• Have your books been used on Books3 Dataset to Train AI Systems?

    Posted on 3 October 2023

    Reproduced from The Authors Guild website… NZ Writers: Please send us details of your books so we can keep a database of NZ works used.  If you’re an author, you may have recently discovered in The Atlantic that your published book was included in a dataset of books used to train artificial intelligence systems without your permission. (Search the dataset […]

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  • NZSA President of Honour Witi Ihimaera will deliver the 2023 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture

    Posted on 2 October 2023

    You are invited to hear NZSA President of Honour Witi Ihimaera    deliver the 2023 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture     The NZSA Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) appoints a President of Honour each year from the ranks of its revered and senior members. This year, NZSA President of Honour, Witi Ihimaera DCNZM, QSM, will deliver the […]

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  • Artificial Intelligence: Position Statement September 2023 – CLNZ, PANZ, NZSA

    Posted on 2 October 2023

    Creators and publishers are amongst those most affected by the development of generative AI models. Their works are being used to train AI systems without their authorisation, remuneration, or recognition, frequently under the guise of ‘research.’ Creators and publishers are also concerned about AI-generated works being passed off as works of authentic human creativity—a concern […]

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  • Call for judges of the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

    Posted on 27 September 2023

    26 SEPTEMBER 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The organisers of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are inviting expressions of interest from members and followers of the children’s literature community who may like to be considered as judges of the 2024 awards. Applications to judge are now open to all those with […]

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  • Ockham NZ Book Awards 2024 judges announced as naming sponsor renews its support

    Posted on 27 September 2023

      27 September 2023  Respected academics, curators, reading and arts advocates, award-winning writers, journalists and reviewers are among the 12 experts who have been selected to judge the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, whose naming sponsor since 2015, Ockham Residential, has just confirmed a further five-year commitment. “For the past eight years we’ve been […]

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  • Applications Invited For 2024 Randell Cottage Writers Residency

    Posted on 25 September 2023

    Applications are now open for one of New Zealand’s top writing residencies: the 2024 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship. The fellowship comprises a generous stipend, funded by CNZ and currently set at $30,582, and six months’ rent-free accommodation in one of Wellington’s oldest heritage homes. The residency will run from July to December […]

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  • BOOKS GROUNDED IN TE AO MĀORI WIN BIG AT PUBLISHING’S DESIGN AWARDS

    Posted on 22 September 2023

    A story of contemporary Māori art from the 1950s to the present day, which contains more than 200 artworks by 110 Māori artists, has been judged the best designed book in Aotearoa at the 2023 PANZ Book Design Awards ceremony, held in Auckland this evening. Toi Tu Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art edited by Nigel […]

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  • Dame of Aotearoa children’s literature steals Harry Potter’s crown – Whitcoulls Top 50 Kids 2023

    Posted on 22 September 2023

    MEDIA RELEASE SEPTEMBER 22 Whitcoulls announce their Kids’ Top 50 Books List today (Friday, September 22, 2023) and with it reveal Dame Lynley Dodd’s classic book Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy steals Harry Potter’s crown as the nation’s favourite children’s book. First published in 1983, Dodd’s book also celebrates another significant milestone – 40 years […]

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  • Burns Fellow and Otago College of Ed Writer in Residence announced: Mikaela Nyman & Feana Tu’akoi

    Posted on 21 September 2023

    The Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence Fellow 2024 is Feana Tu’akoi Feana Tu’akoi Feana Tu’akoi is a Kirikiriroa Hamilton-based writer, with a long career in the field of children’s writing. “When our four children were pre-schoolers, nearly all children’s fiction was Pālangi-centric. I couldn’t find any books that included Tongan characters, […]

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  • THE KAIPUKAHU UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO WRITER IN RESIDENCE 2024 – open for applications

    Posted on 20 September 2023

    The late Ngāti Wairere elder Meto Hopa spoke of an ancient whare wānanga of Ngāti Wairere called Te Tiwhaopareiriwhare that stood on the ridge now known as Hillcrest Road, Hamilton East. According to Meto, the surrounding forest and swamp was called Kaipukahu for its abundance of foods – kai meaning food, and pukahu meaning abundant. […]

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  • Allen & Unwin NZ announces winner of 2023 Fiction Prize: Strawhan’s The Call

    Posted on 19 September 2023

    Allen & Unwin New Zealand is delighted to announce that the winner of our 2023 Fiction Prize is Auckland TV writer, show runner and executive producer, Gavin Strawhan. His entry, The Call, is a taut, superbly plotted crime novel – set in rural coastal New Zealand and featuring a complex protagonist – with a shocking ending. […]

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  • We Create – New sector data from Manatū Taonga/MCH and Infometrics!

    Posted on 18 September 2023

    The MCH/Infometrics profile as at March 2022 has now been updated to include new industry and occupation codes (please see below). These additions have increased the total number of jobs, businesses and GDP contribution of the sector according to government data to almost $15bn! That’s bigger than agriculture! These changes are due to a redefinition of […]

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