• Copyright Licensing New Zealand

    Copyright Licensing NZ appointed as collection agency for Artist Resale Royalty Scheme

    June 14 2024 “I am delighted to announce that we have appointed Copyright Licensing New Zealand as the collection agency for Aotearoa New Zealand’s Artist Resale Royalty Scheme,” said Leauanae Laulu Mac Leauanae, Tumu Whakarae Secretary and Chief Executive Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage. The Artist Resale Royalty Scheme will ensure that creators […]

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  • Tracy Farr is winner of the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2024!

    Announcing the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2024 winner The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Tracy Farr on winning the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize with her manuscript Wonderland. The prize was created by the NZSA and the Solomon family to fulfil the wishes of […]

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  • Applications open for NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2024

    A $10,000 Opportunity for Writers Applications open for NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2024 Calling for applications from writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama with a literary track record, who are currently working on a new project. The Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship is awarded each year to a mid-career or senior writer […]

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  • Winners of Mike Riddell Writer’s Residency 2024

    Winners of Mike Riddell Writer’s Residency 2024   Congratulations to the 2024 winners, Paddy Richardson and Pat White!. Pat will arrive in late June for the first six weeks, and Paddy will be resident in August, to overlap with this year’s Writers’ Retreat. Next year’s residency will be announced and applications invited  in early 2025. […]

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  • Kete Books Winter Reading catalogue out now

    New NZ Books… Here’s a link to the Winter Reading campaign on the Coalition website: https://coalitionforbooks.nz/winterreading2024  This year’s catalogue features exciting new fiction, books for tamariki and rangatahi, a wide range of compelling nonfiction, and a selection of brilliant new books for Matariki. It brings together 77 new books from Aotearoa published in the lead-up […]

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  • CNZ IIML Writer in Residence 2025 – open for applications

    Writer in Residence The Writer in Residence is an annual appointment to foster New Zealand writing, with support from Creative New Zealand. Applications are now open for the 2025 position, with a deadline of 30 September 2024. This is a full-year residency. About the residency The Writer in Residence appointment is jointly funded by Te […]

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  • Call for judges of the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

    June 7th 2024   It may be one of the most rewarding reading jobs in the country: judging Aotearoa’s annual national book awards. Now, potential candidates for the role are being asked to put their hands up as the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards open the call for expressions of interest in being one of […]

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  • Raise the Roof for Randell Cottage: Live Letters

    Media release June 7, 2024 Letters read live in support of historic writer’s cottage The lost art of letter writing and reading will be reignited at Live Letters, a special fundraising event on July 15. Raise the Roof for Randell Cottage: Live Letters brings together an eclectic group of literary luminaries to read aloud poignant, […]

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  • National Flash Fiction shortlists 2024

    The 2024 NFFD Short List! Readers can find the NFFD Short List on our site today. NFFD  invites everyone to attend an event near you on June 22 and come hear the best small stories in Aotearoa! All info about this competition is posted at the NFFD site, here. The youth lists are announced and […]

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  • Local New Zealand publisher Exisle Publishing launches the international Children’s Publishing Academy with a writing competition

      Dunedin-based book publisher Exisle Publishing has launched an international Children’s Publishing Academy aimed at supporting budding children’s book authors. The Children’s Publishing Academy provides a forum where authors can have the opportunity to learn from a leading children’s publishing professional as well as from other published authors. ‘Breaking through as a children’s author is […]

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  • BIG NAMES FEATURE ON NATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD SHORTLIST

    For immediate release, Thursday 6 June 2024 Books that will delight and inform – from big names such as Joy Cowley, Gavin Bishop, Stacy Gregg, Tessa Duder and Donovan Bixley as well as talented newcomers – have been announced today as finalists in the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. The […]

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  • SLANZA: Building on Structured Literacy: We Need to Fund School Libraries

    Media Release 30 May 2024 The School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (SLANZA) is concerned by the absence of funding in today’s budget announcement for essential school library resources to address the falling literacy rates in Aotearoa New Zealand. “Whilst we applaud the allocation of funds to structured literacy programmes, we are concerned that […]

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