Three lucky secondary school students are again being given the opportunity to work with three of
The NZSA Youth Mentoring Programme 2014 is now open
and offers three aspiring young writers (15-18) a 10 hour mentorship – not
surprisingly the mentorships are hotly contested.
Previous recipient Ashlee-Ann Sneller of Kaitaia
devoted her time with poet Siobhan Harvey to a poetry collection and says the
mentorship was an amazing experience and helped her secure an English
scholarship for Auckland University, not to mention a page dedicated to her
writing in her school year book.
“The
mentorship helped me to see myself as an 'real' writer and gave me the
confidence to show my work to the public. Before the programme, I THOUGHT I was
a writer. Now I know I AM a writer.”
The intent of the programme is to foster and
develop emerging writing talent with the support of established authors. The NZSA has run a highly successful mentoring programme for writers since 1999 and it is sponsored by
Creative New Zealand.
Deadline: 1 April 2014
For further
information and application forms: http://www.authors.org.nz/wawcs0137984/Programmes-and-Services.html
Or email: programmes@nzauthors.org.nz
National
Office: PO Box 7701, Wellesley Street , Auckland
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