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This weekend Dunedin will host writers, designers, photographers, artists and publishers from around New Zealand at the inaugural Small Press Fest....

This weekend launches the inaugural Small Press Fest. Critic Te Ārohi caught up with the festival’s creator and curator, Frances Pavletich of Evening Books, on the whats and whys of a dedicated fest to small press.   Small Press Fest runs from August 18-20, hosted at Evening

Just Buffalo Literary Center announced Ae Hee Lee as the 2023 poetry fellow. The award, which is open to adult poets of all ages and career stages, includes a $1,500 honorarium; a month-long residency in Buffalo this August, and the opportunity to perform as a featured reader at Just Buffalos Silo City Reading Series.

05:00, May 26 2021 supplied Author Jackson Nieuwland with their I Am A Human Being book of poetry which won the MitoQ Best First Book AWard for Poetry. Jackson Nieuwland is a genderqueer writer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Their first book, I Am A Human Being, was published by Compound Press in 2020 and recently won the MitoQ Best First Book Award for Poetry. They run Food Court Books with Carolyn DeCarlo. Each poem in I Am A Human Being begins with the phrase “I am a” and continues from the...

Share Members of the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington community won six of the eight annual awards at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards last night.  Five of the winners are alumni of the University’s renowned International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) Creative Writing Master’s programme, while the sixth is an emeritus professor in the University’s English programme. Three of the winning books were published by Victoria University Press (VUP). “To have fiv...

In a surprise win, Airini Beautrais took home the largest-ever purse.

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News from Ockham Book Awards Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Bug Week – the first person to take out the category for a collection of short stories in more than a decade. Beautrais is well-known as a poet, but this is her first book of fiction, published by Victoria University Press. She received the prize ahead of acclaimed novelists Catherine Chidgey and Pip Adam, both previ...

‘Knockout’ short story collection wins country’s richest writing prize Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Bug Week – the first person ...

** Ae Hee Lee is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press, 2017) and  Dear bear, (Platypus Press, 2021). She holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has been published or is forthcoming at the New England Review, Narrative, Denver Quarterly, Southeast Review, and POETRY among others. She has also received scholarships and awards from the Academy o...