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National Schools Poetry Award celebrates New Zealand’s poets of the future
A year 13 student at Wellington’s Queen Margaret College has won first place in the 2018 International Institute of Modern Letters’ (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award, with her poem ‘Vignettes’. Ilena Shadbolt receives a prize of $500 and the opportunity to attend a poetry masterclass with poets James Brown and Hera Lindsay Bird at the […]
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NATIONAL POETRY DAY!
Calling all poets and lovers of poetry! Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day hits the country on 24 August this year. Now it’s time to register! Event/competition registrations and applications for seed funding open 8 March and close 5pm Wed 23 May 2018. If you’re a newbie, we have information and templates to help you promote […]
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Intervention by the International Authors Forum at the SCCR35 on Libraries and Archives
WIPO As the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) held the 35th session of its Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), Maureen Duffy spoke on behalf of the IAF to give the authors view on copyright exceptions with regards to libraries and archives. WIPO is a special agency of the United Nations dealing with […]
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2018 International DUBLIN Literary Award announced in Dublin! – 3 from NZ
13 novels from Australia & New Zealand on the 2018 longlist! dublinlitaward #DUBLITAWARD 10 novels from Australia and 3 from New Zealand are among 150 titles nominated by libraries worldwide for the €100,000 International DUBLIN Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. Nominations include 48 novels in translation with works by authors […]
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William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Submissions are now being accepted for the 8th William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Given by Stanford University Libraries in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, the award recognizes newly published works of fiction and nonfiction with a $5,000 award for the winner in each category. The prize is designed to encourage new or emerging […]
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National Schools Poetry Award celebrates New Zealand’s poets of the future
National Schools Poetry Award celebrates New Zealand’s poets of the future Zora Patrick, a year 12 student of Wellington High School, has won first place in the 2017 International Institute of Modern Letters’ (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award, with her poem ‘Dampening’. Zora receives a prize of $500 and the opportunity to attend a poetry […]
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National Oral History Association of New Zealand Hui
National Oral History Association of New Zealand Te Kete K?rero-a-Waha o Te Motu Tamaki Makaurau Hui Auckland Regional Meeting Saturday 22nd April 10am – 2pm ALL WELCOME South Auckland Research Centre Tuia Te Ao M?rama Zhongshan Clan Members’ Sound Excerpts The South Auckland Research Centre collects material […]
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The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems (International Writers Workshop)
International Writers’ Workshop NZ Inc (IWW) is delighted to announce that due to an ongoing bequest from the Jocelyn Grattan Charitable Trust The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems will take place again later this year. The competition is for a cycle or sequence of unpublished poems that has a common link […]
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National Poetry Day Competition – Space and Time Poetry (Wanaka)
Space and Time Poetry Competition for Children It’s time to celebrate poetry with Wanaka Library! Writing a poem is so much fun and getting involved is super easy. If you are aged between 5-12yrs, then get writing. All poems should be based on the theme Space and or Time and just to make it a […]
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National Poetry Day Competition – Online Poetry Competition (Nationwide)
Online Poetry Competition Tararua District Library is celebrating Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day with a nationwide Online Poetry Competition. Have your poem published online and be in to win a prize. Judged by local author Muriel Cowan, the competition is open 11 July to 22nd August 2016. Winner announced on Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day. […]
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MURDER IN THE LIBRARY – LOWER HUTT BOOK EVENT
The Ngaio Marsh Award, in association with the New Zealand Book Council, Hutt City Libraries, and Writer’s Plot Readers Read, invites booklovers to a thrilling event celebrating two talented Wellington writers. As crime writing has evolved from puzzle-like mysteries to novels delving deeply into people and places, it has continued to be the world’s most […]
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William Saroyan International Prize for Writing 2015
Submissions are now being accepted for the seventh William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. This award, given by Stanford University Libraries in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, recognizes newly published works of fiction and nonfiction with a $5,000 award for the winner in each category. The prize is designed to encourage new or emerging […]
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