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Hot off the Press: December sector news
Updates from Aotearoa's lit sector for the month of December. To feature your item in next month's news, please email communications@read-nz.org
- The lineup for the 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts has been announced, including a stellar line-up of writers and a fabulous schools programme
- Amongst many excellent end-of-year lists, The Spinoff has announced their favourite Aotearoa titles of 2023
- The Sargeson Prize winners for 2023 were announced in late November
- The NZSA has started a Pens and PJs writing group for writers aged 18-29 - it's at Wellington Writers Studio, and Zoom attendance is available
- The Kiwi Christmas Books appeal is open for 2023; please give generously
- The Same Same But Different Peter Wells Short Fiction contest is open for entries
- Podcasts from the 2023 Dunedin Writers and Readers festival are now available online
- The NZSA's Laura Solomon Cuba Press prize is open for entries
- Our pals at Booksellers NZ have launched BookHub, the first and only site in the English-speaking world that offers book buyers access to the inventory of independent bookstores nationwide
- For more reviews and news about NZ books and authors, check out kete books
- Check out the Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books for long-form reviews of new local fiction, nonfiction and poetry
