The NZSA President of Honour, Charlotte Grimshaw, will deliver the prestigious annual NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture, an event that comments on the literary sector, on October 14, 2025.

This year the Lecture will take place in collaboration with VERB Wellington and The National Library of New Zealand.

October 14, 2025. 6.00pm National Library of NZ auditorium – basement. Booking details are available here: https://events.humanitix.com/janet-frame-memorial-lecture-2025

About Charlotte Grimshaw and the NZSA 2025 President of Honour Award:

The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa is delighted to announce that Charlotte Grimshaw is the NZSA 2025 President of Honour. This prestigious honour is bestowed on a senior writer and long-serving NZSA member in recognition of their contribution to writing, writers and the literary arts sector in Aotearoa.

NZSA’s 2025 President of Honour, Charlotte Grimshaw, is newly back from Menton. She is the author of eleven works, including critically acclaimed novels, two outstanding collections of linked stories and a best-selling memoir. As a reviewer in The New Zealand Listener noted: ‘A swarming energy pervades every page she writes… her descriptive writing has always been of the highest order. Most of it would work just as well as poetry.’

Charlotte was awarded the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. She is a winner of the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship and the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award. Her story collection Opportunity was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Prize, and Opportunity won New Zealand’s premier Montana Award for Fiction, along with the Montana Medal for Book of the Year. She was the Montana Book Reviewer of the Year.

Her story collection Singularity was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her novel, The Night Book, was a finalist for the New Zealand Post Book Award. Her most recent novel, Mazarine, was longlisted for the 2019 Ockham Book Awards. Her bestselling 2021 memoir, The Mirror Book, was shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction.

Charlotte Grimshaw is currently a regular reviewer and columnist for the NZ Listener. Her monthly column in Metro magazine won a Qantas Media Award. She won the 2018, 2019 and 2021 Voyager Media Award for Reviewer of the Year. Two of her novels, The Night Book and Soon, have been made into a TV series, The Bad Seed, screened on TV One in 2019. A compilation of The Night Book and Soon, titled The Bad Seed, was published in 2019.