Whitireia Publishing

16/01/2025

Our friends at Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand are hiring!

Are you looking to start your career in publishing/publicity? Are you passionate about matching people with books they are going to love? Do you consume NZ media? Are you a super well-organised social butterfly who loves to attend events and festivals?

2025 is looking bigger than ever for us: kicking off with Graham Norton, we have international and local authors attending festivals around the country, book launches from NZ’s brightest writers and illustrators, and even more that we’re not able to talk about yet! We are looking for a Publicity Coordinator to join our award winning publicity and marketing team in a newly created role to assist with just some of these exciting campaigns.

Key responsibilities include:
▪️General publicity admin including fielding publicity requests and sorting media clippings and review quotes
▪️Assisting the Publicity and Communications Manager pitch titles to media
▪️Generating media releases
▪️Event planning including booking accommodation and managing RSVPs
▪️Attending Hachette NZ events and representing the company at industry events
▪️Amplifying publicity buzz in-house and externally through social media and eDMs
▪️Making recommendations relating to product, sales and marketing strategies as requested

The successful candidate will be:
▪️Passionate about the power of publicity to connect readers with books
▪️An excellent communicator, both verbally and in writing
▪️Able to attend events, such as book launches and author talks – these may be outside normal working hours
▪️A multitasker with keen attention to detail
▪️Able to meet deadlines
▪️Confident working across Microsoft and social media platforms
▪️Committed to the importance of diversity and Te Tiriti o Waitangi
▪️Able to build positive working relationships with internal and external contacts

About Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand:

NZ Publisher of the Year 2024.

We proudly publish local authors under the Moa Press and Little Moa imprints. Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand is part of Hachette Book Group, one of the world’s leading trade publishers. We boast a diverse and celebrated list of international and local authors including Rebecca Yarros, Margaret Mahy, John Grisham, Ali Hazelwood, Stephen King, Colleen Hoover, Nicky Pellegrino, Nora Roberts, Edmonds, Ana Huang, Donovan Bixley and Olivia Spooner – plus many more!

This is an office based role working in our central Auckland office.

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter to [email protected]

Applications close: Sunday 26th January 2024.

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11/12/2024

It's nearly time for Whitireia Publishing to sign off for the year and tackle our towering tbr piles. Here are the pukapuka one of us is looking forward to...

What's on your summer reading list?

29/11/2024

Ooh, thanks Marion! Our ākonga loved working with the Kennett Brothers on The Cycling Pioneers.

Marion has read two great books she'd love to tell you about!

Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn
"Here Gunn’s stories explore what we might read as uncomfortable or ugly, as in the title. But what are we really feeling when we read these stories? Alive, and beyond fear of truth. The works themselves are dark, uncomfortable and menacing. We can also say exciting, vivid, wild and darkly beautiful. There comes a release of great pleasure at reading such writing.

Gunn gets in there where others may falter. Consider the close relationship between beautiful and ugly. Here is the marvellous result.

Concise, elegant, superb writing."

The Cycling Pioneers by Michael Toohey

"This is a wild and crazy ride through the history of cycling in Aotearoa. Full of crazy facts, and exceptional skills from early designers, builders and riders.

There has been an incredible amount of change and development in a small amount of time to get to the vehicles we see around today. They were inspired!"

29/11/2024

Curious about the reading habits of our esteemed senior tutor Odessa Owens? The Spinoff has got you covered!

The senior tutor at Aotearoa's leading publishing course on her favourite books, both big and very small.

26/11/2024

For anyone who couldn't make it to The Secret Art of Editing at Verb Wellington, the wonderful Bee Trudgeon has written about the event for NZ Poetry Shelf:

Adrienne Jansen, Brooke Soulsby, Ruby Solly, Joshua Toumu’a, Always Becominging, The Secret Art of Editing Poetry, at Verb   On the Friday night of Wellington’s 2024 Verb Readers and Wri…

22/11/2024

So exciting to see excellent author and recent Whitireia Publishing grad Denika Mead Author sharing her research about the 'new adult' category!

Denika Mead recently researched and presented a seminar on the emergence of the ‘new adult’ age category for fiction as part of her studies for the Whitireia Graduate Diploma in Publishing. Here, she asks and explains ‘What is new adult...

13/11/2024

Passionate about pukapuka? 📚 Interested in helping others share their stories? 📚 Come and join us in 2025!

📢 Spread the word: Enrolments are now open! https://www.whitireiaweltec.ac.nz/study-programmes/creativity/creative-writing-and-publishing/graduate-diploma-in-publishing-applied

06/11/2024

Join us for 2025!

Applications are open for the 2025 Penguin Random House Māori and Pacific Publishing Scholarship.

05/11/2024

Meet the fantastic panel of 'The Secret Art of Editing Poetry'!

When: Friday 8th November, 5pm – 5.45pm
Where: Level 1, Te Auaha, 65 Dixon Street
Follow the link in our bio to purchase tickets!

04/11/2024

We were honoured to help Landing Press produce this pukapuka, and we had a great time at yesterday's launch!

Our latest anthology Now and then: poetry about generations - was launched in the wonderful company of nearly 40 of its poets - along with family, friends and others - in Wellington’s historic Public Trust Hall yesterday afternoon. You can read more about this special gathering of poets (picture above - thanks to Troy Malcolm) and others on https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360473655/technicoloured-celebration-poetry-hits-capital.

Image description: A group of smiling poets, holding copies of Now and then. A large version of the cover is displayed behind them.

04/11/2024

Congrats Annie!

03/11/2024

Our end-of-year newsletter is live! Click through to have a read about what we've been getting up to over the last few months. The study year might be over, but our time in te ao pukapuka is just starting!

On Tuesday evening, friends, whānau and ākonga of the Whitireia Graduate Diploma in Publishing gathered to celebrate the end of the year and the relaunch of the 4th Floor Journal. There was an excellent turnout, and we were thrilled to see so many of you. Those who couldn’t be there in body were...

31/10/2024

Get your ticket now for our not-to-be-missed event 'The Secret Art of Editing Poetry', featuring our amazing panellists: , .soulsbee, , and Adrienne Jansen.

Tickets are available here: https://events.humanitix.com/whitireia-publishing

23/10/2024

Here's a publishing role at Auckland Libraries: Publishing Lead at Auckland Council.

18/10/2024

It's wonderful to see Ruby Solly featured today on The Spinoff's Friday Poem!

This poem is in Now and then: Poems about generations, one of the pukapuka Whitireia students have helped publish this year, in collaboration with Landing Press.

Out now 🩷💛

15/10/2024

Applications are open for the 2025 Penguin Random House Māori and Pacific Publishing Scholarship.

11/10/2024

Thanks to Penguin Books NZ for their continuing commitment to encouraging diversity and inclusion in publishing in Aotearoa.

📖🐧 Calling future book publishers: applications are now open for the Penguin Books NZ Māori and Pacific Publishing Scholarship, which covers the successful student’s fees for the Graduate Diploma in Publishing (Applied) at Whitireia/Weltec.

🔗 Read about Penguin’s commitment & Apply Now: https://bit.ly/4eQKK2o

📚 Learn more about the Graduate Diploma in Publishing (Applied), linked in the comments below.

Kia ora! This was brought to you by Penguin Random House - supporting AUSA in our endeavours to provide support, experiences & a voice to UoA students.

09/10/2024

Celebrating with a visit to our fav local ! On Tuesday our class went to Unity to hear all about the magic of bookselling and got to browse the multifarious stacks 📚
Be sure to head down to your local indie to show your support this upcoming Bookshop Day, Saturday 12th October!!
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Image description: a crowd of smiling young people wearing bright clothes stand in front of a bookstore shelf.