Check out BookHub — the fast, easy way to search and buy books from Aotearoa bookshops, online!

Kiwi Christmas Books is once again collecting donations of brand new Kiwi books to gift to families who can’t afford to buy Christmas presents for their kids, or who struggle to access good books in general. Here’s how you can help.

Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival organisers are recommending festival goers vote first on the weekend of the festival (13 to 15 October) before settling in for a weekend of Aotearoa literary brilliance.

Book feasts, bookshop hops, a book ballot, readings, giveaways and this glorious books-are-my-bag tote … that’s right NZ Bookshop Day is happening this Saturday 7 October.

Kia kaha te reo Māori. This week we welcome back Ruth Smith (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Kahungunu) as guest editor and look forward to publishing the Kete homepage, reviews and newsletter in te reo Māori.

Ka whakanui a Kete i te reo Māori — Kete celebrates te reo Māori.

The Whanganui Literary Festival turns ten this year! Take a look at the line up of incredible local authors and writers from all around the motu.

All week we’ve been publishing compelling, contemplative, haunting, furious, beautiful, defiant and sexy poems — and now we’ve wrapped them together so you can read them all in one place.

Alba Celdran has won the 2023 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize!

Hachette Aotearoa has announced the talented illustrators shortlisted for this year’s Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize!

Tina Shaw has won for her manuscript A House Built on Sand. Find out more.

Outstanding booksellers and publishers in Aotearoa’s vibrant book industry have been named … along with the biggest selling book of the publishing year.

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are just around the corner and Kete is excited to be giving away a finalists surprise pack!

We have some special school holiday content coming up in Kete.

National Poetry Day is set for August 25 this year. Registration for events, and seed-funding applications, are now open — it’s time to unleash the power of poetry!

Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize turns five!

17 February: NZ Booklovers Awards 2023 Shortlist announced

2022 Storylines Notable Book Awards announced

New Zealanders encouraged to give the gift of reading to children and young people in need this Christmas