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Robust and Resilient Indies Celebrate their role as Community Hubs on Aotearoa New Zealand Bookshop Day
Independent book shops across the motu will celebrate their pivotal roles as community hubs with fanfare events on Aotearoa New Zealand Bookshop Day Saturday 12 October as they continue to trade strongly in a tough retail environment. Bookstore sales volumes increased by three percent in August on the month prior according to Nielsen BookData. […]
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Announcing the Landfall Tauraka short story series
Landfall and Otago University Press are excited to announce a new series of short story collections with the publication of the inaugural title, Pretty Ugly, by award-winning writer Kirsty Gunn. In Pretty Ugly, Gunn reminds us that ambiguity and complication are elemental forces in a human life and grist to the storyteller’s mill. This collection of 13 […]
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Love of books and reading foremost with Kiwi Kids Whitcoulls Top 50
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2024 On the eve of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Term 3 holidays, Whitcoulls announce their influential 2024 Kids’ Top 50 Books list; an annual event for over 25 years and one Kiwi children respond to with enthusiasm. Whitcoulls Book Manager, Joan Mackenzie, says, “This year, 36% of books on the Top 50 are […]
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Announcing the 2024 Janet Frame Memorial Lecture
Friends and Elephants Saturday, 9 November 2024 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Hannah Playhouse, 12 Cambridge Terrace, Wellington Barbara was awarded the 2024 President of Honour in recognition of her contribution across the literature sector in Aotearoa. Barbara writes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, is a literary agent, and editor. She has received […]
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Congratulations to Steph Matuku, winner of the inaugural NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award
Inaugural NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award goes to Steph Matuku! The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Steph Matuku on winning the inaugural NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award 2024. Steph Matuku, who has written several books for young people, will use the award to help complete the writing of […]
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Bidding war sees Catherine Chidgey’s ninth novel snapped up by major league British publisher of Jane Austen and Arthur Conan Doyle
Media Release – 25 SEPTEMBER 2024 Rights to internationally acclaimed New Zealand author Catherine Chidgey’s ninth novel, The Book of Guilt, have been bought by UK publishing house John Murray at a contested auction which will see the novel published in New Zealand and globally in May 2025. John Murray is one of Britain’s most […]
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Danyan Chen travels to Aotearoa for MKWC Residency
New Zealand China Friendship Society – Rewi Alley Fellowship 23 September 2024 Danyan Chen has been selected as the fifth Chinese writer to travel to Aotearoa for an eight week residency at the Michael King Writers Centre from September to November. Danyan is a renowned author known for her impactful contributions to both fiction and […]
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Dr Jacqueline Leckie, winner of the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2024!
Dr Jacqueline Leckie is awarded the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship for 2024! The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Dr Jacqueline Leckie on winning the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2024 to work on her biography with the working title Meg Campbell (1937–2007): Aroha and Resistance. This […]
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PANZ Design Awards winners 2024
Māori and Pasifika designers have taken out the top honours at the 2024 PANZ Book Design Awards, held in Auckland this evening. The supreme award, the Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen BookData, went to Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen (Massey University Press), a tribute […]
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2024 QuietManDave Prize: £1,000 Flash Fiction and Non-Fiction Prizes
The QuietManDave Prize celebrates short-form writing and the life of someone who loved to experience new places, art and events and write about them. The 2024 QuietManDave Flash Fiction and Flash Non-Fiction Prize is open to entries. The Prize offers awards of £1,000* for Flash Fiction and £1,000* Flash Non-Fiction as well as runner-up prizes. Submissions […]
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Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing 2025
Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand Full-time 37.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE) 6 month fixed-term opportunity Competitive salary of $82,000 (for 12 months, pro-rated for 6 months) Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā! He hiahia, he pūkenga nōu ki te mahi a te Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence? Nāia te pōwhiri […]
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Ngā Pae Rewa Pū Kōrero – NZSA Te Kaituhi Māori Wānanga – Motueka
Labour Weekend 2024, Te Awhina Marae, Motueka FRIDAY 25TH OCT 3 PM PŌWHIRI 4.30 PM KAI WHAKANOA WHAKAWHANAUNGATANGA MANAWHENUA MIRIANA STEPHENS & ROPATA STEPHENS TE MATU – MOTUEKA HIGH SCHOOL 6 PM DINNER MOTUEKA STATE CINEMA 7 PM […]
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