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Celebrate the launch of Roll & Break, by Adrienne Jansen Saturday 8 October 2022, 4pm, Te Auaha, 65 Dixon Street, Wellington
Celebrate the launch of Roll & Break, by Adrienne Jansen Roll & Break is a collection of poems about a beach. But they’re not your usual beach poems. An African refugee staggers from the ocean; Van Gogh is painting boatsheds; a violinist plays in a dinghy to an audience of gulls. Roll & Break is a […]
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The 2022 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition open for entries
Open exclusively to NZSA members $500 first prize, $250 second prize, $100 third prize Opens 21 September, closes 4pm, Monday 24 October Only $10 to enter Enter online from Wednesday 21 September! TERMS AND CONDITIONS ● The competition is open exclusively to all NZSA members. ● All entries must be original and not previously published […]
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Tim Jones, Recipient of the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2022!
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Tim Jones on winning the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2022! Tim Jones is a Pākehā author who lives in Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington. He received the NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature in 2010, and his recent books […]
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Read NZ Te Pou Muramura 2022 Address – Dame Fiona Kidman
Event details 6.30pm, November 9, 2022 National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa in Wellington / Te Whanganui-a-Tara Find out more about Dame Fiona Kidman Find out more about previous Pānui Read NZ Te Pou Muramura is delighted to announce Dame Fiona Kidman as the author that will deliver its 2022 address […]
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Book Launch Invite | Peninsula by Sharron Came
You are warmly invited to the launch of Peninsula by Sharron Came at Unity Books in Wellington, 57 Willis Street, on Thursday 22 September 6pm.All welcome!
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$25,000 CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award awarded to Ōtepoti Writer and Poet Iona Winter
Iona Winter has been awarded the 2022 Copyright Licensing New Zealand and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) $25,000 Writers’ Award for her creative non-fiction project, ‘A counter of moons’. ‘A counter of moons’ reconsiders and reimagines how we deal with suicide bereavement. Grounded in Iona Winter’s personal […]
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Writers at Lunchtime
Writers at Lunchtime takes place 11.30 am – 1.30 pm on the first Wednesday of every month (except January). There is usually a guest speaker at 12.30 pm. The venue is the café at Nelson Golf Club, 38 Bolt Road, Tahunanui. The café is upstairs and there is a lift available. Everyone is welcome. Gold […]
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Four cash grants awarded to support local writers
The 2022 Copyright Licensing New Zealand and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Research Grants have been awarded to four writers in Aotearoa. The $5,000 grants support local writers who wish to undertake research for a fiction or non-fiction writing project. The selection panel, Deborah Challinor, David Eggleton and […]
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NZSA Regional Roadshow New Plymouth Taranaki – Saturday 10 September
We are pleased to be coming to Ngāmotu, Taranaki for our fifth Regional Roadshow of 2022! 9am – 6pm, Saturday 10 September, St Joseph’s Catholic Church hall, 106 Powderham Street, (alternatively 151 Devon Street West). What’s on: Welcome with Vanda Symon Opening Kōrero: Witi Ihimaera in conversation with Vanda Symon Workshops: Poetry with Rob Hack; […]
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Book launch – Kāwai: For Such a Time as This Book
Celebrate the release of Monty Soutar’s new novel, Kāwai: For Such a Time as This When: 6pm, Tuesday 13 September Where: Ellen Melville Hall, 2 Freyberg Place, Auckland CBD Please RSVP Lise Clayton at Bateman Books lisec@bateman.co.nz Find out more about the novel and read a sample HERE
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NZSA Regional Roadshow Napier Ahuriri – Saturday 20 August
We are coming to Ahuriri for our fourth Regional Roadshow of 2022! JOIN US for an invigorating day of professional development offering keynote sessions, workshops, masterclasses, and discussions, with a catered morning tea/coffee and lunch. 9am – 5.30pm, Saturday 20 August, East Pier Hotel, 50 Nelson Quay, Ahuriri, Napier 4110. Here’s what’s on: Welcome with […]
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