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  • OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN’S WRITERS – Storylines & NZSA – Meet Australian agents on zoom

    Posted on 3 October 2022

    On Saturday 8 October at 3pm Storylines, in association with NZSA, hosts a webinar for children’s and young adult writers and illustrators featuring two key publishing figures in Australia:  leading literary agent Alex Adsett, and one of Australia’s most influential children’s publishers Clare Hallifax. This is a unique opportunity for authors and illustrators to learn what publishers look […]

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  • 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel: deadline 14 Oct

    Posted on 28 September 2022

    Text Publishing and the NZ Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) are  thrilled to announce entries for the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel are now open. The Prize seeks fiction manuscripts by published and unpublished authors who are citizens or permanent residents of New Zealand. It celebrates […]

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  • More than a roof – live poetry in Paekakariki  Sunday 16 October, 4pm, St Peters Village Hall, Beach Rd

    Posted on 27 September 2022

    Coffee, cake and poems. What a great way to spend an hour on a Sunday afternoon! More than a roof brings together diverse writers and perspectives on our current housing crisis – from the homeless to the renter to the home owner, and many others as well. Kāpiti poets Apirana Taylor, Rob Hack and Gill Ward […]

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  • Celebrate the launch of Roll & Break, by Adrienne Jansen Saturday 8 October 2022, 4pm, Te Auaha, 65 Dixon Street, Wellington

    Posted on 27 September 2022

      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

    Posted on 27 September 2022

    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!

    Posted on 23 September 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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  • Mila and the Bone Man – Lauren Roche Book launch – all welcome Oct 4, 6pm

    Posted on 19 September 2022

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  • Read NZ Te Pou Muramura 2022 Address – Dame Fiona Kidman

    Posted on 12 September 2022

    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

    Posted on 9 September 2022

    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

    Posted on 9 September 2022

    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

    Posted on 30 August 2022

    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

    Posted on 26 August 2022

    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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