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Literary Bulletin
Nau mai ki te panui a te NZSA Te Puni Kaituhi o Aoteroa (PEN NZ) Inc
Kia ora tātou,
We registered an objection this week to Minister Jan Tinetti (DIA) over the National Library decision to send the 600,000 books culled from its collection, to the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive is notorious for its flagrant disregard of copyright and is currently in litigation with international publishers and authors associations. Our press release is here. Do feel free to write to the Minister or National Librarian to register a protest.
Hamilton Book Month and Word Christchurch release their programmes. The Romance Writers conference in Wellington is open for registrations. Congrats to the Surrey Hotel residency winners and those on the Ngaio Marsh longlist for 2021.
“Authors need to be compensated for their work like everyone else,” wrote the Authors Guild in a statement in 2019. “Trade book authors don’t get salaries or other fixed compensation; copyright is their only currency. Internet Archive/Open Library and other CDL proponents’ failure to understand the importance of respecting authors’ copyrights is backwards thinking hidden under a false veil of progressivism. We must stop this Controlled Digital Lending nonsense in its tracks… it is neither ‘controlled’, ‘nor legal’.”
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Lit news
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The Michael King Writers Centre Announces International Exchange With Australia
Kate Mildenhall has been announced as the recipient of the inaugural New Zealand-Australia residency exchange, an international residency program held by Varuna, the Australian National Writers House in collaboration with the Michael King Writers Centre in Auckland and the Verb Wellington Writers Festival.
Kate is the much-acclaimed author of the novels Skylarking (Black Inc.) and The Mother Fault (S&S). The Mother Fault was longlisted for the 2021 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2021 Aurealis Science Fiction Novel of the Year. More
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Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist announced
After an extended judging process in a challenging year, we're stoked to finally reveal the longlist for the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel. Our 12th season!
Kia ora rawa atu to all our wonderful entrants this year - you gave our judges a lot to talk about - and whakamihi (congrats) to the dozen storytellers who've made this year's longlist.
PS watch to the end of the video, there's a twist #yeahnoir
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2021 PANZ Book Design Awards - Visual masterpieces and record entries
There’s nothing like the irresistible allure of a beautifully made book, and entries for the 2021 PANZ Book Design Awards show New Zealanders have never had so many to choose from. With nearly 150 submissions received for this year’s awards, the four judges faced a real challenge when it came to settling on a shortlist.
The increase in entries was especially evident in the submissions for the Allen & Unwin Award for Best Commercial Book for Adults and the Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book, both of which attracted a significant increase in entries, showcasing a range of books from the minimalist to the extravagant. More
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Surrey Hills Writers residency 2021 recipients
Congratulations to the winners with special congratulations to our NZSA members
1st place Talia Marshall; 2nd place Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall; 3rd place Amy McDaid and Kiran Dass; 4th place Tom Doig and Rebecca Hawkes. Read Steve Braunias's announcement in Newsroom
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Vale Betty Gilderdale
We are saddened to hear of the passing of a lifelong advocate and supporter of children’s literature, Betty Gilderdale, just days short of her 98th birthday.
Generations of children know Betty as the author of the much-loved series of five Little Yellow Digger picture books, which she created alongside her artist husband, Alan Gilderdale. With over half a million Little Yellow Digger books in print, the original picture book stands out as one of New Zealand’s all-time bestselling children’s picture books, a wonderful legacy to leave to the world of children’s publishing. It is a legacy that is being continued by their son Peter, who has taken up the mantle of writing new books in the series. More
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Auckland writers – a day of writing classes!
We have a festival designed for writers, with workshops and panel discussions where you can hone your craft
Words Will Work is coming on Saturday 24 July at Nathan Homestead, Manurewa.
Limited numbers, inexpensive, but with impressive presenters.
Book at wordswillwork.nz today
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New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme
Funding over four years
The New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme will support librarians and library services to be retained. This in turn will enable librarians and library services to play a key role in supporting their communities and people seeking jobs as part of the recovery from COVID-19.
Libraries are vital community hubs, where people can get practical help during tough economic times. Librarians support lifelong learning and can assist those looking for work. Local libraries are safe spaces to access essential online services and to be supported in performing basic digital tasks, such as CV writing and accessing career services. More
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Auckland Writing Group Seeking Members
A group where writers talk about issues within our writing process. Given that this is a solitary pursuit, this group is for those looking to be enthused through connecting with others on similar journeys. For both fiction and nonfiction writing. Not about critiquing one another’s manuscripts. But about what we might gain from discussing questions that come out of our writing process.
We meet on the first Sunday of the month, in a quiet room provided by Epsom Public Library, 12:15 - 1:30pm. Meetings are limited to about six people so everyone has a chance to talk. And it’s free. Contact Ian
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Online Masterclass with Paula Morris, University of Auckland
10.30am to 12.30pm, Sun, 18 July
Our focus in this two-hour online class, designed for fiction and nonfiction writers, is the use of setting—time and place—in your writing. Whether you’re working on memoir, fantasy, family stories, an historical novel or contemporary realism, vivid and particular settings will transform your writing.
The class will include in-depth analysis of work by Joan Didion, Jhumpa Lahiri, Owen Marshall, Jan Morris, Lisa Taddeo
Register here, $65 [including all fees]. If you cannot attend live, you will receive a private link to a recording of the masterclass and the Powerpoint with excerpts and notes.
This masterclass supports the No Barriers: Small Island, Big Ideas festival, 11–12 September, Aotea Great Barrier Island.
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Winning stories at Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction!
The winning stories from the 2021 NFFD competition have been published at Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction. What a wonderful set of small fictions we see this year -- the quality and beauty of these 300-word stories sets the bar very high indeed. Flash Frontier YouTube channel 2021 Best Microfiction & Best Small Fictions anthologies
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New Bookshop offering NZSA member discount!
GOOD BOOKS is Aotearoa New Zealand's first accredited Living Wage bookshop. We're owned by writers Catherine Robertson and Jane Arthur, and are delighted to offer a 10% discount to fellow members of NZSA.
Find us at 2/16 Jessie Street, Te Aro, Wellington or visit goodbookshop.nz
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NZSA Learning Hub
NZSA WebWorkshops
Writing Your First Young Adult Novel – Fleur Beale
10am to 12pm, Wed, 28 July
This workshop is for people who have been writing for a while but haven’t yet tackled a book length manuscript. You will have some knowledge of the basics of writing plus an idea of the book you want to write.
Fleur Beale has been writing YA novels since the 1990s. I started because I wanted the kids I was then teaching to be able to read books set in our own country and at that time there were few of them. Writing is addictive and fascinating so I’ve kept on doing it. NZSA Members – $30. (Non-members – $60) More
Editing for Authors – Anna Mackenzie
10am to 12pm, Sat, 21 Aug
Finished a manuscript? Well done… Now let the real work begin! Anna Mackenzie offers tips and techniques that will help you craft and perfect your writing. Bring along the first four pages of your manuscript for a hands-on session that will see you honing your work and brushing up your editing skills.
Anna Mackenzie writes award-winning contemporary, historic and speculative fiction, edits magazines and teaches creative writing. She is published by Penguin Random House. Her nine titles have won multiple awards. She lives on a farm in Hawke’s Bay. NZSA Members – $30. (Non-members – $60) More
Crossing the Line or Staying Within It? Exploring Hybrid Forms – Diane Brown
10am to 12pm, Sat, 11 Sept
Crossing the line or staying within it? How do you know whether your writing fits into the parameters of prose or poetry? Diane Brown will discuss boundary crossing in hybrid forms that meld poetry and prose. Short exercises designed to encourage spontaneity and play will allow you to explore these forms and see how you might use them in your existing work.
Diane Brown is the author of 8 books of fiction, poetry and memoir, many of which alternate poetry and prose. Taking my Mother to the Opera is a family memoir told in poetic form and her latest book, Every Now and then I Have Another Child, is a poetic novella. She has taught creative writing for over twenty years and runs Creative Writing Dunedin. She has won various fellowships. NZSA Members – $30. (Non-members – $60) More
Look out for our winter NZSA Web Workshop coming from Alice Shearman - details will be released soon.
Regional Roadshows
Napier/Ahuriri Roadshow - 31 July
9am to 5pm, Saturday. Napier Sailing Club, 63 West Quay, Ahuriri, Napier
What's on?
Keynote Address from NZSA 2020-2021 President of Honour, Dr Paula Morris.
Workshops & Masterclasses: The Sniff of Something with Rajorshi Chakraborti; Bringing Characters Alive with Catherine Robertson; Creating Best-sellers with James Russell;Masterclass Poetry with Siobhan Harvey; The Structural Puzzle with Paula Morris; Editing with Anna Mackenzie. More
Whanganui Roadshow - 7 August
9am to 5pm, Saturday. The Quaker Settlement, 76 Virginia Road, Otamatea, Whanganui
What's on?
Welcome with Mandy Hager and Keynote Address from NZSA 2020-2021 President of Honour, Dr Paula Morris. Workshops & Masterclasses: The Sniff of Something with Rajorshi Chakraborti; Research for Writing with Mandy Hager; The Structural Puzzle with Paula Morris; Poetry with Airini Beautrais; Marketing with Cassie Hart. More
Save the date for your NZSA Regional Roadshow
Napier/Ahuriri: 31 July Bookings open
Whanganui: 7 August Bookings open
Auckland/Tāmaki-makau-rau & Waikato: 18 September
Whangārei: 13 November
The Auckland programme will release next week.
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If the email newsletter is a discrete literary genre, who is it for?
Christine Smallwood’s recent novel The Life of the Mind — a bleak, funny tour of academia’s outer fringe — offers a lament for the state of email. Dorothy, the book’s grad-student heroine, “used to love email, used to have long, meaningful, occasionally thrilling email correspondences that involved the testing of ideas and the exchange of videos and music links.” Emails had been the way Dorothy and her friends “crafted personas, narrated events, made sense of their lives,” Smallwood writes. “That way of life, alas, had ended.” Now the emails they exchange are perfunctory, businesslike, “and if you wanted to know what someone was doing, you could usually find out on social media.” Still, the craving for digital connection persists. “Dorothy had not stopped checking, expecting, or wishing that a good message might be out there, waiting in the ether just for her.” Read the full article by Molly Fischer in the Cut.
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How Twitter can ruin a life
Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is what happened next.
“In a war zone, it is not safe to be unknown. Unknown travelers are shot on sight,” says Isabel Fall. “The fact that Isabel Fall was an unknown led to her death.”
Isabel Fall isn’t dead. There is a person who wrote under that name alive on the planet right now, someone who published a critically acclaimed, award-nominated short story. If she wanted to publish again, she surely could. Read the full article by By Emily VanDerWerff in Vox
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Romance Writers of NZ Conference
7 to 8 August, Wellington
‘Love Finds A Way’ – 2021 conference celebrating our local talent and the resilience and tenacity needed to survive and thrive in these strange times. Featuring an incredible lineup of star authors, as well as workshops to help improve your craft and writing business, and the chance to pitch international agents and editors, you’ll find all the inspiration, tools, friends, and motivation to pursue your writing dreams. more
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WORD Christchurch Programme
2021 festival programme available now, with an array of events to challenge, excite and entertain the city from 25 to 29 August. This year’s events tackle both the near and the far – with an intensely local flavour and an innovative international component. More
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Conferences – Bibliographical Society of Australia and NZ - BSANZ
2021 conference Communities, books and the power of words. Pencil in the dates and start writing your abstracts… BSANZ is pleased to announce that the conference for 2021 will be hosted online from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand on 22-23 November 2021. www.bsanz.org
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The NZSA New Zealand Heritage Literary Awards 2021 - open
All entries should have some relationship with the theme of the Christchurch Heritage Festival 2021: People and Place - our stories revealed. Deadline 1 August 2021.
Full submission details along with the entry form, fees and terms and conditions can be found at: www.nzsacanterbury.wordpress.com
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NZSA Northland Branch National Short Story Competition 2021
Open Section: Theme is The Wish, 1500-word limit, $12 entry fee first story, $20 for two, $28 for three.
First Prize $300, and a free critique for second and third places. The top three stories will be published on the NZSA Northland website. For entry form and conditions: diana@braefern.co.nz Deadline: 31 August
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NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship - deadline 20 Aug
Annual award of $10,000 open to writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama who are members of the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and who are currently working on a new project. More
StartWrite Assessments
Writing Appraisal Service
Only unsubsidised assessments available now for 2021 as all subsidised ones have been utilised. Cost is $200)
The NZSA Writing Sample and Synopsis Assessment Service is an excellent opportunity for writers to get an appraisal of up to 6000 words. This is a fast and efficient way to get you on track with your work - be it poetry, an early draft of an MS, short stories etc. Find out more This programme is supported by CreativeNZ.
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NZSA Member Book Giveaway
We have two copies to giveaway, of Patricia Grace's memoir From the Centre.
Many thanks to PenguinRandomHouse NZ for this prize.
Just send us an Email (this draw is only for NZSA members) with your name and postal address by 23 July to enter. The winner will be drawn at the end of next week.
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PEN International
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Spain: imprisoned Catalan writers pardoned
PEN International and PEN Català welcome the release of unjustly imprisoned Catalan writers and civil society leaders Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart, who were serving a nine-year prison sentence for sedition through participation in Catalonia’s independence referendum held on 1 October 2017. Sànchez and Cuixart were among nine jailed Catalan politicians and activists pardoned by the Spanish government yesterday. All remain banned from public office, with the pardons conditional to them not committing serious crimes over a given period of time. More
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Email PEN at PEN@nzauthors.org.nz for issues to do with Freedom of Expression. Email Writers In Prison co-ordinator Lesley Marshall if you would like to be part of the Writers in Prison letter writing team.
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Creative New Zealand upcoming funding
Each Arts Grants round will close when 225 applications have been submitted, or the closing date is reached. Check out our 12-month funding calendar for other upcoming opportunities coming up.
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Death by Deadline
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Bestsellers from Nielsen BookScan
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Writers on Radio and TV
Click here for the lineup for upcoming Books on Radio New Zealand National.
For author interviews on Radio NZ
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