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The Divine Muses 6 Jun 2019 1:01 PM (5 years ago)


 

The Divine Muses 

invites entries for NEW VOICES – Emerging poets competition 2019 

 

CLOSING DATE: 2 AUGUST 2019 

 

Results to be announced at Divine Muses Poetry Reading on National Poetry Day, 23 August 2019. 

 

Judge - Poet & Editor, Elizabeth Welsh 

 

First Prize: $200 in Unity Book’s book tokens 
Second Prize: $100 in Unity Book’s book tokens 

 

The competition is open only to writers considered ‘emerging’ i.e. have not published one or more books (fiction, poetry, nonfiction) with a New Zealand or overseas publisher, and is a current or former undergraduate (BA, Hons, BSc, BComm etc) or Masters student attending The University of Auckland, Auckland University of Technology, Manukau Institute of Technology and Massey University (Albany Campus, Auckland only) or student or graduate of Blue Haven Writers Workshops.

 

To view the complete entry details go to http://www.artagent.co.nz/poetry/poetrynow.htm  to download the entry form.

 

Either opt to print the entry form and then choose save as a PDF or export as a PDF. When you open the PDF click on edit and then in the header section select “T add Text” and fill in the form, save and email your entry as per instructions provided.

 

This year’s Divine Muses Reading and the announcement of the winners will be held at the Central Library, Auckland CBD.

 

We are delighted to announce Elizabeth Welsh the winner of 2012 NEW VOICES – Emerging Poets Competition as this year’s Judge.

Elizabeth’s debut poetry collection, Over There a Mountain, was published by Makora Press in 2018.

 

 

For further details contact either  

 

Siobhan Harvey – Organiser - siobhan.harvey@aut.ac.nz

 

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University of Otago - Two honorary doctorates to be awarded in May 22 Apr 2019 8:12 PM (5 years ago)



 

Two honorary doctorates to be awarded in May

 

Two Otago Alumni will be conferred with honorary doctorates at May graduation ceremonies next month.

 

Hon Justice Forrest Miller

 Honourable Justice Forrest (Forrie) Miller’s contribution to the modernisation of New Zealand’s court systems will be recognised when he receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Otago at its 18 May graduation ceremony. 

 Born in South Otago in 1956, Justice Miller gained a Bachelor of Arts (History) from Otago in 1978 and an LLB with honours in 1981.

 After his studies he worked in Alexandra for Bodkins Solicitors and in the mid-1980s moved to Wellington to join Chapman Tripp, where he worked in a range of general practice areas, including commercial and public law litigation (specialising in securities) and regulatory and competition law. He became a partner at the firm in 1987.  

 He was appointed to the High Court of New Zealand in 2004, and to the Court of Appeal in 2013.

 In 2013 he also became one of the first New Zealanders to receive the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Award for Excellence.

 The award jury recognised his efforts establishing the Earthquake Commission list, created in 2011, which was aimed at reducing the burden on the courts system by dealing with cases efficiently in the wake of the Christchurch earthquakes.  All case-managed conferences – where judges and lawyers meet before the litigation process to resolve differences – were managed by Justice Miller until his appointment to the Court of Appeal in 2013.

 Before his appointment to the Court of Appeal the Judge was heavily involved in reforms which reducing waiting lists for civil hearings in the High Court.

 Justice Miller has been instrumental in developing electronic casebooks, which are now routinely used for hearings in the Court of Appeal.  He chairs the Judicial Reference Group, which is a cross-bench committee working with the Ministry of Justice to modernise the court system by, among other things, developing an electronic filing and case management system for all New Zealand courts. 

 He also chairs the Judicial Libraries Management Board, which exercises governance responsibilities over the quality of judicial libraries. The Board’s current focus is on improving judges' access to electronic resources, to ensure they have access to important works from the judicial library. 

 Justice Miller has maintained strong links with the University’s Faculty of Law and has often returns to Otago to judge student competitions. He has also engaged with research in the Faculty, including a 2018 Legal Issues Centre report on delays in the High Court to which he contributed feedback and expertise. 

 He has also served as chairman of Unison Networks Ltd, the electricity distributor for the Hawke’s Bay, Rotorua and Taupo regions, and as a Wellington Girls’ College Board of Trustees member.

 •           Sat 18 May graduation ceremony at 4 pm (Commerce and Law) Justice Forrest Miller, Court of Appeal, Hon LLD

 

Bridget Williams

 

Bridget Williams, the founder of New Zealand’s leading specialist non-fiction press and alumna of the University of Otago, will receive an honorary Doctorate of Literature on 18 May.

 Bridget Williams (ONZM MBE) is considered a hugely influential figure in New Zealand letters and publishing, and an outstanding graduate of the University of Otago, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts.

 Her initial foray into intellectual life was in Oxford as a research assistant to literary scholars Dame Helen Gardner and Richard Ellmann. After a stint at Oxford University Press in the United Kingdom, Ms Williams returned to New Zealand in 1976. She worked initially for the New Zealand branch of Oxford University Press, where she helped shape what would become the Oxford History of New Zealand, a volume that marked the coming of age of New Zealand historical scholarship.

 In 1981, she struck out into independent publishing, founding Port Nicholson Press in Wellington. Taking this small New Zealand firm into multi-national ownership with Allen & Unwin Australia in the mid-1980s, Ms Williams became the managing director of Allen & Unwin New Zealand.  In that capacity, she established a publishing partnership with the multi-volume Dictionary of New Zealand Biography as well as important scholarly works such as Claudia Orange’s The Treaty of Waitangi.  In these years too, her publishing reflected the new engagement with feminist writing, and she had a key role in establishing the nationwide Listener Women’s Book Festival.

 In 1990 she established Bridget Williams Books, a press that has risen to become New Zealand’s leading specialist non-fiction press. She has worked with New Zealand’s leading social scientists and humanities scholars, producing a large number of award-winning volumes.  Significant amongst these has been a commitment to works on Maori history, with the landmark Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris published to acclaim in 2014.  In recent years the BWB Texts Series – short, moderately-priced volumes – have catalysed public debate over a range of pressing cultural and political issues.

 Hugely respected in the world of publishing, Bridget Williams has played an integral role in facilitating public conversations in New Zealand, its history, identity and politics, she has been extremely influential in shaping New Zealand intellectual life and cultural debate.

 Sat 18 May graduation ceremony at 1 pm (Humanities) Bridget Williams, Publisher, Hon LittD

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Off the Shelf 22 Apr 2019 7:58 PM (5 years ago)


April 22, 2019
By
Sarah Jane Abbott

 

A Menagerie of Books: 9 Reads for Animal Lovers
     

I’m always drawn to a book with an animal in the title. . . . Is the book about the animal or the people who work with it? Or, just as interesting, what is the animal meant to symbolize?: What does a wolf have to do with a coming-of-age story, or an octopus with a tale about a man and his dog? For all the animal lovers out there, here is a menagerie of animal-titled books.

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Publishers Lunch 22 Apr 2019 7:57 PM (5 years ago)


Briefs: Prince Memoir Coming In October, and More

Stephen Brayda will join the Harper One Group on April 24 as art director for Harper Via, Amistad and Harper Espanol, reporting to Judith Curr. He was previously with Riverhead.

Director of events at Copperfield's Books Barbara Lane debuts a column for the San Francisco Chronicle, Chapters and Verse, where she will "discuss what I love about the literary world, often focusing on our rich Northern California scene, personalities, trends, controversies and more."

Forthcoming
As agent Esther Newberg had indicated in an interview a year ago, the unfinished memoir by the late Prince Rogers Nelson will be published October 29 by Random House, still listed as a Spiegel & Grau book even though that imprint was recently discontinued. The portion Prince had already written, "pages that brings us into Prince’s childhood world through his own lyrical prose," comprises the first of four parts. The rest of the book features "a scrapbook of Prince's writing and photos," another set of images showing his evolution, and "his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain." New Yorker writer Dan Piepenbring, whom Prince had selected as a collaborator for the book, writes an introduction.

Bookselling
The Barnes & Noble in the Virginia Beach, VA's Town Center will close for renovation on April 28, reopening in late fall. The renovation will include a redesigned children's section and a space for author visits, based on "one of Barnes & Noble's latest prototypes."

In Daytona Beach, FL, the company opened a new 15,000-square-foot store at Tomoka Town Center, their 11th new format store. It replaces their store on W. International Speedway.

Separately, BN also announced its Discover Great New Writers list for summer.

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Vietnam War novel takes out top international award 22 Apr 2019 7:55 PM (5 years ago)


Horowhenua author, Carole Brungar, has won a gold medal for her third novel, The Nam Shadow, in the internationally acclaimed Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Brungar’s novel won first place in the Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Rim category.

The Independent Publisher Book Awards, known as the IPPY Awards, were established in 1996 to recognise excellence in independent publishing worldwide and reward those who exhibit the courage, innovation, and creativity to bring about change in the world of publishing.

Each year the awards are intended to reward exemplary books from among independently owned and operated publishers, foundation or university presses and independent publishers who publish less than fifty titles per year.

The Nam Shadow is the second Vietnam novel in a series by the Levin author. It follows on from The Nam Legacy, also an award winning novel. The novels explore the lives of New Zealanders before, during and after the Vietnam War.

Where The Nam Legacy focused on the affects of PTSD, The Nam Shadow highlights the consequences of exposure to Agent Orange and other chemicals used during the Vietnam war.

“There aren’t many New Zealand stories that are set around the Vietnam War, or that explore the consequences of the war,” Carole said. “I would like to think that those men and women who went to Vietnam and their experiences as a consequence, are not forgotten.”

The Nam Shadow is available from bookstores across New Zealand or the author’s website, carolebrungar.com

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Latest from The Bookseller 11 Apr 2019 1:45 PM (6 years ago)


LATEST NEWS
W H Smith Travel
W H Smith plans to cull its backlist and build areas of growth such as children's and lighter readers with a "forensic store by store focus on space management to optimise the returns from core categories".
Helena Morrisey
Dame Helena Morrissey challenged trade leaders over key aspects of their diversity strategies, as the Publishers Association's new president Peter Phillips laid out his aims for the year.
David Cameron
HarperCollins insists it will publish David Cameron's memoir this autumn as planned, amid reports the former prime minister is pushing back publication due to a promise he made to Theresa May.
High Street
A record number of shops closed in Britain last year with 16 stores closing a day, but bookshops are bucking the trend. 
Jeanette Winterson
The "boomerang" nature of time was discussed at the Vintage for Change evening, along with teen revolution and the sensibilities of sexbots, as Jeanette Winterson and six other authors considered the “turbulent times” of present day.
CUP
Cambridge University Press has entered into a three-year transformative agreement with the University of California (UC), in what is said to be UC's first such partnership with a major publisher.
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Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann plans to close its Nuremberg printing site by April 2021, and has begun immediate talks with employee representatives, with around 670 permanent staffers and 250 contract workers affected.
Grazia
Grazia has run its last dedicated books page, 'Shelf Life', under books editor Alexandra Heminsley, after a redesign.
Jasmine Richards
Jasmine Richards, formerly a publisher at Oxford University Press (OUP), has launched a fiction development company to create inclusive stories for children.
Katie Price
The Roald Dahl Story Company has hired Katie Price, currently director of licensing at Hachette Children’s Group, as its new head of books.
Gavin Thurston
Seven Dials has scooped the “extraordinary” memoir of veteran "Our Planet" and "Blue Planet 2" filmmaker Gavin Thurston, with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough.

Headline Home has snapped-up a cookbook by chef and YouTuber Ian Haste at auction, featuring recipes based on weekly shopping lists.

The 7 Day Basket

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New series by NZ writer Ged Maybury 11 Apr 2019 1:05 PM (6 years ago)


Once described as “our county's leading writer in this field”*, Christchurch sci-fi writer Ged Maybury effectively disappeared after 15 years and 12 successful children's books – two of which made the finals of the NZ Children's Book of the Year Awards (1994, 2001).

Now he is back with his most ambitious project to date: a six-book / 800,000-word Steampunk series set upon a bizarre “alt-Earth” where Britain is a vast mat of hovering “skylands”, America is still a British colony, and steamships have more in common with flying saucers than anything else.

Drawing upon a long apprenticeship of producing well-polished best-sellers for Scholastic, Harper Collins and Cape Catley, he now turns up the steam (and the adult content) on a multitude of delightfully detailed fantasy/steampunk settings riddled with mad scientists, villains, dangerous and/or attractive antagonists and a sad series of intense (sometimes steamy) love affairs.

'Across the Stonewind Sky' is the series title and each book advances our straight-laced British hero deeper into various kinds of steaming do-do the moment he flies into a curious zone called The Storm's Domain – where airships rule, and Britain doesn't. It's the Victorian era writ large, but it's not just a man's world. Rodney is constantly thrown into the company of a series of competent purposeful women, some of them … how to say this: 'are on the villain spectrum'. Maybury has already earned praise for his female characters.

 

The first two books; 'Across the Stonewind Sky'** & 'Into the Heart of Varste' are now available at:

https://www.draft2digital.com/book/430352#promotion

https://www.draft2digital.com/book/430394#promotion

As an re-introductory offer, he has priced Book One at $0.00. Book Two at the normal price of $2.99. Book Three: “Hoverrim the Hunted” is due out in early June. A digital edition only.

Books 4, 5 & 6 should all be out by the end of 2019 with a second series planned.

 

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ged_Maybury

Blog: https://steamedup.wordpress.com/

Further viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJVZYnLQ6KI

Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRQ29QkfKNE

Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_GWrtf9lqk

* “He is our county's leading writer in this field, and with 'The Triggerstone' he's at his best”

     – William Taylor, cira 1994.

** Originally released 2014 as “Into the Storm's Domain” by now-defunct Satalyte Books. Print-edition paperbacks can still be found. Already a rare book.

 

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INTERNATIONAL WRITERS' WORKSHOP NZ INC 10 Apr 2019 12:41 PM (6 years ago)

INTERNATIONAL WRITERS' WORKSHOP NZ INC

PO Box 36652, Northcote, Auckland, 0748

iww.co.nz

Press Release 5 April 2019

Renowned Professor to judge $1000 poetry prize
International Writers' Workshop NZ Inc (IWW) is delighted to announce that



Professor Bryan Walpert, who teaches English and Creative Writing at Massey

University in Auckland and was a co-judge of the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book

Awards Poetry Award, will judge The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems



later this year.

The prize of $1000, which is made possible due to an ongoing bequest from the

Jocelyn Grattan Charitable Trust, is for a cycle or sequence of unpublished poems

that has a common link or theme.

This is the eleventh year IWW has had the honour of organising the Prize.

Previous winners are Heather Bauchop (2018), Janet Newman (2017), Michael

Giacon (2016) Maris O’Rourke (2015), Julie Ryan (2014), Belinda Diepenheim

(2013), James Norcliffe (2012), Jillian Sullivan (2011) Janet Charman and Rosetta

Allan (joint winners 2010) and Alice Hooton (2009).

The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems is sometimes referred to as the



'Little Grattan' as the Jocelyn Grattan Charitable Trust also funds the biennial

Kathleen Grattan Award, run by Landfall / Otago University Press.



The competition is free for IWW members to enter but it is very easy for aspiring

poets and writers to join IWW to be eligible to enter their poetry into the Prize.

About the Judge

Professor Walpert is the author of three

collections of poetry, Etymology (Cinnamon

Press), A History of Glass (Stephen F. Austin

State UP), and most recently Native Bird




(Makaro Press); a collection of short fiction,


Ephraim’s Eyes; and two scholarly books: Poetry




and Mindfulness: Interruption to a Journey


(Palgrave 2017) and Resistance to Science in

Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge 2011).




His work has appeared in many countries and

has been recognised by the Montreal

International Poetry Award, the New Zealand

International Poetry Competition and the James

Wright Poetry Award (U.S.).


His website is bryanwalpert.com.



Preparatory Workshop

Professor Walpert will conduct a workshop on Writing Poetry Sequences at IWW’s



meeting venue, the Lindisfarne Room under St Aidans Church, 97 Onewa Road,

Northcote, Auckland on Tuesday 21 May. Doors open at 10 am and the workshop

runs from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm.

While the competition is restricted to IWW members, visitors are welcome to attend

the workshop for a $10 visitor fee. Any visitor who attends the workshop and joins

IWW by the third Tuesday in June will be eligible to enter The Kathleen Grattan

Prize for a Sequence of Poems and will have the visitor fee deducted from their



joining fee.

About the Competition and about IWW

The rules for the competition, details of how to join IWW, meeting times and other

activities of the workshop, which meets on the first and third Tuesdays of the

month from February to November and runs several competitions a year, are

available from the IWW website: iww.co.nz.

Key Dates for The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems in 2019



21 May: Workshop with Professor Bryan Walpert on writing poetry sequences.

18 June: Last day for new members to join IWW to be eligible to enter this year’s

Prize.

1 October: Closing date for entries.

19 November: Announcement of the 2019 winner of The Kathleen Grattan Prize for

a Sequence of Poems.





Contact
 



For further information about the Prize or about IWW in general, contact Sue

Courtney, email iww-writers@outlook.com or check out our website iww.co.nz

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Kuwi's Rowdy Crowd by Kat Merewether 23 Mar 2019 1:20 PM (6 years ago)


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​Kuwi's Rowdy Crowd
by Kat Merewether


 
The storyline is easy for youngsters to follow. And throughout this delightful book you will find the most glorious artwork! Vivid and uncluttered. 
    All Kuwi the Kiwi wants is to sit down with a quiet cup of tea.
    But wherever she goes someone turns up to shatter the peace...
    When Kuwi heads upstairs for a bubble bath, taking her hot cuppa with her, hovering Huwi follows her. A flock of whio are already frolicking in Kuwi's bath full of bubbles. 
    Huwi finds them most entertaining so Kuwi retreats with her now warm cup of tea to her quiet kitchen. 
    But Huwi soon tracks her down bringing with him a couple of karate kicking kokako. What a performance and what a noise!
    So Kuwi silently scurries along to the spare room, where she sips her heated up cup of tea.
    But this spare room is not to be her peaceful place. Huwi rolls in with a rowdy rapping ruru. 
    So off goes ever-patient Kuwi again seeking a quiet space outside on her tranquil terrace. And there she begins to sip her lukewarm cuppa.
    But before long, the noisy Huwi has found her again and sets about tap-dancing with a troupe of tap-dancing tomtits... 
    Will Kuwi ever find a peaceful spot to drink her cup of tea? No, even in the stillness and silence of the swamp Huwi stampedes in with a singing swarm of cicadas.
    Finally the ever patient Kuwi has had enough. 
"Quiet!" she cries.
    And it is. 
    But is this new silence what she really wants – now she has it. 
    This is a great story book for reading and interacting with youngsters. They can chime in at any stage and try to guess what Huwi will produce next in the way of his rowdy crowd. 
    And hopefully children will also realise that sometimes all mum wants is five minutes to drink her cup of tea in peace.
    Well done, Kat Merewether. 

Review by Susan Tarr
Title: Kuwi's Rowdy Crowd
Author: Kat Merewether
Publisher: Illustrated Publishing
ISBN: 9780994136459
RRP: $19.99
Available: bookshops 

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Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 23 Mar 2019 1:03 PM (6 years ago)




Kia ora organisers, poets, librarians, teachers, book clubs, creatives and lovers of poetry.

It is with heavy hearts we contact you in the wake of such terrible events. We can only hope you are determined, like us, to promote and rejoice in ALL New Zealand voices, louder than ever. As poet, Paula Green says, “poetry connects us to human experience, to how we live and love and mourn. It is a window, it is a balm and it is an eye-opener. This is a time to reach out and make connections, to listen.”

Welcome to Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day, 23 August 2019. Registrations are open.

Returning 2018 organisers: Last year was huge – let’s do it again!

To those returning after a break: Welcome back.

To the newcomers: Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day is an annual celebration of the power of poetry – in all its manifestations. Open to all ages, it is a chance to make poetry accessible, inclusive, and to showcase how extraordinary it can be. Events, activities or competitions can be large or small, from handing out free poems, making a Poet-Tree, or chalking on pavements, to larger-scale events such as workshops, readings with guest poets and book launches. At every level, Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day is a chance to make poetry soar.

Registrations and applications for seed-funding remain open until 5pm, Wednesday 22 May 2019.

Visit our website for more information on how to register and/or apply for seed-funding, how to run an event, and for general guidelines and templates here.

Or you can follow this link straight to our …

Registration Form 2019

We look forward to unleashing the power of poetry across Aotearoa and beyond on Friday, 23 August 2019.

(PS: PLEASE DON’T REPLY ON THIS MASS EMAIL)

If you have any queries, reply on a separate thread to: National Administrator | Jacqui Hammond | poetryday@nzbookawards.org.nz. Otherwise we look forward to receiving your registration!

 



 

If you’d like to read the (full) poignant poem Paula Green was compelled to write in the wake of the events of 15.3.19, you can find it on her NZ Poetry Shelf blog here.

 

Sarah Thornton

Thornton Communications Ltd

PO Box 31954, Milford, Auckland 0741

M: 021 753 744

www.prcomms.com

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NZ Booklovers Awards Winners Announced 18 Mar 2019 2:28 PM (6 years ago)



           
                
 
    
           
           
18 March 2019
NZ Booklovers Awards 2019 Winners Announced
 
Fiona Kidman, Jo Seagar and Kimberly Andrews are winners in the inaugural NZ Booklovers Awards announced today.

‘These are books that all families in New Zealand will enjoy,’ says NZ Booklovers Director Karen McMillan. ‘Between the three winners, there is a novel that is an excellent piece of storytelling that takes the reader back in time to New Zealand in the 1950s, a lifestyle book that will be used repeatedly for family celebrations, and a children’s book that is likely to become a favourite and foster a love of reading.’

This Mortal Boy by Fiona wins the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction Book 2019.

The judges say, ‘This novel is a portrayal of a real event in New Zealand, one of the last times the death penalty was invoked. Set in the 1950s, the social climate of the time is beautifully portrayed – conservative, prejudiced against immigrants, and suffering from an upsurge in juvenile delinquency. It is very easy to engage with the characters, especially the central figure, Arthur Black. In 1950s Auckland Arthur’s unfortunate liaisons lead him to a situation which gets out of control. Is he a victim of prejudice and a miscarriage of justice? A well-crafted story that perfectly fits our brief of a book that celebrates the best in storytelling, a book we couldn’t put down.’

Better than a Bought One by Jo Seagar wins the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Lifestyle Book 2019.

The judges say, ‘Better than a Bought One is not a regular recipe book – it is a valuable addition to any Kiwi home! This is New Zealand’s beloved cook Jo Seagar’s best book yet. Sharing her love of entertaining, Jo inspires readers to celebrate life’s milestones at home. Her focus is on easy, economical ideas to mark everything from birthdays, backyard weddings, baby showers and other life celebrations to Matariki and a casual Kiwi Christmas. Jo deftly shows readers how to create special occasions with minimal effort and maximum impact. Jo’s trademark writing is accompanied by intoxicating photography that ensures readers will repeatedly refer to the book for memorable ideas. A highly pleasurable read that hits our criteria of a book that enriches people’s everyday lives.’


Puffin the Architect by Kimberly Andrews wins the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Children’s Book 2019.

The judges say, ‘As Puffin the Architect leads her difficult-to-please clients through her past designs – the homes she has planned for Platypus the Baker, Painter Goose and Pilot Moose, amongst others – they see and hear about her wonderful creations, but none are right for them. What is required is a cottage specifically designed for puffins, and “a home built by the sea” is underway. A detail with special appeal that comes at the end of the story is that the architect is their mum. Cleverly written in verse and with wonderfully detailed illustrations, this is a great read-aloud book and one that children will also enjoy reading alone for both the intricacies of the drawings and the ideas of planning a “custom-built” house. A picture book which can be read over many times and used as a creative discussion point for children’s own choices about house designs, Puffin the Architect has a richness, depth and complexity of concepts that will appeal to kids over a wide range of ages.’
 
 
Entries for the NZ Booklovers Awards 2020 are already open at www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/awards
              
‘We are passionate about supporting the many talented authors we have in New Zealand, so we are delighted to be offering the NZ Booklovers Awards for a second year,’ says Karen McMillan. ‘We welcome traditionally published authors and self-published authors to submit their books throughout the year. This year we were delighted to see a mix of well-known names and new talent and trust we will see a similar variety for the 2020 Awards.’

Judges
The Best Adult Fiction Book Award is judged by writer and literary editor Marcus Hobson, publishing professional Rachel White, and NZ Booklovers Director and author Karen McMillan.

The Best Lifestyle Book Award is judged by journalist and author Andrea Molloy, NZ Booklovers Director and author Karen McMillan, and publisher, home renovator and foodie Iain McKenzie.

The Best Children’s Book Award is judged by author and creative writing teacher Paddy Richardson, editor and writer Heidi North, and early childhood kaiako and journalist Rebekah Fraser.

About NZ Booklovers
NZ Booklovers is an online home for books and for those who enjoy reading them. It is a bookworms’ hub, dedicated to bringing New Zealanders everything they need to know about reading and the world of literature. Working alongside publishers, NZ Booklovers showcases both New Zealand and international titles. It provides a platform for sharing articles, author interviews, reviews, and book-related stories, as well as book news, competitions, and reading and writing advice.

Director Karen McMillan heads up a talented team of contributors and reviewers, fellow readers and writers who are passionate about books and who believe books inspire and enhance people’s lives. The NZ Booklovers Awards are the brainchild of Karen McMillan, with the aim of supporting the local publishing community and New Zealand authors.
 

           
 
      

           


 



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For more information, interviews or book covers, please contact NZ Booklovers Director Karen McMillan, 027 693 9044, karen_m@xtra.co.nz, www.nzbooklovers.co.nz

 

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For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections 18 Mar 2019 2:19 PM (6 years ago)

   

Q. What constitutes Special Collections?

A. The entire book and manuscript collection within Special Collections, University of Otago Library, numbers some 28,000 items. The topics and formats are wide, ranging from medieval manuscripts, early printed pre-1501 books, and 18th century travel accounts, to scientific expedition reports, pulp and science fiction, and limited edition private press publications. Some of the books and manuscripts have been generously gifted to Special Collections; some have been made on site; others have been purchased over time. 


 


For the Love of Books: Collectors and Collections is an exhibition that offers a very selective overview of all the types of materials within Special Collections. It highlights the type of books amassed by collectors such as Willi Fels, Esmond de Beer, Charles Brasch, and the Rev. William Arderne Shoults, as well as those discrete collections such as the Scientific Expedition Reports, and the Pulp Fiction Collection. In essence, the exhibition is a taster. A brief but illuminating glimpse into what makes up Special Collections. And in 2019, on the sesquicentennial (150 years) celebrations of the establishment of the University of Otago, it is fitting to acknowledge the generosity of both past and recent benefactors to Special Collections. Importantly, we encourage use, and it is pleasing to acknowledge that the different collections that form Special Collections are used regularly by students and staff of the University, by national and international scholars, and by individuals from the wider community.


 


Special Collections is a treasure trove, and the books and manuscripts on display highlight just some of the delights that are in Special Collections. There are some real strengths; others tantalise. Collectors and collections represented include the John Evelyn and John Locke Collections amassed by Esmond de Beer; the Italian books collected by Willi Fels; the Charles Brasch Collection of some 7,200 books; the ecclesiastical books owned by the Rev.William Arderne Shoults; the James Hogg Collection from the Gilkison family; the Truby King ‘Melrose’ Library; Professor Fastier’s Science Fiction, and Hal Salive’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Collections. And much, much more. All are welcome.


A great library contains the diary of the human race. - G. Dawson

Exhibition Times: 22 March to 14 June 2019

Venue: de Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, Central Library, University of Otago

Hours: 8.30 am to 5.00 pm, Monday to Friday

 

For further information, contact Dr Donald Kerr (Donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz; or Romilly Smith (Romilly.Smith@otago.ac.nz)

Phone: 03-479-8330

Illustrations can be supplied for media purposes

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Leading military historian seeks photographs from WW2 18 Mar 2019 2:16 PM (6 years ago)

  
Professor of War Studies, Glyn Harper, is compiling a major book that brings together images of New Zealanders in the Second World War. It will be a sequel to his highly regarded Images of War (HarperCollins NZ), which brought together almost 1000 photographs of New Zealanders in the First World War and was published in 2008.
 
This book will also be based on the archives of the armed forces and other institutions. While compiling the previous book, Professor Harper was amazed at the quality and quantity of photos in private collections, and he is keen to explore what might be available for this new publication.
 
Glyn Harper is Professor of War Studies at Massey University and Massey Project Manager of the New Zealand and the First World War Centenary History Project.
 

If you have images in reasonable condition, either as prints or in digital format of New Zealanders in the Second World War, and with relevant information about the photographs, please contact Professor Harper at G.J.Harper@massey.ac.nz.

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5 Must -Read Novels About Blended Families 12 Mar 2019 1:56 PM (6 years ago)


   
 
March 12, 2019
By
Bonnie Kistler

 

5 Must-Read Novels About Blended Families
     
My new novel HOUSE ON FIRE is about a perfectly blended family—Leigh and Pete and their five combined children, aged ten to twenty. They all get along like a house on—well, you know the expression. Until one rainy night, when a teenage party followed by a road accident leaves Leigh’s daughter dead and Pete’s son charged with vehicular manslaughter. Instantly the fault lines open up and the foundation of their perfectly blended family crumbles. Novelists have long plowed fertile fields when it comes to complicated family situations. Those fields can be even more fertile in a blended family. To (badly) paraphrase Tolstoy, all blended families are happy and unhappy in their own way. Here’s a sampling of some of the many novels that have treated this subject.

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Publishers Lunch 12 Mar 2019 1:52 PM (6 years ago)


Thames & Hudson's publishing director Sophy Thompson will be promoted to ceo and publisher as of April 12, when Rolf Grisebach departs.

Anne Speyer has been promoted to senior editor at Ballantine Bantam Dell.

Nichole Argyres has been promoted to senior publishing manager, St. Martin's publishing group.

At Tom Doherty Associates, Megan Barnard has been promoted to adpromo assistant creative director; Julia Bergen has been promoted to adpromo associate marketing manager; and Kristin Temple has been promoted to assistant editor.

Maria Gomez has been promoted to executive editor at Montlake Romance.

At Chronicle Books, Aubrey Rojas has joined as social media manager, adult trade. Previously, she worked in integrated marketing at Gymboree. Julia Patrick has been promoted to editor, entertainment, and Sahara Clement has been promoted to assistant editor, entertainment.

The Book Industry Study Group has nominated Andrew Savikas of getAbstract US to serve as chair, starting July 1. Also nominated for two-year board positions are: Andrea Fleck-Nisbet, Ingram Content Group; David Hetherington, knk Software; Dan Kok, Crossway; Kempton Mooney, NPD Group; and Patricia Simoes, Rakuten Kobo.

Bookselling
Micawber's Books in St. Paul is closing for good on April 14, after owner Tom Bielenberg slipped on ice and badly injured himself. Bielenberg, who has owned the bookstore since 2003, broke his pelvis and two ribs and dislocated several vertebrae, and will need months of rehab. He said, "I'm realizing it's a long haul. I can't just not take in money for three or four months. People volunteering is great, but it would be hard to put together."

Distribution
Hopkins Fulfillment Services will distribute Central European University Press starting in April.

NewSouth Books will be Independent Publishers Group's trade distribution partner in Australia starting August 1. Also at IPG, Trafalgar Square Publishing will begin distributing Koenemann in April, and Ice House Books, Muswell Press, and Pan Macmillan Australia in July.

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Annual Young Enterprise Donation Appeal 5 Mar 2019 1:01 PM (6 years ago)


It's the annual Young Enterprise Donation Appeal and on behalf of our Chairman Norm Thompson, CEO Terry Shubkin and myself, I would like to ask for your support.  

 DONATE NOW

 You might not know that the organisation behind the NZ Business Hall of Fame is a charity called Young Enterprise (YES). Our "day job" is working with high school students to get them excited about business and enterprise. 

We are completely reliant on donations and sponsorship to fund the work we do with secondary students across all of New Zealand.  Any help you can give would be appreciated.

By donating you'll be supporting the next generation of young leaders, disruptors and changemakers.  Like the young students you saw speaking on the night.

Thank you in advance for considering us in your annual giving plans.

As a registered charity, any donation you make is tax deductible.

Kindest,


 
Jaime Hayden
Head of Partnerships
022 509 1791
Level 2, iPayroll House, 93 Boulcott St
PO Box 25 525, Wellington 6140
 
 
 

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Hudson & Hall:s:The food of love - shorlisted 5 Mar 2019 12:56 PM (6 years ago)

Otago University Press is proud to have Hudson and Halls: The food of love by Joanne Drayton as a finalist for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, say OUP co-publishers Rachel Scott and Vanessa Manhire.

Hudson and Halls: The food of love is a riveting account of the legendary New Zealand TV chefs in 1970s and 1980s, a groundbreaking gay duo in a socially conservative era, by an internationally acclaimed author.

The book was launched in Auckland last year by chef, restaurateur and writer Peter Gordon.

Hudson and Halls is described as an ‘engaging, fast-paced and moving account’ and ‘a valuable and very welcome addition to New Zealand’s cultural history and gay history’ by Chris Brickell, award-winning author of Mates and Lovers: A history of gay New Zealand (Random House, 2008).

Joanne Drayton is author of New York Times bestseller The Search for Anne Perry (2014), which was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards, the subject of a 60 Minutes documentary, and a cover story in the New Zealand Listener.

Her critically acclaimed Ngaio Marsh: Her life in crime (2008) was a Christmas pick in the UK’s Independent newspaper in 2009. Joanne has written three other groundbreaking biographies. In 2007 she was awarded a National Library Fellowship, and in 2017 she received a prestigious Logan Nonfiction Fellowship at the Carey Institute in Upstate New York. She lives in Auckland with her partner and three cats.

The winners of the 2019 Ockham Book Awards will be announced on 14 May at the Auckland Writers Festival.

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Victoria University Press dominates book awards 5 Mar 2019 12:53 PM (6 years ago)


Victoria University Press (VUP) titles dominate the list of finalists for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today.

 Titles by VUP authors make up half of the total shortlist, with a mix of debut writers and some of New Zealand’s finest established writers.

Victoria University of Wellington Emeritus Professor Vincent O’Sullivan and International Institute of Modern Letters Master of Creative Writing teacher Kate Duignan both have novels shortlisted for the Acorn Foundation Prize—the top prize worth $53,000.

The shortlist for the Poetry Award consists entirely of VUP titles: There’s No Place Like Internet in Springtime by Christchurch-based poet Erik Kennedy, Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath, The Facts by Therese Lloyd and Poūkahangatus by Tayi Tibble.

Tayi Tibble’s debut Poūkahangatus has received popular and critical praise since its release last year. Tibble says the response to her work encouraged her as a writer and as a young wahine Māori. “The recognition of Poūkahangatus also acknowledges the lives and experiences of the women who came before me, so being shortlisted is very significant to me in that sense.”

 Maurice Gee’s memoir, Memory Pieces, and debut memoir by Chessie Henry, We Can Make a Life, are up for the General Non-Fiction Prize.

Henry’s memoir traces the aftermath of the Christchurch and Kaikōura earthquakes, both of which affected her family. “There are so many writers across all of the categories that I'm absolutely in awe of ... it’s totally beyond what I ever would have expected for my first book,” she says.

VUP publisher Fergus Barrowman says he is thrilled by today’s announcement. “To have debut authors like Chessie and Tayi alongside New Zealand’s finest established writers like Vincent and Maurice as finalists is a great illustration of the robust health of New Zealand writing, and exactly where VUP wants to be in that picture.”

The winners of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Auckland on Tuesday 14 May.

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Auckland Art Gallery 5 Mar 2019 11:31 AM (6 years ago)


Art Regular Update
Guerrilla Girls: Reinventing the ‘F’ word – Feminism!
Punchy, satirical and incisive, the Guerrilla Girls’ gorilla-masked personas, bold visual language and frank, humorous messages have rendered them iconic in the history of art and as part of wider social movements.
Guerrilla Girls: Reinventing the ‘F’ Word – Feminism! follows the collective’s artistic practice from 1985 until 2016, and explores how their striking, fun and provocative work criticises ongoing biases in art and society.
Guerrilla Girls partners
Art After Hours: F’Rock Da Base
Art After Hours: F'Rock Da Base
Coinciding with the exhibition Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera | Fashion Activists, the Pacific Sisters present a one-night-only takeover of the Gallery. Don't miss this special night packed with Māori and Pasifika music, fashion, spoken word and activism.
Relive the spirit of Auckland in the '90s and celebrate the myth, magic, music and more. Join us as we stay open late, and as live music and moving image activate the Gallery.
Featuring: Pacific Sisters; Moko Ink; Croc Tatau and Uhi Tapu; DJs DLT, Manuel Bundy and Linda T. With special guests Whaea and the Rumble. Plus, enjoy entry to all exhibitions, pop-up art talks, and food and drink available for purchase.
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Events
All About Women Satellite 2019: #MeToo, Year two
 
 
Free
All About Women features emerging new voices from around the world speaking to future directions in feminism. You don't need to be at the Sydney Opera House on 10 March to experience the main stage action of All About Women – we're excited to be streaming a headline session live from this preeminent festival on gender.
In this essential panel, we'll be exploring how the movement must evolve to represent women worldwide, and to create long-lasting cultural and political change.
VIP Exhibition Tour: fashion and the Pacific Sisters
 
 
Talk frocks, street style and Pasifika-inspired costume design with Pacific Sisters’ member Suzanne Tamaki and New Zealand Fashion Museum director Doris de Pont on this early-morning, VIP tour of the exhibition Pacific Sisters: He Toa Tāera | Fashion Activists.
 
Dance Aotearoa New Zealand: Taking Dance To The People
A new programme by DANZ (Dance Aotearoa New Zealand) that supports Māori and Pacific dance artists and gives them the opportunity to perform in key public spaces. 
 
 
Art Lovers
Join us for an advance screening of Boom for Real, a documentary about one of 80s New York's most charming and hailed (street) art darlings: Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Jenny Bornholdt to judge 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 5 Mar 2019 11:25 AM (6 years ago)


Jenny Bornholdt to judge 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award

Otago University Press advisory Tuesday 5 March 2019

 
This prestigious biennial poetry award from Landfall and the Kathleen Grattan Trust is for an original book-length collection of poems, by a New Zealand or Pacific permanent resident or citizen.

Individual poems in the collection can have been previously published, but the collection as a whole should be unpublished.

Entries are accepted until 31 July 2019.

The result will be announced in Landfall 238 (November 2019), and the winner receives $10,000 and a year's subscription to Landfall. Otago University Press has the right to publish the winning collection.

For full entry details, and to learn more about Kathleen Grattan and the history of the award, go to http://www.otago.ac.nz/press/landfall/awards/otago065466.html

 

The judge for the 2019 award is Jenny Bornholdt, who has published ten books of poems, the most recent of which is Selected Poems (VUP, 2016). She also edited the 2018 anthology Short Poems of New Zealand (VUP).

 

Her collection The Rocky Shore was made up of six long poems and won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 2009. She is the co-editor of My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems and the Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English. Jenny’s poems have appeared on ceramics, on a house, on paintings, in the foyer of a building and in letterpress books alongside drawings and photographs. She has also written two children’s books.

 

Kāpiti poet Alison Glenny was the winner of the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Award with ‘The Farewell Tourist’, a poetry collection inspired by a visit to Antarctica. 

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The Bookseller 5 Mar 2019 11:20 AM (6 years ago)


Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris has called on publishers to haul online pirates through the courts and set a legal precedent after authors rallied against website Ebooks Bike for allegedly allowing thousands of books to be downloaded for free.
Children Reading
The number of children and young people who read every day and the percentage of those who read for pleasure have declined, according to research carried out by the National Literacy Trust for World Book Day.
Pete Townshend
Coronet has scooped the "magnum opus" debut novel by rock star Pete Townshend, which he is also developing into an opera.
JS Group
JS Group has reported a growth in its Aspire revenue as the academic bookselling group reaffirms the “transitioning and re-positioning of the business.”
Jojo Moyes
Michael Joseph will publish the new standalone novel from Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars, in October.
Liz Fielding
Liz Fielding has been presented with the Romantic Novelists' Association’s Outstanding Achievement Award. 
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Jeffrey Archer
Macmillan has snapped up the first four books in a planned eight-part series of novels by Jeffrey Archer.
Springer Nature
Springer Nature has said there is "more to do" after reporting a mixed bag of figures in its latest gender pay gap disclosures for UK employees.
Kathryn Taussig
Bookouture has promoted Kathryn Taussig to publishing director with responsibility for recruiting and leading a new US-focused team.
Usborne
Usborne has acquired the “hilarious, touching and wise” debut fiction novel by Jenny Pearson in an “intense and heated” eight-way auction.
Jasper Joffe
Indie publisher Joffe Books has acquired the 350-strong Robert Hale crime and general fiction list from the Crowood Press.
Penguin Random House UK
Authors from across the PRH UK list will deliver a series of free events and talks to entrepreneurial members of shared workspace company WeWork in a new partnership called We Read the Future

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VQR 5 Mar 2019 11:18 AM (6 years ago)


 
Spring 2019
 
 
Our spring issue asks the question of how we fight, as individuals, communities, and nations: for survival, for radical change, for a sense of belonging, for a better world.
 
 

Also From Our Spring Issue

Hill of Hell
Fiction by Laura van den Berg.
Survivor Files
By Mitchell S. Jackson.
Mountain of Tongues
Reporting by Ben Mauk.
 

Coming Next Week

  • Essay: The Reluctant Activist by Sidney Burris
  • Poetry: Creation Myth by Tina Chang
 
 
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 5 Mar 2019 11:14 AM (6 years ago)


 
 
2019 OCKHAM FINALISTS EXPLORE THE TRUTH AND ISSUES OF OUR TIMES
 
 
Four of our best-known novelists – whose novels, appropriately for our times, explore what it means to tell the truth – are in the running for the country’s richest fiction writing award, the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, with today’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist announcement.

New Zealand Book Awards trustee Jenna Todd says the full Ockham’s shortlist is clear evidence of the vitality of New Zealand literature. “Not only does the shortlist feature some of our best-known writers – those with long and illustrious careers – but it also includes newcomers writing out of deep passion and engagement.”
 
“These 16 books deepen the public discourse on a range of issues and the particular genius of each of their writers lifts them to an emotional plane at which they reward and endure for their readers.”
— Jenna Todd, NZ Book Awards trustee
 
 
You can find the full list of Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisted titles here and you can download social media visuals and other material to promote the books from the Resources page of our website later this morning.
 
 
mitochondrial science company MitoQ
WE WELCOME TWO NEW SPONSORS

Today’s finalist announcement includes two major new category sponsors for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. To support and nurture new writing talent, mitochondrial science company MitoQ will sponsor the four Best First Book awards, and arts enthusiasts and philanthropists Mary and Peter Biggs will support the Poetry category.
 
MitoQ’s chief marketing officer John Marshall says that as one of New Zealand’s newest success stories, it is their pleasure to help emerging writers further enrich the country’s literature.

Mary and Peter Biggs say that with poetry undergoing a wonderful resurgence in our country over the last few years, it struck them as strange that the poetry award was unsupported.
 
“We are thrilled to be involved and hope that the Award continues to recognise poetry’s – and the poet’s – vital role to, as Salman Rushdie says, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”
— Peter Biggs CNZM
 
 
 
OUR INTERNATIONAL JUDGE
 
Award-winning New York-based novelist Joseph O'Neill will assist the three New Zealand judges to select this year’s Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize winner from the four finalists

Irish born O'Neill is the author of four novels, most recently The Dog and Netherland, which received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Kerry Fiction Prize. He has also published a book of short stories, Good Trouble, and a family history, Blood-Dark Track.
 
 
NPD HAS A NEW ADMINISTRATOR
 
We were very sad to bid farewell to the extraordinary Harley Hern, Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day administrator of the past two years, but we are also delighted to have her fellow alumni from the Master’s in Creative Writing at the University of Auckland, Jacqui Hammond, take her place.

Jacqui majored in Literature, before working as a writer and editor for several years in London and Sydney. She completed her Master’s in 2015. She is a keen supporter of poetry and has a couple of poems published in the latest Fast Fibres collection.
Jacqui Hammond
 
Jacqui is keenly awaiting the flood of proposals when NPD 2019 registrations open next Wednesday.
 
 
GET READY FOR THE 2019 HELL READING CHALLENGE
 
We’re just days away from launching the wonderful annual campaign that gets our nation’s youth reading and enjoying the pleasures of stories – with the bonus of free pizza rewards. Yes, the 2019 HELL Reading Challenge is about to kick off!

Registrations open Friday 8 March and already our administrator Joy Sellen has fielded an unprecedented number of enquiries from schools and libraries, so we are set for another record year.
 
In last year’s Challenge 300,000 reading wheels were distributed, meaning that potentially more than two million books were read by Kiwi kids as a result of the campaign.
 
 
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
 
8 March: HELL Reading Challenge 2019 begins.
13 March: National Poetry Day event registrations/seed funding applications open.
14 May: Ockham NZ Book Awards ceremony at Aotea Centre, as part of Auckland Writers Festival. Tickets on sale 15 March.
22 May: Deadline for National Poetry Day event registration/seeding funding applications.
6 June: Shortlist announced for 2019 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults.
7 August: NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults ceremony in Wellington.
23 August: Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day
 
 
OUR FUNDERS AND PARTNERS
 
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, The New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults, and Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day could not exist without the generosity, commitment and vision of our sponsors and staging partners. The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is hugely grateful to Creative New Zealand, Ockham Residential, Acorn Foundation, Royal Society Te Apārangi, MitoQ, Mary and Peter Biggs, Auckland Writers Festival, HELL Pizza, Wright Family Foundation, LIANZA, Wellington City Council, Te Papa, Nielsen Book, Phantom Billstickers, and our other wonderful supporters. You can find out more about them here, here and here
 
 
KEEP IN TOUCH
 
You can find out more about the work of the Trust on our website or if you have a specific enquiry, contact our Trust Manager. And do follow us on our various social media accounts to keep up with our busy calendar of events and other news:
 


Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
via Facebook or Twitter
 


Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day
via Facebook or Twitter
 


New Zealand Book Awards for Children
& Young Adults

via Facebook or Twitter

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Off the Shelf 5 Mar 2019 11:12 AM (6 years ago)



 

A Conversation On Lisa See, Female Friendships, and Dumplings

We (that is, Leora and Erin) have been friends for a few years now—ever since we met through writing for Off the Shelf. Early on in our friendship, we started a tradition of getting dumplings at a nearby restaurant when we wanted to get away from our desks and do some real talking. This is our favorite thing to do—except talk books. With Lisa See’s new novel, THE ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN, coming out, we thought it would be fun to combine our two favorite activities. So, without further ado, here is our conversation (over dumplings) about Lisa See.

 

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Bologna Children's Book Fair 4 Mar 2019 4:42 PM (6 years ago)



 

 
Dear friends and book lovers,

it is a pleasure to invite you to the Bologna Children´s Book Fair, which is going to be held from 1st until 4th April. Albatros Media stand D30-E29 is in the hall 29.

Children have a lot to explore... nature, animals, mysteries, urban legends, ghosts, adventures of crime or how to find a treasure! Our (new) books will guide them.

To see what we have prepared for Bologna, please go through our new catalogue.
 

 

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We would be happy to meet you at BCBF. If you would like to arrange a meeting, please contact us at foreignsales@albatrosmedia.cz
 
 
Copyright © 2019 Albatros Media a.s., All rights reserved.

Our mailing address is:
Albatros Media a.s.
Na Pankráci 30/1618
Prague 14000
Czech Republic

 

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