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01 July 2025

Hot off the Press—July sector news

Here are the latest updates from Aotearoa's literary sector. To feature your item in next month's news, please email us at: communications@read-nz.org

July sector news

  • LIANZA's 2025 conference is coming up
  • Given Words
  • Great poetry display-off
  • https://authors.org.nz/poetry-...
  • Booksellers Choice award finalists announced
  • Kete winter reading catalogue
  • NZCYA ceremony, Books Alive etc, activity booklet
  • Te Pae Tawhiti Awards Set to Spotlight Aotearoa and Pasifika Speculative Fiction Talent
  • Series of Kate de Goldi Te Awhi Rito talks
  • the longlist for the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel has been released
  • Writers on Mondays
  • WORD Christchurch 2025 programme has been announced

  • Lit Whanganui Booklovers Festival Tickets Now Available

  • Nafanua Purcell Kersel named as 2025 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence
  • Josh Morgan 2025 recipient of the Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award
  • Octavia Cade is the recipient of Creative New Zealand’s 2026 Berlin Writer’s Residency.

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