Finnigan awarded inaugural Māori and Pasifika Publishing Scholarship
Luke Finnigan has been awarded the inaugural Māori and Pasifika Publishing Scholarship. The scholarship, created by a collaboration between Whitireia Community Polytechnic Ltd and Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRH...
New Zealand market down 0.3% in 2020
New Zealand’s book sales fell by less than 1% in 2020, despite a sustained hard lockdown for almost five weeks from late March, in which the nation’s booksellers were unable...
McDougall wins NZ Sunday Star-Times short story prize
Wellington author Kirsten McDougall has won the NZ$5000 (A$4672) New Zealand Sunday Star-Times short story competition open category for her story ‘Walking Day’. McDougall, a publicist and literary manager whose...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 winners announced
Debut novelist Becky Manawatu has won the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for Auē (Makaro Press). A novel portraying domestic violence and gang life, the book is...
‘Mophead’ takes PANZ Book Design Awards hat-trick
The winners of the 2020 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh (Auckland University Press) took a hat-trick at the...
New Academy of NZ Literature to ‘promote homegrown writing’
The University of Auckland has launched the Academy of New Zealand Literature, a new body to promote NZ writing locally and overseas. Author and Master of Creative Writing program convenor...
Wevers wins Royal Society of New Zealand Pou Aronui Award
Lydia Wevers has been awarded the 2014 Pou Aronui Award by the Royal Society of New Zealand for being ‘a tireless and effective champion of New Zealand’s literature, history, arts...
Marshall and Ihimaera to share NZ writers’ residency
New Zealand authors Owen Marshall and Witi Ihimaera have been chosen as the 2015 Randell Cottage Writers in Residence. The selection panel chair Vincent O’Sullivan described the move as an...
‘Inside Retail’ launches New Zealand newsletter
Retail industry news source Inside Retail has launched a sister site Inside Retail New Zealand. In a statement, Inside Retail said the site is ‘a news source for New Zealand...
Farr wins ‘Sunday Star-Times’ short story award
Australia-born, Wellington-based author Tracy Farr has won the open division of the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards for her story ‘Once Had Me’, reports Stuff.co. The award, now in its 30th...
Penguin Random House NZ announces leadership restructure, Thompson appointed MD, Ferns to depart
Penguin Random House has announced the appointment of Margaret Thompson to the newly created position of managing director of Penguin Random House New Zealand. The appointment of Thompson, who has...
Dunedin submits UNESCO City of Literature bid
Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand has applied to become a UNESCO City of Literature.Dunedin mayor Dave Cull submitted the city’s application to UNESCO on 19 March. Cull...
NZ creative writing program launches publishing imprint
The Whitireia Creative Writing Programme in New Zealand has launched a publishing imprint. Escalator Press will publish work by new and established writers associated with the program, which is run...
NZ’s Frankfurt Pavilion wins design award
New Zealand’s Guest of Honour Pavilion at the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair has won the Supreme Award and the Installation category at the 2013 Interior Awards in New Zealand. The pavilion’s co-designers, Pattersons Associates and...
NZ Copyright Tribunal to investigate licensing dispute over university course materials
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has referred its dispute over licensing fees for university course materials to the Copyright Tribunal. CLNZ said in a statement that ‘a refusal by the...
Dromer replaces Poiree at Nielsen BookData NZ
David Dromer has replaced Martine Poiree as sales and marketing manager at Nielsen BookData New Zealand. The Publishers Association of New Zealand reports that Dromer was facilities manager when the...
Wootten wins NZ mid-career writers grant
The New Zealand Society of Authors has announced that Dunedin poet and novelist Sue Wootten is the winner of its new award for a mid-career writer. Also shortlisted were Anna...
Duffy to join University Book Shop Otago
The Board of the University Book Shop Otago, in New Zealand, has announced the appointment of Phillippa Duffy to the role of general manager. Duffy has previously worked as sales...
Leading Edge Books NZ to close in December
Leading Edge Books has announced that it will close its New Zealand Books Group at the end of the year. Leading Edge Books general manager Simon Milne said in a...
Frankfurt 2012 opens, spotlight on New Zealand
Wilkins Farago publisher Andrew Wilkins writes: The 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair opens today, with New Zealand this year’s Guest of Honour. Forty-eight exhibitors from Australia are participating, with the Australian...