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Hot off the Press: October sector news
Updates from Aotearoa's lit sector for the month of October. To feature your item in next month's news, please email communications@read-nz.org
- The Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellowship is now open for 2024 applications
- Our pals at Booksellers NZ have launched BookHub, the first and only site in the English-speaking world that offers book buyers access to the inventory of independent bookstores nationwide
- The Verb Wellington festival programme for 2023 has been released
- Former Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador and Pānui speaker Ben Brown has been featured on 'the library book unfolded' podcast
- The NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Witi Ihimaera on November 9
- The judges for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced (shout out to our CEO Juliet Blyth who is convening the fiction panel!)
- The 2024 Book Awards for Children and Young Adults is inviting expressions of interest for judges
- The Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival is this weekend
- The Katherine Mansfield House & Garden's annual plant sale is on in Pōneke this weekend
- Entries for the 2023 Sunday Star Times short story competition are now open
- The Nelson Arts Festival is coming up on 19-29 October
- ...as is the Tauranga Arts Festival
- The Featherston playground has been renamed for author Joy Cowley
- 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
- Celebrations for the Katherine Mansfield Centenary continue; sign up to the newsletter for more updates
