• Dionne Christian appointed Reviews Editor for KETE: New books from Aotearoa New Zealand

    Posted on 20 August 2020

    MEDIA RELEASE 20 AUGUST 2020 The Coalition for Books is delighted to announce that Dionne Christian, former Deputy Editor of Canvas magazine and Arts and Books Editor for the New Zealand Herald, takes over as Reviews Editor of Kete from 19 August 2020. As a long-time supporter of New Zealand books and culture Dionne will, we know, embrace this […]

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  • UNLEASH THE POWER OF POETRY ON 21 AUGUST 2020 – #NZPoetryDay

    Posted on 19 August 2020

    National Poetry Day is this Friday, August 21st. The rise in Covid-19 alert levels may have put paid to some of the planned in-person events, but it is still a day to celebrate poetry nationwide. We want to make Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day sing on social media this Friday. To do that, we’d like […]

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  • US Publishers, Authors, Booksellers Call Out Amazon’s ‘Concentrated Power’ in the Book Market

    Posted on 18 August 2020

    By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Extraordinary Leverage’ In a letter provided to Publishing Perspectives this morning (August 17), three leading American publishing industry professional organizations tell the House of Representatives’ Antitrust Subcommittee that “a few tech platforms in the digital marketplace” wield “extraordinary leverage over their competitors, suppliers, customers, the government, and the public. “Regrettably,” they write, […]

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  • NZSA Oral History Project: Funding helps record stories of Otago authors

    Posted on 18 August 2020

    Thanks to funding from the Otago Community Trust and NZ National Commission for UNESCO, NZSA has been able to record three important oral histories from authors in the Otago region.   At the end of July 2020 New Zealand author and oral historian Naomi Arnold, spent a week meeting and interviewing authors Brian Turner, Barbara […]

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  • New Digital Poetry Journal, Tarot, Calling for Submissions

    Posted on 17 August 2020

    Tarot is a free-to-access digital poetry journal for progressive Aotearoa voices. Issues are released biannually on 1 June and 1 December. Submissions close 1 April and 1 October. Interested poets may submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems (and a 30-50 word third-person bio) to editor [at] tarotpoetry.nz We are unfortunately not offering remuneration to […]

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  • Former Poet Laureate the supreme winner at 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

    Posted on 12 August 2020

    Former New Zealand Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh’s first book for children has been judged the supreme winner at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Mophead was awarded the highest prize in children’s publishing – The Margaret Mahy Book of the Year – during a virtual presentation this evening to […]

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  • Cloud Ink seeks new submissions

    Posted on 12 August 2020

    Cloud Ink will be accepting submissions during the month of OCTOBER 2020.   Cloud Ink Press was formed by a group of Masters of Creative writing alumni from the Auckland University of Technology. To keep submissions manageable, until now we have limited manuscript submissions to AUT creative writing alumni only. The time has come for […]

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  • Tāmaki Poems – New Zealand Poetry Society

    Posted on 11 August 2020

    CALL FOR POEMS – Tāmaki Poems Press Release for New Zealand Poetry Society 11 August 2020   Tāmaki Poems is a community-generated poetry project, centred on a map of Auckland compiled by Mr Leslie Kelly in 1940. In the lead up to the opening of Tāmaki Herenga Waka – Auckland Stories early next year, our new permanent […]

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  • Acclaimed New Zealand writer Elizabeth Knox to receive honorary doctorate

    Posted on 11 August 2020

    Tuesday 11 August 2020 Acclaimed New Zealand writer Elizabeth Knox is to receive an honorary Doctor of Literature from Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington.   “Elizabeth Knox is an inspiration to young people and emerging writers and is helping grow the next generation of literary talent in Aotearoa New Zealand,” says Chancellor Neil Paviour-Smith. […]

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  • Allen & Unwin announces major new Crime Fiction Prize worth $25,000

    Posted on 10 August 2020

    ATTENTION ALL CRIME AND THRILLER WRITERS! Why wait to make crime pay?  Is there a manuscript in your bottom drawer just waiting to be finished? Have you got a burning idea for the perfect crime . . . on paper? We are thrilled to announce the inaugural annual Allen & Unwin Crime Fiction Prize. The […]

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  • NZSA member Tina Makereti – Going West podcast interview with Selina Tusitala Marsh

    Posted on 8 August 2020

    Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings   https://www.goingwestfest.co.nz/audio/tinamakereti In her prizewinning debut novel Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings Tina Makereti confronts the complexities of cultural heritage, the past and the present, and Moriori, Maori and Pakeha identity. The novel is a compelling, powerful and haunting work. In 2014, Makereti came to Going West to discuss her […]

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  • NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award 2020 – apply between 7 August and 31 October 2020

    Posted on 7 August 2020

    NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award 2020 Award of $3,000 available to writers over the age of 35yrs The Lilian Ida Smith Award is offered by the NZ Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa PEN Inc (NZSA) thanks to a bequest from Lilian Ida Smith, a music teacher of Whanganui who had a keen […]

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