Resources for Writers

New Zealand literary resources

The most comprehensive resource for writers is through the New Zealand Society of Authors. The society provides information on every aspect of writing, including writers' courses, writers' organisations, awards and fellowships, and it can provide guidance with contractual issues: www.authors.org.nz

Other literary resources include:

Alexander Turnbull Library
Archives New Zealand
Auckland City libraries
Auckland Poetry
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival
Best New Zealand Poems
Booksellers New Zealand
Book Publishers Association of NZ
Creative New Zealand
Copyright Council of NZ
Copyright Licensing Ltd
Hocken Collections
Institute of Modern Letters
Leaf Salon
Local Publishers Forum
Ministry of Culture and Heritage
National Library of New Zealand
NZ Association of Manuscript Assessors
NZ Book Council
NZ Electronic Poetry Centre
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
NZ Film Archive
NZ Film Commission
NZ Culture on line
NZ Literature File
NZ Poetry Society
NZ Writers Guild
North Shore Libraries
Office of Film and Literature Classifica
Parliamentary Library
Playmarket
Poetry NZ
Statistics New Zealand
Self-publishers Association of NZ
Te Puna web directory
Toi Maori Aotearoa
Trout
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa

New Zealand historical resources

Auckland City Libraries - Heritage
Devonport Museum
Dictionary of NZ Biography
New Zealand History Online
NZ Historic Places Trust
NZ History Resources
NZ Museums On-line
NZ Navy Museum
Te Ara Encylopaedia of NZ
Te Puna web directory

New Zealand writers' awards, residencies and fellowships

The NZ Society of Authors has an extensive list of awards, residencies and fellowships on its website.

Further information can be found at:

Creative NZ
Ministry for Culture & Heritage
NZ Writers' Awards and Fellowships
Wikipedia - NZ Literary Awards

International Writers' Centres

There are at least 97 writers' centres around the world. Links to some of them are:

Australia

The largest writers' centre in Australia is the New South Wales centre in Sydney. There are centres in every state of Australia.

ACT Writers' Centre (Canberra)
Queensland Writers' Centre (QLD)
Gold Coast Writers' Association (QLD)
Hunter Writers' Centre (NSW)
New South Wales Writers' Centre (NSW)
Northern Rivers Writers' Centre (NSW)
Central West Writers' Centre (NSW)
South Coast Writers' Centre (NSW)
Varuna, the Writers' House (NSW)
Victorian Writers' Centre (VIC)
Tasmanian Writers' Centre (TAS)
WA State Literature Centre (WA)
Peter Cowan Writers' Centre (WA)
Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre (WA)
Northern Territory Writers Centre (NT)

Australian Writers' Organisations

There are a large number of writers' organisations in Australia. The Australian Government culture and recreation portal has a comprehensive list.

Australian Government portal
Australian Society of Authors
Fellowship of Australian writers' (WA)