• Aotearoa NZ School Library Week 2024: School Libraries Build Readers  

    Posted on 19 August 2024

    Schools across the country are celebrating Aotearoa NZ School Library Week this week, embracing all the ways that school libraries enrich our students’ lives through bringing books to life, providing safe spaces, and allowing the freedom to choose books that are crucial to their literacy and learning success. The School Library Association of New Zealand […]

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  • Bestselling author Stacy Gregg wins Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award for the first time

    Posted on 15 August 2024

    A novel that masterfully weaves comedy, fantasy and history together in a profound exploration of identity was named the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults during an exuberant ceremony held this evening at Wellington’s Pipitea Marae. Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti […]

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  • Beyond whodunnit: 2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards finalists announced

    Posted on 14 August 2024

    From stem cell research to sexual assault juries, the dangers of a surveillance society to mental health and animal abuse, the finalists for the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards offer readers a diverse array of page-turning mysteries and thrills entwined with societal issues, set against a variety of locales and eras from Renaissance Florence and Nazi […]

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  • Submissions open for 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

    Posted on 14 August 2024

    13 AUGUST 2024: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The New Zealand Book Awards Trust Te Ohu Tiaki i Te Rau Hiringa has today opened submissions for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. These prestigious awards provide recognition of, and promote excellence in, the best books for adult readers published annually in Aotearoa. Titles with release dates […]

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  • Inaugural Lynley Dodd Children’s Writers Award Recipient Announced: J L Williams

    Posted on 9 August 2024

      The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi is thrilled to announce the inaugural recipient of the Lynley Dodd Children’s Writers Award: Janine Williams, known to many by her pen name J.L. Williams.  Whangarei-based author Janine is known for her compelling historical junior fiction and dedication to crafting stories that capture young readers’ hearts across the […]

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  • Institute of Professional Editors celebrates accreditation exam milestone

    Posted on 5 August 2024

    IPED celebrates accreditation exam milestone Monday 5 August, 2024 On Monday 12 August 2024, editors across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand will sit the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) accreditation exam. It will be the 10th IPEd accreditation exam. The first exam was held in 2008. “More than 500 editors have become accredited since the […]

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  • Poetry takes over: a nationwide celebration of words

    Posted on 1 August 2024

    POETRY TAKES OVER: A NATIONWIDE CELEBRATION OF WORDS IS SET TO SWEEP ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN LATE AUGUST Get ready to celebrate the power of poetry, Aotearoa! Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2024 is scheduled for Friday 23 August, and a packed programme of close to 100 official events is revealed today, showcasing the nation’s love of […]

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  • Perfect Online Pitch – Publishers are Live

    Posted on 31 July 2024

    The NZSA opens Perfect Online Pitch for the second year! Searching for a publisher for your completed manuscript? Sign up for Perfect Online Pitch between 3pm Monday 5 August to midnight Wednesday 7 August.  This is your opportunity to pitch your (polished) manuscript to a leading New Zealand publisher and, if successful, to submit your […]

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  • NZSA Announces Dunedin Regional Roadshow

    Posted on 24 July 2024

    Ōtepoti | Dunedin Regional Roadshow 9AM – 4:15PM, SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2024, DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY, 30 THE OCTAGON, DUNEDIN What’s on: Welcome and Opening Kōrero with Barbara Else MNZM and Emma Neale Workshops: Taking the Past out of the Archive with Cristina Sanders; Words of Art with Lynley Edmeades; Sensing the Edit with Tracey Slaughter; Creating Suspense with Vanda […]

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  • The most beautifully designed books in Aotearoa -2024 PANZ Book Design Awards

    Posted on 23 July 2024

    The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) established the awards to promote excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best book design in Aotearoa New Zealand. This year’s judges, Anna Brown (convenor), Massey University, Te Kani Price, Huia Publishers, Simon Waterfield, Lift Education, and Chloe Blades, Unity Books, faced the daunting […]

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  • Protect and manage your intellectual property with MyCreativeRights Catalogue

    Posted on 23 July 2024

    Catalogue is a secure cloud-based creative rights management system where you can safely document, organise, and store records of creative works, legal agreements and other supporting documents in one safe location. In today’s world of generative AI tools, some of which use writer’s material without their permission, it has become more important than ever to […]

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  • Kiwi readers vote for record number of new books in annual Whitcoulls Top 100 List

    Posted on 22 July 2024

    MEDIA RELEASE Under strict embargo until Monday, July 22, 2024, 5:00am The 2024 Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List has changed by an astonishing 42 percent the bookseller reveals, as they announce their 2024 Top 100 Books List today Whitcoulls Book Manager Joan Mackenzie attributes this to a collective surge of enthusiasm for writers who are […]

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