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Emerging writer wins trans-Tasman mentorship with publisher
The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc), Hachette Australia and Hachette New Zealand are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 NZSA / Hachette Mentor Program. Congratulations to J S Michaels who has been chosen to work on a new draft of her manuscript under Hachette Australia’s guidance, receiving constructive critique on the manuscript from […]
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Auckland Branch Hosts Fiona Sussman
Winner of the 2018 Sunday Star Times NZ Short Story Award, 2017 Ngaio Marsh Award Winner and internationally published novelist, Fiona Sussman began her working life as a family doctor. Come and hear about the journey to a writer’s life of this successful Auckland author in the first of the NZSA Auckland Branch meetings for […]
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Linda Burgess: A Portfolio Career in Writing
Join us for NZSA Wellington Branch’s first event of 2019, at the new (earlier!) start time of 6pm (cash bar and snacks from 5.30pm). Short story writer, script and television writer, novelist and reviewer Linda Burgess will talk about a portfolio career in writing – the advantage of enjoying a variety of writing tasks, and […]
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SARAH BROOM POETRY PRIZE – deadline
SARAH BROOM POETRY PRIZE The Sarah Broom Poetry Prize is one of New Zealand’s most valuable poetry prizes and aims to recognise and financially support new work from an emerging or established New Zealand poet. In 2019, the prize is an award of $10,000. Poets are required to submit six to eight poems (at least […]
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Aesthetica Creative Writing Award – deadline
Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is Open for Entries The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that is a hotbed for new talent in Poetry and Short Fiction. The Prize, now in its 13th year, is organised by the art and culture publication, Aesthetica Magazine. Every year, we support both emerging and established […]
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Book launch – Nelson
BOOK LAUNCH IN NELSON You are warmly invited to the launch of Brin Murray’s YA novel Crosstrees, the second book in the critically acclaimed Children of the Furnace series. The launch takes place on Thursday 21 February, 5.30 pm, at Page & Blackmore booksellers, 254 Trafalgar Street, Nelson. Reviews for Crosstrees: ‘A compelling plot and […]
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Funding of up to $7,000 for writers sector women available
Funding of up to $7,000 for writers sector women available Building on the significant developmental momentum achieved in 2018, Women & Leadership Australia is administering a national initiative to support the development of female leaders across NZ’s writers sector. The campaign is providing women with grants of between $3,000 and $7,000 to enable participation in […]
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same same but different 2019
2019 Festival Programme Download the full programme This is our fourth Same same but different Writers Festival. We’re growing up and growing out. This year, we have events at both the Auckland Art Gallery and the Basement Theatre, as well as our home nest at AUT University. We encompass a queer film screening and the only LGBTQI writing contest in Aotearoa (which […]
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Rotorua Noir
NZ’s First Ever Crime Writing Festival Rotorua Noir is the first crime writing festival to be held in New Zealand and will coincide with the tenth year of the prestigious Ngaio Marsh Award. It is a will bring together for the first time the cream of the New Zealand crime writing scene along with some serious talent […]
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Wild Writing Dunedin
Entries should be an observation or declaration describing a moment in nature that moves you to put pen to paper – something you’ve experienced, a sense of place, a description or statement, limited to 250 words maximum. Entries close 14 February 2019. Dunedin is a city rich with nature, bounded by wild habitats and landscapes, […]
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Paper Road Press – submissions
SUBMISSIONS Paper Road Press specialises in science fiction and fantasy, all things in between – and things from the fringes, too; the familiar made unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SFFH NOVELLAS Paper Road Press is open to submissions of novella manuscripts from 1 January to 1 April 2019. I am looking for […]
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Playwrights b4 25
Submissions close 1 April 2019. Playmarket with Auckland Live presents Playwrights b4 25 Change the world – write a play! Playmarket is again searching for the best plays from young New Zealand writers. If you’re under 25 and you have a new play, we’d love to read it. We’re looking for writers under 25 who […]
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