Latest updates
Hot off the Press - August sector news
Here are the latest updates from Aotearoa's literary sector for the month of August. To feature your item in next month's news, please email us at: communications@read-nz.org
- WORD Christchurch Festival runs from 31 August to September 4
- There are still a few events to run in this August's Hamilton Book Month
- Upsurge Festival will run its popular Kōrero/Conversations programme on the 14th/15th of September
- Gecko's Picture Me festival runs in Pōneke and Ōtautahi across September, including an Art Day at the National Library
- Write Like An Author holiday camps for October are now open for registration
- Katherine Mansfield House is holding a special fundraising event in Pōneke: A Lioness of Literature with Emily Perkins
- The National Library is currently featuring an exhibition on Katherine Mansfield's last year, 'A child of the sun'
- The Sunday Star Times short story competition is currently open for entries
- The 2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist has been released
- Congratulations to the recently announced winners of the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and the National Poetry Day schools competition
- Congratulations to Selina Tusitala Marsh on winning the 2025 Menton Fellowship and Chris Tse who will be a fall resident at Iowa's International Writing Program this year
- Mātātuhi Foundation has released a new round of literary grant funding
- Entries are now open for the 2025 Ockham Book Awards
