The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) is delighted to announce that Waikato based fiction writer Catherine Chidgey is the recipient of the 2012 NZSA Beatson Fellowship.The Beatson Fellowship is an annual award that has been offered since 2002 and is generously sponsored by Peter and Dianne Beatson of Palmerston North. This year Catherine receives a stipend of $7,000 and the option of a months stay at the Beatson`s Foxton Beach House.
“I am thrilled to be the holder of the 2012 NZSA Beatson Fellowship” said Catherine “Of course I am grateful for the financial support, but also for the blessing of a quiet space in which to work, free from distractions of everyday life. I look forward to devoting myself to my writing in Foxton, and I thank the Beatsons for their generosity.”
The Top of the South branch of the NZSA made the final decision this year. The committee felt that Catherine’s application fitted the criteria both in content, style and writing quality and also as a commercially viable work of national significance. “In fact we are all waiting impatiently for the release of her novel so we can read the res of it!” said selection panel convenor Jeanette Cook.
Previous recipients of the award have included Chris Else, Marilyn Duckworth and Carl Nixon.
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