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• Event – Sarah Broom Prize Announcement and Poetry Readings

  15-05-2017

  This year’s shortlist includes ANZL member Cliff Fell, along with Hera Lindsay Bird, and Sandi King. Guest judge Carol Ann Duffy will introduce the finalists and then announce the winner of the 2017 Sarah Broom prize at the Auckland Writers Festival on Sunday 21 May 4.30-5.30pm. The finalists will also read poems from their submissions. This is a free event.

• Public Lecture – Selina Tusitala Marsh ‘Tala Tusi: The Teller is the Tale’

  10-05-2017

  Poet and academic Selina Tusitala Marsh powerfully explores the relationship between our stories, ourselves, and the fate of our literature if we ignore the wisdom offered by ‘tala tusi’ in her remarkable New Zealand Book Council lecture, 13 May, 9-10 am at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The Octagon, Dunedin. This event is brought to you by the New Zealand Book Council in partnership with the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival.

• Book Launch – Apirana Taylor’s ‘Five Strings’

  10-05-2017

  As part of the Auckland Writers Festival, Apirana Taylor is launching his new novel Five Strings (Anahera Press) with introduction by Witi Ihimaera. Launch is 17 May, 6-7.30 pm at the Auckland Central City Library, Lorne Street. All welcome.

• Owen Marshall to Present the 2017 NZBC Lecture

  28-04-2017

  In this fourth recent New Zealand Book Council Lecture, renowned short story writer, novelist, poet and ANZL Fellow Owen Marshall will explore the nature of the short story and its role within society; share his own personal history with the short story; and discuss his favorite writers and their craft. Publication date is 1st October 2017. Event details TBC.

• Auckland Event: Frankie McMillan and Kevin Ireland discuss poetry and war

  07-04-2017

  As part of the Anzac commemorations, one of NZ’s most celebrated and awarded poets ANZL Fellow Kevin Ireland will meet with award winning short story writer, poet and Michael King/Auckland University writer-in-residence Frankie McMillan, to read and discuss poetry relating to war. This is a public event, at Kerr Street Artspace, 28 Clarence St, Devonport, Auckland, at 4pm, Sunday 30 April. All welcome. Koha entry.

• Book Launch – ‘The Chiming Blue’ by Marilyn Duckworth

  27-03-2017

  These new and selected poems by critically acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and ANZL Fellow Marilyn Duckworth meditate with wit and warmth on love, memory, the writing life, and disorder. The Chiming Blue (Victoria UP) is Marilyn’s first poetry collection since Other Lovers’ Children, published in 1975.  All welcome to the launch on 6th April, 6pm – 7.30pm at Unity Books, 57 Willis St, Wellington.

• National Poetry Day Registrations Open

  17-03-2017

  Calling all poets and lovers of poetry! Registrations are now open for the Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day twentieth anniversary celebration 25 August 2017. Planning an event, activity or competition? For tips, information and the online registration form, see here.

• New Book – ‘Obsession’ by Elspeth Sandys

  10-03-2017

  A brilliant new book by Elspeth Sandys, Obsession (Upstart Press), is a literary mystery tale, the story of an obsessive love affair and its long-felt repercussions. The two people at the heart of the story are writers. The third person in the triangle is a celebrated poet of Dalmatian extraction. For more details see here.

• Book Launch – ‘Blood Ties’ by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

  08-03-2017

  Join Jeffrey Paparoa Holman at the West Coast launch and reading of his new collection Blood Ties: New and Selected Poems 1963-2016 (Canterbury UP), this Saturday, 11 March, 7pm at the Bonzai Cafe, Greymouth. All welcome. More details about Jeffrey’s work here.

• 2017 Ockham Shortlist Announced

  07-03-2017

  Huge congratulations to those who have made it to the final round. This year the Acorn Foundation fiction award shortlist are all ANZL: Fellows C. K. Stead for The Name on the Door is Not Mine (Allen & Unwin) and Owen Marshall for Love as a Stranger (PRH), ANZL Members Catherine Chidgey for The Wish Child (VUP) and Emma Neale for Billy Bird (PRH). The poetry award shortlist includes ANZL member Tusiata Avia for Fale Aitu|Spirit House (VUP). For the complete list see here.

• Book Launch – ‘As Much Gold as an Ass Could Carry’ by Vivienne Plumb

  06-03-2017

  Humourous, barbed and affecting, Vivienne Plumb’s new collaborative production As Much Gold as an Ass Could Carry, illustrated by Glenn Otto, showcases Vivienne’s diverse twenty-year literary career. Launch is presented by Anne Kennedy, this Friday 10 March, 6 pm at split/fountain, 3C/23 Dundonald St, Eden Tce, Auckland. Refreshments, reading, book sales and signing. Details here.

• New Years Honours List 2017

  09-02-2017

  Congratulations to ANZL members Bernadette Hall and Paula Green, recipients of the 2017 New Years Honours Award for Services to Literature. Full list here.

• Sarah Broom Prize – Apply Now

  07-02-2017

  The prestigious $10,000 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize supports new work from an emerging or established New Zealand poet. Deadline for applications is 2 March. For more information see NZ Poetry Shelf or the Sarah Broom website.

• Berlin Residency Open for Applications

  07-02-2017

  The prestigious Berlin Writer’s Residency of $40,000 is offered biennially for an established New Zealand writer to work on an approved project in Berlin, Germany for up to eleven months. Applications close 10 March. Details here.

• Fullbright CNZ Residency Open for Applications

  07-02-2017

  A $30,000 award for a mid-career/senior NZ writer of Pacific heritage. Your creative writing project will explore Pacific identity, culture or history at the University of Hawai‘i for three months. Applications close 1 March. Details here.