Cloud Ink 

June, 2020 Newsletter

For further information and book orders visit the Cloud Ink website at www.cloudink.co.nz / or email info@cloudink.co.nz

For reviews, interviews and samples of the Cloud Ink Press books in this issue see: www.book2look.com

In this issue

 

Kirsty Powell award winner!

Ephemera relaunch

A new Splendid Sin

Cloud Ink extends scope for new submissions

Meanwhile in other news...

A case of dates

Kirsty Powell award winner!

Cloud Ink author Kirsty Powell has won the NZ Booklovers Award for 2020 with her novel The Strength of Eggshells.

 

The novel is set in the Mangapurua Valley, past the Bridge to Nowhere in the Whanganui River region.

 

An interview with Kirsty about her book can be found on the RNZ National Programme Standing Room Only

and Kirsty can be seen reading from The Strength of Eggshells on Youtube, here.

 

 

Ephemera relaunch

Tina Shaw’s eerily prescient novel of near future New Zealand, is to be re-launched on Saturday 4th July at 5 pm. The launch will be held at:

 

Raw Balance

45 Oruanui St

Taupō

 

The launch will include live music and comedy with Jersey Bob and our Monica.

 

This is a post-Covid relaunch as the original launch was planned just as New Zealand went into lockdown.

 

Tina spoke with Lynn Freeman about this book on Standing Room Only (RNZ). Catch up with this interview. 

 A new Splendid Sin

Alana Bolton Cooke’s novel of the renaissance has been reissued with a dynamic new cover design.

 

A Splendid Sin is a novel of Michelangelo and his forbidden love for a young man set against the painting of The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel in Rome in the 16th Century.

 

Alana has a very informative Facebook page associated with Michelangelo – The World of Michelangelo and the book is reviewed at NZBookLovers.com.

 

 

Cloud Ink extends scope for new submissions

Cloud Ink will be open for new submissions in September.

 

Until now we have limited submissions to Auckland University of Technology Masters of Creative Writing graduates, but will now open submissions to all New Zealand prose writers.

 

We are a small press and work as a collective, so we are not going to be able to publish a huge number of books and are still going to expect a lot of involvement from the author in the publishing and marketing. However, our aim is to help more New Zealand authors and to bring more brilliant New Zealand novels to the market.

 

The conditions for submission will be published in the next newsletter and on our website. 

Meanwhile in other news...

Auē

 

Becky Manawatu’s novel Auē recently won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2020 Ockham Book Awards. Congratulations to Becky and Mākaro Press on their success. Mākaro is an independent Wellington-based press.

 

Printed books still preferred

 

A new report of the Publisher’s Association of New Zealand shows that Kiwis still prefer to read print books. The NZ Publishing Market Size Report shows that in the general book market print book sales increased by 7.1% in 2019 and sales of digital books declined by 4.5%. After lockdown, at level 2, revenue through sale of books in bookstores was up 22% on the same week in 2019, although sales overall are still down on last year.

 

Copyright law review

 

Representatives from the New Zealand book industry, including NZSA and the Publishers Association, met with Kris Faafoi (the minister responsible for the Copyright Review) recently to present PANZ’s concerns regarding the direction of the review and the disregarding of artists’ requirements to be paid for their work. The meeting was delayed due to lockdown but was an important one for authors. For more information on copyright review see the PANZ website at www.publishers.org.nz

A case of dates

 

Due to Covid-19 and the Level 4 lockdown, there were many cancellations, changes of dates, rescheduling and innovative programming that had to take place, both in New Zealand and overseas.  Thankfully, we've kept track of a few of these for you!

30 October - 1 November

 

Weekly

 

 

 

31 July

 

 

 

 

26 - 28 June / 5 July

 

 

 

 

ND

 

ND

 

2020

 

 

 

Christchurch Word Festival

(reprogrammed)

Going West

(has been cancelled for 2020 but has a series of audio "Voices of Aotearoa" - with weekly additions

Auckland Writers Festival

(has a Winter Series on Youtube and Facebook, which runs to the end of July.  The 2021 festival is scheduled for 11 - 16 May, 2021.

New Zealand Mountain Film and Book Festival

(scheduled for Queenstown and Wanaka 26 - 28 June and will be online until 5 July

MyVLF

(an international online literary festival)

US virtual book festivals 

(numerous)

The Sydney Book Book Festival

(includes a series of podcasts)

 

Competition deadlines

31 July

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

31 August

Caselberg Trust poetry competition

 

Landfall essay competition

 

Dorothy Dunnell short story competition for historical writers

 

Anthology short story competition

 

SaveAsWriters short story and poetry Competition

 

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