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Hot off the Press: September Sector News
Updates from Aotearoa's lit sector for the month of September. To feature your item in next month's news, please email communications@read-nz.org
- The 2023 Kupu Māori Writers Festival will take place in Rotorua, 17-23 September. Follow the link to get tickets and view the programme.
- 12pm on 14 September is Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori (Māori Language Moment) as part of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. Take part in your own way or click the link to see some suggestions.
- Congratulations to one of our brilliant Writers in Schools authors Giselle Clarkson. She has been named as one of the 2023 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureates, receiving the Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award.
- Wellington Poetry Slam Champs takes place 30 September at the National Library.
- Te Whanganui-a-Tara based Good Books is hosting Queer Practice: A Panel on Writing. Organised by SameSame But Different, this celebration of writing practice of local queer writers will take place on 16 September.
- Ōtepoti Dunedin is hosting the Young Writer's festival, 21-24 September. Click the link to see the full programme or to volunteer.
- The National Library will play host to the Bridget Williams Books celebration of 100 books published since 2013 on 26 September.
- The Whanganui Literary Festival runs 29 September - 1 October
- Click here to see the newly launched programme for the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival.
- The finalists for this year's Māori Literature Trust Pikihuia Awards have been announced
- 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
