Current literary awards in New Zealand include:
- New Zealand Post Book Awards
- Robert Burns Fellowship (a residency)
- Adam Award for the best portfolio in Victoria University of Wellington's MA in Creative Writing course
- Sir Julius Vogel Award for science fiction and fantasy
- Artists to Antarctica programme
- Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate, Icon and New Generation Awards
- Auckland University Literary Fellowship
- A W Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature (in conjunction with the Montana Awards)
- Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Awards (superseded by Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship)
- The Betty Gilderdale Award
- Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award
- Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship
- Bruce Mason Playwriting Award
- Copyright Licensing Limited Writer's Award for non-fiction writers
- Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency
- Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship
- Dan Davin Literary Award
- Department of Conservation Artists in Residence Programme
- Elsie Locke Award
- Embassy Theatre Trust Prize for Scriptwriting
- Esther Glen Award for children's literature
- Foxton Fellowship
- Gaelyn Gordon Award
- Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters
- Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award (now defunct)
- Jack Lasenby Award for children's literature or child writers
- Joy Cowley Award for children's literature
- LIANZA Young People's Non-Fiction Award
- Lilian Ida Smith Award
- Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship (a residency)
- Macmillan Brown Prize for Writers
- Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award for children's literature
- Maori Literature Awards
- Nestle Write Around New Zealand
- New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
- Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement
- Randell Cottage Writers' Residency
- Robert Lord Writers Cottage Residency
- Russell Clark Award for illustrations in children's literature
- Spectrum Print Book Design Award
- Storylines Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand Notable Books List
- Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition
- Te Kura Pounamu Award for books written in Māori
- Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate
- Tom Fitzgibbon Award for children's literature
- Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing
- Victoria University Writers' Fellow
- Waikato University Writer-in-Residence
- Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Books of the Year
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, zealand and/or literary:
“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Teasing is universal. Anthropologists have found the same fundamental patterns of teasing among New Zealand aborigine children and inner-city kids on the playgrounds of Philadelphia.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“England has the most sordid literary scene I’ve ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy’s writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They’re all scratching each other’s backs.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)