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Hamilton Book Month happening again this August
It’s August and Hamilton Book Month is underway again with the biggest ever programme with 21 different events and a grand total of 35 (including repeats) across August at various Hamilton venues. Almost all events are free with only four having a charge. Co-organiser Catherine Wallace says ‘There’s so many authors we wanted to include […]
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Eye-catching Book on Samoan Tattooing Sweeps the Board at the PANZ Book Design Awards
A beautifully designed and richly illustrated retelling of the unique and powerful history of S?moan tattooing was the big winner at the 2019 PANZ Book Design Awards. Tatau: A History of S?moan Tattooing by Sean Mallon and Sébastien Galliot (Te Papa Press), designed by Arch MacDonnell (Inhouse Design) received the overall accolade of the Gerard Reid […]
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Dean Koontz’s Jump to Amazon Publishing: Will Other Authors Follow
The five-book deal and a collection of Amazon Original Stories from Dean Koontz is good news for Amazon Publishing. The real suspense story: could this signal defections from major houses ahead? (First published in Publishing Perspectives) Dean Koontz: ‘Where Change Is Understood and Embraced’ In what some will see as a potential harbinger of what’s […]
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Booker Prize 2019 Longlist: Novels in English From Nine Countries
In Feature Articles by Porter Anderson First appeared in Publishing Perspectives. The 2019 Booker Prize longlist comprises the work of a particularly international collection of authors, including two former laureates. Longlisted authors in the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction are, top row from left, Margaret Atwood (image: Liam Sharp); Kevin Barry (image: Conor O’Mahony); Oyinkan […]
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Publishers and Authors are pissed (sic) about Amazon’s upcoming Audible Captions feature
Author’s Guild in the US says this feature breaches rights. Some authors and publishers are asking for their books to be withheld from the feature From THE VERGE B Andrew Liptak Earlier this week, Audible revealed that it was working on a new feature for its audiobook app: Audible Captions, which will use machine learning […]
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Space to breathe
22 Jul 2019 The latest offering of grants and awards in one of our key creative industries is rightly seen as something to boast about. [In partnership with NZSA and CLNZ] There’s less than a week for would-be or established writers in New Zealand to apply for $20,000 worth of research grants on offer. From August 2 there’s […]
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Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel 2020 – open for applications
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) are pleased to announce that submissions for the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel are now open. The prize is open to writers holding New Zealand citizenship or who are permanent residents of New Zealand, and, thanks to a generous financial […]
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WW2 books, true stories and classics among New Zealanders’ favourite reads
Reading is in good health, with thousands of New Zealanders voting for their favourite books in the Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List. Announced today, the List reveals that classic books, war and true stories are among the nation’s favourite reads. Our interest in WW2 books is massive and Whitcoulls report huge sales for this genre. […]
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Ray Grover values pragmatism on the latest NZSA Oral History Podcast episode
“It’s rough justice we are after.” -Ray Grover In the late 1950’s Ray Grover was part of a small circle of Wellington writers that included Maurice Gee, Fleur Adcock and James K. Baxter. Shortly after publishing his first novel, Another Man’s Role in 1967, Ray joined PEN NZ and quickly became involved in the executive. […]
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A wealth of literary talent at Writers on Mondays
16 July 2019 Popular readings series Writers on Mondays returns to Wellington from 22 July, featuring a stunning array of local, national, and international writers. _________________________________________________ Presented by Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) in conjunction with Te Papa Tongarewa, the series runs each Monday from 22 July to 7 October, […]
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Government Making Plans –
Encouraging signs for transformation of the sector By Keri Malthus Making plans The Government has put a firmer timeframe around its planning to transform the creative sector. In a statement to The Big Idea, a spokesperson for newly-appointed Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford says the Government will begin to develop a formal Industry Transformation Plan […]
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Compelling stories by emerging writers awarded 2019 NZSA assessments
The NZ Society of Authors announce who will receive manuscript guidance in this year’s CompleteMS programme. Thirteen writers with manuscripts ranging through black comedy, Kiwi noir, ethnographic fiction/literary non-fiction, creative non-fiction, fantasy, historical, young adult, new adult, family saga, sci-fi, short stories, coming-of-age story and poetry have been chosen to take part in this year’s […]
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