• Effect of USA ‘Fair Use’ copyright legislation hits hard on authors’ incomes

    US Authors Guild Income Survey results   15th April 2020 Authors earnings, News, USA Multiple studies have suggested that authors’ earnings are in decline around the world. In 2018, the Authors Guild surveyed its membership and the members of 14 other writers’ organisations for its 2018 Author Income Survey, receiving detailed responses from 5,067 authors […]

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  • Catherine Chidgey and Fiona Sussman shortlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize – congratulations!

    2020 COMMONWEALTH SHORT STORY PRIZE SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED Two award-winning New Zealand authors, Catherine Chidgey and Fiona Sussman on shortlist CHAIR OF JUDGES NII AYIKWEI PARKES HAILS STORIES WHICH ARE ‘HARROWING AS WELL AS UPLIFTING, TRAGIC AS WELL AS FUNNY’ Twenty outstanding stories have been shortlisted by an international judging panel for the world’s most global […]

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  • The Raymond Carver Short Story Contest – open April 1 – May 15

    Open April 1 – May 15 each year. $2500 in cash prizes, plus 3 literary agents will read your work. We accept stories from all over the world and many winners have gone on to have successful careers as published authors. Past guest judges include Aimee Bender, Ben Fountain, Pinckney Benedict, Susan Perabo, and Christopher […]

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  • Join the EWC Campaign on World Book Day April 23 2020: #behindeverybook

    EWC campaign #behindeverybook   Dear colleagues, friends and members of EWC, dear Authors of Europe and the World We kindly invite you and your members to join the EWC campaign on World Book Day 2020: #behindeverybook Please join in and let’s flood the (online) world with pictures of books and their authors on World Book […]

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  • The Novel Prize – open for entries April 1 – July 1 GMT

    Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions are pleased to announce The Novel Prize, a new biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world.   The Novel Prize offers $10,000 to the winner, and simultaneous publication of their novel in the UK and Ireland […]

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  • CLNZ launches new contestable funding round – Open April 15-Closes April 29

    Applications are now open for a Special Round of Contestable Fund Grants, with $120,000 available to apply for.   Copyright Licensing New Zealand is running a Special Round of its Contestable Fund Grants in order to support short-term projects that have arisen or been developed to respond to the changed environment in the New Zealand […]

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  • Answering Your Questions: Creative NZ Funding Hui

    Do you have the key to unlocking the funding on offer? Here’s Creative New Zealand’s take on some industry questions     Just days after launching the first phase of the Emergency Funding Package to address the industry-wide devastation caused by COVID-19, Creative NZ began trying to demystify the application process by passing the mic […]

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  • VUP releases free E-book – A home reader for these times

    Victoria University of Wellington Press has released a free ebook with fiction, poetry and non-fiction by 42 writers as an offering to readers. The VUP publishers say in their brief foreword: ‘The VUP Home Reader is everything we’re working on at the moment—extracts of books which were published in February and March, books which are in the […]

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  • OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS GO VIRTUAL FOR 2020 WINNERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS

    The winners of the country’s premier literary honours – the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards – will be delivered to the nation online, on the original date set down for the awards ceremony in Auckland: Tuesday 12 May. “Covid-19 has interfered with our annual celebration of the finalist authors and publishers in an event that’s […]

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  • Jess Hill wins the 2020 Australian Stella Prize for her study of domestic abuse

    Journalist Jess Hill has won the $50,000 Stella Prize for writing by Australian women for See What You Made Me Do (Black Inc), her study of domestic abuse in Australia.   Louise Swinn, chair of the Stella Prize judging panel, said Hill’s book “meticulously dismantle[s] all of the lazy old lies we associate with domestic […]

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  • The PEN Pod By PEN America

    From PEN America As an organization that’s all about the literary community, PEN America knows that the current health crisis is hitting our Members and friends particularly hard. Check out PEN America’s new podcast, “The PEN Pod,” featuring conversations with writers like PEN America President Jennifer Egan, PEN/Jean Stein Book Award winner Yiyun Li, and former […]

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  • New campaign celebrates Kiwi men and what they read BLOKES vs BOOKS

    New campaign promotes Kiwi men as readers A new online campaign launching on April 12 will focus on New Zealand men and their reading habits. In these days of staying home to stop the spread of Covid-19, there’s never been a better time to crack open a good book, or listen to a story. Blokes […]

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