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Catherine Chidgey Webworkshop – The Short Story: Character, setting, voice
10am-12:30pm, Wednesday 23 October This workshop guides you through a range of bespoke writing exercises in order to generate the raw material for a short story. First you will identify a character and begin to flesh them out through consideration of a central desire as well as a problem or obstacle they must face. You […]
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CLNZ | NZSA Research Grant Recipients 2024!
Media Release August 21, 2024 Announcing the CLNZ | NZSA Research Grant Recipients 2024 Four cash grants awarded to support local writers The 2024 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa PEN NZ Inc (NZSA) Research Grants have been awarded to four writers in Aotearoa. The […]
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Northwrite 2024 Connecting Your Writing with Readers
Run by Northland Branch NZSA (PEN Inc) Bookings open Saturday 3rd August DATE: Saturday 19th October 2024 TIME: Registration opens at 8:30 am, NorthWrite event runs from 9:00 am to 3:45 pm LOCATION: Cornerstone Whare Karakia o Manako, 144 Kerikeri Rd, Kerikeri (entrance is off Fairy Pools Lane). FEATURING THE FOLLOWING WORKSHOPS Research for Writers: Zana Bell How […]
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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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Perfect Online Pitch opens for the second year!
Searching for a publisher for your completed manuscript? Sign up between 3pm Monday 5 August to midnight Wednesday 7 August. This is your opportunity to pitch your (polished) manuscript to a leading New Zealand publisher and, if successful, to submit your full manuscript. All genres are accepted as long as the work is relevant to the […]
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TikTok – What is it and how could it benefit your writing career?
NZSA Webworkshop on 10am – 12pm, Wednesday 18 September Don’t let anyone tell you TikTok is just for kids when it’s the fastest-growing social media platform in history! If you want to know how TikTok can be used to grow presence online, then sign up to this Webworkshop. Seth Zorn from The Classroom will provide […]
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LOVE: TRIED, TRUE AND TOXIC
Join The Cuba Press and NZSA Wellington Branch on Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day, Friday 23 August 2024, at The Undercurrent for LOVE: TRIED, TRUE & TOXIC – Pōneke poets on one of life’s great perplexities. Featuring Simon Sweetman • Danny Bultitude • Zia Ravenscroft • Sadie Lawrence Maggie Rainey-Smith • Khadro Mohamed • Richard […]
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NZSA CompleteMS 2024 results -new stories by talented writers win NZSA manuscript assessments
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc announce the writers who will receive manuscript guidance through this year’s CompleteMS programme. Powerful manuscripts crafted by thirteen accomplished writers, have been chosen to take part in this year’s programme. Writers spend months polishing their stories for entry into this competitive […]
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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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