• 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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  • Under Rough Ridge: A Writer’s Retreat

    THE  RETREAT What’s worth saving in this life? How do we go about saving what we love, and what is the writer’s role? Come to stay and write in Central Otago in the beautiful Ida Valley this September. Immerse yourself in history and the land. Be inspired to write, and learn new techniques. At the heart […]

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  • Poetry Workshop with Chris Tse

    Chris Tse says, “I stumbled into poetry as a teenager, determined to spill every ounce of my angst about the world out on the page. Not much has changed, except now there’s a chance someone other than my friends will read it. The years of trial and error and working on my craft has taught […]

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  • Creative Prose Workshop with Paula Morris: The Point of Point of View

    Paula Morris is returning to New Zealand from her current Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in France to give you some tips on how to tackle that tricky ‘point of view’ thing that vexes many a fledgling writer (well, she’s also coming back to do other things too, but that sort of spoils a good hook). […]

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