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Emma Clifton joining Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
The newly renamed Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand is pleased to announce that Emma Clifton will be joining the Auckland team in the role of Publisher. Emma is a highly regarded journalist who co-founded Capsule, New Zealand’s fastest growing online women’s lifestyle brand. She has worked in magazines for more than 15 years, including […]
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International Authors Forum (IAF) General Meeting 2025
Artificial Intelligence With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) systems, we introduced our AI principles last year to guide discussions and policymaking. These principles set out key considerations and emphasized the importance of a comprehensive legal framework that addresses copyright, privacy, data protection, and competition and consumer protection laws. Such a framework is essential […]
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The 2025 NFFD competition is open!
Send your best 300 words Submissions open through 30 April The 2025 judges for the national competition are the award-winning writers Brannavan Gnanalingam and Vana Manasiadis. The 2025 youth judge is Shilo Kino. How to enter can be found on the NFFD Competition page. More about the 2025 international youth competition later this month. MICRO MADNESS A free competition open to […]
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THE 2024 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® FINAL BALLOT
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) today announced the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. Congratulations to all NZSA members shortlisted. Superior Achievement in an Anthology Ajram, Sofia — Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (Ghoulish Books) Costello, Rob — We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures (Running Press) […]
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Summer Writing Seminars University of Auckland
Hone your skills as a writer in this packed programme of in-depth craft seminars led by experienced teachers, including our creative writing staff, award-winning writers Paula Morris and Selina Tusitala Marsh. This year we also offer Sunday workshops for in-depth discussion of student work. Each workshop is limited to eight participants. If you are accepted […]
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NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 Shortlists
The NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 shortlist, announced today, features a mixture of debut authors and well-known writers. Books by Tina Shaw, Riley Chance, Rebekah Ballagh, Mandy Hager, Stacy Gregg and James Russell are among the diverse titles nominated for the NZ Booklovers Awards, along with exciting new writers and outstanding debut books. With five categories […]
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The ASLA DANZ Children’s Book Award Announces its 2025 Longlists!
Twenty-nine books have made the longlist for the 2025 ASLA DANZ Children’s Book Awards, selected by over 110 children and teenagers from across Australia and New Zealand. The longlist came from an outstanding field of 135 books made up of Graphic Novels, NonFiction, Poetry, and Young Adult Novels celebrating diverse people and communities in a […]
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Writers & Publishers AI survey results – CLNZ 2025
This report summarises the data collected in the “Writers and Publishers AI Survey”. Throughout the report, all percentages are rounded to whole numbers. Key terms are in bold and defined in the footnotes. The survey was structured into three parts. Data collection Responses were collected via a weblink distributed through electronic direct mail and social […]
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New name for Sargeson Fellowship
6 February 2025 The Sargeson Trust is delighted to announce that the 38-year-old Sargeson Fellowship will from 2026 be known as the Ireland Wilson Sargeson Fellowships. For almost four decades, the Sargeson Fellowship has supported scores of Aotearoa New Zealand writers in the memory of distinguished author and generous mentor Frank Sargeson. Under the new […]
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Farewell to Brian Turner
NZSA member Brian Turner has died. …” A major New Zealand author, primarily as a poet of the Otago landscape but also as a sometimes intensely argumentative essayist with a very real loathing of forces and people wishing to destroy the Otago landscape, Turner died yesterday morning, at sunrise, after a heart attack.” Poet, environmentalist, […]
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Samesame But Different 2025 Festival Programme
The very first Samesame But Different festival in 2016 saw Peter Wells provide a space for LGBTQIA+ writers and readers to come together in a unique way. In 2025 we are celebrating the 10th SSBD festival! As we reflect on ten years of Samesame But Different, this festival is an opportunity to celebrate milestones, remember […]
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Entries for the 2025 Pikihuia Awards are now open
This year the Pikihuia Awards will celebrate 30 years of supporting and nurturing Māori writers. Held biennially, the Pikihuia Awards have welcomed short story submissions in both te reo Māori and English. Following the exciting new categories introduced in 2023, The Māori Literature Trust is proud to announce that we are again adjusting the genre […]
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