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2019 Pikihuia Awards Winners Announced
The winners of the Pikihuia Awards for short stories were announced last Saturday at Te Wharewaka o P?neke. On a wet Wellington afternoon wh?nau, friends and supporters of M?ori literature and arts came together to celebrate and acknowledge the success of 23 M?ori writers. The judges had the important job of selecting the winners […]
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Cultural Labour is an election issue!
A Platform to Encourage and Protect Canadian Creativity The federal election will be held on Monday, October 21. The Writers’ Union of Canada is approaching the 2019 federal election with the goal of ensuring a properly protected and well-funded cultural space for creating and sharing stories in Canada. Without the stories, information, and ideas generated […]
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2019 Ngaio Marsh award winners announced
2019 Best Crime Novel to NZSA veteran: Dame Fiona Kidman https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018713340/winners-of-the-ngaio-marsh-crime-fiction-awards Dame Fiona Kidman gave a moving acceptance speech for Best Novel: The winner was This Mortal Boy, by Dame Fiona Kidman – which also took out the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards this year. This Mortal Boy was written […]
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CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants 2019 Awarded
“The overall quality was high and the upper end of the list strong. We could have easily added many more to the shortlist.”– David Veart, 2019 Judging Panel Convener The 2019 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Research Grants have been awarded. The $5,000 grants support New Zealand writers who wish […]
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RIP Bert Hingley
Many authors and those in the literary art world are mourning as we mark the passing of publisher Bert Hingley. His funeral is today on the Central Coast north of Sydney. Bert worked in the world of books as a reviewer and columnist until he was appointed publisher at Hodder & Stoughton NZ. His list […]
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Foundation laureate awarded to Fearnley
Dunedin author Laurence Fearnley has won what she describes as a morale-boosting award that further proves the abilities of the city’s writers. Fearnley was the only South Island-based winner of an Arts Foundation laureate, announced last weekend, and the only writer among the 10 laureate awards that celebrate artistic pursuits from dance to design. The […]
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2020 Burns Fellows named
The University of Otago has announced a series of award-winning writers and artists as its Burns Fellows for 2020. The five prestigious fellowships are announced every year, and fellows receive a stipend for between six months and one year, and space on campus to pursue their projects . Next year’s Robert Burns Fellow will be […]
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Victoria University of Wellington announces Emerging Māori Writer’s Residency
10 September 2019 To mark Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce the inaugural Emerging Māori Writer’s Residency for 2020. The Residency, supported by Creative New Zealand, runs for three months and includes a writing room, a mentor, and a stipend of […]
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2019 NZSA Honours Given to Michael Morrissey & Riemke Ensing
At the Auckland Branch meeting on 6 September 2019, NZSA board representative Susan Battye, presented Micahel Morrissey and Riemke Ensing with their 2019 Honours List award. The NZSA Honours List is an award recognising long service to NZSA by members. Michael Morrissey has been one of NZSA’s most consistent meeting attendees and supporters since joining […]
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NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2019 recipient announced
Christchurch writer Frankie McMillan is the recipient of the NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2019 Frankie McMillan will use the fellowship to work on a novella. She says: ‘I’m thrilled and enormously grateful to be the recipient of the Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship, 2019 -2020. I intend to put the grant towards the completion of a novella […]
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Shortlist announced for The Newsroom/Surrey Hotel Writers Residency – congrats to all and especially the 11 NZSA members selected
Updated September 3, 2019 Steve Braunias Steve Braunias edits Newsroom’s books section, ReadingRoom, is an author and a noted writer for the NZ Herald 15 writers shortlisted for the Newsroom-Surrey Hotel writer’s residency Entries have closed for the 2019 Surrey Hotel-Newsroom writer’s residency award – which allows a week’s accommodation in a splendid Auckland hotel […]
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Indie Booksellers Incensed as Amazon Breaks ‘Testaments’ Embargo
By Claire Kirch | Sep 04, 20 Margaret Atwood’s hotly anticipated new novel The Testaments may be under embargo, but that hasn’t stopped one online retailer from selling it. The mix-up has incensed independent booksellers, and drawn an acknowledgement, if not a flat-out apology, from publisher Penguin Random House. A number of angry independent booksellers have taken […]
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