses genres. The exciting programme features special guest Behrouz Bouchani and a selection of writers reading on […]
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Podcast of Charlotte Grimshaw’s 2025 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture available to listen to now
In her 2025 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture, Charlotte Grimshaw reports from the frontlines of fiction and memoir, discuss veracity, integrity and clarity in a so-called “post-truth world,” and shares ideas she’s formed about authenticity after a whole life lived in fiction. Grimshaw describes her ongoing quest for answers, including a recent personal discovery of material in […]
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Radio New Zealand – submissions for on-air review to Booksellers NZ
2026 SUBMISSIONS FOR RADIO NEW ZEALAND NINE TO NOON Authors who are publishing books in 2026 and who wish to be considered for potential review on Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme should please get in touch with Sarah Taggart at Booksellers Aotearoa NZ. Requests for submissions of February 2006 titles will […]
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Finding your ‘I’, with Pip Desmond
Writing in the first-person ‘I’ voice is common in creative non-fiction, not only in memoir but when writers tackle wider subjects too. At first glance it seems relatively easy to tell a story from our own point of view. There’s no one we know better than ourselves. The facts are already established. Surely all we […]
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Writing Action, with Paula Morris
Create compelling action with Paula Morris In fiction, scenes are shaped by consciousness (the emotional moment) and action (the dramatic moment). Sometimes, in drafts of novels and stories, we can lose sight of one or the other. This module offers close reading of excerpts from published work to explore how to build and sustain rich, […]
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Breton Dukes, winner of the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2025!
Breton Dukes is awarded the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship for 2025! The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Breton Dukes on winning the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2025 to work on a collection of connected short stories. This annual award is made possible by the […]
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