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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SMITHER First Prize: $250.00 Second Prize: $100.00 Two runners up will receive one year’s subscription to Takahe Unpublished poems of up to 50 lines long on any theme will be accepted.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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The Asher Literary Award – deadline
Asher Award The Asher Literary Award is offered biennially to a female author whose work carries an anti-war theme. The Asher Award is managed by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) on behalf of the Australia Council, and is valued at $12,000. Made possible by a generous bequest from Mrs Helen Waltraud Rosalie Asher, the […]
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Creative New Zealand Arts Grants – deadline
Arts Grants Arts Grants help New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to create and distribute their work. Decisions take 10 weeks and typically one in four applications get funded. Amount: Closing dates: Find out who got funded recently $65,000 (in exceptional circumstances applicants can apply for more) 1 Sep 2017 More
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National Flash Fiction Day – 22 JUNE 2017
22 JUNE 2017 – National Flash Fiction Day June 22, 2017 is our shortest day of the year — and the day we know and love as National Flash Fiction Day. The competition this year will open February 15 – April 30. The 2017 judges are acclaimed poets Michael Harlow and Emma Neale. New this […]
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NorthWrite 2017: National Flash Fiction Day Workshop and Readings
NorthWrite 2017: National Flash Fiction Day Workshop and Readings Are you curious about flash fiction? Do you want to write flash fiction, short stories or poetry? Celebrate National Flash Fiction Day in Kawakawa with musician, performer and enthusiastic writer of flash, Vivian Thonger. Vivian, a Kerikeri resident, will guide you through a world of sound, […]
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Book Launch – Whangaparaoa
‘Exits and Entrances’ by Christine Curtis( from William Shakespeare’s ‘7 Ages of man’) is an historical novel I was commissioned to write for our local church, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. It will be launched on Sunday 18th June at 12 md. at the Church of St Stephen , Stanmore bay, Whangaparaoa. I will […]
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CANBERRA INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE CLOSES
THE 2017 UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA VICE-CHANCELLOR’S INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE One of the richest poetry prizes in the world closes on this day. Now in its fourth year, the prize celebrates the enduring significance of poetry to cultures everywhere in the world. It marks the University of Canberra’s commitment to creativity and imagination. Prize entries may […]
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AUTHOR TALK IN PICTON
On Saturday 3 June at 3pm at the Picton Little Theatre, 9 Dublin Street, Charles Dicken’s great-great-great-granddaughter Lucinda Hawksley will be talking about her book Charles Dickens and his Circle. Lucinda Hawksley is an author and broadcaster whose books include three biographies of three 19th-century artists: Lizzie Siddal, Kate Perugini, and Princess Louise. Her new book, […]
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