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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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Creative Hub Charity Fund-Raiser
Creative Hub Charity Fund-Raiser … 6.30pm to 9.30pm, 22nd August 2018 All welcome – buy tickets below! Venue: THE FRESH FACTORY, 6/10 Nikau Street, Eden Terrace, 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 […]
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Adam Dudding: In Conversation
Adam Dudding is a successful reporter and author whose book, My Father’s Island: A Memoir, won the E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction 2017 (Adam’s father, Robin Dudding, was a famous NZ literary editor). Join Adam as he discusses his book, his father, NZ literary magazines and much more with fellow […]
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Readers and Writers Festival for the West Coast
Readers and Writers Festival for the West Coast The inaugural Blackball Readers and Writers Festival will be launched at Labour Weekend, running from midday Saturday 20th to Sunday evening. Part of the transition of the Coast from extraction, the festival uses the underground mine as a model to apply to literature. Thus there will be a tunnelling […]
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Divine Muses XV Reading
Divine Muses XV Reading will be held on National Poetry Day, 24 August 2018. The Divine Muses Readings were established by Siobhan Harvey in 2004 to coincide with National Poetry Day. Now in its fifteenth year the evening provides an opportunity to hear leading New Zealand poets read their own poetry. Riemke Ensing – Siobhan Harvey – Dr […]
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Book launch, Tama Pitara by Trish Gray
Nau mai, haere mai! Join Trish Gray for the launch of her new children’s picture book, Tama P?tara (Bug Boy), illustrated by Katherine Hamilton. Tama P?tara is a children’s picture book aimed at readers aged 8 to 10, written in Te Reo M?ori with an English translation plus a glossary. Tama P?tara will be launched at Trentham School Library on Friday […]
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New Zealand Heritage Book & Writing Awards
2018 Competition open Entry is open from 1 July to 20 August Enter here Strength From Struggle – remembering our courageous communities There are four categories Non-fiction book. (prize $1000), judged by Tom Brooking. Novel or collection of short stories (prize $1000), judged by Fiona Farrell who won the fiction award last year. Short prose […]
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Going West
New Zealand’s leading authors, poets, playwrights and musicians offer audiences a fortnight of fresh ideas, future-thinking, language and laughter at the 23rd Going West Writers Festival 1-16 September. The Festival Weekend’s Opening Night, voted By Metro as Best in Auckland last year, features the first New Zealand performance by Tu, the multimedia collaboration of musician Moana Maniapoto and electronic music producer Paddy […]
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Poetry Reading + Open Mic – a Monday warm up event for National Poetry Day
Join New Zealand Society of Authors (Wellington) as we celebrate ahead of Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2018. The event will kick off with readings from poets from our branch: Adrienne Jansen, Janis Freegard, Kerry Hines, Peter Farrell, Reinhold Kittelberger, John Ewen, Trish Harris, Marg Ranger, Keith Johnson and Vivienne Ball. There will also be an open mic on the […]
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From Wellington to the World: Kate Duignan and Rajorshi Chakraborti
From Wellington to the World: Kate Duignan and Rajorshi Chakraborti Kate Duignan’s new novel The New Ships is set in Wellington after the fall of the Twin Towers, and traverses London, Europe and the Indian subcontinent. In Rajorshi Chakraborti’s fifth novel The Man Who Would Not See a man travels from small-town India to Wellington […]
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