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01 May 2025

Hot off the Press - May 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

April sector news

  • We're looking for a part-time Communications and Engagement Manager
  • The results of the latest National Reading Survey have been released
  • The 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced
  • Booksellers Aotearoa NZ's conference and trade days are coming up fast
  • And the 2025 Book Industry Awards are open for nominations
  • The Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize is open for entries
  • Students can submit entries for the National Schools Poetry Award until July 7
  • The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship is open for entries
  • And applications are still open for the Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence at the IIML
  • Join the amazing folks at Pānui Mai to get involved in reading to tamariki in Hawke's Bay
  • Congratulations to Ava Reid on winning the Landfall Young Writers Essay Competition
  • And to Sihle Ntuli from Durban (South Africa) who is the Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident 2025
  • Dame Fiona Kidman has been announced as Randell Cottage Patron
  • Also congratulations to the recipients of the NZSA Ngā Kaituhi Māori Mentorship and Kupu Kaitiaki Programmes for 2025

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