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2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist Announced
Forty books traversing the cultural, historic, artistic and social landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand have made the longlist for the prestigious Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today. Ten books…
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2017 Costa Awards – shortlists announced
2017 Costa book awards shortlists Novel Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (4th Estate) Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney (Quercus) Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury Circus)
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Sir James Wallace Master of Creative Writing prize for 2017
The winner of the $5000 Sir James Wallace Master of Creative Writing prize for 2017, Amy McDaid, has written poetry and short stories since she was small, but not…
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LEADING PUBLISHER KEVIN CHAPMAN TO JOIN MASSEY UNIVERSITY PRESS BOARD
One of this country’s most experienced and successful publishers has joined the Editorial Board of Massey University Press. Kevin Chapman has worked in book publishing for over thirty years, in…
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#NZChristmasBookChallenge and #ReadtoSucceed
This Christmas, make one of your gifts a book by a NZ writer, published by a NZ publisher, bought from a NZ book shop. #NZChristmasBookChallenge
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2017 Ngā Kupu Ora Awards: Māori Book Awards Finalists and Winners
2017 Ngā Kupu Ora Awards: Māori Book Awards Finalists and Winners
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Waikato University – Writer in Residence 2018 Therese Lloyd
Each year the University of Waikato invites applications for the position of Writer in Residence, tenable for twelve months normally from February. The emolument is jointly funded by the University…
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Kiwi personalities back the book
What do a Shortland St star, three reality TV stars and four media broadcasters have in common? They know how important it is to love reading. Today the New Zealand…
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Michael King Writers’ Centre 2018 Residency Recipients Announced
Next year New Zealand’s largest writer-residency organisation will host its largest-ever number of residencies, offering opportunities to 15 emerging and established writers – historians, memoirists, essay writers, fiction writers,…
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Pullman and Saunders shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2017
Philip Pullman’s first instalment of ‘The Book of Dust’ and Man Booker Prize-winner George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo’ are in the running for the Waterstones Book…
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The Craft of Writing: drafting your first novel – presented by NZSA Auckland!
The Craft of Writing 6.30pm to 8.45pm, Friday 17 Nov and Friday 24 Nov Writing your…
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Announcing the 2017 World Fantasy Award Winners
The winners for the 2017 World Fantasy Awards have been announced! This year’s award ceremony was held at the World Fantasy Convention, November 2-5, 2017 in San…
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