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Hot off the Press: August sector news
Updates from Aotearoa's lit sector for the month of August. To feature your item in next month's news, please email communications@read-nz.org
- This week (August 7-11) is SLANZA's School Library week!
- The We Read Auckland festival runs throughout August
- Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day is coming up fast on August 25, with a whole calendar of events on offer - including this competition from NZSA and the Wellington Writers Walk
- The winners of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults will be announced this Thursday - tickets are available for the ceremony in Pōneke.
- The WORD Christchurch festival is coming up from 23-27 August
- The finalists for this year's Māori Literature Trust Pikihuia Awards have been announced
- This year's Given Words competition is live: see more on our blog
- The International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka VUW has reinstated its popular Writers on Mondays series
- Fundraising for a Janet Frame visitor centre by the Janet Frame Eden St Trust is now underway
- Entries for the CLNZ/NZSA 2023 Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship are now open.
- For more reviews and news about NZ books and authors, check out kete books
- The Whitcoulls Top 100 List for 2023 has been released: read more on our blog
- Check out the Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books for long-form reviews of new local fiction, nonfiction and poetry
- Celebrations for the Katherine Mansfield Centenary continue; sign up to the newsletter for more updates
