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Nosy Crow’s Free Digital Book for Kids About COVID-19 Takes Off
from Publishing Perspectives by Olivia Snaije With Axel Scheffler’s illustrations and Hugh Bonneville’s narration, Nosy Crow’s ‘Coronavirus: A Book for Children’ has been downloaded more than 700,000 times. Illustration by Axel Scheffler for ‘Coronavirus: A Book for Children,’ Nosy Crow Editor’s note: At this writing, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center indicates that the United […]
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Joy Cowley in this not-to-be-missed NZSA Oral History Podcast episode
“…there was a year when the export of children’s books from this country was more than the export of wine…” In the latest episode of the NZSA Oral History Podcast Season 3 we hear from Dame Joy Cowley. Joy is one of New Zealand’s most loved and recognised authors, having published over six hundred titles […]
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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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