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Hot off the Press: March sector news
Updates from Aotearoa's lit sector for the month of March. To feature your item in next month's news, please email communications@read-nz.org
- Featherston Booktown is hosting the International Organisation of Booktowns Global Conference (14-18 March), which also coincides with the 2024 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival programme launch on Friday 15 March.
- The finalists for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 have been released
- Kete Books has released their Māori and Pasifika book catalogues for 2024
- The shortlist for the NZ Booklovers Awards 2024 has been announced
- The Māori Literature Trust's Te Papa Tupu incubator programme 2024/25 is open for applications
- Applications are warmly invited for the Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency for 2024
- Three Aotearoa writers have made the 2024 Barry Awards shortlist
- The Publishers Association of New Zealand is seeking a new Association Director
- Renee Rowland has been announced as the new Booksellers ANZ Association Manager
- A Boosted campaign in support of 'The House Within', a documentary on Fiona Kidman, has been successfully funded
- Rose Lu has been awarded the 2024 Emerging Writers Residency by the Michael King Writers Centre
- Six writers have been awarded 2024 residencies at the Robert Lord Writers Cottage in Ōtepoti Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature, and applications for the NZYWF Young Writer in Residence 2024 will open in late April.
- Librarian Elizabeth Jones has been named the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal winner for 2024.
- Check out BookHub for easy access to purchase books from a range 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
