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NewsAMMA by Saraid de Silva has been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025. AMMA is one of 16 titles on the longlist.
5 March 2025
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NewsDazzling books that ‘address our moment’s most urgent concerns’.
4 March 2025
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NewsAuckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki is thrilled to reveal the first five names for the 2025 Festival, ahead of the full programme announcement on Wednesday 12 March.
26 February 2025
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NewsMila’s Books has been shortlisted for the Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year (BOP) 2025, highlighting its impact in championing Pasifika storytelling on t...
24 February 2025
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NewsNZSA Kupu Kaitiaki & Kaituhi Mentor Programmes for Kaituhi Māori are now open for application. These two programmes aim to support the amplification of Māori voices, Māori stories,...
23 February 2025
NewsIn March, Kete is excited to welcome award-winning playwright and writer Victor Rodger as guest editor for a two-week celebration of Aotearoa’s Pasifika books and authors.
20 February 2025
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NewsThe NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 shortlist, announced today, features a mixture of debut authors and well-known writers. Books by Tina Shaw, Riley Chance, Rebekah Ballagh, Mandy Hage...
19 February 2025
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NewsTeachers and students, get ready for an incredible line-up of seventeen writers from Aotearoa and around the world, joining us at the Aotea Centre from Tuesday 13 to Thursday 15 Ma...
11 February 2025
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NewsFour secondary school students will have the opportunity to be mentored by one of New Zealand’s best professional authors in order to develop their craft and hone their writing ski...
9 February 2025
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NewsEsteemed poet, writer, essayist and conservationist Brian Turner died on Thursday 5th February at the age of 80.
6 February 2025
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NewsPopular books that pack a punch and have hit the mark with readers across the motu in the past year have also found favour with the judges of the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Award...
29 January 2025
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NewsThe New Zealand Indie Publishing Directory provides a unique resource for New Zealand authors seeking to self-publish their books.
17 January 2025
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NewsAward-winning speculative fiction writer and poet Lee Murray has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2025's New Year's Honours List.
31 December 2024
NewsThe Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki is delighted to announce poet Paula Green as the 2025 recipient of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Meda...
18 December 2024
NewsNew Zealand writers Kate Duignan and Rachael King have been awarded the prestigious 2025 Sargeson Fellowship.
18 December 2024
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NewsHamLit is an exciting new series of bookish events taking place in the glorious Hamilton Gardens this coming February. A literary festival within a festival, HamLit will serve up a...
16 December 2024
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NewsAn exciting new initiative to showcase Aotearoa's new and emerging authors is set to launch next year.
12 December 2024
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NewsTwo highly experienced panels that include bestselling and award-winning authors, illustrators, editors, book reviewers, kaiako and librarians have been appointed to judge entries ...
9 December 2024
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NewsInternationally renowned children’s author Dame Lynley Dodd, historian and environmentalist Neville Peat, and multi-talented poet Apirana Taylor are being recognised for their cont...
8 December 2024
NewsWe're giving away three packs of books featured in the New Zealand Summer Reading Guide. All Kete Books newsletter subscribers are eligible. Find out more.
5 December 2024
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NewsWriters, apply now to be mentored by an established writer, poet, or playwright.
3 December 2024