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Nelson: 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 Little Acorn Café at Saxton Lodge Motel, corner of Saxton Road and Main Road Stoke. The next meeting will be on Wednesday 1 […]
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Call For Submissions – Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand: A new anthology
The editors seek submissions in fiction and nonfiction, poetry and visual art. Submissions are open through 31 October 2019. Please read the description and send your submission to: wearenzanthology[at]gmail[dot]com About the book: This anthology of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and visual art celebrates the voices, experiences and ethnicities that form contemporary New Zealand. Its editors […]
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Women & Leadership New Zealand Scholarships
Residual funding is available to support the development of female leaders across NZ’s writers sector. The initiative is providing women with grants of between $2,500 and $8,000 to enable participation in one of three programs that cover such things as reinforcing resilience and wellbeing, engaging with challenge and conflict, creating future focus, leading authentically and […]
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In Conversation: Liz Nugent and Fiona Sussman
Join Ngaio Marsh Awards and Te Manawa for a special evening with two award-winning storytellers. Liz Nugent, a #1 bestselling author who was named Irish Woman of the Year in Literature in 2017, chats to Auckland writer Fiona Sussman about life on and off the page, from dealing with the ongoing effects of a childhood […]
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By Sea Mouths Speaking: Collected Prose and Poetry 1973-2018 DENYS TRUSSELL BOOK LAUNCH 5pm Saturday 19.10.19 Grey Lynn Library
Brick Row Publishing Company invites you to the launch of BY SEA MOUTHS SPEAKING Collected Poems 1973- 2018 and Related Prose by Denys Trussell to be launched by Alistair Paterson ONZM poet, editor and prose-writer, editor of Poetry New Zealand 1993–2015. 5pm Saturday, October 19th 2019 at Grey Lynn Library Hall, 474 Great […]
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CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants 2019 Awarded
“THE OVERALL QUALITY WAS HIGH AND THE UPPER END OF THE LIST STRONG. WE COULD HAVE EASILY ADDED MANY MORE TO THE SHORTLIST.” – DAVID VEART, 2019 JUDGING PANEL CONVENER The 2019 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Research Grants have been awarded. The $5,000 grants support New Zealand […]
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Emerging Māori Writer’s Residency VUW – deadline
Victoria University of Wellington announces Emerging M?ori Writer’s Residency To mark Te Wiki o te Reo M?ori, Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce the inaugural Emerging M?ori Writer’s Residency for 2020. The Residency, supported by Creative New Zealand, runs for three months and includes a writing room, […]
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Tauranga Arts Festival
Tauranga Arts Festival is running a series of writing workshops over Labour Weekend – tickets available through the festival website (click on the titles below to access a description of each workshop). Writing for Middle Readers: Kate De Goldi https://www.taurangafestival.co.nz/event/boundary-riding-workshop-320 When: 9.30am-3.30pm; Saturday, October 26 Where: The Terraces, Baycourt Theatre, Durham St, Tauranga Cost: $120. […]
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BOOK LAUNCH IN NELSON
BOOK LAUNCH IN NELSON The launch of David Briggs’ latest novel, The Claim, will be held at Page & Blackmore bookshop on Trafalgar Street, Nelson, on Thursday 7 November at 5.30 pm. The book was long-listed in 2018 for the New Zealand Michael Gifkins prize for an unpublished novel. It was subsequently published in the […]
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Hawke’s Bay Writers’ Hub
All writers are welcome to join our monthly meet-ups on the last Sunday of the month. We meet at Number 5 Cafe and Larder, 248 State Highway 2, Mangateretere (near Golflands, between Clive and Hastings) 11.30 am to 1.30 pm. Come along to talk about your writing, share tips and network.
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Manawatu Writers’ Hub
The Manawatu Writers’ Hub meets on the second Monday of every month (except January) at Palmerston North Public Library, from 5.30 to 7.30. All NZSA writers and anyone interested are welcome to come along.
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