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Today on Write Spot
Children's writer Swapna Haddow is celebrating her new graphic novel The Terrible Trio: The (Not So) Superheroes with il...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 13, 2025
How to watch the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults ceremony on Wednesday 13 August from 6.30pm
Posted: Wednesday Aug 13, 2025
*WATCH* Happy International Youth Day!
Today we’re shining a spotlight on young voices making a big impact with technology. Check out this fantastic video writ...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 12, 2025
Entries for the 2025 Robert Burns International Poetry Competition open soon!
Open for entries 1 September - 30 November 2025
Posted: Monday Aug 11, 2025
NZ Book Sector Unites to Drive Growth, Protect Copyright and Increase Local and Global Visibility
Posted: Monday Aug 11, 2025
Applications open for Michael King Writers Centre 2026 Residencies
Applications close Monday 1 September 2025
Posted: Monday Aug 11, 2025
2025 Bucheon City of Literature Residency Program - Call for Applications
Applications close 31 August 2025
Posted: Monday Aug 11, 2025
Landfall Tauraka 250 Symposium - Friday 17 October 2025
Call for Submissions - 200-word abstract and short bio by 5pm, 22 August 2025
Posted: Monday Aug 11, 2025
New book alert!
Acting in Aotearoa traces a cultural history of acting practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand, whose Indigenous Māori practiti...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
'The Swiss Wolf' by Kathryn van Beek (Strong Words 4)
Kathryn van Beek talks about and reads from 'The Swiss Wolf', which was commended in the 2023 Landfall Tauraka Essay Com...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
The UBS weekly bestseller list is here!
Posted: Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
NEW PODCAST: Between The Lines with Aahana
Aahana Mundamattam takes on the role of your classic English teacher – plucking your favourite stories from their pages ...
Posted: Monday Aug 04, 2025
2025 Pikihuia Awards Finalists
Posted: Monday Aug 04, 2025
Phantom Billstickers gears up for National Poetry Day
Phantom Billstickers is ready to hit the streets with poem posters for its annual campaign sponsoring and celebrating Na...
Posted: Monday Aug 04, 2025
Calling all young storytellers!
The 2025 Barfoot & Thompson Young Authors Challenge is back - and this year’s theme is "My Time Machine." Entries close ...
Posted: Monday Aug 04, 2025
Become a Radcliffe Fellow
A fellowship year at Harvard Radcliffe Institute is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into...
Posted: Monday Aug 04, 2025
Congratulations to Susanna Elliffe - winner of the 2025 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize!
Posted: Wednesday Jul 30, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Writer, editor and performer, Liz Breslin celebrates the release of new poetry collection Show You're Working Out with a...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 30, 2025
Live and work in the heart of Reykjavík!
Gröndalshús – the beautifully restored home of writer Benedikt Gröndal – offers a unique residency flat for visiting wri...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 29, 2025
Kete Books 2025 Winter Reading Digital Catalogue out now!
Can you hear the call of a cosy reading nook this wintry weekend? Check out the Winter Reading catalogue, full of brilli...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 29, 2025
This week is Vanuatu Bislama Language Week
The 2025 theme for Vanuatu Bislama Language Week is ‘Tokabaot Klaemet Jenj – hemi ril mo yumi mas lukaotem laef - Talk a...
Posted: Monday Jul 28, 2025
Welby Ings: Kids are being labelled 'dumb' when they're not
Welby Ings had a fascinating conversation with Kathryn Ryan this morning on Nine to Noon, RNZ, talking about his new boo...
Posted: Friday Jul 25, 2025
Best Designed Books in Aotearoa Revealed
Congratulations to the PANZ Books Design Awards 2025 finalists.
Posted: Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
Tickets for the KUPU Writers’ Retreat 2025 are now LIVE
Spaces are limited and tickets are selling fast.
Posted: Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
Show brings connection
Three countries, more than eight cities and seven shows down and it is only July. These statistics do not faze theatre-m...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
From Tartan Noir to Yeah Noir: Kiwi Scot crime author inks deal
Life is good for Kiwi Scot crime writer Liam McIlvanney - he’s on a world book tour promoting his latest thriller, and i...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
Liam McIlvanney on football, calling NZ home and his new crime novel
Liam McIlvanney joins Emile Donovan to talk about his fifth novel, The Good Father.
Posted: Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
Personal experiences inspire play
Dunedin theatre company Hic Sunt Dracones (HSC) will present their premiere production of "funny and ferocious" new play...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
Eden Hore: Central Otago Couture at Word Christchurch
Saturday 30 August, The Piano
Posted: Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
Te Pae Tawhiti Awards are officially launched and OPEN!
Aotearoa's first juried speculative fiction awards are open to NZ and Pasifica authors who published works in 2025.
Posted: Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
Kete Interview
'100 authors – 100 voices': Kiri Piahana-Wong and Michelle Elvy
Posted: Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
IBBY-UNESCO Collection - Call for Submissions!
A celebration of children’s books in Indigenous and endangered languages. Deadline 15 December 2025
Posted: Monday Jul 21, 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards 2025 Winners’ Announcement
Posted: Monday Jul 21, 2025
Poetry Box July challenge: Storm poems
Posted: Monday Jul 21, 2025
Call for Applications: Vilnius Literary Residency December 2025
Applications close 15 August 2025
Posted: Monday Jul 21, 2025
Emma Neale Poetry Workshop
Invercargill Public Library, Sunday 24 August
Posted: Friday Jul 18, 2025
Poetry Shelf review, reading and interview: The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman
Posted: Friday Jul 18, 2025
A wonderful night out!
Thank you Erik Kennedy - and Michelle Elvy, Megan Kitching, and Rushi Vyas
Posted: Friday Jul 18, 2025
University Book Shop Otago Book of the Month
The Good Father by Liam McIlvanney - The book everyone is talking about!
Posted: Friday Jul 18, 2025
Heidelberg UNESCO City of Literature writer in residence program 2026
Applications close 17 September 2025
Posted: Friday Jul 18, 2025
Fifteen years, fifteen stories: 2025 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel longlist revealed
Congratulations to all the long-listers especially our very own Vanda Symon
Posted: Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Vanessa Manhire, Chair of the Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust, discusses the Trust's work and the residencies offered ...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 16, 2025
Friends of the Hocken Collections Award Application 2026
Alfred and Ethel are thinking on the Friends of the Hocken Collections Award – are you? Applications close 15 October 20...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 16, 2025
Chirp! Tweet! Warble! Hoot!
THANK YOU to everyone who visited us for a game of Birder's Bingo! Winners have been sent a txt. Your prizes are ready t...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 16, 2025
Landfall 249 by Lynley Edmeades and David Eggleton
Chris Reed reviews Landfall 249: Autumn 2025 for NZ Booklovers
Posted: Wednesday Jul 16, 2025
Writing for Wellness: Creativity, Community, and Care
The Writing for Wellness workshop series has drawn to a close — and what a vibrant, affirming journey it has been.
Posted: Monday Jul 14, 2025
Introducing Gillian Torckler, a seasoned Sleepy Storyteller!
Head along to the UBS sleepover and meet Henry! If you like planes, you're in for a treat!
Posted: Monday Jul 14, 2025
Pikihuia Awards will join KUPU 2025 at Te Puia, Rotorua
KUPU and the Māori Literature Trust | Te Waka Taki Kōrero are thrilled to announce that the PIKIHUIA Māori Writer's Awar...
Posted: Monday Jul 14, 2025
Poetry Shelf launch series: Lynley Edmeades launches Mikaela Nyman’s new book
In order to widen the reach of new poetry books, Poetry Shelf is posting a series of launch speeches and photographs. Do...
Posted: Monday Jul 14, 2025
Happy Shark Awareness Day!
Grab your snorkels and let’s dive in! Ajax Banstola is back with some jaw-some shark facts in the latest episode of Fact...
Posted: Monday Jul 14, 2025
The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate by Joy Cowley, 2nd Edition
Red Reading Hub on The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate by Joy Cowley, newly illustrated by Miho Satake
Posted: Friday Jul 11, 2025
New librarian for the soon-to-be opened South Dunedin library and community complex
Meet Amanda!
Posted: Friday Jul 11, 2025
Start planning your Spring - WORD is back
The festival line-up is out now!
Posted: Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Birder's Bingo! A fun & free school holiday activity
University Book Shop invite keen birders of all ages* to come along and play ...
Posted: Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Entries open for the Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize
Entries close 30 September 2025.
Posted: Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Toitū He Kāinga National Poetry Competition is open
Entries close 22 August 2025
Posted: Thursday Jul 10, 2025