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New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2020 Writers in Residence Programme
The Michael King Writers Centre is pleased to announce that next year’s programme of residencies at the…
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Ashton Wylie 2019 Book and Unpublished Manuscript Awards
MEDIA RELEASE Provocative Book Encouraging Behaviour Change to Save Our…
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2019 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition
The Graeme Lay Short Story Competition opens exclusively to NZSA members today. This year there is over $800 in prize money. Open…
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Shortlist announced for inaugural Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize
14 August 2019 Hachette NZ and the Margarey Mahy estate have announced the shortlist for the inaugural Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize for unpublished illustrators.
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‘No Friend but the Mountains’ wins National Biography Award
Behrouz Boochani also won the Victorian Premier’s Award. He sent his manuscript from where he is interred on Manus Island, by WattsApp. He accepted…
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Creative New Zealand Pacific Arts Strategy 2018–2023 update: Celebrating the first year of delivery
Ia manuia le fai o le faiva! Creative New Zealand’s Pacific Arts Strategy 2018–2023 was…
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Daughters of Toni: A Remembrance
By: Zadie Smith August 7, 2019 for PEN America Zadie Smith Author…
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The Coalition for Books: a dynamic new organisation for New Zealand literature announced
A dynamic collaborative organisation has formed to make a tangible difference to the literary landscape of Aotearoa, supported by seed funding from Creative New Zealand (CNZ).
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Storylines Dame Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira Award
The Storylines Dame Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira Award is open to all New Zealand writers and is made annually, when merited, to the New Zealand author…
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Alan Duff, Elizabeth Knox and Don McGlashan Headline 24th Going West Writers Festival
6-8 September Going West Writers Festival weekend. Titirangi War Memorial Hall. New Zealand’s leading authors, poets, playwrights and musicians take to West Auckland’s theatres, halls and beaches…
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Creative New Zealand increases arts sector investment by $27 million and confirms 80 arts organisations for its investment programmes
Eighty New Zealand arts organisations are confirmed in Creative New Zealand’s Investment programmes over the next two to…
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