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Literary Lounge: The New Writing and Publishing Landscape
Tuesday 2 July 12 noon Whare W?nanga at Central City Library 44-46 Lorne St FREE EVENT NZSA Auckland Branch is proud to bring you the Literary Lounge Series this June and July. ‘The New Writing and Publishing Landscape’ will feature NZSA CEO and One Tree House publisher, Jenny Nagle, with Director and founder of the […]
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Literary Lounge: Doctors Who Write
Tuesday 18 June 12 noon Whare W?nanga at Central City Library 44-46 Lorne St FREE EVENT NZSA Auckland Branch is proud to bring you the Literary Lounge Series this June and July. At the ‘Doctors Who Write’ event Dr Sharad Paul and Dr Art Nahill will discuss the ups and downs of writing as a […]
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Literary Lounge: Journalists in Conversation
Tuesday 11 June 12 noon Whare W?nanga at Central City Library 44-46 Lorne St FREE EVENT NZSA Auckland Branch is proud to bring you the Literary Lounge Series this June and July. At the ‘Journalists in Conversation’ event Adam Dudding and Steve Braunias will talk about being journalists and authors in Aotearoa. Award-winning feature writer […]
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Literary Lounge: Graphic Representation
Tuesday 4 June 12 noon Whare W?nanga at Central City Library 44-46 Lorne St FREE EVENT NZSA Auckland Branch is proud to bring you the Literary Lounge Series this June and July. At the ‘Graphic Representation’ event Zak Waipara and Li Chen discuss comics, illustration and animation. Li Chen is an Auckland based comic artist […]
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CompleteMS – open for applications
Do you have a completed draft of your manuscript that is ready to take to that next level? Apply now for the NZSA CompleteMS Manuscript Assessment Programme – a programme that provides writers with essential critical feedback on an advanced work, moving it closer to publication. The NZSA CompleteMS manuscript assessment programme is now open […]
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Shirley Smith: An Examined Life – Book Launch
You are warmly invited to the launch of Shirley Smith: An Examined Life by Sarah Gaitanos to be launched by Hon. Grant Robertson on Monday 10 June, 6pm–7.30pm at Unity Books, 57 Willis St, Wellington. All welcome. pb, $40 For more information, click here!
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Landfall Essay Competition
About the competition In 1997 Landfall celebrated its 50th anniversary. To mark the occasion, then editor Chris Price launched the Landfall Essay Competition, sponsored by Otago University Press. From 2009, the competition has been an annual award. The purpose of the competition remains as it was at the outset: to encourage New Zealand writers to think aloud about New […]
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Staunch Book Prize
Celebrating great thriller writing! The 2019 Staunch Book Prize will be awarded to a novel in the thriller genre in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered. What are we looking for? Well-written, exciting thrillers that offer an alternative narrative to stories based around violence to women. That doesn’t mean we’re […]
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Sandra Hyde Romance Writers Trust
The Sandra Hyde Romance Writers Trust is offering a scholarship to the Romance Writers of NZ annual conference. 2019 applications are OPEN now, and close Sunday, May 19 with the successful applicant notified by May 25th. Romance author Sandra Hyde (writing as Sandra Hyatt) passed away suddenly on August 21, 2011. Because so many have been touched by Sandra’s life, either […]
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StylusLit submission deadline
StylusLit is an Australian, bi-annual online literary journal, which publishes poetry, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative non-fiction, interviews and reviews in March and September. Only unpublished work is accepted, that is, the work has not appeared on radio or TV, and has not been published digitally (any website) or in print. Copyright remains with the author. Acknowledgment by […]
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Various University of Otago Fellowships
Applications for the Fellowships close on 1 June each year. Application – Robert Burns Fellowship Application – Frances Hodgkins Fellowship Application – Mozart Fellowship Application – Otago College of Education/Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence Application – Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance Awarding the Fellowships For more information, click here!
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The New Zealand Poetry Society – International Poetry Competition 2019
The 2019 New Zealand Poetry Society Competition is now open. Entries must be received by 31 May 2019. Our competition has multiple options for entering, depending on your age and the poetry genre (verse or haiku). The links below take you to all the forms you need, as well as the instructions for entering each […]
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