News

• 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.

• Michael King Writer’s Fellowship 2017 – Apply now

  25-01-2017

  The biennial MKW Fellowship is for established New Zealand writers with a significant publication record, to work on a major project. Deadline for applications is 10 March. Details here.

• 43 NZ Authors Exhibition: Invercargill 22 Nov-22 Jan

  01-12-2016

  NZ photographer Maja Moritz is travelling the nation with portraiture of 43 NZ writers from the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair. View & download the current book list. For dates and venues, see Maja’s website.

• Dublin Literary Award 2017 Longlist Announced

  23-11-2016

  Huge congratulations to the Dublin Lit Awards longlisters. Six NZ writers have made the list, five of which are ANZL Fellow Patricia Grace for ‘Chappy’ and Members Stephen Daisley for ‘Coming Rain’, Anna Smaill for ‘The Chimes’, Greg McGee for ‘The Antipodeans’ and Tanya Moir for ‘The Legend of Winstone Blackhat’. For the full list of nominees see here.

• Michael King Residencies Announced

  23-11-2016

  Four award-winning writers have been selected for 2017 residencies at the MKC Devonport writers’ retreat: Witi Hereaka, Anthony Byrt, and ANZL Members Frankie McMillan and Anna Jackson. Frankie will work on a book of small narrative forms, mainly prose poetry and flash fiction, whereas Anna will develop a collection of poetry that revisits the pastoral genre. Congratulations! Full details here.

• 2017 Ockham Book Awards Longlist Announced

  22-11-2016

  Congratulations to the Ockham longlisters, including for fiction ANZL Fellows C.K Stead and Owen Marshall, and ANZL Members Tracey Slaughter, Frankie McMillan, Catherine Chidgey, Emma Neale; for poetry ANZL Fellow  Vincent O’Sullivan, and Members Tusiata Avia, Diana Bridge, Chris Price; for illustrated nonfiction Members Sarah Laing and Gregory O’Brien. Full details here.

• New Book – ‘The Wish Child’ by Catherine Chidgey

  18-11-2016

  At the heart of Catherine Chidgey’s new novel The Wish Child (Victoria UP), an enigmatic voice tells the story of corrupt ideology, the resilience of the human spirit and German families caught up in a nation’s dream. Read more here.

• Loss of Writer James McNeish

  15-11-2016

  It is with great sadness we share the news of the passing of acclaimed author and ANZL Fellow Sir James McNeish. Prolific novelist, playwright and biographer, whose work received both national and international critical acclaim, he has passed away days after completion of his final novel Breaking Ranks. The world has lost a bright, creative and extraordinary man.

• New Book – ‘The Shops’ by Steve Braunias and Peter Black

  14-11-2016

  With text by Steve Braunias and 44 colour images by Peter Black, The Shops (Luncheon Sausage Books) is a tender portrait of New Zealand shops and the effects of the online and stripmall revolution. More information here.

• 2016 Laureate Awards Announced

  14-11-2016

  ANZL member Eleanor Catton has been awarded the prestigious $50,000 Laureate Award for writing. Congratulations! For a full list of New Zealand Arts Awards recipients see here.