• Surrey Hotel-Newsroom writer’s residency award for 2020 announced

    Posted on 6 July 2020

    Congratulations to NZSA member Mia Gaudin   “The grand winner of the 2020 Surrey Hotel-Newsroom writer’s residency award is novelist Mia Gaudin. A graduate of the IIML in Wellington, she has been awarded seven nights accommodation at the strange and wonderful Surrey Hotel in Grey Lynn, Auckland, and also receives free breakfast and the hotel’s […]

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  • Content Presenter: 2020 New Zealand Young Writers Festival

    Posted on 6 July 2020

    Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust The NZ Young Writers Festival is four days of free, fun literary focused events held annually in Ōtepoti/Dunedin.  We welcome young scribes of all stripes and celebrate all forms of wordsmithing including (but not limited to) zines, screen writing, journalism, bloggers, critical content creators, slam poetry, poetry, playwriting, song lyricists, short […]

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  • Finalists Announcement: Mind Body Spirit Book Awards

    Posted on 2 July 2020

    Depth and Breadth of Finalists’ Works Offer Insight and Hope Books by psychotherapists, artists, environmentalists, an astrologer and a Catholic nun -about subjects as wide ranging as human consciousness, depression and creative alchemy -are among the Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Awards finalists announced today. Awards’ judges’ spokesperson Linda Cassells says this year’s Book […]

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  • 2020 MILES FRANKLIN SHORTLIST

    Posted on 1 July 2020

    Today, the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, alongside award trustee Perpetual, announced the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist.    The 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist is: THE WHITE GIRL by Tony Birch (The University of Queensland Press): This novel describes the journey of Odette and her 13-year-old granddaughter Sissy as they struggle to stay together when […]

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  • The prestigious 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award – open now for entries

    Posted on 30 June 2020

    Submissions are open for the prestigious 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the world’s most lucrative literary prizes! The submissions process is online, and entries are welcomed from all countries, in Arabic, as well as in other languages. More details: https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/default.aspx Winners across nine categories will each receive a career-changing prize of AED 750,000 […]

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  • Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 longlist announced

    Posted on 30 June 2020

    30 June 2020 The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are:  Shadow of Doubt (S L Beaumont, Paperback Writers) Trust Me, I’m Dead (Sherryl Clark, Oldcastle Books) Whatever it Takes (Paul Cleave, Upstart Press) One Single Thing (Tina Clough, Lightpool Publishing) Girl from the Tree House (Gudrun Frerichs, […]

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  • Copyright review update

    Posted on 30 June 2020

    Copyright review update   Jenny Nagle and Mandy Hager met with Kris Faafoi, the Minister responsible for the Copyright Review, last week. They were accompanied by Paula Browning (pictured) and Pat Walsh from CLNZ and Tom Rennie and Julia Marshall from PANZ. This meeting was our long-awaited opportunity to present the industry’s strong concerns regarding […]

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  • Owen Marshall on the Work of Writing

    Posted on 24 June 2020

     “…As well as the imaginative (or the magical) aspect of writing where the inspiration strikes, there’s the craft aspect of it where it’s just a matter of sitting there doing the job…”   In our last episode of the NZSA Oral History Podcast Season 3 we hear from Owen Marshall. Owen Marshall is a celebrated New Zealand […]

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  • REPORT SHOWS KIWIS OVERWHELMINGLY PREFER PHYSICAL BOOKS

    Posted on 24 June 2020

    WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE, 2020 A new report from the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has revealed Kiwis still vastly prefer print books, with sales of physical books growing while demand for ebooks has shrunk.   Despite significant investment by publishers in digital formats, ebooks makeup just 7.2% of total trade and education sales in […]

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  • Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition now open

    Posted on 17 June 2020

    17 JUN 2020 Calling all young poets! Entries are now open for the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition. Send us your previously unpublished original poem and be in to win a copy of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020. Winning poems will be published in the 2021 edition of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, and each poet and […]

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  • Going West Writers Festival 2020 Goes Virtual

    Posted on 17 June 2020

    Going West Writers Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary with the launch of its treasure trove of curated audio files, available via podcast to lovers of words and ideas from Friday, 19 June.   Festival producer, James Littlewood says the limitations brought about by COVID-19 prompted the team to pull together a long-held dream of bringing […]

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  • Bauer magazines sold to Mercury Capital

    Posted on 17 June 2020

    17 Jun, 2020 Bauer Media Group confirmed details first published in the Australian Financial Review that Mercury Capital has bought both the Australian and New Zealand operations of the media company. “Bauer Media remains committed to magazine publishing,” said Bauer Media chief operations officer Veit Dengler today. more here

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