• ADAM NZ PLAY AWARD

     ADAM NZ PLAY AWARD  Submissions are open for the 2019 Adam NZ Play Award. Awards may be given in the following categories: Best Play Best Play by a M?ori Playwright Best Play by a Pasifika Playwright Best Play by a Woman Playwright Plays must not have had a professional production (pending productions, readings, workshops or […]

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  • BROWN INK AND ASIAN INK

    BROWN INK AND ASIAN INK Submissions are now open for our Brown Ink and Asian Ink development programmes. We’re looking for M?ori, Asian and Pasifika writers with the best new, exciting and original plays. Selected plays will receive a day-long script clinic with a professional director, cast and script advisor. Submissions are open to any New Zealand […]

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  • University Bookshop Otago Summer Writer in Residence – deadline

    Applications are now open (20 July 2018 – 20 August 2018) for the 2019 University Bookshop Otago Summer Writer in Residence in association with Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage Trust – can you help spread the word? The 2019 residency runs 07 January 2019 – 16 February 2019, and provides an emerging writer with 6 weeks […]

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  • William Taylor Memorial Heartland Short Story competition – deadline

    Calling all writers The Taumarunui Writers’ Group is calling all writers in New Zealand to enter the William Taylor Memorial Heartland Short Story competition. Entries close on 30 September 2018 so there is time to put your fingers to the keyboard and get creative. Entries may be fiction in any genre and should be no […]

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  • Poetry on the Beach

    Poetry on the Beach Come and write your own, original poem on the sand at Orewa Beach, and have your poem featured in our drone movie of the event. Poetry on the Beach is a wrap up event for National Poetry Day, and will be held on Saturday 25th August 2018, 11:30am-1:30pm, at Moana Reserve, […]

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  • BESOTTED – A NEW MUSICAL SHOW FOR NELSON

    BESOTTED – A NEW MUSICAL SHOW FOR NELSON Besotted is a deliciously delusional opera by Top of the South branch member Michelanne Forster. What happens when an opera lover is struck by De Clerambault’s Syndrome, (popularly known as erotomania)? Besotted. A play about delusion, drama, passion, and plumbers. Besotted is a fifty-minute comic opera written to show off the […]

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  • Creative Hub Charity Fund-Raiser

    Creative Hub Charity Fund-Raiser 6.30pm to 9.30pm, 22 Aug All welcome – tickets on sale now Venue: THE FRESH FACTORY, 6/10 Nikau S, Eden Tce, Auckland / Tamaki Makaurau A fantastic night of great speakers, food and wine, raffles, silent auctions and live auctions with awesome items you help the next generation of story-tellers fro Aotearoa. […]

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  • 2019 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS Copy

    ENTRIES NOW OPEN FOR 2019 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS  The New Zealand Book Awards Trust has announced that submissions are now open for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, which promote excellence in and provide recognition for, the best books published annually. Adult books published between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018 will be considered for the 2019 awards.  There are two submission […]

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  • 2019 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS

        2 AUGUST 2018   ENTRIES NOW OPEN FOR 2019 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS  The New Zealand Book Awards Trust has announced that submissions are now open for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, which promote excellence in and provide recognition for, the best books published annually. Adult books published between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018 will be considered for […]

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  • The OutStanding Short Story Competition – deadline

    The OutStanding Short Story Competition is Australia’s premier creative writing event for the LGBTQIA+ community of Australia and New Zealand. Our 2018 competition is currently open and closes at midnight on 1 September 2018. We accept short stories relevant to the LGBTIQA+ community, on the theme “Next Big Thing”. Our competition is FREE to enter, […]

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  • kiss me hardy issue #2 – submission deadline

    kiss me hardy issue #2 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS kiss me hardy is a Nelson-based platform for creative writing, experimental literature and visual arts. The journal began as a publishing opportunity to showcase the works of NMIT creative writing and arts students. You can see issue #1 here. In 2018, we’re opening up submissions to emerging […]

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  • Ng? Kupu Waikato: An anthology of Waikato poetry – submission deadline

                                            CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS                            Ng? Kupu Waikato: An anthology of Waikato poetry.   Submission closing date is 31 August, 2018.   Open to anyone who has lived in the Waikato region for at least one year.   No more than five poems, please. Preferably NOT previously published, although this is not hard and […]

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