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UK Society of Authors – Dec 2022 – UK Author median incomes dropped 60% since 2006!
A profession struggling to sustain itself ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006 The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) has published a report of their fourth survey into authors’ earnings – carried out by CREATe – with the stark headline that the median income of full-time professional […]
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How I write: Dystopian thriller author M. C Ronen on the writers who have influenced her
Published in STUFF by Andre Chumko Dec 15 M. C Ronen (pen name of Maya Cohen-Ronen) is a Wellington-based, multi-award-winning author of three dystopian thrillers, The Liberation Trilogy. She is a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA), a proud mother of two children, two dogs and one rabbit, and is an activist […]
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“Wholesome, consoling love story” wins Adam Foundation Prize
15 December 2022 L- R: Damien Wilkins, Verna Adam, and Olive Nuttall. An hilarious but emotionally powerful novel is the winner of the 2022 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML). Olive Nuttall wrote the winning manuscript, Kitten, as part of her 2022 […]
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Playful and powerful collection wins the 2022 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry
15 December 2022 An engaging and generous collection of poems about Sāmoan family and community has won the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) 2022 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry. Author Nafanua Purcell Kersel (Faleālupo, Malaelā, Mosula, Tuaefu) is a poet of the Sāmoan diaspora with a degree in social anthropology. She wrote the winning […]
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Modern Commedia play wins University scriptwriting prize IIML
14 December 2022 A full-length theatre play giving traditional Commedia dell’Arte a modern spin has been awarded the 2022 David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML). Written by Ella Yiannett as part of her 2022 Master of Arts folio at the IIML, […]
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NZCYP Judges announced for 2023
Convenor of judges Nicola Daly is an Associate Professor at the University of Waikato, where she is codirector of the Waikato Picturebook Research Unit and teaches courses in children’s literature. Nicola’s research focus is the use of languages in picture books, and she has received several fellowships to pursue this interest, including at the International Youth Library […]
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JOHN SUMMERS RECEIVES 2022 JANET FRAME AWARD FOR PROSE
Janet Frame Literary Trust Announcement Award Celebrates 70th Anniversary of Janet Frame’s Most Famous Prize Wellington writer John Summers will this week receive the 2022 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Imaginative Prose, worth $7000. John Summers has published two books of short non-fiction, The Mermaid Boy (2015) and The Commercial Hotel (2021). His writing […]
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Protecting Australian artists – Australia’s Albanese government moves to protect creative rights
The Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP 24 November 2022 Media Release The Albanese Government is committed to copyright laws that protect Australian artists and enable them to earn a living from their creative works. The Attorney-General’s Department will release an issues paper for public consultation as the first stage of a review into whether […]
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Australian authors income survey – similar to NZ, though slightly higher
New survey results show Australian authors earn on average $18,200 7.12.22 In 2015, Macquarie University researchers investigated the experiences of Australian authors and reported the oft-cited finding that writers earned on average $12,900 per annum from their creative work. This figure has now been updated, following the 2022 National Survey of Australian Book Authors, to $18,200 […]
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NZ Summer of Reading campaign launched by Read NZ
An online campaign launching today will again encourage Kiwis to pick up a book and share their reading this summer. NZ Summer of Reading is a light-hearted campaign to share and promote reading for relaxation and pure fun. Now in its second year, it will run until the end of January. Read NZ Te Pou Muramura […]
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Ursula Bethell Writers in Residence for 2023 announced
Congratulations to NZSA member Ariana Tikao (Kāi Tahu) and to Octavia Cade, on winning this residency. Ariana Tikao is a past Arts Foundation Laureate, a multidisciplinary artist, and is particularly known as a taonga puoro practitioner. She will be following up her most recent book, ‘Mokorua: Ngā kōrero mō tōku moko kauae’ (AUP) by working on […]
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Call for Submissions: Botanical Short Stories
I’m delighted to announce that submissions are open for Botanical Short Stories, an anthology of contemporary writing about plants and flowers which will be published by The History Press in spring 2024. The book’s editor is Emma Timpany and illustrations are by RHS Gold medal winning botanical illustrator Sarah Jane Humphrey From tokens of love to neolithic burial gifts, bridal bouquets […]
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