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NZSA Mentor Programme 2026 - Open For Applications
Monday, 1 December 2025, 6:42 pm | NZSA
For Writers. Apply now to be mentored by an experienced writer / industry expert and grow your writing practice. More >>
NZSA Announces Fleur Beale ONZM As 2026 NZSA President Of Honour
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 11:43 am | NZSA
Fleur Beale ONZM has written over 50 books and readers for children and young adults plus one non-fiction book for adults. More >>
Finalists Announced For The 2025 New Zealand Screen Awards
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 9:16 am | NZSA
The NZSA now recognises content created for theatrical release alongside programmes produced for broadcast, streaming and digital platforms. More >>
CLNZ | NZSA Research Grants 2025 Winners: Four Cash Grants Awarded To Support Local Writers
Saturday, 13 September 2025, 6:41 pm | NZSA
The $5,000 grants support local writers who wish to undertake research for a fiction or non-fiction writing project. More >>
Susanna Elliffe Is Winner Of The 2025 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize
Friday, 25 July 2025, 7:14 pm | NZSA
The winning manuscript, Relic Party, is a short story collection that studies loss, both intimate and global, human and nonhuman, ranging through ugly ghosts, false relics, and desperate pilgrimages, to a dysfunctional 80's farmhouse and the speculative More >>
Applications Open For Cash Grants To Support NZ Writers
Friday, 23 May 2025, 10:04 am | NZSA
One of the grants targets diverse writers and topics, including writers from, and writing about, parts of Aotearoa that are not broadly represented in writing and publishing, and projects on issues or subjects that are topical in present day Aotearoa. More >>
Announcing The New Zealand Screen Awards: A Celebration Of The Best TV & Film In Aotearoa
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 9:15 am | NZSA
NZ On Air, NZ Film Commission and Te Māngai Pāho are excited by the expansion of the awards to include film. More >>
NZSA 2025 President Of Honour Charlotte Grimshaw
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 5:45 pm | NZSA
NZSA's 2025 President of Honour, Charlotte Grimshaw, is newly back from Menton. She is the author of eleven works, including critically acclaimed novels, two outstanding collections of linked stories and a best-selling memoir. More >>
Inaugural NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award Goes To Steph Matuku!
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 12:30 pm | NZSA
The judging panel of Dr Paula Morris and Catherine Roberston said, “This is Steph Matuku’s first adult novel, and we thought the concept shows great promise. Steph is a hard-working writer and will make good use of this grant.” More >>
NZSA Mentorships 2024 Announced!
Friday, 22 March 2024, 11:38 am | NZSA
We are pleased to announce that 13 emerging writers have been selected for The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa 2024 Mentorship Programme. The selection panel of convenor Rosetta Allan along with panellists Kiri Piahana-Wong ... More >>
NZSA On The Road Again
Thursday, 21 July 2022, 8:31 pm | NZSA
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (NZSA) is heading out, taking regional roadshows to Auckland Tāmaki Makau-rau, Napier Ahuriri and Taranaki New Plymouth. Writing is a solitary art - and NZSA has ... More >>
NZSA Supports Declaring Health Workforce Emergency And Urgent Government Action
Thursday, 10 February 2022, 2:55 pm | NZSA
The New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists (NZSA) supports the call of other health organisations, including the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, for the Government to declare a health workforce emergency and take urgent action as New ... More >>
New Zealand Security Guards To Be Recognised For Special Covid-19 Efforts
Thursday, 30 April 2020, 6:32 pm | NZSA
NZSA Covid-19 Guardian Awards The New Zealand Security Association is running a campaign to recognise essential service security guards’ efforts during Covid-19 lockdown The public is being urged to nominate guards who have gone ‘above ... More >>
New pilot enables NZSA to track satellites launched from NZ
Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 8:53 am | NZSA
The New Zealand Space Agency (NZSA) is continuing to build its capability as a regulator of space activity with a new pilot project which allows officials to see real-time information on the orbital position of satellites launched from New Zealand. More >>
NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grants
Thursday, 30 November 2017, 7:00 pm | NZSA
NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grants – Recipients Announced The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and Auckland War Memorial Museum are delighted to announce the recipients of the NZSA Auckland Museum National and Auckland Regional Grants. More >>
NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship – Recipient Announced
Friday, 18 September 2015, 8:22 am | NZSA
We are delighted to announce the winner of the Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2016 is award-winning Otago poet Michael Harlow. More >>
NZSA 2014 Youth Mentorships Announced
Friday, 23 May 2014, 12:30 pm | NZSA
Three lucky secondary school students are to work with three of New Zealand’s best professional authors in order to hone their writing skills and develop their craft. More >>
Diane Brown awarded 2014 Beatson Fellowship
Wednesday, 6 November 2013, 5:56 pm | NZSA
New Zealand has lost one of its literary benefactors within days of making one of her last endowments. Dianne Beatson, of Palmerston North, died on Sunday night, shortly after NZ Society of Authors selected Dunedin poet, writer and teacher Diane Brown ... More >>
NZSA 2013 Youth Mentorships Announced
Monday, 20 May 2013, 4:42 pm | NZSA
Three lucky secondary school students are to work with three of New Zealand’s best professional authors in order to hone their writing skills and develop their craft. More >>
Appointment of new Executive Officer to the NZSA
Wednesday, 19 December 2012, 4:27 pm | NZSA
NZSA recently appointed Renu Borst, former Corporate Services Manager of the Central Regions Technical Advisory Services (TAS), as the Society’s new Executive Officer. More >>
