New Zealand Literary Organisations websites sorted alphabetically.
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Artmedia Publishing
(www.artmedia.com.au)Building a community of interest in contemporary Australian and New Zealand Literary and Performing Arts.
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Bookrapt
(www.bookrapt.org.nz)Bookrapt is a group of writers, artists, schoolteachers, librarians, parents and grandparents with a passion for children's literature. The organisation provides an opportunity to learn about the excellence of published authors.
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Booksellers
(www.booksellers.co.nz)Manage New Zealand's book awards, recognising excellence in writing and publishing.
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Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand
(www.storylines.org.nz)Promoting public awareness of the importance of reading and literature for all children and ensuring children in NZ have access to high quality literature.
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Christchurch School for Young Writers
(canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/education/writer.html)A non-profit organisation established in June 1993 with the aim of providing extension work for children with talent or enthusiasm for writing.
View Website - Christchurch Literary Organisations - Alternative Education
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Friends of the Turnbull Library
(www.turnbullfriends.org.nz)A society promoting public interest in the Alexander Turnbull Library and supporting its activities. Since its founding in 1918, the library has become an internationally recognised resource for research into the history and society of New Zealand and its South Pacific neighbours.
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International Institute of Modern Letters
(www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/)Based at Victoria University, with a focus on contemporary imaginative writing, the Institute incorporates the university's renowned creative writing programme and its annual Writer in Residence programme.
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Literary Prizes & Book Awards
(library.christchurch.org.nz/LiteraryPrizes/)Literary prize and award listings.
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New Zealand Association of Literary Agents
(www.bookcouncil.org.nz/community/organisations/nzala.html)An association of New Zealand based literary agents established to maintain professional standards and to generally represent the interests of its members.
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New Zealand Association of Manuscript Assessors
(www.bookcouncil.org.nz/community/organisations/manuscriptass.html)An Association, set up in 2001, has drawn up a set of guidelines and professional standards for this relatively new area of expertise in the New Zealand marketplace.
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New Zealand Book Council
(www.bookcouncil.org.nz)An organisation with a wide range of activities and programmes designed to promote books and reading by bringing readers, writers, publishers, editors and schools together.
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New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
(www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz)A trial project based in the University of Auckland to set up an electronic gateway to poetry resources in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific region.
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New Zealand Society of Authors
(www.authors.org.nz)An association of writers working together to improve conditions for New Zealand writers - raising their profile and encouraging fair treatment by others.
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NZ Writers' Guild
(www.nzwritersguild.org.nz)A professional non profit association for writers in the fields of film, television, radio, theatre, video and multi-media.
