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Eye-catching Book on Sāmoan Tattooing Sweeps the Board at the PANZ Book Design Awards
A beautifully designed and richly illustrated retelling of the unique and powerful history of Sāmoan…
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Dean Koontz’s Jump to Amazon Publishing: Will Other Authors Follow?
The five-book deal and a collection of Amazon Original Stories from Dean Koontz is good news for Amazon Publishing. The real suspense story: could this signal defections…
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Booker Prize 2019 Longlist: Novels in English From Nine Countries
In Feature Articles by Porter Anderson First appeared in Publishing Perspectives. The 2019 Booker Prize…
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Publishers and Authors are pissed (sic) about Amazon’s upcoming Audible Captions feature
Author’s Guild in the US says this feature breaches rights. Some authors and publishers are asking for their books to be withheld from the…
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Space to breathe
22 Jul 2019 The latest offering of grants and awards in one of our key creative industries is rightly seen as something…
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Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel 2020 – open for applications
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) are pleased to announce that submissions for the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished…
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WW2 books, true stories and classics among New Zealanders’ favourite reads
Reading is in good health, with thousands of New Zealanders voting for their favourite books in the Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List. Announced today, the List reveals…
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Ray Grover values pragmatism on the latest NZSA Oral History Podcast episode
“It’s rough justice we are after.” -Ray Grover In the late 1950’s Ray Grover was part of a small circle of Wellington writers…
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A wealth of literary talent at Writers on Mondays
16 July 2019 Popular readings series Writers on Mondays returns to Wellington from 22 July, featuring a stunning array of local, national, and international writers.
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Government Making Plans –
Encouraging signs for transformation of the sector By Keri Malthus
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Compelling stories by emerging writers awarded 2019 NZSA assessments
The NZ Society of Authors announce who will receive manuscript guidance in this year’s CompleteMS programme. Thirteen writers with manuscripts ranging through black comedy, Kiwi noir, ethnographic fiction/literary non-fiction,…
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Ruth Dallas on the NZSA Oral History Podcast Series
“Some people say look in your heart and write, my method is quite different, I look out and write!” -Ruth Dallas Ruth Dallas was…
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