Monday, 23 November 2009 Congratulations to the 6 winners and runners up of the ASB Wordbank Competition, where kids were invited to write a letter to their favourite NZ write... View attachments to story

Wednesday, 18 November 2009 Royal Society of New Zealand media release The two winning entries in the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Writing were announ... View attachments to story

Wednesday, 18 November 2009 The five annual Arts Foundation Laureates were announced last night in a ceremony in Auckland.  Each of the five Laureates, Anne Noble, Chris Kno... View attachments to story

Friday, 13 November 2009 Since 2005 Creative New Zealand and the New Zealand Book Council have run an international travel programme for New Zealand writers. This scheme has p... View attachments to story

Thursday, 5 November 2009 To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, now known as the New Zealand Post Mansfild Prize, the Dunedi... View attachments to story

Tuesday, 3 November 2009 The New Zealand International Arts Festival has launched its programme for 2010. From internationally acclaimed conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy to legen... View attachments to story

Monday, 2 November 2009 For the first time, in 2009, the New Zealand Society of Authors is proud to be able to offer an award to recognise the oeuvre of published work by a m... View attachments to story

Thursday, 29 October 2009 Three of New Zealand‘s most celebrated writers – C K Stead, Brian Turner and Dr Ranginui Walker - were honoured at last night's 2009 Pr... View attachments to story

Wednesday, 28 October 2009 Two of New Zealand’s award-winning writers have been chosen for residencies at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport in early 2010. Biographe... View attachments to story

Thursday, 22 October 2009 New Zealand Post and the Katherine Mansfield Menton Trust today announced Wellington playwright Ken Duncum as winner of the 2010 New Zealand Post Mans... View attachments to story

Wednesday, 7 October 2009 Academic and historian Judith Binney and artist and curator Helen Kedgley have been appointed to the board of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aote... View attachments to story

Monday, 5 October 2009   Twenty-six-year-old Wellington writer, Alice Miller has won the country’s top short fiction award, confirming her place as one of the nation’s... View attachments to story

Friday, 2 October 2009 2 October 2009 Creative New Zealand celebrates the achievement of New Zealand literature in New Zealand Book month by highlighting the accomplishment... View attachments to story

Thursday, 1 October 2009 New Zealand’s longest reading festival begins today with Book Activists around the country launching a month-long programme of events. It’s all about... View attachments to story

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 Internationally acclaimed author Janet Frame was a life member and a past honorary president of The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.). To h... View attachments to story

Friday, 25 September 2009   The life story of a woman who helped shape New Zealand history but went largely unrecognised during her lifetime has been published by Canterb... View attachments to story

Wednesday, 23 September 2009 The Michael King Writers’ Centre is calling for applications for two eight-week residencies at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport in early ... View attachments to story

Wednesday, 23 September 2009 Each year the University of Waikato invites applications for the position of Writer in Residence, tenable for twelve months normally from February. Th... View attachments to story

Tuesday, 22 September 2009 Follow Kathy White's blog as she takes part in the International Writing Program (IWP) in Iowa City, a UNESCO City of Literature, for three month... View attachments to story

Wednesday, 2 September 2009 This September will see a week of festivities in Menton, France, to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of New Zealand’s most glittering annual literary ... View attachments to story

Tuesday, 1 September 2009 Fewer categories, more judges and bigger prizes are key features of plans to streamline the New Zealand Book Awards from next year. Books will be jud... View attachments to story

Friday, 28 August 2009 The Ursula Bethell Residency, jointly funded by Creative New Zealand, was established in 1979 to provide support for New Zealand writers and foster Ne... View attachments to story

Thursday, 27 August 2009 The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is internationally recognised for identifying exceptional artists and writers and bringing them to internati... View attachments to story

Tuesday, 18 August 2009 New Zealand poet, playwright and novelist Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (1925–2009)   Creative New Zealand mourns the loss of iconic New Zealand p... View attachments to story

Tuesday, 28 July 2009   Emily Perkins has won the 2009 Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry for her taut and chilling book, Novel About My Wife. The work - published ... View attachments to story

Friday, 24 July 2009 Jenny Bornholdt has won the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Poetry prize for her collection The Rocky Shore; a book that judges say has achieved ... View attachments to story

Tuesday, 7 July 2009 The Awards were hosted by the Hon. Christopher Finlayson, Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, in the Grand Hall of Parliament. The four recipient... View attachments to story

Thursday, 2 July 2009   James McNeish awarded Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency Auckland-born writer James McNeish, author of several acclaimed novels, ... View attachments to story

Friday, 29 May 2009 It is with great sadness that we acknowledges the death of Emeritus Professor of English Terry Sturm (CBE), who served on the NZ Literary Fund for 10 ... View attachments to story

Thursday, 28 May 2009

 

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Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Writers are invited to apply for the 2009 residency at the Michael King Writers' Centre, to take place July to December 2009.

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Monday, 25 May 2009

The 2009 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival was recently featured in the New Yorker Magazine. Reporter Judith Thurman was welcomed to New Zealand and the Festival.

Here is a link to the article she wrote, describing the experience.

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Thursday, 21 May 2009

New Zealand Post Book Awards announced

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Thursday, 21 May 2009

Established and mid-career New Zealand creative writers are invited to apply for the New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize 2010.

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Sunday, 17 May 2009

 

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Friday, 15 May 2009

 

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Thursday, 14 May 2009 Children’s author Kathy White has been awarded a three-month residency by Creative New Zealand to participate in the 2009 International Writers progra... View attachments to story

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Friday, 17 April 2009

Readers, writers, groups and organisations are invited to nominate outstanding New Zealand writers in the three genres of poetry, fiction and non-fiction for the Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2009.
 

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