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Humans can be strange, mad, bad creatures but the best thing about them is they can also come up with some amazing things in the name of helping fellow humans, like this Humane Reader, from the same people who make the Humane PC.
Something about these really appeals to me. I think this is an amazing project – I love that technology can be used to reach people and that we can change our way of thinking about “obsolescence”.
Category : Book Trade News, Competitions, Fun Stuff
Unity Books and SPORT are stoked to announce a short story prize with a difference: The Long And The Short Of It.
ENTRIES OPEN 1ST DAY OF SPRING (1ST OF SEPTEMBER) AND CLOSE ON CHRISTMAS EVE
Proudly supported by: Astra Print, the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, Federation Media & Ngatarawa Winery
You might ask, why?
And we might answer:
‘This competition is designed to get people excited, to encourage new fingers to bang different keys: this is for the small, the strange, the beautiful, the bountiful and above all, the best.’
—Lily Richards, Brand Manager for Unity Books Auckland
‘We want to eliminate boring “competition stories” and challenge writers to work in the territories that produce so much of the best contemporary fiction, by writers like Lydia Davis or Alice Munro.’
— Fergus Barrowman, Editor and Publisher of SPORT
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WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE 2011 AUCKLAND WRITERS AND READERS FESTIVAL
WHERE WE CAN ALL CELEBRATE WITH A NICE GLASS OF NGATARAWA WINE…Mmmmmm.
VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO ENTER (FROM 1ST SEPTEMBER)
Unity Books<http://www.unitybooks.co.nz/>
Click the thumbnail below for the full press release!
Category : BookieMonster News, Competitions, Fun Stuff
The winner of The Crime of Huey Dunstan by James McNeish is… Tonya Drabble!
I’ll email you shortly!
And the loser is… me. For not announcing this on Tuesday night like I was supposed to. No excuses – epic fail on my part.
I’m so sorry you guys! 
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Entries Open for New Zealand’s Leading Short Story Awards
Etched into the New Zealand literary calendar, the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards have showcased some of New Zealand’s leading writers including Linda Olsson, Sarah Quigley, Norman Bilbrough, Andre Ngapo and Sarah Laing.
The 2010 awards welcome a new literary judging panel including award-winning authors Joy Cowley (Hunter, Mrs Wishy Washy, Snake & Lizard) and Charlotte Grimshaw (Singularity, Opportunity, Provocation) who will be selecting ten finalists from the entries.
The four categories include the Open Division (judged by Charlotte Grimshaw), Secondary School Division (judged by Joy Cowley), Best Unpublished Writer and the popular People’s Choice Awards.
The People’s Choice Award allows the public to read excerpts of the ten finalists’ stories and vote for their favourite short story online. The winner of this category is decided entirely by public vote and wins $750 cash, publication of their story in Sunday Star-Times and $250 worth of books from Random House.
Entries to the 2010 awards close 27 August 2010 with winners announced at an awards ceremony on 28 October 2010.
The Awards were launched in 1984 with a vision to recognise and encourage the talent of aspiring New Zealand writers and are now in their 26th year.
Last year, over 1400 entries to the awards were received. The supreme award for the Open Division went to Waimate writer Sue Francis for ‘The Concentrators’, a small town New Zealand story about an unlikely friendship between two young women who meet every Friday night over a game of tennis.
For more information about the 2010 awards visit www.shortstory.co.nz
Editors Notes:
Open Division
1st prize: $5000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times and $500 worth of books from Random House
2nd prize: $2000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times and $300 worth of books from Random House
3rd prize: $1000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times and $200 worth of books from Random House
Secondary School Division
1st prize: $1000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times, work experience day at Random House (day immediately after awards ceremony) PLUS $500 worth of Random House books and a $500 Whitcoulls gift card for the finalist’s school.
2nd prize: $500 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times PLUS $300 worth of Random House books and a $300 Whitcoulls gift card for the finalist’s school
3rd prize: $250 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times PLUS $200 worth of Random House books and a $200 Whitcoulls gift card for the finalist’s school.
BEST UNPUBLISHED WRITER
A Random House experience with key members of the company, including time with fiction publisher Harriet Allan and $200 worth of books from Random House.
PEOPLES’ CHOICE AWARD
$750 cash, story published in Sunday Star-Times and $250 worth of books from Random House.
Category : BookieMonster News, Competitions, Fun Stuff
Thanks all for your entries into our crime writing book giveaway! And the winners are…
Chris is the winner of Shadow Sister
Sandra is the winner of Thief
Marcushobson is the winner of A Matter of Life and Death
I’ll email all of you for your postal addresses. Thanks again everyone, and don’t forget you can still win Gunshot Road or The Crime of Huey Dunstan.
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