• National Poetry Day 2021 AUGUST 27

    Posted on 20 March 2021

    Phantom National Poetry Day this year is on the 27 August 2021! Are you ready to join in the celebrations? Run an event? PNPD  are opening registration for events today. Please check out their news article for more information or head straight over to www.poetryday.co.nz to register. #NZPoetryDay https://www.nzbookawards.nz/…/we-need-you…/38852…

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  • National Flash Fiction Day 2021 is open now for entries through to 30 April!  

    Posted on 19 March 2021

      NFFD 2021 is open through 30 April!   Submit your best 300-word stories!    See an interview with the judges for the 2021 competition: Rachel Smith speaks with Diane Brown and Paula Morris. Coming soon: an interview with youth judge Kerry Lane. The youth competition moved in 2020 to an international competition with free entry – curated by the youth journal fingers comma toes.  All youth writers […]

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  • NZ BOOKLOVERS AWARDS 2021 winners announced

    Posted on 18 March 2021

    March 18, 2021 ​NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 Winners ​ Addressed to Greta by Fiona Sussman wins the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction Book 2021. The judges say, ‘You must meet Greta, one of the most well-realised and endearing figures in recent New Zealand fiction. Sussman, a Ngaio Marsh Award winner for Best Novel, […]

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  • Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival 2021 May 6-9 – programme out now

    Posted on 18 March 2021

    The programme has been released for 2021 May 6-9   Details here.    

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  • NZSA 2021 Mentorships announced from record field of entries

    Posted on 18 March 2021

    Thirteen emerging writers have been selected for the The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Mentorship Programme 2021, from what the judges described as: ‘an incredible and unprecedented 132 applications. These came from across the literary spectrum. Poetry, speculative fiction, creative nonfiction, literary novels, genre fiction and stage plays were all represented […]

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  • NZSA Oral History Podcast Season 4 launches with Kyle Mewburn

    Posted on 17 March 2021

    “I said well, I’m going to write. So I sat down and decided to write. I wrote full-time, I wrote eight hours a day, every day, six days a week, seven days a week. For a year and a half.” Kyle Mewburn is one of New Zealand’s most prolific and eclectic writers. Working full-time as […]

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  • LANDFALL – seeks new editor

    Posted on 14 March 2021

    Landfall Journal   Are you the next Landfall editor? Expressions of interest are sought for the position of editor of Landfall (two issues per year). Landfall is New Zealand’s foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction, poetry and art, as well as biographical and critical essays and cultural commentary. Emma Neale, […]

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  • Pikihuia Awards 2021 – now open for entries

    Posted on 13 March 2021

      Do you have a story inside of you waiting to be told? Now is your chance – we are looking for new and emerging Māori writers to enter the Pikihuia short story awards for 2021. Enter by 12 April 2021 to be in to win prizes and the opportunity to have your story published in […]

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  • The Samoa Observer Tusitala Story Competition – open now

    Posted on 12 March 2021

    Eligibility & Entry Australia & New Zealand  – The Pacific Islands – Samoa Please read these eligibility and entry rules before beginning the online entry process. Submission of an entry is taken as acceptance of the entry rules. For any entry or eligibility queries not covered below, please email entry@tusitalacompetition.com for clarification before submitting an entry. Opening date: Sunday […]

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  • The Importance of Publishing Inclusivity for Indie Authors

    Posted on 12 March 2021

    March 8, 2021 Orna Ross Running An Author Business Today’s authors can be creative business owners building independent publishing enterprises based on intellectual property (IP). Yet many independent authors forgo their independence, and compromise the value of their IP, by signing or assigning their books exclusively to another business without due diligence. Orna Ross explores […]

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  • NZSA Oral History Podcast – New Season

    Posted on 11 March 2021

    Season Four of the New Zealand Society of Authors Oral History Podcast is launching next week! We are delighted to have Karyn Hay returning as host. In the new season we will bring you the voices of authors from the deep south of New Zealand. We’ll be featuring interviews from last year, and some from […]

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  • AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL 11 – 16 MAY 2021 – Programme out now

    Posted on 11 March 2021

    View newsletter in your browser OUR 2021 PROGRAMME IS LIVE!   For six glorious days from 11 to 16 May, we will present over 200 writers with events that include conversation, reading, debate, and performance, as well as schools’, family and free events, ranging fiction, non-fiction, poetry, music, theatre, culture, art and more. This year’s Auckland Writers […]

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