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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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BOOK LAUNCH IN NELSON
BOOK LAUNCH IN NELSON John Ewan’s book about his late wife, The Audrey Story: from back country to Beehive and beyond, will be launched at Page & Blackmore Booksellers, 254 Trafalgar Street, Nelson, on Tuesday 5 February at 5.30 pm. The book is not about breaking gender barriers or smashing glass ceilings, leveraging degrees or […]
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The First Pages Prize – deadline
The First Pages Prize is open for submissions for the first five pages (1,250 words maximum) of a longer work of fiction or creative non-fiction. Three winners each receive partial developmental editing to support the completion of their manuscript and cash awards of US$1,000 for 1st place, US$750 for 2nd, and US$500 for 3rd. In addition, the 1st and […]
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2019 Pikihuia Awards
2019 Pikihuia Awards The Pikihuia Awards (formerly the Huia Short Story Awards) is a biennial competition that started in 1995 to discover and recognise M?ori writers. The awards encourage diverse M?ori viewpoints and writing in both te reo M?ori and English. THE AWARDS First-time Writer in te reo M?ori First-time Writer in English Emerging Writer […]
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Page & Blackmore Short Story Competition – deadline
The Top of the South Branch ?of ?the ?New Zealand Society of Authors Page & Blackmore ? Short Story Competition Our Annual Short Story Competition ? opens for entries on 1st January 2019 ?? ?The Top of the South branch of New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) organises an annual Short Story Competition. Previously the sole sponsor […]
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THE 2019 TEXT PRIZE! – deadline
Attention, writers of Australia and New Zealand: there’s just one month to go! Mark 7 January 2019 in your diaries, because that is the date entries open for the $10,000 Annual Text Prize for Young Adult & Children’s Writing. Full details and the entry form are here. Submissions open 7 January and close 8 February, 2019. […]
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The Cooney Insurance Short Story Competition 2019 – deadline
The Cooney Insurance Short Story Competition 2019 is Now Open! • The competition is organised by the Cambridge Autumn Festival, and there are great prizes to be won… FIRST PRIZE: $1,000 SECOND PRIZE: $500 THIRD PRIZE: $250 • Word limit is 1500 words. It’s open to all ages, and entries close 31 January 2019. • […]
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POETS IN THE PARK, NELSON
This special event takes place on Wednesday 23 January, 6 pm, at the Botanical Reserve, Milton Street, Nelson. The meeting place is half way between the road and the start of Centre of New Zealand track. Bring a picnic tea, read a poem (your own or one you love), sing a song (acoustic only), or just come and […]
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