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Congratulations to NZSA member Sue Wootton -announced as 2020 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow
The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship established in 1970 and is the only privately funded fellowship in New Zealand. The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship is for an established creative writer to spend three months or more in Menton, in southern France, to work on a project or projects. The residency is open to creative writers across […]
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Call for judges of the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
The organisers of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are calling for expressions of interest from members of the children’s literature community who wish to be considered as judges of the 2020 awards. The NZ Book Awards Trust is inviting expressions of interest for judges for the 2020 NZ Book Awards […]
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Landfall essay competition joint winners profound and persuasive
Wellington writer Tobias Buck and London based New Zealand writer Nina Mingya Powles are the joint winners of the 2019 Landfall Essay Prize. Mr Buck’s winning entry, ‘Exit. Stage Left.’, deals with issues of prejudice and bias from the perspective of a man who ‘is the colour of cotton candy or pink marshmallows’, whose hair […]
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CEO Juliet Rogers to leave ASA
Juliet Rogers, CEO of the Australian Society of Authors is finishing up at the end of the year. Olivia Lanchester will be her replacement. After four years at the helm of the Australian Society of Authors, our CEO, Juliet Rogers has resigned. Juliet brought a wealth of knowledge and industry experience to the role, which […]
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RIP Jack Lasenby
Jack Lasenby was a long-standing member of the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ) Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa, he joined in 1973. He was well loved, generous to other writers, a champion of children’s literature and a lively character. He will be sadly missed. Below are some literary world tributes to Jack published […]
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NZSA Live! New Podcast Featuring Audio Recorded at NZSA Events
NZSA is proud to add to our Oral History podcast, new NZSA Live! In these podcasts we will share audio recorded at a variety of New Zealand Society of Authors events, beginning with the 2019 Janet Frame Memorial Address given by NZSA President of Honour 2019 – 2020, David Hill. These episodes will appear alongside our Oral […]
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Kiwi kids are proactive readers who love to read home-grown authors – Whitcoulls Kids’ Top 50 booklist
The votes are in and Whitcoulls were delighted to announce their 2019 Kids’ Top 50 Books List on September 23, 2019. The big news is that Kiwi kids often discover what they want to read through their own research, are huge fans of books in a series and love to read local authors. Whitcoulls Book […]
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Amazon’s AUDIBLE using USA ‘Fair Use’ copyright law to defend infringement – it proceeds to court
Points, Counterpoints: The Publishers v. Audible Lawsuit Lines Are Drawn FROM PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES: Feature Articles by Porter AndersonSeptember 23, 2019 More than 100 pages of court filings precede a hearing expected this week in the US publishers’ lawsuit of Amazon’s Audible. Publishers allege copyright infringement, the audiobook company asserts fair use. In this image from Audible’s July […]
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Have Your Say on Sustainable Creative Careers!
Last year Creative New Zealand and NZ On Air engaged research company Colmar Brunton to survey a range of creative professionals, aged 16 and over, who earned at least some income from their creative work, on aspects of their creative careers. They published the research in May this year, identifying three joint priorities for future action: 1. […]
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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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