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NZ Society of Authors 2015 Mentorship Recipients Announced

Tuesday, 24 March 2015, 5:17 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

Winners have been selected for the hotly contested NZSA Mentorship Programme 2015. A baker’s dozen of emerging writers, poets, memoirists and comic / graphic novelists will spend the next few months honing their skills and developing their craft under ... More >>

NZ Society of Authors Waitangi Day Honours List

Friday, 6 February 2015, 12:09 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

Three acclaimed kiwi novelists have been made Honorary Literary Fellows in the New Zealand Society of Authors' annual Waitangi Day Honours. More >>

Graphic Novel component for 2015 Mentorship Programme

Tuesday, 16 December 2014, 4:41 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

The NZ Society of Authors Mentor Programme 2015 is now open for applications and for the first time comic book writers and graphic novelists can also apply! More >>

Auckland Museum Research Grant Opportunity

Monday, 29 September 2014, 2:09 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

The Auckland Museum in association with the New Zealand Society of Authors is offering financial grants to provide assistance to writers wishing to undertake research for a writing project. More >>

Youth Mentorship Programme Puts Out Call

Wednesday, 26 February 2014, 4:09 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

Three lucky secondary school students are again being given the opportunity to work with three of New Zealand’s best professional authors in order to hone their writing skills and develop their craft. More >>

Society of Authors Announces Waitangi Day Honours

Friday, 14 February 2014, 4:33 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

Four NZ writers have been recognised for their outstanding literary achievements in the New Zealand Society of Authors' inaugural Waitangi Day Honours List. Owen Marshall, Damien Wilkins, Ted Dawe and Martin Edmond are this year's NZSA Honorary ... More >>

Sri Lankan Doctor First in Asian Short Story Competition

Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 11:27 am | New Zealand Society of Authors

The New Zealand Society of Authors (Pen NZ. Inc) is delighted to announce that first place, winning the Asia New Zealand Foundation Prize 2014, goes to Auckland based writer Himali McInnes. More >>

Prime Minister’s Awards End an Historic Literary Month

Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 3:03 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

New Zealand authors will once again have reason to celebrate when three of the country’s finest authors are recognised for their huge contribution to New Zealand literature at the 2013 Prime Minister's awards for Literary Achievement. More >>

New Zealand Society of Authors and Kobo E-publishing prize

Thursday, 11 July 2013, 2:35 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

The New Zealand Society of Authors and Kobo Writing Life are offering an e-publishing prize for two previously unpublished manuscripts. One fiction and one non-fiction manuscript will receive full professional e-publishing treatment. More >>

Become a published writer with Kobo and Society of Authors

Monday, 13 May 2013, 3:50 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) in association with Kobo Writing Life are proud to announce the launch of the Kobo/NZ Authors E-Publishing prize. More >>

Margaret Mahy: Sad loss to New Zealand literature

Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 3:51 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) mourns the loss of long-standing life member and iconic New Zealand children’s author Margaret Mahy who lost her fight against cancer in Christchurch yesterday. More >>

NZ Writers Invited To Enter Mind, Body, Spirit Awards

Thursday, 8 March 2012, 12:38 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

New Zealand writers who have explored themes within the mind, body, spirit genre are encouraged to enter their work in the 2012 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Literature Awards. More >>

Writers' Final Opportunity To Enter Coveted Award

Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 11:30 am | New Zealand Society of Authors

New Zealand residents with a literary edge have until Thursday 31 March to enter their unpublished work into the 2011 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Unpublished Manuscript Award. More >>

2010/2011 Beatson Fellow Announced

Thursday, 21 October 2010, 2:26 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) is very pleased to announce that the 2010/2011 recipient of the NZSA Beatson Fellowship is Carl Nixon. More >>

NZSA/Pindar Publishing Prize takes off with storm

Thursday, 1 April 2010, 5:14 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

The inaugural NZSA/Pindar Publishing prize, which closed for entries on Tuesday, received an astonishing 508 applications! More >>

Radio NZ cuts could impact on writers' earning

Thursday, 18 February 2010, 5:06 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) is concerned about the recent attacks made on Radio New Zealand and says that further cuts in their budget could well impact on New Zealand writers’ ability to make an income. More >>

New Zealand Writers Invited To Enter Major Awards

Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 3:52 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

The 2010 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Awards are now open and New Zealand writers with a passion for the mind, body, spirit genre are encouraged to enter. The Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Literature Awards, run in conjunction with the New Zealand ... More >>

New Zealand In support Of freedom Of speech

Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:43 am | New Zealand Society of Authors

At a meeting held in Wellington on Monday 1 February, New Zealanders expressed concern at the repression of free speech in Iran. The meeting, called by PEN NZ and the Mohsen Hachtroubi Foundation of Paris, discussed the imprisonment, torture, rape and execution ... More >>

Judges announced for NZSA/Pindar Publishing Prize

Friday, 29 January 2010, 5:18 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) in association with Pindar, Whitcoulls, The New Zealand Herald and Astra Print are delighted to announce the judges of the inaugural NZSA/Pindar Publishing Prize. More >>

Press Conference In Support Of The People Of Iran

Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 12:58 pm | New Zealand Society of Authors

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. – Article 19, Universal ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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