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2022 ARA HISTORICAL NOVEL PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), in partnership with Australia’s leading essential building and infrastructure services provider ARA Group, is excited to announce the winners of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The winner of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize – Adult Category is Corporal Hitler’s Pistol by Tom Keneally (Penguin Random House). The winner […]
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NZSA Heritage Book Awards 2022 – Winners announced
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) and the Canterbury branch of NZSA are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2022 NZSA Heritage Book Awards! Link to audio for 2022 prizegiving ceremony https://shows.acast.com/the-authors-tale/episodes/bonus-episode-heritage-book-award-winners-david-hill-and-jen https://shows.acast.com/the-authors-tale/episodes/bonus-episode-heritage-book-award-winners-janet-newman-and-n With many thanks to our judges, here are the winning books for the […]
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Inhale
Haere mai to Inhale This is a new publisher for wāhine Māori! ‘We print bold stories – the stories that require us to be courageous and brave, to be vulnerable and passionate. Stories that challenge ourselves and those around us, and the stories within us that the world needs to hear. Be heard. Share […]
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The Kaipukahu University of Waikato Writer in Residence 2023 Te Kura Toi, School of Arts
You will be a writer of fiction, poetry, drama or serious non-fiction and seeking a full-time opportunity to write for a year in an academic environment supported by a living wage. You will be entitled to work and live in NZ. You will be provided with office space and computer facilities in the English Programme […]
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The Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards are now open
2022 Sunday Star Times Short Story competition – terms and conditions Sep 25 2022 STUFF Entries for the 2022 Sunday Star-Times short story competition are open. Now in their 39th year, the awards are among New Zealand’s most prestigious and established writing prizes. The competition has helped the careers of many well-known writers including Eleanor Catton, Sarah Laing, […]
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Global celebration of Katherine Mansfield’s creative legacy to take place in 2023
14 October 2022 In 2023 internationally renowned modernist writer Katherine Mansfield will be celebrated throughout Aotearoa and the world. Mansfield was born in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington on 14 October 1888 and died in Fontainebleau, France, on 9 January 1923. Alongside other 20th century literary giants James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence, Katherine defined modernism by […]
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Aotearoa’s richest short story prize – the Sargeson Prize awarded to NZSA member Leeanne O’Brien
WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER The art of the Kiwi short story is alive and well if entries to this year’s Sargeson Prize are anything to go by. Judge Dame Fiona Kidman says she was overwhelmed by the number and quality of submissions which saw 960 entries in the Open Division and 165 entries in the […]
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Cloud Ink accepting fiction manuscripts
Submit your manuscript for publishing. Cloud Ink will be accepting submissions for novels until 10 December 2022. Cloud Ink is now open to considering manuscripts of adult or young adult fiction from New Zealand writers who are citizens or permanent residents. We are looking to publishing novels which have a New Zealand flavour but will […]
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United Kingdom: Joint letter calling on Home Secretary not to extradite Julian Assange to the US
PEN International joins Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 14 organisations – including English PEN, PEN Suisse Romand, PEN Sydney, Scottish PEN, Slovene PEN and Swedish PEN – in urging the new UK Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, to intervene in the US government’s request to extradite Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. These groups, representing press freedom, free […]
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PEN International congratulates French author Annie Ernaux on winning this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature
06 October The 82-year-old writer from Normandy was awarded the prize for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory. Her autobiographical novels, including Cleaned Out and A Frozen Woman, explore notions of sexuality, social inequality, and class. While her non-fiction texts including A Man’s Place and Shame explore the depths of […]
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The Nine Dots Prize – open for entries – Think big, solve problems, through writing.
The Nine Dots Prize is an international writing prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues. The aim of the prize is to promote, encourage and engage innovative thinking to address problems facing the modern world. It is judged anonymously and seeks submissions from both established writers and emerging talent. This year’s question […]
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