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Vale: Derek Challis (1930-2021) BY Michelle Leggott on NEWSROOM
Derek Challis, son of the legendary author Robin Hyde, died last Thursday. Michelle Leggott pays tribute He opens a suitcase and there they are, the precious manuscript notebooks written by his poet mother Iris Wilkinson aka Robin Hyde. We are in Dunedin for a Hyde conference. Yes, says Derek Arden Challis, I put them in […]
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Kiwi Kids Read Kiwi Books
An online bookstore, Kiwi Kids Read Kiwi Books, has been launched to link New Zealand authors and illustrators creating books for children and teens with book buyers and young readers around the country. The brainchild of Wanaka author Kate Gordon, the bookstore went live mid-November with eight founding authors who have written an array of […]
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AWP Writing Competitions in the USA – open to all – Feb deadlines
Writing Opportunities in the US – open to all AWP Award Series – Association for Writers and Writers Programmes AWP sponsors the Award Series, an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works. The competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence and is available to published […]
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Michalia Arathimos is the New Writer in Residence for Waikato University 2021
The University of Waikato is set to welcome Michalia Arathimos as the Writer in Residence for 2021. She will start in her new role after Easter and her residency project will be her third novel, Sojourn, which is set in the Waikato. This position is jointly funded by the University of Waikato and Creative New […]
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PEN AMERICA: FAQs on free speech and the Capitol Hill insurrection
Last week’s lawless insurrection on Capitol Hill raised a series of questions about free speech, the First Amendment, and protest rights. Should presidents be banned from Twitter and Facebook? Should tech companies refuse to host social networks sites like Parler? What defines “hate speech” and “incitement”? This statement was originally published on pen.org on 11 January […]
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Dan Davin Literary Foundation Writer in Residence 2021 – Expressions of Interest
In 2021 the Dan Davin Literary Foundation is calling for expressions of interest from established New Zealand short story writers to undertake a Writer in Residence based in Invercargill for 3-6 weeks. This is a new residency which we host on a biennial basis and started in 2019. This residency has been made possible through […]
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Book Aid International’s Year of 2020: 867,567 Books sent to refugee camps in 19 Countries
HOME Read Publishing Perspectives here January 13, 2021 By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Solar lamps as well as hundreds of thousands of books were in play in 2020 as Book Aid International’s logistics team and donor-publishers got books to refugee camps as well as libraries. Eunice Eyi Dotse, a student in Ghana, studies with […]
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49th UK Costa Book Awards name category winners
The Costa program, named for its coffee-company sponsor, is among the Top 10 most influential prize programs in this market in which the awards organizations themselves compete with each other perhaps even more energetically than publishers and authors do. The winners’ announcements lag the year for which they’re awarded. And in addition to these […]
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Publisher’s Weekly 2020 Person of the Year: The Book Business Worker
Time to celebrate all those in the publishing chain who make it happen – from book warehouse workers to editors, booksellers, reviewers et al. Celebrating all those involved in the publishing ecosystem looks like a good way to start 2020. Read more here :https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/85158-pw-s-person-of-the-year-the-book-business-worker.html How the workers in the publishing ecosystem kept it all […]
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New Years Honours for NZ Literature 2020
New Year Honours: 2021 31 Dec, 2020 For full list see the NZ Herald The 2021 New Years Honours are out today. Here is the list of writers and literary sector figures honoured in this year’s awards. Many congratulations to all those who received recognition. ORDER OF NEW ZEALAND (ONZ) Distinguished Professor Dame Mary Anne […]
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LITERARY EXCELLENCE FROM AOTEAROA’S QUEER WRITERS SHOWCASED IN SIXTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL February 10-14, 2021
samesame but different LGBTQIA+ Literary Festival February 10-14, 2021 Aotearoa’s only LGBTQIA+ literary festival, samesame but different returns for its sixth year as part of the Auckland Pride Festival, with an entirely free programme for the first time ever! In 2021, the festival will be a year of firsts. Thanks to Proud Centres, the main […]
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Genre-defying work wins 2020 Adam Foundation Prize
17 December 2020 A genre-defying work that examiners describe as being “of great significance” has been awarded the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) 2020 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi, Tsawout First Nation, Coast Salish) is a takatāpui multimedia artist and writer. She […]
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