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Hot off the Press - October 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
October sector news
- Verb Readers and Writers Festival has released their 2024 programme
- Randell Cottage has announced the next writer-in-residence will be Titaua Peu
- Dr Jacqueline Leckie has been awarded the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship
- Steph Matuku has won the inaugural NZSA Shaw Writer's Award
- 2024 CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants are open for applications
- The 2025 Sargeson Fellowship is open for applications
- The Kaipukahu University of Waikato Writer in Residence runs for 12 months from early January.
- The Women’s Bookshop Ladies' Litera-Tea event is on October 27th at the Raye Freedman Arts Centre in Tāmaki Makaurau.
- Tickets are on sale for The Hawke’s Bay Readers and Writers Festival in late October.
- New Zealand Bookshop Day is Saturday 12th October – save the date and be sure to pop into your local bookstore.
- Katherine Mansfield exhibition ‘A child of the sun’ is on at the National Library until early November.
- Mātātuhi Foundation's biannual funding grants are open for applications.
- Applications are open for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and the judging panel has been announced
- The Kaipukahu University of Waikato writer-in-residence for 2025 is open for applications, as is the Emerging Māori writer-in-residence at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
