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Hot off the Press - December sector news
Here are the latest updates from Aotearoa's literary sector for the month of December. To feature your item in next month's news, please email us at: communications@read-nz.org
December sector news
- Joy Sellen has delivered the 2024 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award Lecture
- The Kiwi Christmas Books appeal for this year is now open: please support this wonderful cause
- Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature has just completed a special project with Rudolf Steiner School
- Congratulations to those awarded CLNZ Contestable Funding Grants
- And to Lynley Dodd, Neville Peat and Apirana Taylor as the recipients of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement
- Applications for the 2025 NZSA mentor programme are open
- Support Josh Prenderville and team in reaching their Boosted stretch goal for a short film called Our Party, a contemporary adaptation of Katherine Mansfield's story The Garden Party
- Enjoy Kete's hot books summer selections
- Charlotte Grimshaw has been announced as the 2025 NZSA President of Honour
- And Dr Rachel Buchanan has been announced as the Judith Binney Fellow 2025
- The Māori Literature Trust's Pukapuka Māori o te tau is open for submissions
- Entries are now open for the 2025 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
- The Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize is open for applications
