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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 Buffalo's 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 perspective of a different object, animal, or occupation, they say. “This array of voices accum...

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 five winning graduates from the International Institute of Modern Letters indicates that our reputation...