• 2026 Judith Binney Fellowships and Writing Awards

      The Judith Binney Trust is pleased to announce that applications for the 2026 Judith Binney Fellowships and Writing Awards will open on 12 May 2025. If you are interested in applying please visit www.judithbinneytrust.org.nz for further information. For others, we would be grateful if you would circulate this information to the people in your […]

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  • International Writers’ Workshop NZ – The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems

    iww-writers@outlook.com iww.co.nz Media Release – 10 April 2025 Anna Jackson to judge $1000 Poetry Prize International Writers’ Workshop NZ Inc IWW is delighted to announce that Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington poet Anna Jackson has accepted our invitation to judge The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems in 2025. The competition, with a first […]

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  • THE ASLA DANZ Children’s book award 2025 shortlists are announced

    Graphic Novels Ghost Book by Remy Lai (Allen & Unwin) Neverlanders by Tom Taylor and Jon Sommariva (Penguin Random House) The Sweetness Between Us by Sarah Winifred Searle (Allen & Unwin) Non-Fiction Our Mob by Taylor Hampton & Jacinta Daniher and illustrated by Seantelle Walsh (Ford Street Publishing) Looking After Country with Fire by Victor […]

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  • Authors Guild USA Submits Guidance for National AI Action Plan to Protect Writers’ Rights

    Artificial Intelligence March 19, 2025 In developing a national Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan—a comprehensive strategy to guide AI innovation and regulation in the United States—the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program requested comments from interested parties on a broad swath of issues […]

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  • Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2024 is a nest of singing birds

    If art is a window into society, it’s clear Aotearoa New Zealand’s obsession with birds is as strong as ever, judging by the prevalence of birds in this year’s Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems selection, now available to view online. “I am not an ornithologist or bird-nut! It has fallen this way and I have no […]

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  • 2025 Sargeson Prize seeks New Zealand’s best short fiction writers

    Entries are now open for the 2025 Sargeson Prize, New Zealand’s most prestigious short story competition, with a newly increased first prize of $15,000. Last year’s winner, Wellington-based writer Benn Jeffries, is encouraging fellow writers to back themselves and enter. Mr Jeffries won the 2024 Open Division with his topical and politically charged story ‘Greywacke’, […]

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  • 2025 Pikihuia Awards open

     Submissions close April 30   This year the Pikihuia Awards will celebrate 30 years of supporting and nurturing kaituhi Māori! Held biennially, the Pikihuia Awards have welcomed short story submissions in both te reo Māori and English. Submissions are now open for the 2025 Pikihuia Awards!  Click below to read more about the 2025 Pikihuia […]

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  • WeCreate Creative Export Explainer

    March 27 2025 | News WeCreate have launched a Creative Export Explainer report that sets out how the creative industries sell to the world, where barriers to creative trade exist, and how the government might help the sector to derive greater value from exporting. Click here to read the report

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  • Dear Brooke van Velden, please pick up

      Printed in Newsroom March 26, 2025 Riley Chance claims in his angry story in ReadingRoom about the failures of the Public Lending Right (PLR) that the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and its members are happy with and doing nicely from the current PLR system. Au contraire. The lack of any progress to […]

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  • 2025 Bologna Children’s Book Fair

    Excited preparations are underway at the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau oTākupu (PANZ) as we ready for our return to Bologna Children’s Book Fair. The Aotearoa New Zealand collective stand will have a strong Māori and Pasifika presence this year, so we hope you will swing by to experience the diverse and unique offering. We’re particularly […]

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  • Books scraped in the LibGEN dataset by Meta?

    Illegal Intellectual Property Use is Theft March 24, 2025 Over the weekend, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works have been used in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the one that journalist Alex Reisner made available for the Books3 AI […]

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  • Applications for the 2025 DRF Writers Award are now invited.

    £10,000 will be presented to a first-time writer whose submission demonstrates outstanding literary talent and who needs financial support to complete their work. The two runners-up will each receive £1,000. Submissions should take the form of 15,000-20,000 words of a work in progress, fiction or non-fiction, which is not under option or contract. Applicants may […]

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