About the fund Creative New Zealand funding for individual artists and arts practitioners to develop skills that increase career sustainability and future-proof business practice. Apply here. Amount: $5,000 – $10,000 Artforms: All Artforms Funding rounds Opened: 19 Sep 2022 Closes: 14 Oct 2022, 1PM Results due: 25 Nov 2022 Who can apply? This fund […]
Keri Hulme’s generous koha for Māori writers The original manuscript of the bone people, by legendary author Keri Hulme (Kāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe), will be auctioned at Dunbar Sloane on the 11th of August, this year. Keri Hulme was the first New Zealander to win the prestigious Booker Prize in 1985. She was also the […]
The Māori Literature Trust | Te Waka Taki Kōrero announces the six newest kaituhi for its highly sought-after incubator programme, Te Papa Tupu. Kei runga noa atu koutou ko: Callum Knight (Te Hika o Pāpāuma) Hinematioro Nohotima-Duncan (Tūhoe – Ngāti Koura, Te Aitanga ā-Māhaki – Whānau ā-Kai) J. Wiremu Kane (Ngāpuhi – Ngāti Toro, Ngāti Manu, […]
Where do you want to be this Matariki? Rotorua is the answer! From June 12 to June 18 you can fill your kete with books, workshops and inspiring stories in celebration of kaituhi Māori: past, present and future. KUPU 22 brings to us a week of festivities between June 12 and […]
Whiti: photographed by Tabitha Arthur The Māori Literature Trust is thrilled to celebrate Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa) in winning Aotearoa’s most prestigious literary prize, the 2022 Ockham NZ Book Awards: Jann Medlicott Acorn prize for fiction. Whiti is only the 7th kaituhi Māori in 50 years to win this award. Her award-winning masterpiece, Kurangaituku, […]
Patricia Grace, one of New Zealand’s most prominent and celebrated Maori fiction authors and a figurehead of modern New Zealand literature, is among those attending the Kupu Māori Writers’ Festival. Read more >
Māori women are represented in every category and two Māori writers are among the four shortlisted for the fiction prize. Read more >
Our second writer-in-residence for the year, Shilo (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Maniapoto) is an award-winning writer and journalist. Read more >
When we first moved in, the house across the road was being renovated. We met the father-son builders who were on the job from seven every morning until about seven at night, most days a week. Read more >
Every word of an astonishing new novel is a sharp talon squeeze around the heart Read more >
