​Radio Show

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​The Top Writers Radio Show comprised six programmes a year, going out fortnightly on Fresh FM. It began in 2016.

Each 25-minute programme featured an interview with a local published writer, covering their influences, style, writing tips, future projects, and some music that has inspired or influenced them.

All shows can be downloaded from this website.  ​More ...

Courage Day

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​Every 15 November throughout the world, PEN – the international writers’ organisation that champions freedom of expression – marks the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer.
 
NZSA, which incorporates PEN, honours this event as Courage Day. It is named jointly after James Courage, a novelist and poet whose novel A Way of Love was banned because he dared to express homosexuality in his writing, and his grandmother Sarah Courage, whose book describing colonial life in New Zealand was burned by her neighbours. 
 
Courage Day recognises writers who defend the right of free speech, and those who suffer oppression and are killed or imprisoned for their work. 
Find out more about Courage Day here 

​Short Story Awards

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​The Top of the South Branch of NZSA inaugurated the Te Tauihu Short Story awards in 2022.

This innovative award, open to all writers living in New Zealand, offers equal prizes for the country’s two official written languages, English and Māori.
 
Each section is judged by award-winning writers who specialise in the language.  

Find out  more about judges and prizes here...