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Hot off the Press: July sector news
Updates from Aotearoa's lit sector for the month of July. To feature your item in next month's news, please email communications@read-nz.org
- This year's Given Words competition is coming up in August: see more on our blog
- The International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka VUW has reinstated its popular Writers on Mondays series
- Congratulations to playwright Viki Moananu, who has been named as 2023 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence at Te Herenga Waka
- The NZSA Otago/Southland is holding a Salon Reading Series with an event hosted by Michelle Elvy coming up on July 15
- The 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist has been released - watch the video to learn more
- The Marlborough Book Festival is coming up on July 20-23
- Nominations for the Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement are open until 21 July
- 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
- Entries for this year’s Landfall Essay Competition are open until July 31
- The finalists for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced - read some stunning interviews with the YA shortlisted authors 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
