LITERARY NEWS FROM VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON

Adam Prize in Creative Writing

This year’s prestigious Adam Prize in Creative Writing has been awarded to Victoria University student Lynn Jenner for her mixed-genre work Dear Sweet Harry.

Supported by Wellingtonians Denis and Verna Adam through the Victoria University Foundation, the $3000 prize is awarded annually to an outstanding student from the Master’s in Creative Writing programme at Victoria’s International Institute of Modern Letters.

Turbine

The 2008 issue of online literary journal Turbine (www.victoria.ac.nz/turbine) is now live, featuring fresh new fiction and poetry from award-winning writers and emerging voices.

From shipwrecked sailors eating albatross and Maori myths re-imagined with contemporary characters to 80s computer games and internet chat about New Zealand’s Got Talent, Turbine 08 offers a fresh map of New Zealand life and culture past and present, at home and abroad.