• Melbourne Writers Festival

    Browse the MWF17 program now The wait is over! The MWF17 program is here, and we’ve got a bold line-up of local and international writers, thinkers and general movers and shakers – including Janet Mock, Kim Scott, Joy Carol Oates, Angie Thomas, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, and much, much more. With this year’s Festival theme exploring the theme of revolutions past, present and future, […]

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  • Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize 2017 – deadline

    Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize 2017 First Prize $1000 Highly Commended $200 Theme: WORLD-CHANGING WORDS Word limit: 2500 words Closing date: 15 September 2017 The Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize will be awarded for a story up to 2500 words on the theme ‘World-Changing Words’. The winning entry will receive $1000 and publication in Mascara Literary […]

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  • NZ Poetry Conference & Festival – Auckland 2017

    NZ Poetry Conference & Festival – Auckland 2017 10 to 12 November Ellen Melville Centre, Auckland City community – creativity – celebration – connection – collaboration www.stylustrust.co.nz ANNOUNCING OUR NEW VENUE The Conference will now be held, all three days, at one venue: the Ellen Melville Centre, Freyberg Place, Auckland City. The EMC is centrally […]

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  • University Book Shop (Otago) Writer in Residence – deadline

    University Book Shop (Otago) Ltd launched its inaugural Writer in Residence for an emerging writer last year. We were delighted to have Dr Hannah Bulloch join us for four weeks in February 2017. Now it is time to find our second Summer Writer in Residence – is it you? Or perhaps someone you know? For […]

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  • The NZ Heritage Book Awards and Writing Competition – deadline

    The New Zealand Heritage Book Awards and Writing Competition is open now! Jim McAloon and Fiona Kidman will be judging the novels and non-fiction books, respectively. First prize is $1000 for the books, and for the short prose and poetry, $200. The theme for short form entries is ‘Finding Our Way’. Submissions close 15 August. […]

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  • Kirsten Warner talk for L’Dor Va Dor Series

    Kirsten’s talk is to be held at the New Zealand Holocaust Centre, 80 Webb St, Wellington at 2 pm on 26 July. All interested are cordially invited. For L’Dor Va Dor series New Zealand Holocaust Centre Ph 04 384 3305 027 3763744

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  • Bill English Opens the Books

    Your invitation Katherine Mansfield is New Zealand’s most famous short story author whose writing is admired and studied throughout the world. The Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, Katherine’s birthplace at 25 Tinakori Road, Wellington, is a museum dedicated to celebrating her life and literary works. Help us keep Katherine Mansfield’s legacy alive by attending this […]

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  • Book Launch: The Trials of Minnie Dean Chch

    YOU ARE INVITED TO A BOOK LAUNCH   WITH readings from The Trials of Minnie Dean: a verse biography by Karen Velas at Scorpio Books, 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch, Wednesday 26 July – 5.30pm drinks, 6pm start. James Norcliffe will introduce the book. The Trials of Minnie Dean: a verse biography Bridging poetry and biography, […]

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  • PANEL DISCUSSION: HISTORICAL FICTION – FACT OR FACTION?

    PANEL DISCUSSION: HISTORICAL FICTION – FACT OR FACTION? The Nelson Historical Society invites you to join a panel discussion on the merits of faction – the blending of fact with fiction – in presenting history. Convenor, history writer Karen Stade, will chair the panel of Golden Bay writers Suzanne Clark (Keep Your Head Up, My […]

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  • BOOK LAUNCH: Colonial Gothic to M?ori Renaissance: Essays in Memory of Jonathan Mane-Wheoki Wgtn

    Victoria University Press warmly invites you to the launch of Colonial Gothic to M?ori Renaissance: Essays in Memory of Jonathan Mane-Wheoki edited by Conal McCarthy and Mark Stockerat Vic Books, Rutherford House, Victoria University of Wellington, Pipitea, Wellington.July 29, 4-6pm About Colonial Gothic to M?ori Renaissance

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  • Creative New Zealand – International Promotional Fund for Literature – deadline

    The Publishers Association of New Zealand manages the international market development initiatives for New Zealand literature on behalf of Creative New Zealand. This includes an international promotional fund to support New Zealand authors to attend literary festivals or engage in other international promotional events or activity. International Promotional Fund for Literature Through the International Promotional Fund for Literature support […]

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