The 2025 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) | New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa PEN NZ Inc (NZSA) Research Grants go to Rosetta Allan, Taryn Dryfhout, Jacquie Mcrae, and Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith. Congratulations! authors.org.nz/event/clnz-n...

Congratulations to Cristina Sanders on winning the NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award 2025! authors.org.nz/congratulati...

Congratulations to Susanna Elliffe - winner of the 2025 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize! Read more at authors.org.nz/event/susann...

Congratulations to NZSA CompleteMS 2025 recipients!! authors.org.nz/.../nzsa-com...

Applications open for this $10,000 opportunity for writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama with a literary track record, who are working on a new project. authors.org.nz/nzsa-peter-d...

The CLNZ | NZSA Writers' Award is one of the highest value non-fiction prizes in NZ literature and was established to provide financial support for writers wishing to devote time to a specific project, and to cover reasonable research expenses relating to it. Apply by 4pm, 18 July 2025.

The NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2025 shortlist! Four manuscripts (five writers) are shortlisted for an award that celebrates fresh writing with a 'unique and original vision' Congratulations! Ann Beaglehole (Szego), Frances Duncan & Raewyn Hewitt, Susanna Elliffe, and Belinda O'Keefe.

The NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award was established by novelist Tina Shaw to encourage the development of great novels by mid-career fiction writers who are working on a new project. All applicants must be New Zealand citizens or permanent residents. authors.org.nz/nzsa-shaw-wr...

CompleteMS Programme applications open! Suits writers who have completed a manuscript through a number of drafts and require the objective view of an experienced assessor to provide a constructive critique. Deadline for applications: 28 May 2025 authors.org.nz/nzsa-complet...

NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2025 Published and unpublished writers are invited to enter with completed manuscripts written across all genres i.e. fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama or children’s writing. authors.org.nz Deadline for entries is 13 March 2025