From the New Zealand Book Council Blog

ON THE BLOG Talking Books Podcast: To publish, or not to publish? Should Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee and The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz have been published? Distinguished writer Paula Morris is joined by acclaimed fiction writer and critic, Charlotte Grimshaw, and Mark Broatch, Books & Culture Editor of the NZ Listener, to discuss two high-profile and controversial books that are likely to be bestsellers in 2015. Listen here. News, events, and opportunities NZ Bookshop Day - 31 October 2015 NZSA Book Week 2015: October 26 – November 1 LitCrawl 2015 – Saturday 14 November An evening with Geraldine Brooks – Dunedin Book Launch: Waitapu Lunch with Deborah Challinor – tickets available! Call for Judges in the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Into the River – Restriction Lifted APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR MA IN CREATIVE WRITING – IIML Overland Neilma Sidney short story prize – now open! Overland Judith Wright poetry prize – now open! 2015 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement: Winners announced New Writer in Residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters