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Theatremakers Award 2025
Congratulations to the inaugural winners of the Theatremakers Award, Ayush Aditya and Marcus Savelio. Their new work Mic Drop will receive development support from Playmarket over the coming months. Mic Drop is a new hip-hop musical which premiered as part of the NZ Fringe Festival in February of this year. It uses rap as a […]
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THE ASLA DANZ CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD 2026 IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED!
Diversity is more than a label. The right representation matters. And DANZ is creating essential change. It is with great excitement and absolute pleasure that we launch into our third year of celebrating and spotlighting some of the very best diverse children’s literature available in Australia and New Zealand today. After a successful 2024 and 2025 […]
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Bridport Prize Memoir Award
Your own story In your own words We all have a story to tell about ourselves, the good, the bad and the how did I end up there? Celebrate a snapshot of your life, a fragment in time or rear view mirror look at what was and now is. We initially need 5,000 to 8,000 […]
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Booksellers Choice Award 2025 Finalists Announced
We are so excited to announce the finalists for the 2025 Booksellers’ Choice Awards! Adult Award finalists Amma by Saraid de Silva (Moa Press) The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone by Gareth and Louise Ward (Penguin Random House New Zealand) The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour and Jude Dobson (Allen & Unwin New Zealand) […]
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WORD Christchurch Festival 2025 Programme Announcement
Writers, thinkers and performers bring the joy of words to Ōtautahi Christchurch this August More than 100 writers, thinkers and performers from Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world will offer a feast of fresh ideas, fun nights out, captivating stories and powerful performances during the 2025 WORD Christchurch Festival, which runs from 27 to 31 […]
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NZSA Northland Short Story Awards
Our short story competitions are now open for entries Adult section – $1000 FIRST PRIZE OPEN TO ALL WRITERS IN NEW ZEALAND Entry fee – $10 per story Young writers from Northland can enter our High school and Year 7&8 sections for free. All information, closing dates and entry forms available at https://northlandauthors.co.nz/competition-details-and…/ Thank you […]
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The Coalition for Books Winter Reading campaign is here!
Kete and The Coalition for Books’ Winter Reading campaign has begun! The campaign brings together over 70 new books from Aotearoa published in the lead up to and over the winter months. Our Winter Reading 2025 catalogue features exciting new fiction, books for tamariki and rangatahi, a wide range of compelling nonfiction, and a selection […]
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Now Open! | Enter the $10,000 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
NOW OPEN! Prize money: $10,000 Closing: 13 October 2025 Judges: Judith Bishop, Felicity Plunkett, and Anders Villani Celebrating twenty-two years of world poetry, Australian Book Review welcomes entries to the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected poetry awards. The prize – worth a total of AU$10,000 – is open […]
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2025 Fale-Ship Residency Recipients
We are thrilled to introduce our three artists for this year’s Fale-Ship Residency; Quishile Charan, Harry Freeth, and p.Walters, whose compelling research and practices stood out among a highly competitive pool of artists! Over the course of the residency, these artists will have the dedicated time and support to strengthen their research and making, culminating […]
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Overseas Published Collections — Collection management project 2018–2025
From the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa: We’ve made a decision about the items remaining from the Overseas Published Collection (OPC), part of the Library’s general collections. Following an analysis of the recently approved General Collections Removal Policy, we have decided to securely dispose of the remaining items, starting immediately. As […]
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Pip Adam receives the Michael King Writer’s Fellowship
Creative New Zealand is pleased to announce Pip Adam as the recipient of the Michael King Writer’s Fellowship (the Fellowship). The $100,000 Fellowship is awarded every two years to an established New Zealand writer of literature to work on a major project. Pip Adam is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her first book, […]
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Asian Artist Fund
The Asian Artists’ Fund is currently open for applications with $650,000 to distribute to artists. Applications close on Wednesday 16 July at 11.59pm. This year the funding stream options include a suite of residencies, recognising the need for artists to have dedicated time and space to experiment, explore, and develop new work. The fund, a co-investment partnership […]
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