Quote Unquote

Michael Gifkins, literary agent, editor and author, died on Monday night. His long-time friend and colleague Geoff Walker remembers him...

The Michael King’s Writers Centre has announced two three-month residencies worth $3000 each so you can write an essay of about 10,000 word...

Have project, will travel. Creative New Zealand has some funding for authors to go to overseas festivals and similar events. From the offic...

From the 24 July edition. Spelling, grammar, punctuation and the non-sequitur at the end are all exactly as published:  Need for toleran...

While we’re on the subject: the 73rd in this occasional series of reprints from  Quote Unquote  the magazine is Diane Brown ’s review of De...

The 72nd in this occasional series of reprints from  Quote Unquote  the magazine is by Gwen Isaac and is from the November 1995 issue. It i...

People ask me, “How do you find living in Cambridge, population 18,400, after living for so long in Auckland, population 1.5 million?” ...

First up, four grants of $5000 from Copyright Licensing NZ’s cultural fund. These are for writers wanting to undertake research for writing...

Yesterday I discovered in the recesses of our garage a long-forgotten stash of copies of the long-forgotten leftie magazine New Outlook , o...

Tonight the New Zealand book-design awards were announced . Back in June I wrote here : There are seven categories: best illustrated bo...