Upcoming Events and Opportunities | New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa

Professor Chris Brickell. James Courage: His Life and Diaries

Thursday 12th November 5.30pm Chris’s edited volume of James Courage’s diaries will be published by OUP in mid 2021. He discusses getting to know this expatriate gay New Zealander by reading his remarkably rich life writing. Chris will draw from Courage’s diaries and other materials as he speaks about this...
NZSA Christchurch Heritage Book Awards - Winners ceremony Oct 29

NZSA Heritage Literary Awards Winners ceremony Prize winners will be announced at WORD on Thursday 29th October at 7:00 at an event held at St Michaels and All Angels, Oxford Terrace, Christchurch. All welcome Judges have announced the shortlists for the 2020 New Zealand Heritage Book Awards. All work this year...
NZSA Auckland Museum Research Grant and Residency Now Open for Applications

Applications are now open for a $5000 research grant and residency for writers wishing to work on a project that will utilise the resources of the Auckland Museum Library as part of the manuscript’s development. The grant also offers the recipient the opportunity to take up four weeks funded...
Creating Books in the Time of Covid: Author Amy McDaid

NZSA Auckland Branch Meeting Friday 6 November at 6.15pm Creating Books in the Time of Covid: Author Amy McDaid Room 1211, level 12, AUT Tower Cnr of Rutland and Wakefield St, City Central. Amy McDaid's debut novel, Fake Baby, was to be released in April 2020 - right in what became New Zealand's Level...
Deadhead & Neands Double Trouble Launch - Sunday October 18

ALL WELCOME ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE 10AM - 12 NOON SUNDAY OCTOBER 18 MORE ABOUT THE BOOKS: DEADHEAD BY GLENN WOOD "Scott Pearson provided the skilfully-drawn ‘graphic replays’, the double-page comic art panels which offer brief summaries of each section of the story about every three chapters. These black and white illustrations are in the...
2020 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition

Open to all NZSA members $500 first prize, $250 second prize, $100 third prize Opens 25 September, closes 4pm, Friday 30 October Brought to you by NZSA Auckland Branch Conditions of entry The competition is open to all NZSA members. All entries must be original and not previously published...
Paula Morris, 2020-2021 NZSA President of Honour - annual Janet Frame Memorial Lecture

Paula Morris, as the 2020-2021 NZSA President of Honour will deliver the NZSA annual Janet Frame Memorial Lecture Each year the NZ Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa elects a President of Honour, who is tasked with delivering the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture - an update and commentary of the current...
Inaugural NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize Opens

New award for fresh writing with a 'unique and original vision' The NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize is an exciting new prize, which celebrates the life and work of the writer Laura Solomon. This prize will be judged within the criteria set by Laura Solomon, for new writing with a ‘unique and...
StartWrite Writing Sample and Synopsis Assessment Programme

StartWrite Writing Sample and Synopsis Assessment Service - for writers who want to get an appraisal for part of their work. Writers can send in a piece of writing, up to 6,000 words (for poetry up to 24 pages), and a one page synopsis. Comic / Graphic novelists need...