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NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grant + Residency – Recipient Announced
The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and Auckland War Memorial Museum are delighted to announce the recipient of the NZSA Auckland Museum Research +…
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Widespread copyright breach: Authors’ associations demand that Open Library stops lending scanned books
The Society of Authors (SoA) in the UK and the Authors Guild (AG) in the US…
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#readNZ: The importance of reading aloud
17 January 2019 #NZreadaloud is a ‘connected literacy’…
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Good news – NZ Bookshop Numbers on the Rise
Since January 2018, Booksellers NZ has gained seven brand new members from everywhere from Vulcan Lane in Central Auckland, through…
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New Year’s Honours – congratulations to our literature sector recipients
Our poet laureate, Associate professor Selina Tusitala Marsh, past NZSA president Rosemary Wildblood, author and academic Dr Paula Morris, author and historian Edmund Bohan, poet and academic Dr Karlo…
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NZSA Oral History Podcast Series – Final 2018 Episode with C.K. Stead
Christian Karlson Stead was deeply involved in the New Zealand Society of Authors for many years. So why did he stand up one day, read out a statement and…
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2019 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellow will explore stigma and stereotypes
The 2019 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship will help a playwright challenge Asian stereotypes and a poet press against the silence and stigma connected to New Zealand’s history of forced…
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‘Scalp-prickling dazzler of a novel’ wins Adam Foundation Prize
A sharp, funny, ‘white-hot burn’ of a novel has been awarded the 2018 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing by Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters…
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Paula Morris is the 2018 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
The French Riviera and New York –Two Game Changing Destinations for Three Prolific NZ Artists Time, space, and inspiration are what dreams are made…
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Children’s book boom drives growth for New Zealand publishers
Heading into Christmas, sales of New Zealand-published children’s books are on a roll — helping the domestic publishing industry to reach more readers with local stories in 2018. In the…
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Michael King Writers Centre launches 2018 SIGNALS
Signals 2018 – Supporting emerging young NZ writers The Michael King Writers Centre launched the seventh issue of Signals, its literary journal…
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Randall Cottage Writing Fellow 2019 is Paddy Richardson
Randell Cottage Writers Trust The selection…
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