• Randell Cottage Writers Residency – deadline

    Applications Invited For Randell Cottage Writers Residency Applications are now open for the 2020 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship. The fellowship comprises a stipend, currently set at $22,000, and six months’ rent-free accommodation in one of Wellington’s oldest colonial buildings. The Trust is particularly interested in hearing from mid-career and M?ori and Pasifika […]

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  • 2019 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition

    Open exclusively to all NZSA members $500 first prize, $250 second prize, $100 third prize Opens 16 August, closes 4pm, Friday 4 October Brought to you by NZSA Auckland Branch Conditions of entry The competition is open to all NZSA members. All entries must be original and not previously published or broadcast before the competition […]

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  • NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2019 recipient

    Christchurch writer Frankie McMillan is the recipient of the NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2019 Frankie McMillan will use the fellowship to work on a novella. She says: ‘I’m thrilled and enormously grateful to be the recipient of the Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship, 2019 -2020. I intend to put the grant towards the completion of a novella […]

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  • STORYLINES JANICE MARRIOTT MENTORING AWARD

    STORYLINES JANICE MARRIOTT MENTORING AWARD Background The Storylines Janice Marriott Mentoring Award was initiated in 2019.Janice has generously sponsored this special Storylines award, prompted because of her concern to build the quality and number of junior fiction manuscripts that successfully achieve publication. Janice runs a private assessment and mentoring service called Go Write Now, accepting […]

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  • Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship

    Words Change Lives – Coveted Literary Fellowship Opens Applications Winning a writing fellowship changes the course of a writer’s life, opening doors and allowing writers to think and apply their craft. Applications for the 2020 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship are now open. Virginia Woolf advocated for a room of one’s own – and the Grimshaw Sargeson […]

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  • How We Survive: A Feminist Poetry Show

    How We Survive: A Feminist Poetry Show Lift Women’s Voices. Burn The Patriarchy Down. How We Survive is a feminist spoken word performance featuring internationally acclaimed poets Olivia Hall and Carrie Rudzinski. This two woman show presents a powerful and honest narrative on what is to be a woman living and surviving in 2019. Coming […]

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  • Recognizing Michael Morrissey & Riemke Ensing

    NZSA Auckland Branch Meeting Friday 6 September at 6.15 pm Recognizing Michael Morrissey & Riemke Ensing for their loyal and valuable contribution to NZSA since 1975. Room WT1211, level 12, AUT Tower, Cnr of Rutland and Wakefield St, City Central. The September meeting will be a special event to join Michael Morrissey and Riemke Ensing […]

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  • University of Waikato & Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence 2020

    Each year the University of Waikato invites applications for the position of Writer in Residence, tenable for twelve months from January. The salary is $52,000 jointly funded by the University of Waikato and Creative New Zealand, the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa. The position is open to poets, novelists, short story writers, dramatists, […]

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  • Michael King Writers Centre 2020 Residency

    New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2020 Writers in Residence Programme. The Michael King Writers Centre is pleased to announce that next year’s programme of residencies at the historic Signalman’s House on Takarunga Mt Victoria in Devonport, Auckland, is now open for applications. Writers awarded a residency can look forward to peaceful accommodation, the […]

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  • The Father of Octopus Wrestling Book Launch

    Canterbury University Press and Scorpio Books are delighted to invite you to the launch of The Father of Octopus Wrestling, and other small fictions By Frankie McMillan Launch speaker Tracy Farr 4pm, Saturday 31 August Scorpio Books, BNZ Centre, 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch We hope you can join us for the launch. Warm regards, Canterbury […]

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  • Te Hā Kaituhi Māori – National Māori Writers’ Hui 2019

    The theme of this year’s Biennial National Hui is Tuia Te K?rero: Weaving narratives. We are a diverse community of writers and this year our National Hui aims to showcase, honour and celebrate that diversity. Ever since Te H? began in the late 80s, the goal has been to find, support and grow more M?ori […]

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  • CNZ / VUW Residency

    EMERGING PASIFIKA WRITER RESIDENCY AT VICTORIA UNIVERSITY The International Institute of Modern Letters is delighted to announce applications are once again open for the CNZ / VUW Residency for an Emerging Pasifika Writer in 2020. The application deadline is 30 September 2019. The current inaugural resident is playwright Leki Jackson-Bourke. Leki says of the Residency: […]

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