The Coalition for Books is delighted to announce that writer, reviewer and WORD Festival Programme Director Kiran Dass is set to join Kete as Editor in Chief in September. We’re also excited to announce that writer and reviewer Erica Stretton, fresh from running National Poetry Day, has taken on Kete’s interim editorship.

Our 2024 Winter Reading catalogue and promotional campaign begins soon! Submissions for the catalogue open today and publishers will be contacted with information shortly.

We caught up with Tandem Collective to get a few insights into working with Bookstagrammers and BookTokers and to find out about the readalong and listenalong formats they’re using.

We’re excited to have brought together an incredible showcase of Māori and Pasifika books. Take a look and share our downloadable social media assets to help spread the word.

Find out what Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Project Coordinator Anne Shelah is working on, what the team is up to in 2024 and the one thing they would like you to know about their work (and of course what Anne’s reading)!

We’re excited to welcome Public Libraries of New Zealand and Kate Gordon-Smith author at Relish Books and owner of The Kiwi Kids’ Bookstore to The Coalition for Books. Find out more about these new members!

Visit our stand at Pasifika Festival this weekend. The Coalition will be at Auckland’s Pasifika Festival at Western Springs Park (9 &10 March) and so will our Māori Books | Ngā Pukapuka Māori 2024 and Pasifika Books 2024 catalogues.

Ka rawe and congratulations to the writers and publishers of the sixteen books shortlisted for this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Kete has been promoting and celebrating these books with a guide to the shortlist.

In February, to celebrate Auckland Pride, we launched a campaign promoting and showcasing books by writers from LGBTQIA+ communities in Aotearoa.

Poet Laureate Chris Tse joined forces with The Coalition for Books and Kete to curate a reading list to celebrate Lunar New Year and Aotearoa’s East and South East Asian writers.

Our 2024 Māori and Pasifika Books campaign will begin in the New Year. Submission for the catalogues open next week and publishers will be contacted with information shortly.

The first two sessions of The Coalition’s digital training for the book sector, Mastering digital: a toolkit for marketing books in Aotearoa, were held in November.

We’ve created shareable social media assets to help promote the New Zealand Summer Reading Guide! Take a look.

We’re excited to be welcoming four new members to The Coalition for Books. Find out more about these new members!

The Spinoff’s Duncan Grieve talks to WeCreate Chair Paula Browning on The Fold podcast about Aotearoa’s need for a Minister of Culture and Creativity.

The Summer Reading Guide is here! Packed with brilliant Aotearoa books, take a look.

Take a look at our Winter Hui Series report. The report highlights key themes, issues and opportunities raised in our Winter Hui series discussions.

Our book sector digital marketing training programme begins on 16 November. Online materials form this course will be available for all Coalition for Books members in 2024, once the in-person iteration of the programme concludes.

In the lead up to Diwali, Kete will feature a campaign showcasing recent books by Aotearoa’s South Asian authors. Curated by, and with special guest editorial from, Saraid de Silva and with an illustrative element by Vasanti Unka.

BookHub, the new site where New Zealand readers can browse and buy books from more than 70 bookstores around Aotearoa is being hailed as a game changer for selling books online in Aotearoa.