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Hot off the Press—September sector news
A collection of updates from Aotearoa's literary sector. To feature your item in next month's news, please email us at: communications@read-nz.org.
September sector news, opportunities and moments of note
- Registrations have opened for the 2025 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture with Charlotte Grimshaw. It's being held at the National Library
- 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
- The Māori Writers Festival is on 16-16 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