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The Southern Lakes Festival of Colour is a biennial celebration of the arts. Six days and nights of astounding performances and exhibitions set against the autumnal backdrop of the Southern Lakes.

Au Contraire organises science-fiction and fantasy conventions in New Zealand

Every year we stage over 140 public events, gathering together 160 of the world’s best writers and thinkers with over 24,000 festival goers and up to 6,000 young people to celebrate the world of books and ideas.

Book Night is a fun nationwide reading event for people of all ages, run by Book Discussion Scheme.

We are proud to now be part of the Creative City Network, and we heartily congratulate the team of hard working volunteers who made that happen for Dunedin. UNESCO launched the Creative Cities Network to enable cities around the world to work together to advance, grow, prosper and promote their cultural assets to the world. There are 69 cities worldwide, under seven thematic schemes, one of which is literature. It is wonderful that Dunedin is now part of this network and has been named an official City of Literature.

Established in 1999 we are Tauranga's flagship arts festival. We deliver world-class programme direct from leading artists and performers at the peak of their practice. It's a live experience that you don't have to travel to Auckland for or be living in London - it happens right here in Tauranga.

Booktowns are an international phenomenon, celebrating books, from their stories through to their paper, glue and ink.

he Festival of Colour is the flagship arts event for the region. With six successful festivals under our belt, we are still fresh and stylish and punch well above our weight. We have established our track record with sell-out seasons of music, theatre and dance performances and deservedly known as the ‘best little arts festival in New Zealand’.

The Founders Annual Book Fair is a fundraiser for the park which runs for nine days each year starting on Queen's Birthday Weekend.

The Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture, hosted jointly by the University of Waikato and the Friends of Hamilton Public Library, commemorates the personal and literary legacy of one of New Zealand's most important writers. Frank Sargeson was born in Hamilton in 1903, and devoted his life to literature, and to mentoring other writers. Best known for his short stories, Sargeson was also a playwright and a novelist, and his three-volume memoir is a classic of New Zealand literary non-fiction.

The literary festival dedicated to celebrating New Zealand / Aotearoa authors, their writing and their worlds.

An event bursting with all things creative across all Arts genres. We invite you to sing, laugh, cheer, dance and celebrate the Arts in the unparalleled venues of the internationally acclaimed Hamilton Gardens.

The Harcourts Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival is the vision of a group of people at Arts inc. Heretaunga who wanted to provide the foundation for an annual, international arts festival in Hawke’s Bay.

The aim of the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture is to deliver an overview of the “state of the nation” for literature and writing in New Zealand. The Society is keen to raise the profile of our authors and for the reading public to have a greater understanding of what it means to be a writer in New Zealand.

The Kāpiti Writers’ Retreat is an immersive, two-day gathering for writers, happening on the Kāpiti Coast. The retreat includes morning workshops, afternoon panels, discussions and space and time to write, relax and engage with topics critical to your work

The Kids' Lit Quiz is an annual literature quiz for students aged 10 - 13 years.

Quizzes are held in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom and USA.

The winning team from each heat competes in a National Final. National champions compete in the World Final.

The Biennial KOKOMAI Creative Festival is guided by a powerhouse Board of Trustees, including Chairman Bob Francis, Rob Steele, Barbara Hyde, John Gilberthorpe, Chris Tracey and Michelle Kirkpatrick. Their goal is to present a Festival of the highest order for the enrichment of the local community, and to showcase the rich diversity and talent of the Wairarapa and it's people to the wider population.

LexiCon, the 38th New Zealand National Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention (NatCon), will be held at the Suncourt Hotel in Taupō from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th June 2017 (Queen’s Birthday Weekend). It's a fan-run event for everyone who loves science fiction and fantasy.

LitCrawl was started in Wellington in 2014 by Pirate & Queen and the Wellington Treasure Trust. Its aim is to take literature to the streets and celebrate Wellington, New Zealand and the World’s emerging and established voices over one weekend in the capital.

Thousands of books covering all categories means a great opportunity to stock up on your winter reading! All proceeds to the new museum. EFTPOS or cash only.

We are thrilled to welcome best-selling Young Adult author David Levithan to present the second biennial Margaret Mahy Memorial Lecture, which celebrates her extraordinary imagination. David’s many novels include Every Day, Two Boys Kissing, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with John Green), and his latest, You Know Me Well (with Nina LaCour), and he is well qualified to speak on diversity in literature. Introduced by Kate De Goldi.

The Marlborough Book Festival is run by the Marlborough Readers & Writers Charitable Trust. Trustees are Sophie Preece, Sonia O'Regan and Karen Walshe.

The festivals are organised by a committee of five volunteers - Kat Pickford, Lorraine Carryer, Sharon Hill, Sonia O’Regan and Sophie Preece. We are assisted by a number of other volunteers who kindly help out over the festival weekend.

National Poetry Day was established in 1997. A one-day national poetry-event extravaganza, it is held on the last Friday of August each year.

The National Writers’ Forum is a conference for people who write books: fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, poetry, plays and digital media.

It is a two day intensive where writers talk, learn and share information about the craft of writing and the business of getting published – traditional and indie, print and digital.

Dedicated to furthering awareness and appreciation of poetry and live performance, the NZ Poetry Slam organises, promotes, and executes a yearly National Poetry Slam to crown New Zealand's top performance poets in the nation. After four consecutive years, we have representatives currently from seven different cities around the country and we are always looking for new communities to be represented. The NZ National Poetry Slam Finals are hosted once a year at the beginning of November.

Join scribes of all stripes in Dunedin annually for the New Zealand Young Writers Festival. Playwrights and poets; comedians and historians; critics and consciences. Held in the heart of Dunedin - UNESCO City of Literature, produced by the Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust and with support from Creative New Zealand and Phantom Billstickers, each festival includes workshops, performances, panel discussions and bookish social festivities.

The New Zealand Book Council Lecture has become a prominent part of the literary landscape in Aotearoa New Zealand. It provides an opportunity for one of our country’s leading writers to discuss an aspect of literature close to their heart. The Lecture seeks to enlighten – and also provoke. As James K. Baxter said: “It is reasonable and necessary that… every poet should be a prophet.”

Good people having fun doing good things for the community.

New Zealand’s longest running, dedicated poetry event, Poetry Live has been a hub for the poetry community for over thirty years with a weekly guest poet, guest musician and open mic section where anyone can perform or read.

Our True Stories Told Live events have been exhilarating and entertaining audiences at sell-out events for the past seven years.

Welcome to Romance Writers of New Zealand, an organisation dedicated to providing professional support to romance writers at all levels.

The Ruapehu Writers Festival - a long weekend of readings, talks, panel discussions, workshops, a poetry slam, and some more unusual events such as a literary waterfall walk, a bike ride and a pony trek, based in Ōhakune.

The Storylines Festival of New Zealand Children's Writers and Illustrators has been a highlight of the New Zealand literary calendar for more than two decades. This national festival – particularly the Free Family Days around the country – was established to bring children together with their favourite authors, illustrators, storytellers and performers, all bringing New Zealand books to life.

The Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal Presentation and National Awards Day is Storylines’ annual celebration of New Zealand’s authors, their books and achievements. It is held in Auckland each year on the weekend closest to International Children’s Book Day, 2 April - Hans Christian Andersen's birthday.

The Taranaki Arts Festival literary programme features an inspiring line-up of leading storytellers from around New Zealand. Enjoy the ambience of the Libri Lounge, located in New Plymouth’s TSB Showplace, as they discuss their work and give exclusive insights into what drives them. Thurs 17 Aug - Sun 3 Sep 2017.

The biennial Erupt Lake Taupo Festival, recognised nationally as a premiere Arts Festival, is an iconic event in Taupo that started in 1996 with a modest budget and an enthusiastic group of volunteers. Erupt Lake Taupo Festival is now the signature arts and cultural event for the Central Plateau and Great Lake Taupo region.

Established in 1999 we are Tauranga's flagship arts festival. We deliver world-class programme direct from leading artists and performers at the peak of their practice. It's a live experience that you don't have to travel to Auckland for or be living in London - it happens right here in Tauranga.

Committed to originality, excellence and making the world a better place through art, the New Zealand Festival every second year transforms Wellington into a buzzing culture zone with three weeks of the finest international and home-grown music, theatre, dance, visual art and writers.

As a 'boutique' festival, attending a reading or lecture by one of our guest writers is an up-close experience, giving you the personal contact with writers that the larger festivals don't.

WORD Christchurch presents a huge variety of literary events, from our biennial Writers & Readers Festival – the largest literary event in the South Island – to one-off events with visiting and local authors.

At the heart of everything we do, is building strong communities. We have a unique ability to match people who care with causes that matter. The Acorn Foundation is a Community Foundation whose focus is on the Western Bay of Plenty region.

Community Foundations are one of the fastest growing forms of philanthrophy and it is encouraging to see people who want to ‘give where they live’.

The Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing was established in 1996 through the Victoria University Foundation by Denis and Verna Adam because of their strong wish to support the development of creative writing in New Zealand. It is awarded to the best student in the Master's in Creative Writing course.

Antarctica New Zealand is the government agency charged with carrying out New Zealand's activities in Antarctica supporting world leading science and environmental protection. Our vision is: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean - valued, protected, understood. We work to ensure that Antarctica's environment continues to be protected, that scientists are supported to find the answers to complex scientific questions, and that science outcomes are communicated back to policy makers and the public. With almost 60 years' experience working in Antarctica, New Zealand is recognised a leader in the international treaty system, and has a strong commitment to the natural environment.

The Arts Foundation was instigated in the late 1990s by patrons wanting to support New Zealand's finest artists to create more work. We have several financial awards for artists and we honour significant New Zealand Artists with Icon Awards. Our Awards are unique as recipients are selected without knowing they are under consideration.

The Arts Foundation was instigated in the late 1990s by patrons wanting to support New Zealand's finest artists to create more work. We have several financial awards for artists and we honour significant New Zealand Artists with Icon Awards. Our Awards are unique as recipients are selected without knowing they are under consideration.

The Arts Foundation was instigated in the late 1990s by patrons wanting to support New Zealand's finest artists to create more work. We have several financial awards for artists and we honour significant New Zealand Artists with Icon Awards. Our Awards are unique as recipients are selected without knowing they are under consideration.

Stage Two of the Asia Artform Exchange Fund offers New Zealand artists, arts organisations and practitioners the opportunity to build relationships and to increase artistic exchange with artists/practitioners in targeted territories in Asia. This opportunity is open to those who have successfully completed Stage One of the programme.

This fund supports New Zealand artists and practitioners across all artforms to research and develop collaborative projects with artists and practitioners in targeted territories in Asia.

The Asia/New Zealand Co-commissioning Fund offers funding to support the commissioning of New Zealand work to be presented in both New Zealand and Asia.

Supporting projects by arts organisations that engage with Māori, Pacific and Asian communities in the Auckland Region. Offered in partnership with Foundation North.

The prestigious Berlin Writer's Residency is offered biennially for an established New Zealand writer to work on an approved project in Berlin, Germany for up to eleven months.

The Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award honours Betty Gilderdale, a lifelong advocate and supporter of children’s literature, through her academic research, work as a reviewer and 30 years' committee service to Auckland’s Children’s Literature Association. Prior to 2000, the award was known as the Children’s Literature Association’s Award for Services to Children’s Literature.

Sponsored by Peter and Mary Biggs via the Victoria University Foundation, this prize is awarded to a student who has just completed the Masters in Creative Writing at Victoria University and who, through their folio of work, demonstrates that they have excellent potential as a poet and would benefit greatly from the opportunity afforded by the scholarship of focusing full-time for a period on completion of a manuscript. The student would not necessarily currently be the best writer of poetry on the course.

To support a new graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University to do further work on a film script.

Since 1983 the $10,000 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award has recognised the work of an outstanding emerging New Zealand playwright. The winner is decided by the votes of a panel of leading New Zealand artistic directors and script advisors. The award is named after the man considered to be New Zealand’s first significant playwright, who died in 1982. It is funded by Playmarket, the FAME (Fund for Acting and Musical Endeavours) Trust and Downstage Theatre Society. This list names the winners of the award from its inception to 2013.

The Canterbury History Foundation, when funds are available, may make a few small grants ($1000-$2000) each year to help meet the pre-publication costs of historical work. Pre-publication costs are here understood to mean those incurred in the later stages of preparing work for publication. These grants will therefore be made to facilitate the conclusion of work which is nearing completion and has an assurance or reasonable prospect of publication.

Caselberg Trust offers a wide programme of residencies each year, across all creative media – visual, writing, sound/music, dance/performance

If you're a top performer in the field of arts, you could be eligible for a Community Trust of Southland (CTOS) Art Scholarship.

We offer art scholarships to support artists involved with visual arts (including fine arts, craft and film), performing arts (including music, theatre and dance) or literary arts.

Each year Creative New Zealand provides Creative Communities Scheme (CCS) funding to city and district councils throughout New Zealand to distribute in their area. The scheme supports more than 1,800 projects every year.

Arts Grants help New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to create and distribute their work. Decisions take 10 weeks and typically one in four applications get funded.

Quick Response Grants help New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to create and distribute their work. Decisions take five weeks and typically one in four or five applications gets funded. Online applications open six weeks before the closing date.

This is an opportunity for writers to contribute to a genre which has been neglected in New Zealand literature over recent decades. An executive committee of experienced writers, editors, journalists and librarians will judge the entries.

Originally funded by the Embassy Trust, one of the trustees - the late David Carson-Parker - continued funding the prize via the Victoria University Foundation, and increased its value. The prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best folio project in the Scriptwriting major of the MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University.

Dunedin was the first city in New Zealand to initiate a writer’s fellowship and today considerable support is provided to many writers through the multitude of awards, competitions and residencies on offer. Dunedin is passionate about the arts, serious in investing resources to grow a nation of talented artists, and always interested in collaborating with other creative cities nationally and countries internationally. There are an abundance of opportunities that aim to nurture and promote Dunedin and New Zealand writers and writing, open to those who are published and unpublished.

Dunedin was the first city in New Zealand to initiate a writer’s fellowship and today considerable support is provided to many writers through the multitude of awards, competitions and residencies on offer. Dunedin is passionate about the arts, serious in investing resources to grow a nation of talented artists, and always interested in collaborating with other creative cities nationally and countries internationally. There are an abundance of opportunities that aim to nurture and promote Dunedin and New Zealand writers and writing, open to those who are published and unpublished.

The purpose of this Ema Saiko Poetry Fellowship is to encourage the writing of poetry and, in turn, to honour the Japanese poet and painter Ema Saiko. Writing at a time when it was unusual for women to be included in the rarefied circles of male poets writing in Chinese, Ema Saiko dedicated herself to, and developed, a poetic form centred on the discovery and unfolding of a rich intellectual and artistic life connected to her physical environment. Saiko was acutely attuned to the daily and seasonal transformations of the natural world.

The purpose of this Fellowship is to support an artist at the beginning of his/her development, not only providing time and space for the creation of work but also the sense of validation that such an award brings. The emerging artist also benefits from contact with other artists in residence.

The purpose of this Fellowship is to maintain a rich cultural context for the annual commemorations centred at New Zealand Pacific Studio and the nearby ANZAC Memorial Bridge in northern Wairarapa. The Fellowship is made possible with a community grant from Trust House Community Enterprise, Masterton, which comes with the mandate that the fellowship project engage the residents of the nearby communities on and around ANZAC Day (25 April). Creative practitioners working in any medium are invited to make project proposals as to how they would involve the nearby communities of Eketahuna and Northern Masterton (including Kaiparoro/Mount Bruce, Mauriceville, Rongokokako and Nireaha) and how they could contribute to or enrich the annual ANZAC memorial service. Selection will be based on the nature and strength of proposed project, its relevance, depth and feasibility; and the degree to which all parties would benefit – creative practitioner, NZPS, the Friends of the ANZAC Memorial Bridge, and the nearby communities.

The purpose of this Fellowship is to develop the arts and/or the exploration of local history in the Wairarapa region, enriching Aratoi Museum of Art and History’s programme and connecting with communities. Creative practitioners or researchers are invited to propose a project that extends their practice and is based on an interest in the region, including the role of Aratoi Museum. Selection will be based on the nature and strength of an applicant’s proposed project and the degree to which all parties will benefit from it: the Friends of Aratoi and NZPS – in terms of community connections, Aratoi itself – in terms of its public programme, and the resident practitioner – in terms of their practice.

The Friends of the Turnbull Library offers an annual research grant available to scholars whose research involves use of the Turnbull.

This residency is an opportunity for a Pacific writer from New Zealand to work on a project exploring Pacific identity, culture or history at the University of Hawai'i in Manoa, Honolulu. All queries and applications are managed by Fulbright New Zealand. This annual opportunity is a partnership between Creative New Zealand, Fulbright New Zealand and the University of Hawai'i.

The Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship is one of New Zealand’s leading national literary awards and has a distinguished history of previous fellows. It was established in 1987 to commemorate Frank Sargeson and to provide assistance to New Zealand writers.

Dunedin was the first city in New Zealand to initiate a writer’s fellowship and today considerable support is provided to many writers through the multitude of awards, competitions and residencies on offer. Dunedin is passionate about the arts, serious in investing resources to grow a nation of talented artists, and always interested in collaborating with other creative cities nationally and countries internationally. There are an abundance of opportunities that aim to nurture and promote Dunedin and New Zealand writers and writing, open to those who are published and unpublished.

I established the Horoeka / Lancewood Reading Grant to give New Zealand writers the means and opportunity not to write, but to read, and to share what they have read with their colleagues in the arts.

The Ika Creative Writing Prize* is a competition for writers who live in the greater Auckland area.

Share the stories within and around you, in a forum that celebrates your passion and expression. Your life writing or creative non-fiction can be on any theme – examples include personal essays, reviews, and memoirs.

The International Writing Program (IWP) is a unique conduit for the world’s literatures, connecting well-established writers from around the globe, bringing international literature into classrooms, introducing American writers to other cultures through reading tours, and serving as a clearinghouse for literary news and a wealth of archival and pedagogical materials. Since 1967, over fourteen hundred writers from more than 150 countries have been in residence at the University of Iowa.

Alongside its programme of meetings, the association administers the JM Sherrard Award (see PDF below), which recognises the best works in New Zealand regional and local history.

The association maintains close ties with the Canterbury History Foundation.

The Jack Lasenby Award, run by the WCBA, is made to the winners of a biennial competition for writers for children and for children who write in the Wellington region. The award honours Jack Lasenby, one of New Zealand's most popular children's writers and patron of the association.

The Janet Frame Literary Trust Awards were established in 2005. The Janet Frame Estate times the annual award announcement to commemorate Janet Frame's birthday on the 28th of August.

The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship is a historic and distinguished fellowship available to New Zealand writers. For the past forty-six years the Fellowship has allowed a selected writer to live for up to six months in Menton, France. There, they have access to the writing room in Villa Isola Bella where one of New Zealand's most famous writers, Katherine Mansfield, once lived. The list of past Katherine Mansfield Fellows reads like a Who's Who of New Zealand writers. Each Fellow has benefited from this life-changing experience, which has resulted in an impressive array of award-winning books.

This biennial award is for an original collection of poems, or one long poem, by a New Zealand or Pacific permanent resident or citizen. Individual poems in the collection can have been previously published, but the collection as a whole should be unpublished. Entries are accepted until 31 July of the award year and must be either received or postmarked by this date. The result will be announced in the November issue of Landfall, and the winner will receive $10,000 and a year's subscription to Landfall.

The purpose of the competition remains as it was at the outset: to encourage New Zealand writers to think aloud about New Zealand culture, and to revive and sustain the tradition of vivid, contentious and creative essay writing in this country – as embodied in the non-fiction of early Landfall contributors such as Bill Pearson, in the essays of past winners of this competition, and in the essays the journal continues to publish.

This woman artist under the age of forty works on a project that honours the memory of Lavinia Winter and reflects the nature – open, embracing, creative, and free-spirited. Applicants can be working in any art medium, should have a particular creative project in mind, and should be in the early stage of their creative ‘careers’. Selection will be made on the nature of an applicant’s proposed project and the degree to which they will benefit from having the space and time to focus on a project of importance to them.

The annual Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary provides a stipend that enables a published writer at an early stage of their career to create a new work.

This prize is recognises excellence in English composition by current and recent undergraduate students of the University of Canterbury. Two prizes are available annually: a first prize with a value of $2,500 and a second prize with a value of $500.

This artist engages with the Masterton District, offering free activities for the community. The purpose of this Fellowship is to enrich the community. Applicants can be at any stage in their creative ‘careers’ and can be writers, visual artists, curators, dancers, musicians, film-makers, photographers, historians, storytellers -- there are no limits. Selection will be based on the nature and strength of an applicant’s project and the degree to which all parties will benefit.

The Michael King Writer's Fellowship is for established New Zealand writers from any literary genre, with a significant publication record, to work on a major project. It is offered every two years.

The supported residency opportunities are available for New Zealand writers for their nominated project. Writers who are selected for the residencies receive free accommodation at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport, use of the writer’s studio at the centre and receive a stipend.

Momentum is an international delegate programme which takes place in Edinburgh every August. It is delivered through a partnership between British Council Scotland, Festivals Edinburgh and Creative Scotland. This opportunity will support up to six New Zealand arts practitioners to participate in Momentum 2016 (15-21 August), providing a platform to build relationships with artists, producers, curators and cultural partners from Scotland, the United Kingdom and internationally.

The Award is held annually, subject to funding. It is free to enter and open to Year 12 and 13 students across New Zealand. Posters and entry forms are sent to all eligible schools by March in each year that the Award is held. Students can also enter online before the entry deadline, via our dedicated Schools Poetry Award website, where you can also read previous winning and finalist poems.

These awards are a unique celebration of the contribution New Zealand’s children’s authors and illustrators make to building national identity and cultural heritage.

Awards in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are made in six categories: Young Adult Fiction, Junior Fiction (the Esther Glen Award), Non-Fiction (the Elsie Locke Award), Picture Book, Illustration (the Russell Clark Award) and Te Kura Pounamu Award (for books entirely written in te reo Māori).

The New Zealand History Research Trust Fund offers financial assistance to people carrying out projects that will significantly enhance the understanding of New Zealand's past. The funding can be used for a variety of purposes: to enable historians to work full-time on a project; to pay for research and writing costs; and to pay for travel costs associated with research.

The award of Poet Laureate celebrates outstanding contributions to New Zealand poetry. For a two-year period, the Laureate is supported by the National Library of New Zealand to create new work and promote poetry throughout the country.

The Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, established in 2010, promotes and celebrates excellence in crime, mystery and thriller writing by New Zealand authors.

The importance of Māori telling their own stories has been celebrated with Massey University’s expanded Ngā Kupu Ora Awards: Celebrating Māori Books and Journalism.

These annual awards offer four principal prizes: the Poetry Award, the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, the Illustrated Non-fiction Award and the Royal Society of New Zealand Award for General Non-fiction. There are also four Best First Book awards, and a Māori language award for books written entirely in te reo Māori.

The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) established the PANZ Book Design Awards to promote excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best book design in New Zealand.

Have you got a story to tell? Every two years The Pikihuia Awards for Māori Writers gives budding writers, published authors and talented students the opportunity to tell their stories. With the aim of promoting Māori viewpoints and language, Māori writers of short stories, novels and film scripts – in English and Māori – have the chance to share their stories with the world, win cash prizes and get published! The Pikihuia Awards are about telling our stories, with our voices; so what are you waiting for?

For the past five years emerging and first time playwrights have had their submitted plays read by professionals and many have won development time to improve their work. Playmarket is again searching for the best plays from young New Zealand writers. If you're under 25 and you have a new play, we'd love to read it.

Every year, New Zealanders are invited to nominate their choice of an outstanding writer who has made a significant contribution to New Zealand literature in the genres of; fiction (from any genre, includes plays and scriptwriting), non-fiction and poetry.

The purpose of this RAK Mason Fellowship is to encourage creativity, to explore the different literary forms or genres and their potential, and to honour one of New Zealand’s foremost writers, RAK Mason (1905-1971), with his intense energy, commitment to literature, and his interest in the ways different literary forms inform each other. The Fellow works in the garden-facing Mason Room.

The Randell Cottage Creative NZ Writer in Residence is selected by a Trust-appointed committee to work on an approved project from July to December each year. The deadline for applications is in early November of the previous year, with the successful applicant announced in December. Note, the residency is always subject to Creative NZ Funding which is currently confirmed by April each year. The French writer is selected by the French Government and the NZ-France Friendship Fund to work on an approved project from January to June each year, and applications need to be made through the French Government.

The Robert Burns Fellowship is New Zealand's premier literary residency. It was established in 1958 by a group of anonymous Dunedin citizens to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of Robert Burns, and to perpetuate the community's appreciation of the part played by the related Dunedin family of Dr Thomas Burns in the early settlement of Otago. The Fellowship aims to encourage and promote imaginative New Zealand literature and to associate writers with the University.

The annual Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Awards offer a $1000 prize in each of the categories; Short Story, Poetry and Research.

This writing competition is open to residents and ratepayers of South Taranaki and the wider Taranaki community.

This was a biennial book prize to encourage the writing, publishing and reading of accessible popular science books in New Zealand. The Society now sponsors the General Non-Fiction category of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

The Sir Julius Vogel awards are fan voted awards for various endeavours in the science fiction, fantasy or horror fields. Professional nominations can be for novels, short stories, art and others. Fan nominations can be for fanzine, writing, art, Services to Fandom, Services to Science Fiction and more.

The Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award was established in 1999 to honour the memory and contribution to children’s literature of the late Gaelyn Gordon.

The Storylines Gavin Bishop Award was established in 2009. The award aims to encourage the publication of new and exciting high-quality picture books from new New Zealand illustrators. It also recognises the contribution Gavin Bishop has made to the writing and illustrating of children’s picture books and gives an emerging talent the opportunity to benefit from his expertise.

The Storylines Joy Cowley Award is open to all New Zealand writers and is made annually, when merited. There is a monetary prize of $1500 from Scholastic New Zealand, and an offer of publication.

The Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award was first presented in 1991 to Margaret Mahy in recognition of her contribution to the world of literature for children and young adults. Surprising Moments, her inaugural lecture, set the standard for those given by subsequent award-winners.

This annual list of Notable Books ensures that children, parents/grandparents, teachers, librarians and the public are all made aware of the large range of high quality books being published. Books are categorised as: Picture Book, Junior Fiction, Young Adult and Non Fiction. There are up to ten awards in each category.

The Tessa Duder Award is open to all New Zealand writers and is made biennially, when merited, to the New Zealand author of a work of fiction for young adults aged 13 and above. The award carries a monetary prize of $1500. It is not being offered in 2017. The next award will be made in March 2018, with the deadline for entries being 31 October 2017.

The Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award is open only to previously unpublished writers, and is made annually, when merited, to the author of a work of fiction for children between seven and 13 years of age. The award carries a monetary prize of $1500 and an offer of publication by Scholastic New Zealand.

Fortune Theatre’s Studio 4 x 4 Young Playwrights Initiative is looking for local passionate young writers with a long-term interest in writing for live theatre.

Auckland’s Surrey Hotel – named the Best Hotel in Auckland in the New Zealand Herald – is pleased to support a new writers residency award in association with The Spinoff.

The winner of the Surrey Hotel Steve Braunias Memorial Writers Residency In Association With The Spinoff Award will be given a week’s free accommodation at the Surrey in Grey Lynn, along with free breakfast and free wifi. They will also pocket a cool $500 from The Spinoff.

The Ian McLean Wards Memorial Trust is pleased to announce the establishment of an annual scholarship to assist researchers and practitioners in the librarianship, archives and records management fields to undertake research for a specific project advancing knowledge or improving practice relating to the recording, care, or conservation, of historical research materials. The primary purpose of the scholarship is to defray research expenses. In general, it is not intended to support post-graduate study, although particularly appropriate proposals may be considered.

The annual Todd New Writer's Bursary allows a promising published writer or presented playwright, at an early stage of their career, to work on an approved project.

Toi Tōtara Haemata (Arts Leadership) Investment Programme supports well-run, financially sound organisations that fulfil specific key roles in New Zealand’s arts infrastructure. Organisations funded through this programme collaborate with other arts organisations and provide leadership within the arts industry to deliver benefits to audiences or participants.

Toi Uru Kahikatea (Arts Development) Investment Programme offers support to New Zealand artists, arts practitioners, groups and organisations for 1-3 years to support regular or continuous programmes of activities. There is a two-step application process, starting with checking if you are eligible to apply.

We work in partnership with the Michael King Writers' Centre and Te Waka Toi, Creative New Zealand to host the University of Auckland Residency. The University of Auckland Residency enables a writer to reside for six months of the year at the Michael King Centre, which is located in an historic villa in Devonport. The fellowship includes a financial stipend and other benefits, along with an opportunity to contribute to teaching and mentoring within English, Drama and Writing Studies.

The University of Otago is the only tertiary institute in New Zealand which offers a residency for a children's writer. Begun by the Dunedin College of Education in 1992, it allows writers to work full time in a compatible environment among colleagues who are concerned with the teaching of reading and literature to children. Remuneration of $28,000 is jointly funded by the University and Creative New Zealand.

The Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing, jointly funded by the University of Canterbury College of Arts and Creative New Zealand, was established by the University of Canterbury in 1979 to provide support for New Zealand writers and foster New Zealand writing. The Residency allows authors of proven merit in all areas of literary and creative activity an opportunity to work on an approved project within an academic environment. Since its inception the University has been home to 40 fiction-writers, poets and dramatists, a number of whom have made a valuable contribution to the development of young writers studying at the University. We have also had the opportunity to celebrate the successes of our Residents throughout the years, one of the most memorable being Keri Hulme's Booker Prize in 1985.

The Victoria University of Wellington / Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence appointment is jointly funded by Victoria University of Wellington and Creative New Zealand. It has been created to foster New Zealand writing by providing the appointee with the opportunity to write full-time within an academic environment for the period of tenure.

Each year the University of Waikato invites applications for the position of Writer in Residence, tenable for twelve months normally from February. The emolument is jointly funded by the University of Waikato and Creative New Zealand, the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa. The position is open to poets, novelists, short story writers, dramatists, and writers of serious non-fiction. The appointment will be made on the basis of a record of publications of high quality.

Each year Young and Hungry, in collaboration with Playmarket, commissions three new New Zealand plays to be written specifically for young people aged 15-25 years.

The 4th Floor Literary Journal is a selection of work written each year by students and tutors on the creative writing programme at Whitireia New Zealand. Our submissions guidelines tell you how and when you can submit work to the journal.

The 4th Floor takes its name from the time when the journal began. The writing programme was situated on the fourth floor of the Whitireia Wellington city campus. Though the programme has since shifted, the name 4th Floor has stuck.

Alluvia is a new literary journal, New Zealand based but not bound. We look to publish vibrant and lyric short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, both from established and new writers. Partly emerging from Massey University’s The Publishing Project, Alluvia is saltwater fresh.

I live in Nelson, New Zealand, with my partner Tim and Cobweb our cat. I study Shakuhachi and Japanese language. I work at Nelson Public Libraries and love to read and talk about books. Tim and I love to travel and have based many of our trips on wildlife viewing opportunities, especially relating to wolves and other wild dogs.

Aotearotica is a literary print magazine dedicated to starting a conversation about the world of the erotic, the gendered, the intimate and the political in Aotearoa and beyond.

Barbara Murison (MNZM) was a librarian and reviewer of children's books. She passed away in 2017, aged 85, but her blog Around the Bookshops remains a comprehensive record of New Zealand children's books and publishing. From Barbara's pen: I've been a lover of books all my life. I was so lucky to have been born to parents (and grandparents) who all felt that after love, warm shelter, sufficient food and water, a child should be surrounded by books and given a library card at an early age.

ARTicle is our new digital magazine, telling Festival and other New Zealand and international arts stories, while also guiding you to the best arts coverage on the web.

My name is Ava. I live in Nelson, NZ. I go to Appleby School, which is a country school in Appleby. I am 9 years old and Year 5 at school.

Sometimes I find it hard to find books that are challenging and interesting for me. I decided to start a blog to help other people choose books to read. I am going to write about some of the books I read which I think my followers will find interesting. I am not reviewing all the books I read because there would be too many to write! Since starting my blog I have discovered that I really enjoy funny books and classics. Here is a photo of me with David Walliams in Auckland.

Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.

Best New Zealand Poems is published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters, and aims to introduce readers to leading contemporary New Zealand poets. The poems are chosen to show the vitality and range of current writing.

Better off Read is a bit of an experiment. I’m interested in how books stay with and change us. I’m talking to writers about books that we’ve both read. On the whole, we’re not re-reading the books before we talk about them. I’m really interested in what we remember and mis-remember about what we read. I’m interested in how books change how we write and what we write. Because we’re talking casually and without much preparation the conversations will wander and there will be, I expect, spoilers and false-spoilers. I’m not quite sure how it will go or whether it will be interesting or teach me anything about the relationship between writing and reading, but so far, it’s been fun. It’s available on Podbean and Soundcloud.

After twenty years with the National Library I am now out on my own promoting reading and literacy in schools.

We created BookieMonster in March 2007 to sell awesome new and secondhand books on Trade Me. We worked very hard to build our reputation for good books and good service and ended our selling with heavy hearts and 100% positive feedback!

Booktrailers4KidsandYA is a site dedicated to book trailers and book reviews for children and young adults. Book trailers are such a fun way to preview and promote books. Many are available on youtube but these are just some of my favourites collected here in varying degrees of readership.

Brief is an independent biannual print journal. It is primarily a space for new writing: writing that does something interesting, experimental, adventurous, challenging, or exploratory. Brief publishes poetry, prose, essays and criticism, hybrid forms, and occasionally visual art. Issues typically contain a mixture of established and emerging writers.

broadsheet is a new non-profit New Zealand poetry periodical in chapbook form edited by Wellington writer and HeadworX publisher Mark Pirie.

Capricious is a magazine of literary speculative fiction and criticism, edited by A.C. Buchanan and based somewhere close to Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. They collect original, and often weird, writing in quarterly issues – some themed, some anything-goes.

Catalyst is a literary arts journal published from within an old volcano in Lyttelton/Whakaraupo on Banks Peninsula, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Publishing poetry, fiction, experimental writing as well as artwork, design and spoken word recordings on CD from around New Zealand and the world.

Anzac Day, celebrated every year on April 25th, is a special day for New Zealanders and Australians. While I was researching for my book on the history of Anzac Day, I became interested in the subject of books on war written for children. Many of these are classics, but there are others that are much less well known.

am a New Zealand features writer and book reviewer with a particular penchant for a well-told crime tale.

Deep South is one of New Zealand's longest running electronic literary journals. Established in 1995 by graduates of the University of Otago English and Linguistics department, the journal has published a wide range of new poetry, fiction and non-fiction, scholarly debate and review articles from New Zealand and elsewhere.

New Zealand's only literary journal dedicated to the short form, founded in 2012, the same year as National Flash Fiction Day, and challenging writers to submit stories up to 250 words. Nominates work each year for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize, and offers two awards annually to a frequent writer showing outstanding merit.

Freerange Journal is an ongoing series of publications focusing on issues of design, pirates, politics, eggs, and contemporary wisdom. In the increasingly urban, highly populated and ever-complex planet we exist upon, this project attempts to create an open space for a broad and wide ranging discourse. A dozen issues of Freerange will emerge in the coming years. Currently there are over a hundred participants from some 30 countries with disciplines as varied as: graphic designers, photographers, mathematicians, architects, puppeteers, logicians, former students, doctors, planners, scientists, journalists, dancers, lawyers, teachers and musicians.

Geometry is a new international literary endeavour. We seek to publish outstanding literature from our home country, New Zealand, and from around the world.

We are a digital and print publication dedicated to featuring work by both established and emerging writers. We place no limitations on style or content. Our criterion is distinctive and intelligent writing. We seek fresh voices. We seek diversity. We seek work that captivates and challenges.

Headland is a quarterly e-publication, featuring the best short stories and creative non-fiction from New Zealand and around the world. We offer aspiring writers a platform for publication alongside more established authors, and award an annual cash prize for the best story published.

Hooked on NZ Books He Ao Ano is a website for teenage readers about New Zealand books and everything to do with reviewing. Find out how to write a great review. Explore our archive of reviews of NZ books of interest to young adult readers. Find out how to get a free book to review. Read interviews by students with NZ writers. If you are between 13-18 send us a review, see it published on the site. Teachers: encourage your students who love to read to explore the site.

Well-known New Zealand writers mix with emerging South Auckland talent in the newest edition of Ika published by the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT).

JAAM (Just Another Art Movement) is an annual literary journal published by the JAAM Collective in Wellington, New Zealand.

The Journal of New Zealand Literature (JNZL) is the only international, fully peer-reviewed journal devoted to New Zealand literary studies. It is edited within the English Programme of Victoria University of Wellington.

We will select the latest top quality children's books written by New Zealand authors and review them regularly on this site.

I don't want to be a writer, but I love reading what writers write, and love writing reviews about what others write. What better way to impart your love and reverence of reading! So take a look and you might well find something you want to read too.

Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary.

The clear critical voice of Landfall magazine has commented on New Zealand’s literature for more than 60 years. The magazine was shortlisted for the Book Pages of the Year Award in 2008 and 2009.

A journal of comedy, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, music, art and design by young NZ creatives.

I’m a School Librarian at a primary school in Christchurch, New Zealand and I love Children’s and Young Adult literature. On this blog I share books that I’m reading, books I want to read, and any other book related news.

I hope you enjoy my blog and please add your comment

The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre ( nzepc) is a project based at the University of Auckland to set up an electronic gateway to poetry resources in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific region. It aims to coordinate existing archival and publishing information, and to present some full-text electronic publication of poetry and commentary in consultation with authors and their publishers. nzepc also promotes live poetry events as and when resources permit and is committed to extending and documenting locations for poetry in the digital environment and its real-world counterpart.

NZ Booklovers is an online home for books, and for those who enjoy reading them. The site was created by book lovers for book lovers. It is a bookworm’s hub, dedicated to bringing New Zealanders everything they need to know about reading and the world of literature, and to making this information accessible to everyone.

Launched in 1991, and this country's journal of record.

As well as in-depth reviews, you’ll find lively opinion on books and publishing, new poetry, and a prize-winning cryptic crossword. Editors are Harry Ricketts and Louise O'Brien.

The award of Poet Laureate celebrates outstanding contributions to New Zealand poetry. For a two-year period, the Laureate is supported by the National Library of New Zealand, through the Alexander Turnbull Library, to create new work and promote poetry throughout the country.

I live in the country near Bethells Beach (West Auckland) with my partner, artist Michael Hight, our two daughters, three cats and two dogs. I write poetry books for both adults and children, I visit schools, review books and write stories in secret.

Paula Green is a poet, reviewer, children’s author, NZ Book Award judge and anthologist. Two recent books include 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry (co-written with Harry Ricketts and short-listed for the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards) and Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems (both Random House). Her sixth poetry collection, The Baker’s Thumbprint, was published in May 2013 (Seraph Press). She has also published two collections for children: Flamingo Bendalingo (AUP) and Macaroni Moon (Random House), with a new collection forthcoming from Scholastic. She now runs NZ Poetry Box, a poetry blog for children and is currently editing a treasury of NZ poetry for children.

Phantom publishes The Café Reader – a topical and edgy quarterly literary ‘zine featuring emerging and established Kiwi authors and poets.

PANZA is an original idea developed by Paekakariki poet/publisher/bookseller Michael O’Leary in 1999. Niel Wright has written an early history of the archive (see The Early History of the Poetry Archive of New Zealand Aotearoa, 2010 – the National Library in Wellington holds a copy). PANZA’s collection has been in progress for the last ten years and a considerable archive has been collected in that time.

Karen Tay is a confirmed book junkie and armchair critic. She’ll read anything, from literary classics to popular fiction, short stories, poetry - even the safety instructions in the back pocket of aeroplane seats. She dreams of one day owning the world’s most amazing library.

Red Penn Reviews is the “front door” for Red Penn Services based in Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand. Red Penn offers both Reviewing, and Editing services. Reviewing books of many genres, many periods, many styles…for a variety of readers, and gratis. I review for publishers and my favourite authors and in my favoured genre (crime). All reviews are written subjectively, to help the reader select a book worthy of buying, not to necessarily please the author’s marketing plan.

Sport is edited and published by Fergus Barrowman, who founded the magazine in 1988 with Elizabeth Knox, Nigel Cox and Damien Wilkins, with assistance from Bill Manhire, Alan Preston and Andrew Mason.

Sport was published twice a year until November 2003, and is now published annually.

Starling is an online literary journal showcasing the best new poetry and prose from young new zealand writers.

Street Women Press was formed in 1996 by poets Philippa Elphick and Paula Harris. The pair had met in early 1995 through a writing group in Palmerston North, and, over several meals and a lot of talking, decided to join forces as StreetWomen and publish a book of poetry.

Founded in 1989, takahē magazine publishes short stories, poetry and art, as well as essays, interviews, and book reviews in related areas. Many of Aotearoa New Zealand’s brightest literary talents made their first public appearance within our pages, and we remain committed to publishing the best work from emerging talents alongside that of established writers and artists.

The monthly podcast from the New Zealand Book Council, in which New Zealand’s top writers, journalists, academics and newsmakers dissect latest releases and enduring classics. With a focus on New Zealand writing and writers, the podcast is an important addition to the national arts discussion.

Auckland University Press currently publishes around 25 books a year. With traditional strengths in history and politics, art and architecture, literature and poetry, Māori, Pacific and Asian Studies, the Press is also developing lists in science, business and health.

The Lumière Reader specialises in film criticism, arts journalism, and digital documentaries by leading New Zealand writers and filmmakers. As a print magazine and online journal, it has strived to elevate the discourse on film and arts culture in New Zealand since 2003. The website ceased publishing on March 31, 2016, though remains online in an archival state.

Since 2011, we’ve been publishing punchy arts and cultural commentary in Aotearoa New Zealand, from personal essays to criticism and reviews to interviews and analysis. We make videos and podcasts and produce unique live events, which are broadcast over the summer on RNZ.

Here at The Phantom Paragrapher , we aim to be your number one stop for book recommendations . From Amish Fiction to Demons and Fallen Angels to Chick Lit and Non-Fiction . Whether you are searching for Children's Books , Tweens , Teens/YA , New Adult or Adult fiction - Here at The Phantom Paragrapher - we cater to all your literary needs.

Sarah Jane Barnett is a poet, creative writing teacher, and book reviewer. Her poetry has been published in New Zealand, Australia, and the US, and anthologised in Best New Zealand Poems, Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems (Godwit), and Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page (Random House). Her debut collection A Man Runs into a Woman (Hue & Cry Press, 2012) was a finalist in the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards. Her second collection, WORK (Hue & Cry Press), was released in October 2015. Sarah was the recipient of the Louis Johnson New Writers’ Bursary and the Estate Phoebe Maunsell Scholarship. She teaches creative writing at Massey University. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand, with her husband, partner, and son.

The Spinoff is an online magazine which covers sports and pop culture for New Zealand. We also have a custom editorial division which creates smart, shareable content for your brand.

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The Wireless aims to produce inspiring, insightful and entertaining stories for New Zealanders who have grown up in the digital age. The site is updated with new content every weekday. Share your story tips, ideas and opinions.

Toitoi celebrates the ideas, imaginations and creative spirit of our young writers and artists. We publish material with an original and authentic voice that other young people can connect to and be inspired by and that reflects the cultures and experiences of life in New Zealand.

If you are a young New Zealand writer or artist and you are 5-13 years old, we would love to hear from you.

Paula Morris, a novelist and short story writer of English and Maori descent, was born in New Zealand. For almost a decade she worked in the record business in London and New York. A graduate of creative writing programs at Victoria University in Wellington and the University of Iowa, Paula has taught creative writing in the UK, New Zealand, Europe, China and the US. She currently teaches at the University of Auckland.

Trout is intended to provide a forum for the poetry, prose, reviews, interviews, photography and artwork of or about New Zealand and/or Pacific writers and artists. Submissions from outside the Pacific Rim may occasionally be accepted.

Tuesday Poets are from New Zealand, the US, the UK, Australia, Italy and Lesotho. Our communal blog turned three in April 2013.

Turbine | Kapohau is an online literary journal published annually since 2001 by the International Institute of Modern Letters. It presents new work by our creative writing students alongside poetry and fiction by emerging and established writers.

Booksellers NZ is the membership organisation for New Zealand booksellers. This blog includes book reviews, author interviews, and author event and literary festival coverage.

Located on Princes Wharf at the Auckland CBD waterfront, we offer a vibrant atmosphere in which to learn new skills and have fun.

Our tutors and workshops leaders include many well-known authors, including Tessa Duder, Roger Hall, Owen Marshall and former Penguin publisher Geoff Walker. Four of our tutors have won the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement.

Graduates from his programme now work as writers in various roles in local industry, some as journalists and media writing specialists. Many of his students have had work published in local and national journals, achieved success in competitions or gone on to have books published. Others have progressed into study in the Master of Creative Writing programme at Victoria University of Wellington, or similar writing programmes.

The Hagley Writers’ Institute is situated in the Writers’ Block, a purpose built facility on the Hagley Campus in central Christchurch overlooking Hagley Park. It adds to the strong artistic community developed at Hagley.

Inspiration, communication and vocation are at the heart of Massey’s exciting BA (Creative Writing).

It offers you the chance to develop your writing so that it’s pitch-perfect for a variety of audiences. You’ll enhance your critical thinking and master a wide range of transferrable communication skills while pursuing your own creative vision.

An intermediate-level introduction to the craft of nonfiction writing in a variety of genres, with a particular focus on the application of techniques usually associated with fiction and poetry to nonfiction material.

Sixteen tutorials show you how to write short stories, long stories, novella, non-fiction stories, personal journal, biography, someone’s life story, stories for children, plays, poetry.

Whether you are writing for children or adults, in English or Te Reo Māori, our fully online programmes provide excellent tutor support and mentoring in all genres ensuring you receive the feedback you need to write to a publishable standard.

At NZ Writers College, we're committed to helping writers write well, whether they want to get published, work in the writing industry, or write for their own pleasure.

Choose from over 30 writing courses, and study with best-selling New Zealand author Paul Smith, multi-award-winning travel writer Yvonne van Dongen, the lauded journalist Sarah Lang, or prize-winning children's book author Philippa Werry, among many other tutors.

Do you want to pursue a career where you can express your creativity but are struggling to decide which industry to enter? Perhaps you want to develop a portfolio for entry into one of our highly-regarded degree or diploma Art and Design programmes.

The International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) hosts Victoria's Creative Writing programme, offering both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. We are part of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Victoria University.

English, Drama and Writing Studies offers a range of challenging, practice-based creative writing courses built around seminars and workshops. In addition to their classes, our creative writing students enjoy numerous opportunities to engage with Auckland’s vibrant cultural scene, working at the Auckland Writers Festival and on projects for the New Zealand Society of Authors and New Zealand Book Council.

Victoria offers a range of courses beyond those leading to a degree. Whatever your aspirations or reason for studying, we have something to suit.

Victoria's Creative Writing programme has a national and international reputation for developing the potential of some of the best writers in New Zealand.

We have built a strong workshop culture, reflecting our belief in the importance of nurturing individual voices within a lively community of writers.

Our programme features a range of specialised undergraduate creative writing workshops, as well as Master of Arts and PhD creative writing programmes.

For this, our 28th annual school, we’re delighted to offer you an exciting programme with highly talented tutors from New Zealand, USA and Australia. Some are new to us, others are returning from previous years. The school is based at the modern Mt Aspiring College campus with practical classes exploring the district. We look forward to a stimulating week in the stunning autumn environs of Wanaka – an opportunity for learning and exchanging ideas and techniques as well as meeting a variety of people with diverse interests.

The highly regarded Whitireia publishing programme is New Zealand’s top training course for publishing. It teaches the whole publishing process, from manuscript to bookstore. Developed and run in partnership with publishers, the course is modelled on an apprenticeship. At its heart are practical experience, mentoring and industry contacts.

If you're serious about writing, this programme will help you develop your skills in various kinds of writing, including short fiction, non-fiction, scriptwriting, poetry and writing for children.