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New Poems Hit The Streets Of Aotearoa
As 2020 enters its final phase, Phantom has curated a selection of original works by Becky Woodall, Eamonn Tee, Simon Sweetman, Ruby Porter, Steve Thomas and David Eggleton. Diverse in their form and inspiration, these poems continue the Phantom tradition of giving street denizens some nourishing food for thought.
Posted: Thursday December 3, 2020
Tagaloa Scholarships
Growing Pacific capacity and capability within communities and the education sector.
Posted: Thursday December 3, 2020
Elaine Wills, Library manager, Enner Glynn School, Nelson reviews Bruce Goes Outside by Kathryn van Beek
Posted: Thursday December 3, 2020
Elaine Wills, Library Manager, Enner Glynn School, Nelson reviews Tulip and Doug by Emma Wood, Illustrated by Carla Martell.
Posted: Thursday December 3, 2020
Te Tahua Whakakaha | Cultural Sector Capability Fund overview
The Capability Fund supports the cultural sector to adapt to the COVID-19 environment by funding activities that build skills and knowledge, and provide access to advice, services, tools and resources.
Posted: Wednesday December 2, 2020
Read for animals this summer with the SPCA Reading Challenge
Posted: Wednesday December 2, 2020
After 30 years, a ‘Dunedin institution’ set to close
It has been said that a room without books is like a body without a soul.
Posted: Tuesday December 1, 2020
2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is calling for entries for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, for New Zealand books published between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2021.
Posted: Monday November 30, 2020
Vacancy at Exisle Publishing
Posted: Monday November 30, 2020
Greatness is Infectious
Their written words have made long-lasting, generational impacts on this country - and beyond.
Posted: Monday November 30, 2020
A river runs through him
We only truly know one river in our lives. US writer Thomas McGuane said so and even this struck him as too expansive. So he added: only one part of that river would we know intimately.
Posted: Sunday November 29, 2020
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: The inaugural recipient of The Caselberg Trust’s new Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Residency in 2021
The Caselberg Trust announced today that the inaugural recipient of its new Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Residency in 2021 will be Ōtepoti Dunedin writer Megan Kitching.
Posted: Friday November 27, 2020
Playwright wins top award, $10K prize
Emily Duncan’s sharp, sophisticated, passionate, quirky, evocative and unsettling writing style has won her yet another prestigious award — this time, the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award.
Posted: Wednesday November 25, 2020
Two awards in a month for local writer
Prolific, award-winning Wanaka writer Liz Breslin has had a stellar month: picking up prizes from both the International Writers' Workshop and the Queenstown Writers’ Festival. Two weeks ago, November 5-8, Liz won the adult category of the inaugural Queenstown Writers’ Festival Short Story Competition.
Posted: Tuesday November 24, 2020
POETRY PRIZE 2020 WINNERS ANNOUNCED...
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 – winners announced – Third time lucky for Palmerston North poet...
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Give a kid a book and you give them the world
Last year the fledgling charity scheme Kiwi Christmas Books gave 1600 children’s books to Auckland Women’s Refuge and the Auckland City Mission. This year they’re going national, as founder Sonya Wilson explains.
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR 2021 NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is now inviting submissions for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. These annual awards recognise and celebrate the best books for young readers published in New Zealand.
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Landfall 240 has arrived!
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020