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Publisher’s Association of NZ Book Design Awards
Awards ceremony for NZ Publisher’s Association (NZPA) annual Book Design Awards. Fresh Factory. 6/10 Nikau St, Eden Terrace, Auckland Ticketed event: Tickets from admin@publishers.org.nz
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Institute of Modern Letters Writers on Monday Programme 2017
Mondays 12.15-1.15pm Te Papa Marae, Level 4, Te Papa 17 JULY The Wish Child: Catherine Chidgey Writers on Mondays begins with fiction writer and multiple award winner Catherine Chidgey. Chidgey’s first three novels achieved international acclaim. Her much anticipated fourth novel The Wish Child won the 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand […]
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#LOVE 2017 Romance Writers of NZ Conference
The 2017 Romance Writers of NZ Conference is coming up! Special discounts for NZSA members! The 24th RWNZ Conference will be held in Rotorua from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th August 2017. And we are delighted to be able to offer a special discounted rate for NZSA members! We have such a great line-up of guest speakers and […]
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Top of the South Writers’ Retreat
Top of the South Writers’ Retreat ?Mount Richmond Estate, Rai Valley 27 – 29 October 2017 ?For the fourth year, the top of the South branch of the NZ Society of Authors is organising a weekend Writers’ Retreat at the Mount Richmond Estate, Rai Valley, Marlborough. The aim of the retreat is to offer both […]
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Shifting Points of View
WORD Christchurch and Christchurch Arts Festival team up for Shifting Points of View in September WORD Christchurch, in association with Christchurch Arts Festival, is pleased to announce Shifting Points of View, a series of events designed to provoke and enlighten, and maybe even change your perspective on the world. Featuring Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett, […]
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NZ Writers College Short Story Competition 2017 – deadline
NZ Writers College Short Story Competition 2017 – CALLING FOR ENTRIES The 8th annual NZ Writers College Short Story Competition is being held to acknowledge excellence in creative writing among beginner writers. The competition is open to any writer residing in New Zealand who is unpublished, or has been published fewer than four times. PRIZES: […]
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Caging Skies – world premiere – Circa Theatre
CIRCA THEATRE PRESENTS A World Premiere CAGING SKIES Written by Desiree Gezentsvey Based on the novel by Christine Leunens Directed by Andrew Foster Music & Sound Design by Jeremy Cullen STARRING Tim Earle (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) Comfrey Sanders (Don Juan) Claire Waldron (King Lear) Donna Akersten (Last Legs) TRUE PASSIONS. TRUE LIES. Johannes, […]
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Takah? Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2017 – deadline
TAKAH? MONICA TAYLOR POETRY PRIZE 2017 JUDGED BY ELIZABETH SMITHER First Prize: $250.00 Second Prize: $100.00 Two runners up will receive one year’s subscription to Takahe Unpublished poems of up to 50 lines long on any theme will be accepted. Entry Fee: $5 per poem Entry Forms can be downloaded here: 2017 Takahe Poetry Comp Entry Form. […]
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2017 NEW VOICES – Emerging Poets – deadline
2017 NEW VOICES – Emerging Poets Competition is NOW OPEN for entries. Background details and entry forms are available at http://www.artagent.co.nz/poetry/poetry.htm This year’s judge will be poet, writer Dr Maris O’Rourke. Closing Date : August 1st. The competition is open to current or former undergraduate (BA, Hons, BSc, BComm etc) or Masters student attending The […]
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CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants 2017 – deadline
CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants 2017 Applications for the 2017 CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants open Friday 16 June 2017 The CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants support New Zealand writers by providing assistance to writers who wish to undertake research for a fiction or non-fiction writing project. Four grants are awarded annually. These are: Three Open Research Grants, each with funding […]
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Winston Churchill McNeish Writer’s Fellowship – deadline
Winston Churchill McNeish Writers’ Fellowships Sir James McNeish was knighted for services to literature in 2010. He maintained that he would never have become the writer he was without the experience gained from working and living in foreign cultures. In 2012, Sir James and Lady McNeish made a donation to the Trust to encourage promising […]
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BOOK LAUNCH IN NELSON
Everyone is welcome to the launch of Carolyn Hawes’ crime novel The Floating Basin at The Copy Press, 141 Pascoe Street on Saturday 17June at 11 am. The book is set in a fictionalised Westport and features detective Ru Clement. While working on the novel in 2014 Carolyn received a NZSA mentorship with Elizabeth Smither, […]
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