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NZSA Call out for CLNZ Board role: Author Director
April 2025 Appointment of an Author Director Copyright Licensing New Zealand The Position Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) is seeking a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc (NZSA) to join its Board of Directors. This appointment process is being undertaken by the Board to […]
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Mountain Book Awards Finalists 2025
With such a high calibre of entries, the judges are going to have a tough (but very enjoyable) challenge in selecting the winners! We’re delighted to be able to announce our Book Competition finalists as follows: Highly Commended Northbound: Four Seasons of Solitude on Te Araroa by Naomi Arnold Southern Faces: An Introduction to Rock […]
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Announcing the 2nd Mercedes Webb-Pullman Poetry Award
Webb-Pullman Poetry Award Webb-Pullman Family 30 April, 2025 Entries are now open for the second Mercedes Webb-Pullman Poetry Award, which in 2025 will again be $500 NZD. In honour of Mercedes’ support for Palestinian rights, her passionate resistance to injustice, and in light of the current genocide in Gaza, the topic for this […]
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Applications now open for the 2026 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
Applications for one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prestigious and long-running Fellowships are now open – closing 11pm Friday 30 May 2025. For over fifty years, since 1970, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship has enabled a New Zealand writer to live and work for three months or more in Menton, southern France, with access to […]
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STREETSIDE: BRITOMART – AWF’s first event promises a riotous evening of words and creativity
Storytellers will take over the Britomart precinct in the heart of Tāmaki Makaurau for a riotous evening of words and creativity on Friday 9 May. STREETSIDE: BRITOMART is a one-night-only festival which is completely free and open to all. The fun runs from 6 – 8pm with events across seven Britomart venues and provides a […]
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VERB WELLINGTON ANNOUNCES THREE WRITERS RESIDENCIES
Verb Wellington is delighted to announce a new Children’s Writers Residency and a Home-Based Residency to run in 2025. Applications open for both residencies on 28 April, as well for the Katherine Mansfield House & Garden Writers Residency which has been running annually since 2020. “We are thrilled to offer two new opportunities for […]
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The Plaza Poetry Prize Winners
NZSA member, Wes Lee, has been awarded second and third prize in The Plaza Poetry Prize 2025, selected by the judge, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz. The winning, commended, and shortlisted poems (for an individual poem with a maximum length of 60 lines) have been announced on The Plaza Prizes website. ‘Reading the finalist poems for the […]
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Script to Screen mentorship programme recipients
Script to Screen welcomes eight new filmmakers to the South Shorts Mentorship Programme! From July to November, the participants will embark on an incredible journey of development led by acclaimed screenwriter and director Briar Grace-Smith (Cousins, Rūrangi, Waru). Briar has led the mentorship for South Shorts since 2018, and in this time has had a […]
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Michelle Elvy gets Barr Cottage Auckland Council residency
Artist plans seascape series at Auckland regional park 23 Apr 2025 Michelle Elvy, Auckland Council’s 2025 artist in residence, hopes to find inspiration at Huia An established writer with an affinity for the ocean is thrilled to have the opportunity to live at the idyllic seaside Barr Cottage in Huia, as Auckland Council’s regional parks’ artist in […]
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Sir Julius Vogel 2025 Award Winners
Professional Categories Best Novel Echoes of Earthshine Mel Harding-Shaw Coruscate Press Best Youth Novel The Moonlight Bridge Mike Gwyther Qualia House Best Novella or Novelette We Who Remain Nikky Lee Deadset Press Best Short Story N-spired Learning B.T. Keaton SpecFicNZ Best Artwork Cover of “Artificial Sweetener: Tales of AI: 100% Written by Humans” Melissa Gunn […]
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New Voices of Aotearoa nominations open
An initiative to promote emerging writers and their books. Kete and the Coalition for Books, with support from the Mātātuhi Foundation, are excited to announce that nominations for their new annual promotion, New Voices of Aotearoa, are officially open. Showcasing new and emerging talent publishing adult fiction or non-fiction, New Voices of Aotearoa is designed […]
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Books Alive expands to Palmerston North in 2025
Books Alive is expanding to Palmerston North this year, making it the fourth regional centre to host large-scale events for school children with finalist authors in the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (NZCYA). The expansion comes thanks to a second year of funding from literature-sector supporter Mātātuhi Foundation. Palmerston North […]
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