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Rod Oram Memorial Essay Prize - entries close 14 March 2025
Posted: Friday Dec 20, 2024
A huge congratulations to Franchesca Walker and Hannah August, joint-winners of the 2024 Landfall Essay Competition
Landfall Essay Competition judge Lynley Edmeades has announced the joint winners of this year’s competition: Franchesca ...
Posted: Friday Nov 29, 2024
The winners of the 2024 University of Otago Creative Writing Competition have been announced
This year's theme/writing prompt was “A place of many firsts” and was judged by the 2024 Robert Burns Fellow, Mikaela Ny...
Posted: Monday Nov 18, 2024
Rap Like Robbie Poetry Competition 2024
Entries close Saturday 30 November 2024
Posted: Friday Nov 01, 2024
Robert Burns Poetry Competition 2024
Entries close 5pm Saturday 30 November
Posted: Friday Nov 01, 2024
2024 Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Entries will close Friday 22 November 2024
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
2024 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize
Entries will close Friday 22 November 2024
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
Congratulations to the winners of Writer 2024
Guest judge and 2024 Burns Fellow Mikaela Nyman says the thoughtful and varied entries related to the theme, "a place of...
Posted: Friday Oct 18, 2024
Winners of the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition announced
Read the winning stories here
Posted: Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
Submissions for the 2025 A&U Fiction Prize are now open!
Entries close 31 March 2025
Posted: Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2024 - winners announced
The competition is now in its fourteenth year, and this year attracted 142 poems from New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, U...
Posted: Monday Sep 23, 2024
Entries for the 2024 Sunday Star-Times short story competition are open
Entries close October 7, 2024 at 11.45pm
Posted: Monday Sep 16, 2024
National Poetry Day Competition Results
Warmest congratulations to the winners and everyone who entered and helped make our night so special
Posted: Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Nine to Noon Short Story competition opens
RNZ are looking for stories of 2000 words, submitted by Friday 29 September.
Posted: Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Entries are open for the 2024 University of Otago creative writing competition!
The University’s annual creative writing competition for staff, students and alumni - entries close Wednesday 11 Septemb...
Posted: Friday Aug 30, 2024
NZ Young Writers Festival Competition
Entries close Thursday 22 August 2024 8.00pm
Posted: Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Name the chick competition
The Royal Cam chick needs a name. Submit your name along with an environmental action to be in to win great prizes. Entr...
Posted: Monday Aug 12, 2024
2024 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose competition
Entries close 31 July 2024
Posted: Thursday Jul 25, 2024
University Creative writing competition open
Entries close at midnight on Wednesday 11 September 2024
Posted: Monday Jul 22, 2024
'Leap' Poetry for Children Competiton
The nationwide competition is for adults who write poetry for children. Entries close Friday 2nd August 2024
Posted: Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Waha Kōrero - Speech Competition
Waha Kōrero is an opportunity for native and highly proficient speakers of te reo Māori. This unique speech competition ...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
National Poetry Day: All Ages Competition
CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 31 July | 5pm
Posted: Thursday Jun 27, 2024
The International Children’s Publishing Academy writing competition
Local New Zealand publisher Exisle Publishing launches the International Children's Publishing Academy with a writing co...
Posted: Monday Jun 17, 2024
The takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2024 is open!
Entries close 30th September 2024
Posted: Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
The Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize is open for submissions
Submissions close 5pm 31 July 2024
Posted: Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Renee Liang announced as judge for the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2024
The prize will be opening on 1st June, so start polishing your best unpublished poems!
Posted: Tuesday May 28, 2024
2024 NFFD Long Lists announced
Posted: Tuesday May 28, 2024
2024 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition winner announced
Emma Hughes has been announced as the 2024 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition winner for her moving essay, ‘Fourt...
Posted: Monday May 27, 2024
Submissions are open for Sweet Mammalian
Submissions close 30 June 2024
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
Enter the Annual NZPS International Poetry Competition
Entries close midnight 31 May 2024
Posted: Friday May 03, 2024
Tūhura photography competition
Otago’s own awards to celebrate our nature, our landscapes, and you, our people, taking images of all of it!
Posted: Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
The 2024 Sargeson Prize is now open for entries
Entries close 30 June 2024
Posted: Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition
Opens Saturday 1 June and closes on Wednesday 31 July 2024
Posted: Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
The 2024 NFFD competition is open through April 30!
Send your best 300 words
Posted: Monday Apr 08, 2024
The 2024 NFFD competition is open!
Send your best 300 words - Submissions open through 30 April
Posted: Monday Feb 26, 2024
10-Minute Play Competition 2024
Submit one or two 10-Minute Plays to the Playwrights Association of New Zealand 10-Minute Play Competition 2024 to be in...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Jutun Juuri - Root of the Chatter Writing Competition for 15-21 -year-old youth living in a UNESCO City of Literature
Entries close 29 March 2024
Posted: Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Robert Burns Poetry Competition 2023
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2023 Robert Burns and Rap Like Robbie Poetry Competitions! You can read the wi...
Posted: Thursday Jan 25, 2024