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NZ Heritage Book Awards 2019
Categories Nonfiction Book Prize – $1000 – entry fee $35 Fiction Book Prize – $1000 – entry fee $35 Poetry Prize (maximum 50 lines) – $200 – entry fee $15 Short Prose (maximum 2500 words) Prize – $200 – entry fee $15 Young Writers (Up to & including 20 years old, for writing maximum 500 words, include your age) […]
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The Divine Muses Reading
invites entries for NEW VOICES – Emerging poets competition 2019 CLOSING DATE: 2 AUGUST 2019 Results to be announced at Divine Muses Poetry Reading on National Poetry Day, 23 August 2019. Judge – Poet & Editor, Elizabeth Welsh First Prize: $200 in Unity Book’s book tokens Second Prize: $100 in Unity Book’s book tokens The competition […]
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The Skinney: one day workshop on children’s writing and publishing
The Wellington Children’s Book Association in conjunction with The Children’s Bookshop are hosting a one day workshop in children’s writing and publishing. July 21st 10-4pm at The Children’s Bookshop Kilbirnie. The day consists of intensive aspects in writing craft, understanding the children’s book marketplace and what it takes to be successful. The craft of Writing […]
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Poet Laureate Award call for nominations
Kia hiwa ra! Kia hiwa ra! The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna M?tauranga o Aotearoa is seeking nominations for the New Zealand Poet Laureate Award. Poetry is a quintessential part of New Zealand art and culture, and through the New Zealand Poet Laureate Award the government acknowledges the value that New Zealanders place […]
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Blackball Writers Retreat and Encounter
Blackball Writers Retreat and Encounter with workshop elements After the successful inaugural Blackball Readers and Writers Festival the organising co-op decided to make the festival biennial and to hold a writers retreat in the interim year, once again over Labour Weekend. This first retreat will be held from midday, Saturday 26th October to late […]
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2019 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship is for an established creative writer to spend three months or more in Menton in southern France to work on a project or projects. The successful applicant will become an Arts Foundation Laureate. Applications for the 2019 Fellowship are open until 5:00pm on Monday 1 July. New Zealand citizens and […]
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‘Disturbance’ World Premiere
OPENING Tokyo: July 2nd, 2019 through July 4th, 2019 at Musicasa. A verse novel on domestic violence comes to life on the Tokyo stage. ‘Disturbance’, the musical, tells the chilling tale of a family, a community, and a dark secret. Adapted for the stage by Rachel Walzer, ‘Disturbance’ is based on the book by Ivy […]
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Moonlight Sonata by Eileen Merriman
Unity Books Auckland invite you to the launch of Moonlight Sonata by Eileen Merriman TUESDAY, 2ND JULY 6PM Unity Books Auckland, 19 High Street, Auckland RSVP to: shop@unitybooksauckland.co.nz (by 26th June) Books will be for sale instore and Eileen will be available for signings.
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Writer’s Cafe Auckland Workshop
Let’s get writing! Have you got an idea for a story but not sure how to start getting it down on paper? We’ve teamed up with the fantastic Kathryn Burnett to run a special one-day workshop to get you writing! This workshop includes two sessions (you can book either or both): in the morning session, […]
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NZ Writers Wikipedia Workshop
As part of Word Christchurch, the Christchurch central library T?ranga will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to improve the coverage of New Zealand writers. Because the volunteer editors who contribute to Wikipedia are mostly based in Europe or the USA, articles about our writers are often brief or nonexistent. This matters, because Wikipedia is the […]
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All the Juicy Pastures: Greville Texidor and New Zealand – Book Launch
You are warmly invited to the launch of All the Juicy Pastures: Greville Texidor and New Zealand by Margot Schwass to be launched by Harry Ricketts on Thursday 13 June, 5.30pm–7pm at Vic Books 1 Kelburn Parade, Victoria University of Wellington pb, $40
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Best New Zealand Poems
Best New Zealand Poems—published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters—aims to introduce readers to leading contemporary New Zealand poets. Welcome from Chris Price Best New Zealand Poems is published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters, and aims to introduce readers—especially internationally—to leading contemporary New Zealand poets. The poems are chosen to show the […]
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