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NELSON LIVE POETS & MOTUEKA LIVE POETS
Cat Woodward will be the guest poet at the next meetings of both Nelson Live Poets and Motueka Live Poets. Nelson Live Poets now meet at the Liquid Bar, 75 Bridge St, Nelson. Their next meeting is on Monday 19 March, and they plan to start at 7.30 pm to allow the out-of-towners time to […]
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NELSON LIVE POETS & MOTUEKA LIVE POETS
Cat Woodward will be the guest poet at the next meetings of both Nelson Live Poets and Motueka Live Poets. Nelson Live Poets now meet at the Liquid Bar, 75 Bridge St, Nelson. Their next meeting is on Monday 19 March, and they plan to start at 7.30 pm to allow the out-of-towners time to […]
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Sarah Broom Poetry Prize 2018
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS AND GUIDELINES Entries open on 19 February and close on 11 March 2018 Now in its fifth year, we are pleased to again showcase and celebrate New Zealand poetry during Auckland Writers Festival week in May 2018. Shortlisted poets will read from their work at a dedicated poetry event hosted by the Sarah […]
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True (Publishing) Stories
Join NZ Society of Authors Wellington Branch for our first meeting for 2018, in our fabulous new Vic Books Pipitea venue, for True (Publishing) Stories: Wellington writers telling short, sharp, true stories of their paths to publication. Hear from a range of authors (aka most of our Committee members) about how they got published. There’ll […]
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2018 NZMFF MOUNTAIN BOOK COMPETITION CATEGORIES
2018 NZMFF MOUNTAIN BOOK COMPETITION CATEGORIES You can enter literature in any of the following categories; Magazine Article Award – articles or short form essays with mountaineering, climbing or adventure themes under 3,000 words. Articles may be fiction or non-fiction and be submitted by individual authors, publishers or editors. Articles must have NOT been previously printed […]
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Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency
The Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency is for a mid-career or senior New Zealand writer of Pacific heritage to carry out work on a creative writing project exploring Pacific identity, culture or history at the University of Hawai‘i for three months. One award valued at NZ$30,000 is granted each year, towards three months of writing. Closing […]
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Daphne Clair de Jong First Kiss Contest
The Daphne Clair de Jong First Kiss Contest is named for long time RWNZ member Daphne Clair de Jong. The Northland branch of NZSA have offered the first and only prize of $150 for the best first kiss scene. OPENING DATE: 01 February, 2018. Entries via website only CLOSING DATE: Midnight New Zealand […]
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Staunch Book Prize
The inaugural Staunch Book Prize will be awarded to the author of a novel in the thriller genre in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered. Sounds refreshing? It would be. It’s way past time for something more original. As violence against women in fiction reaches a ridiculous high, the Staunch Book Prize invites thriller […]
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National Flash Fiction Day 2018
National Flash Fiction Day Celebrations 22 June 2018 in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and Kawakawa Guest speakers include Sue Wootton, Vaughan Rapatahana, Patrick Pink, Tim Jones, Jac Jenkins, Jennifer Lane and Wellington Mayor, Justin Lester Flash fiction and micros NFFD Awards – Regional Awards Spot prizes Listen to the winning stories from the 2018 NFFD competitions. All […]
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Book Launch – Auckland – Catherine Robertson
Celebrate this delightful 5th novel from Catherine Robertson, who reviews books regularly for the New Zealand Listener & Radio NZ. Full of delicious, often eccentric characters who live in a small NZ community, this lively, engaging novel is heart-warming & very funny. Catherine will be joined by Danielle Hawkins, another successful NZ novelist who writes about […]
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BOOK LAUNCH IN RICHMOND
You are invited to the launch of Geoffrey Waring’s new novel Critical Point, which takes place at Richmond Library on Thursday 1 March,5 – 7 pm. Wine and nibbles will be provided. Critical Point takes you into the cockpits of those anonymous jet freighters that airline passengers seldom notice at airports – and into the […]
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Seed & Seed Advanced – NZ Writer’s Guild Script development grants
About Seed & Seed Advanced How to Apply To give the New Zealand screen industry its best chance of success we need strong and new ideas. We need stories that resonate. NZWG believes that our primary storytellers need to be unleashed and offered diverse pathways for developing these stories. Allowing writers space to find their voices […]
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