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Creative New Zealand quick response grant
Quick Response Grants help New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to create and distribute their work. Decisions take five weeks and typically one in four or five applications gets funded. Online applications open six weeks before the closing date. Amount: Up to $7,500 Closing date: 3 Nov 2017 Find out who got funded recently […]
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Bringing out the book in you 2
Drop-in sessions to consult with Freelance editors Jenny Argante and Shona-Ellen Barnett on any writing project you have in mind, or an actual work in progress, fact or fiction, prose of poetry. SPECIAL GUESTS: Father and daughter team, Tony and Kat Walsh, who together run Oceanbooks, a self-publishing service and online bookshop for Kiwi writers. […]
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Bringing out the book in you 1
Drop-in sessions to consult with Freelance editors Jenny Argante and Shona-Ellen Barnett on any writing project you have in mind, or an actual work in progress, fact or fiction, prose of poetry. SPECIAL GUEST: John Stuart Reynolds, Auckland-based novelist and author of Uncommon Enemy and Robyn Hood, Outlaw Princess and a useful guide on Writing […]
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For King and Country
NZ Pacific Studio in conjunction with The Friends of ANZAC Memorial Bridge . . . invite you to our ANZAC performance. NZ Pacific Studio 2017 ANZAC Bridge Fellow, Christine Yardley, is presenting a concert of songs, music and poetry that inspired courage and bravery in our soldiers who fought in the Great War “FOR KING […]
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For King and Country
NZ Pacific Studio in conjunction with The Friends of ANZAC Memorial Bridge . . . invite you to our ANZAC performance. NZ Pacific Studio 2017 ANZAC Bridge Fellow, Christine Yardley, is presenting a concert of songs, music and poetry that inspired courage and bravery in our soldiers who fought in the Great War “FOR KING […]
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LitCrawl Wellington
LitCrawl is happening again in Wellington, November 10-12, 2017. Welcome to the brand new LitCrawl Extended series! Come to City Gallery, immerse yourself in writers and ideas and make an entire weekend of it. Unless otherwise stated, tickets for Extended sessions are $15, or $18 if you want to give LitCrawl extra support. LitCrawl Extended […]
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2017 Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day Celebrations
Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2017 hits New Zealand on the 25th of August. We’re unleashing the power of poetry with around a hundred events and a bunch of great poetry competitions. More Registrations are now open (deadline 24 May) The new 2017 calendar will launch in August. For an idea of what has gone […]
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The Proverse Prize
The Proverse Prize is an annual international competition for an unpublished publishable book-length work of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry, established in 2008. It is open to all who are at least eighteen years old on the date they sign the entry form and without restriction of nationality, residence or citizenship. Its objectives are: To encourage excellence and / […]
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Book Launch of Five Strings by Apirana Taylor – Auckland
Launch of Five Strings by Apirana Taylor – Auckland 6–7.30pm, Wednesday 17 May, Auckland Central City Library, Lorne St, Auckland City Anahera Press invites NZSA members to the launch of Apirana Taylor’s new novel. Five Strings will be launched by Witi Ihimaera. Refreshments will be served. All welcome.
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University of Otago College of Education/Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence
University of Otago College of Education/Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence Applications must be made online, this link takes you to the webpage for the University of Otago College of Education/Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence applications. For general enquiries about the Fellowship, please contact Email uoce.executiveofficer@otago.ac.nz in the first instance or contact Shelley […]
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Night Burns with a White Fire – Book Launch in Wellington
Steele Roberts Aotearoa Publishers warmly invite you to celebrate the Wellington launch of Night Burns with a White Fire: The Essential Lauris Edmond edited by Frances Edmond and Sue Fitchett 3.30pm to 5pm Saturday, 22 April at The Long Hall, 13 Maida Vale Rd, Roseneath, Wellington To be launched by Fiona Kidman with readings of Lauris’s […]
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Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award
Background The Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award was first presented in 1991 to Margaret Mahy in recognition of her contribution to the world of literature for children and young adults. Surprising Moments, her inaugural lecture, set the standard for those given by subsequent award-winners. These published lectures by the champions of the New […]
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