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The poets, the spies, the vodka and the magpies – Guyon Espiner on RNZ uncovers NZ government spying on the ‘literary left’
IN DEPTH 6:25 pm on 2 November 2020 The SIS spied on literary great Denis Glover, newly released files show. Guyon Espiner digs around in New Zealand’s ‘Cultural Cold War’. Anyone who studied poetry – or got drunk with anyone who did – will have heard someone have a crack at reciting the repeating […]
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Exhibition exploring online misinformation to tour NZ
Tohatoha and InternetNZ to bring ‘The Glass Room’ to Kiwi schools and libraries A globally successful public exhibition that explores how social media and the Internet have changed the way we interact with information online is set to visit New Zealand for the first time, with support from Tohatoha and InternetNZ. Called The Glass Room: […]
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Announcing the winners of the 2020 NZSA Heritage Book Awards 2020 – Winners
30.10.20 Winners of the NZSA Heritage Book Awards were announced last night in Christchurch. The Non-Fiction winner was Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life After Near Death by Caroline Barron. (Bateman Books). In 2018 Barron was a Short Prose winner in these awards with an excerpt from the book. Judges Hilary and John Mitchell said, […]
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The Market and Publishers in China 2020
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Vietnamese Publisher Ehomebooks Launches the ‘International Children’s Picture Book Award 2020’
Looking to celebrate as-yet undiscovered authors and illustrators, Ehomebooks launches a children’s book award that crosses international boundaries. By Hannah Johnson | @hannahsjohnson FROM PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES Searching for ‘Diverse and Outstanding’ Picture Books While many book prizes and awards are focused on creators and titles from particular regions or languages, Vietnamese children’s book publisher Ehomebooks has set out […]
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2020 Sunday Star Times Short Story Awards – Terms and Conditions
Oct 25 2020 Entries for the 2020 Sunday Star-Times short story competiton are open. Now in their 37th year, the awards are among New Zealand’s most prestigious and established writing prizes. The competition has helped launch the careers of many well-known writers including Eleanor Catton, Owen Marshall, Sarah Laing, Norman Bilbrough, Barbara Anderson, Linda Olsson, Sarah Quigley and […]
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MOPHEAD TAKES TOP HONOURS AT PANZ BOOK DESIGN AWARDS
A book described as a “sensation” has been judged the overall winner at the 2020 PANZ Book Design Awards. Mophead, Selina Tusitala Marsh’s autobiographical tale written for children, but just as beloved by adults, was awarded the Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book at a ceremony held in Ponsonby this evening. […]
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Society of Authors Opens £600,000 Hardship Fund for Scotland’s Authors
NB Preliminary note from NZSA: The Australian Society of Authors and the UK Society of Authors both received government funding for emergency authors grants. We know a lot of our members have had a very difficult year and NZSA would have liked to offer a relief fund for our most hard-hit members. We know that […]
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Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Book Awards’ winners and runner’s up 2020 announced
Award-winning author, artist and filmmaker Stephanie Sinclaire Lightsmith of Seatoun, Wellington has won this year’s $10,000 Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Book Award for Creative Alchemy: The Science of Miracles; a work that references the latest in neuroscience, biology, quantum science, psychology and metaphysics to help us create a better world. The Awards’ Book category […]
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NZSA NZ Heritage Literary Awards
ONE WEEK TO GO EXPLORE THE PROGRAMME NZSA NEW ZEALAND HERITAGE LITERARY AWARDS Several of the WORD Writers are finalists in this year’s NZSA New Zealand Heritage Literary Awards. (THURSDAY 29TH 7PM).The Awards bring together writers and publishers from all over the country to celebrate historical writing in diverse categories including fiction and […]
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Pip Adam named as Victoria University Writer in Residence
20 October 2020 Acclaimed novelist Dr Pip Adam has been appointed the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence for 2021. Celebrated for their formal daring and emotional rawness, Dr Adam’s books include a collection of stories Everything We Hoped For, and the […]
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University of Otago fellowships named
Monday, 19 October 2020 Award-winning novelist and West Coast newspaper reporter Becky Manawatu has been named as next year’s University of Otago Burns Fellow. The university also announced that Heather McQuillan is the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence. Otago humanities division pro-vice-chancellor Prof Tony Ballantyne said […]
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