• NZSA Writer Toolkit to launch in 2022

    We’re set to launch our NZSA Writer Toolkit in January 2022, and first session will be FREE to all our members. The Writer Toolkit – what is it? Our Toolkit is a new professional development offering from NZSA, and we will launch a series of online courses in 2022. Take courses on craft, industry and life […]

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  • Vale Keri Hulme

    It’s with great sadness that we heard of literary icon Keri Hulme’s passing yesterday, Monday 27 December. She was Aotearoa’s first Booker Prize winner for her novel, The Bone People. Our thoughts are with her friends and whānau. Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has out put together some great media of Hulme, including an interview […]

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  • Announcing the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists

    PEN America has announced their Longlists for the 2022 Literary Awards! The Awards are juried by panels of esteemed, award-winning authors, editors, translators, and critics. These authors are committed to recognising their contemporaries, from promising debut writers to those who have had a continuous, lasting impact on the literary landscape. You can learn more about […]

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  • Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre Creative Residency Programme 2022

    This residency is designed to support three artists practising in a range of artforms to create new work, build connections with each other, and engage with local arts communities and audiences across a 12-week residency from mid-May to mid-August 2022 at Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. Applications […]

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  • Calling all New Zealand LGBTQIA+ writers!

    Be a part of our 2022 Samesame but Different Festival by submitting to our Peter Wells Short Fiction Contest. In 2022 our Festival theme is ‘Legacy‘; with this in mind, we have decided this year to ask writers to include the phrase ‘once upon a time’ somewhere in their story. First prize is $1000 for […]

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  • Introducing the Aotearoa Photobook Awards 2022

    The new Aotearoa Photobook Awards are designed to reward outstanding photobooks produced between 21 January 2020 and 17 January 2022 by New Zealand photographers. Finalists will be announced after 29 January 2022 and the Awards presented at the opening of the Photobook/NZ Festival at Te Papa on Friday 4 March. The Awards are run by […]

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  • Va anthology of stories from 38 Moana women

    What happens when you put out a call for Oceania women to share their stories for a book written ‘by us, about us and for us’? And give them a deadline of only two weeks? It sparks a wave of creative fire as writers from across the world craft stories from the heart that have […]

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  • Storylines’ 2021 Tours reach more than 30,000 young people

    “The beneficial impact of authors and illustrators visiting schools to encourage a love of reading cannot be under-estimated,” says the chair of Storylines Children’s Literature Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki, Christine Young. “That’s why the Storylines Story Tours are so important as a way of directly engaging young New Zealanders with books and stories created […]

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  • Summer Encore: Whiti Hereaka introduces ‘Getting Hot and Bothered’

    The New Zealand Society of Authors Summer Encore Series is a podcast series where well known NZSA authors introduce you to some of their favourite episodes from the NZSA podcast so far. This week, Whiti Hereaka, author of the newly released Kurangaituku and successful playwright, novelist, screenwriter, introduces you to her favourite episode: the panel […]

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  • New campaign promotes reading for pure fun this summer

    A new online campaign encourages Kiwis to pick up a book and share their reading this summer. NZ Summer of Reading is a call to share and promote reading for relaxation and pure fun. Summer is a period when many of us have a little more relaxation time. Read NZ Te Pou Muramura wants to […]

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  • Vivid, absorbing story cycle wins 2021 Adam Foundation Prize

    A novel-in-stories set in contemporary rural Northland, which examiners describe as “shades of Elizabeth Strout in the effortless interplay of stories” has been awarded the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) 2021 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. Sharron Came works as a regulatory strategist for renewable energy company, Mercury. She wrote the winning manuscript, Peninsula, as […]

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  • Writers bring a breath of fresh air in Turbine | Kapohau 2021

    This year’s issue of Turbine | Kapohau, the annual online literary journal from Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auahua o Te Ao—International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), is now live. The journal showcases exciting new poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from members of the MA (Creative Writing) workshops of the IIML at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of […]

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