• Registrations have opened for the 2025 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture with Charlotte Grimshaw. It's being held at the National Library
• Entries are now open for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, for books published between 1 September and 31 December. Online submissions for these will close at 5pm on Thursday 16 October.
• LIANZA's 2025 conference is coming up September 23 - 24  at Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre in Pōneke Wellington
• Applications have opened for the 2026 Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship
• Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) from Ōamaru is the new Poet Laureate
• The 2025 National Schools Poetry award winner is Keiko Bruce, a year 13 student from One Tree Hill College in Auckland
• The Ngaio Marsh Awards finalists 2025 have been announced 
• The 2025 recipient of the Janet Frame Prize is Ōtepoti Dunedin novelist and poet Emma Neale
• The IIML's Writers on Mondays series continues and is not to be missed
• The Surrey Hotel writers residency award is open again and closes 14 September
• Kupu Māori Writers Festival is on 17-18 October in Rotorua
• Fiona Kidman wrote an open poem to the Minister for Teachers, called Kai
• Bookshop day is coming on 11 October 

And in case you missed these notable moments from August:

• Eboni Waitere is now the first Māori president of the Publishers Association of NZ
• The 2025 winners of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were announced