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The Nine Dots prize opens
The Nine Dots Prize is an international writing prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues. The aim of the prize is to promote, encourage and engage innovative thinking to address problems facing the modern world. It is judged anonymously and seeks submissions from both established writers and emerging talent. This year’s question is: […]
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Vale Fleur Adcock (1934-2024)
News And Publicity Bloodaxe October 11 Fleur Adcock leaves two sons in New Zealand: Gregory Campbell and her grandchildren Oliver, Lily and Julia, and Andrew Campbell and her grandchildren Ella, Cait and Rosa, along with seven great-grandchildren; and her sister Marilyn Duckworth and Fleur’s nieces Helen, Sarah, Anna and Mia. Her funeral is on Thursday […]
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Robust and Resilient Indies Celebrate their role as Community Hubs on Aotearoa New Zealand Bookshop Day
Independent bookshops 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. This compares […]
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LitPLUS AUT info site on literacy education launches
LitPlus is a research and professional learning community focused on literacy education for children and young people and is based at AUT. LitPlus supports literacy education that puts the pleasures of reading together and equalising differences in children’s literacy at its centre. This will be useful to access research about literacy in Aotearoa.
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Joy Sellen is the recipient of the Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award
Joy has always been an avid reader. She graduated from the University of Otago with degrees in microbiology and Russian, after which she worked in translation, research, market analysis, writing and editing in New Zealand and the UK. Later, with young children, she became involved in playgroups, toy library and kindergarten committees, where she took […]
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Otago College of Ed CNZ Children’s WIR 2025 is Samantha Montgomerie
Samantha Montgomerie lives on the Otago Peninsula, Ōtepoti Dunedin. Her proposed project during this Fellowship is a middle-grade (ages 8 to 12 years) fiction novel – Sea and Sky Collide. Set in the Marlborough Sounds, this action-packed story is based around two young people fighting to take a stand to protect our natural taonga, with a focus on […]
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The Robert Burns Fellow 2025 is Dr Octavia Cade
Dr Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer based in Kerikeri. Her creative work is increasingly climate-influenced, realistic science fiction that takes place in contemporary or near-future settings. Octavia’s background includes a Master’s in Biology, during which she studied seagrass reproduction, a Bachelor of Science in Botany and a PhD in Science Communication from Otago, […]
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Announcing the 2024 CLNZ | NZSA Writers’ Award
Media Release October 8, 2024 $25,000 CLNZ | NZSA Writers’ Award has been awarded to writer Mark Derby Mark Derby has been awarded the 2024 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc, CLNZ | NZSA $25,000 Writers’ Award for his project, […]
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Call for judges of the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
2 OCTOBER 2024 The organisers of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are inviting expressions of interest from members and followers of the children’s literature community who would like to be considered as judges of the 2025 awards. Applications to judge are now open to all those with suitable qualifications and […]
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Calling all writers! Applications are now open for the 2025 Sargeson Fellowship
1 October 2024 The Frank Sargeson Trust is calling for applications from published New Zealand writers for the 2025 Sargeson Fellowship. This prestigious Fellowship, named in memory of New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson, is offering in 2025 an increased stipend of $26,000 to write fulltime on a project(s). The Sargeson Fellowship may be shared by […]
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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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