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Call for nominations: Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award!
Do you know someone who has made an outstanding contribution to children’s literature and literacy? Now is your chance t...
Posted: Thursday Jul 04, 2024
Q&A with Megan Kitching
NZ Poetry Day chatted with Megan Kitching about what she enjoyed most about writing her award-winning debut, At the Poin...
Posted: Thursday Jul 04, 2024
Call for submissions: Write Room Film Producer Internship
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are seeking this year’s Producer Intern to be part of the selection and development process for t...
Posted: Thursday Jul 04, 2024
NZ Young Writers Festival is thrilled to announce our 2024 Robert Lord Writers Cottage Young Writer in Residence!
Sherry Zhang will spend 4 weeks at the cottage on a writing project, as well as joining the festival itself.
Posted: Thursday Jul 04, 2024
The NZ Young Writers Festival is thrilled to announce their 2024 Guest Curator!
Ruby Macomber will lead the festival’s creative vision in collaboration with staff.
Posted: Thursday Jul 04, 2024
Call for Papers for the 2024 Otago Centre for the Book Annual Symposium
Books and the City
Posted: Thursday Jul 04, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Climate fiction writer, poet and editor Tim Jones discusses his latest novel Emergency Weather
Posted: Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
New award for mid-career children's writer in Aotearoa New Zealand
The Arts Foundation has introduced the Lynley Dodd Children’s Writers Award
Posted: Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Sweet Mammalian Submissions - Deadline Extended to 15 July
Sweet Mammalian loves to hear from new writers and old hands - they welcome the emerging, the submerging and the splurgi...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Site for NZ readers spotlights local books in digital formats
Kete Books, the website dedicated to helping readers discover New Zealand books and authors, has been rebuilt and is now...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Academy of New Zealand Literature reviews AT THE GRAND GLACIER HOTEL by Laurence Fearnley
Nature is volatile and isolating in an evocative novel 'aimed at the senses'
Posted: Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
While Mr Toad is preoccupied with shiny motor cars, will these wicked weasels succeed in their plot to take over Toad Hall?
Find out at The Wind in the Willows, which opens this Saturday 6 July and runs until Sunday 14 July.
Posted: Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Applications for the 2025 Michael King Writers Centre Residencies are now open
Applications close Monday 29 July 2024
Posted: Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Māori Literature Trust launch first ever Matariki series: Pukapuka Māori o te tau!
This Māori-Made series is the only guide you’ll need to help choose a new pukapuka to read over the Matariki period.
Posted: Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Matariki Short Short Story Celebration
takahē Magazine has announced the nine selected stories for 2024!
Posted: Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
NZSA announces the mentees and mentors for the first annual NZSA Kaituhi Māori Mentorship Programme
Five emerging writers have each been selected for a six-month opportunity to work closely with an acclaimed Māori writer...
Posted: Monday Jul 01, 2024
I love Invercargill – and its poetry festival, too
A diary of the Dan Davin Literary Foundation Poetry Festival that took place Invercargill over the first weekend of June...
Posted: Monday Jul 01, 2024
Entries are open for the Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award
Applications close 31 October 2024
Posted: Monday Jul 01, 2024
National Poetry Day: All Ages Competition
CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 31 July | 5pm
Posted: Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Find your new favourite book!
The Kete Books Winter Reading catalogue brings together new books from Aotearoa to share this winter.
Posted: Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
James Norcliffe reviews STILL IS, Sir Vincent O'Sullivan's posthumous collection of poetry
'STILL IS has an added poignancy because so many of the poems would have been written with the poet knowing that his end...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
The Wind in The Willows - Saturday 6 to Sunday 14 July
Uh-oh! Mr Toad develops a troublesome obsession with motor vehicle travel after spotting Mr and Mrs Bear in their snazzy...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Nominations are now open for the 2024 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement
Make a nomination by 1:00 pm Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Posted: Monday Jun 24, 2024
How to read a poem: Houseplants by Megan Kitching
The latest in a semi-regular series that breaks down a poem to analyse what it’s really trying to tell us.
Posted: Friday Jun 21, 2024
Play turns to the past to guide the present
Ōtepoti-based director, casting agent and writer Cindy Diver (Kāi Tahu) is bringing to the stage her first full-length p...
Posted: Thursday Jun 20, 2024
At the Bay Latest Books
Check out the latest At The Bay books and pre-order now
Posted: Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Echoes from Hawaiki - Jennifer Cattermole discusses Echoes from Hawaiki, an account of taonga pūoro ancestral music trad...
Posted: Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Dunedin Public Libraries Weekly Quiet Hours
Mosgiel, South Dunedin, and City Libraries will all offer a low-sensory hour each week for those who need it.
Posted: Thursday Jun 20, 2024
International call for ceramic artist residencies in Caldas Da Rainha
Artistic residency aimed at international artists over the age of 18 with a proven track record in ceramics from other U...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
A History of Kindness
Rock pools: finding what you weren't looking for, Kirstie McKinnon
Posted: Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Entries are open for the 2024 Storylines Notable Book Awards
Entries close at 5pm on 31 August 2024
Posted: Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
The International Children’s Publishing Academy writing competition
Local New Zealand publisher Exisle Publishing launches the International Children's Publishing Academy with a writing co...
Posted: Monday Jun 17, 2024
Flows Like Water by Pam McKinlay
Flows Like Water is a celebration of the art-sci practice of Pam McKinlay, weaver, sculptor, photographer and curator.
Posted: Monday Jun 17, 2024
Poetry Shelf Poets on Poems
Rhian Gallagher on ‘Seeing You Asked’ by Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted: Friday Jun 14, 2024
Vilnius City of Literature Creative Residency
Applications close 1 July 2024
Posted: Friday Jun 14, 2024
Winter Reading 2024
The Coalition for Books Winter Reading catalogue has landed!
Posted: Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Book review
Holly Walker reviews Landfall 247: Autumn 2024 Edited by Lynley Edmeades published by Otago University Press.
Posted: Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Call for Ockham NZ Book Awards 2025 Judges
Apply now for the most rewarding reading job in the country!
Posted: Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Landfall Journal Book Reviews
Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens (Otago University Press), Calamities! by Jane Arthur (Te Herenga Waka University Press) and ...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Landfall Journal Book Review
Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980–2020 by Anne Salmond (Auckland University Press)
Posted: Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
The takahē Matariki Short Short Story Celebration 2024
Closes Sat 15 June
Posted: Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
The 2024 NFFD Short List!
Congratulations to the writers of these stories!
Posted: Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
2024 $25,000 Writers' Award now open
Applications are now open for the 2024 CLNZ/NZSA Writers' Award. Applications close at 4pm on Monday 1 July
Posted: Friday Jun 07, 2024
Book Review: At the Grand Glacier Hotel, Laurence Fearnley
'At The Grand Glacier Hotel is a tender and beautifully written story about learning to live again...'
Posted: Friday Jun 07, 2024
Arts Pasifika Awards
Annual awards that celebrate and recognise excellence in Pacific arts across a range of arts practices and career stages...
Posted: Friday Jun 07, 2024
Have you published a book between Matariki 2023 and Matariki 2024?
If so, Māori Literature Trust want to hear from you!
Posted: Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Big Names Feature on National Children's Book Award Shortlist
Check out all the finalists for the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
Posted: Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Final week of Maximum Potential NOW
This is the final week of Maximum Potential NOW, an exhibition with Tāmaki Makaurau-based artists Samantha Cheng, Matt J...
Posted: Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Dunedin writer Laurence speaks about her latest novel, At The Grand Glacier Hotel, launching this month
Posted: Wednesday Jun 05, 2024