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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
- Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador Kate de Goldi will be giving free public talks in Motueka and Hamilton as part of her Writers in Schools visits to the region
- LIANZA's 2025 conference is coming up in September: don't miss out on early bird registration by July 25!
- The IIML's Writers on Mondays series is well underway and not to be missed
- The Given Words competition celebrates ten years this year
- The PANZ Book Design Awards finalists have been announced
- Congratulations to all the 2025 Book Industry award winners!
- The Kete Winter Reading catalogue is out now
- The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are coming up fast, with a series of Books Alive! events nationwide underway
- New Te Pae Tawhiti Awards are set to spotlight Aotearoa and Pasifika Speculative Fiction talent
- The longlist for the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel has been released
- The WORD Christchurch 2025 programme has been announced
- Lit Whanganui Booklovers Festival Tickets Now Availabl
- Nafanua Purcell Kersel has been named as 2025 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence
- Josh Morgan is the 2025 recipient of the Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award
- Octavia Cade is the recipient of Creative New Zealand’s 2026 Berlin Writer’s Residency
