New Zealand literary resources

New Zealand Book Council
www.bookcouncil.org.nz
The New Zealand Book Council’s mission is to inspire New Zealanders to read, write, create and learn through books. It achieves this through a wide range of activities and programmes designed to promote books and reading by bringing readers, writers, publishers, editors and schools together.

Booksellers Association of New Zealand (Booksellers New Zealand)
www.booksellers.co.nz
Booksellers New Zealand, representing over 90% of New Zealand book publishers and booksellers, is committed to fostering a strong, efficient and professional book industry. A key focus of Booksellers New Zealand is book promotion, increasing the sales of books.

Playmarket
www.playmarket.org.nz/about_home.php
Playmarket is New Zealand's only playwrights' agency & script advisory service. The organisational focus is on the development and representation of New Zealand playwrights and their plays.

The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA)
www.authors.org.nz
The NZSA (PEN NZ Inc) is an association which represents the professional interest of writers in New Zealand. It achieves this through a number of professional development, advocacy and information service activities.

The New Zealand Poetry Society (NZPS)
www.poetrysociety.org.nz
For nearly thirty years The New Zealand Poetry Society has been supporting New Zealand poets and poetry in its many forms. NZPS is a non-profit, incorporated society managed by a volunteer committee. Centred in Wellington, the NZPS delivers national service to its members, runs poetry competitions and workshops and organises occasional tours of local and of overseas poets.

Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ)
www.bpanz.org.nz
BPANZ is the trade association of book publishers and distributors in New Zealand. The Association serves four main roles for the industry: advocacy, professional development, copyright protection and trade promotion.

New Zealand Books Abroad
www.nzbooksabroad.com
New Zealand Books Abroad is an online boutique bookshop specialising in quality New Zealand published books. New Zealand’s Maori culture, New Zealand literature, photography, film and art, New Zealand politics and social policy, and New Zealand’s unique natural history and geography are well represented. Many of the books in our New Zealand history section explain New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi and the arrival of Maori in Aotearoa. We also celebrate New Zealand’s fine wine and food, and look at New Zealanders passion for sport, and the make-up of the New Zealand “Kiwi” character and culture. We recommend our choice of high quality New Zealand pictorial books and New Zealand calendars for souvenirs and special gifts.