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BOOK LAUNCH IN BLENHEIM
June Bowen will be launching her novel Gone, Brother, Gone at Blenheim Public Library, 33 Arthur Street, on Wednesday 2 December at 7.30 pm. Sibling rivalry is not a problem for Ellen and Alistair. In a family where money is god and time is profit, they have always been there for each other. When Ellen […]
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Cooney Insurance Short Story Competition
The Cooney Insurance Short Story Competition is Now Open! Organised by the Cambridge Autumn Festival, prizes are awarded at a gala event Thursday 20 April 2017, during the Autumn Festival. FIRST PRIZE: $1,000 SECOND PRIZE: $500 THIRD PRIZE: $250 The theme is ‘A Stranger. Word limit is 1500 words. Entries close 28 February 2017. To […]
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Ó Bhéal Five Words International Poetry Competition
Competition Overview At around noon each Tuesday (GMT), from the 14th of April 2015, five words are posted on this competition page. Entrants have one week to compose and submit poems that include all five words given for the week. The competition runs for 41 weeks, until the last week of January 2016. Prize A […]
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Hourglass Literary Magazine Competition
Awards: The winning entry in each category (short story, essay and poem) will receive US$1000 as prize money, apart from a symbolic artifact (clepsydra), digital stamp and diploma. Winning entries will be published in the first issue of the Hourglass Literary Magazine, in the original language (English / BCMS languages) and translated (BCMS/English). Authors will […]
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Storylines Notable Book Awards
Since 2000 Storylines has produced a list of outstanding books for children and young people published in New Zealand by New Zealand authors and illustrators during the previous calendar year. The decision to compile this annual list of Notable Books was based on a desire to ensure that children, parents/grandparents, teachers, librarians and the public […]
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Saving? Endangered Species Int’l Playwriting Prize
Write a Ten Minute Play about an Endangered Species for a Staged Reading to benefit The Jane Goodall Institute on April 4, 2016 @ The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles, California Choose your species from any site that lists endangered species -for example: IUCN Red List – iucnredlist.org/ CITES – cites.org/eng/gallery/species/index.html World Wildlife Fund – worldwildlife.org/species More
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Screenwriting workshop with Tony Etchells
Tony Etchells will be holding a workshop on screenwriting on Saturday 28 November, 9 am – 12.30 pm, in the Constance Barnicoat Room, Richmond Library. Since his first commission for the BBC’s medical drama Casualty, Tony Etchells has logged nearly two decades of practical experience as a full-time professional screenwriter for television. Cutting his teeth on […]
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So, You’re Writing Your First Feature…?
5.30pm to 7pm, Wed 18 Nov, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington For our last Wellington Writers’ Room of 2015, we bring you the most popular discussion from our Auckland Writers’ Room series. Writers Briar Grace-Smith, Max Currie and Emily Perkins get together with Ken Duncum to discuss the experience of writing […]
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True Stories Told Live – Waiting
6pm, Sat 14 Nov. City Gallery Wellington Let our master storytellers entertain and inspire you at the New Zealand Book Council’s cabaret-style storytelling event, True Stories Told Live. Susanna Andrew, Emma Barnes, Tracy Farr, Puawai Cairns and Max Rashbrooke will share tales on the theme of waiting. This is unabashed storytelling, totally unscripted, where anything […]
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Poems in the Waiting Room 2016 Poetry Competition
The 2016 poetry competition will be judged by Pat White. 1st prize $175, 2nd prize $150, 3rd prize $125, The UBS Dunedin best unplaced Dunedin poet prize $75 book token. More Deadline 29 February
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The Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2016
Open to residents of Australia and New Zealand, the prize is for short stories up to 3,000 words having an island, or island-resonant, theme. The competition, now entering its seventh year, is run by Forty South Publishing, the largest book publisher in Tasmania and publisher of the prestigious Tasmania 40°South magazine. The winner will receive […]
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William Saroyan International Prize for Writing 2015
Submissions are now being accepted for the seventh William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. This award, given by Stanford University Libraries in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, recognizes newly published works of fiction and nonfiction with a $5,000 award for the winner in each category. The prize is designed to encourage new or emerging […]
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