King sized opportunity for new writers!

Applications are now open for the popular and successful Kingi McKinnon Scholarship for Emerging Writers.


This opportunity is open to unpublished* writers who have an aim to become published. Previous winners have gone on to a variety of successes within their chosen fields of writing.

This scholarship covers the fees of the one-year Waiariki Certificate in Creative Writing and is delivered entirely online so can be studied anywhere throughout the country, based on having reliable access to a computer and internet connection.

Courses include:
Contemporary Maori Writers and Writing
Creative Writing Skills
Focus on Fiction
Skills in Business Writing
Writing for Children
Reading and Writing Poetry
Penning the Past, Poetry and Personal Writing
Skills for Written and Spoken English
Contemporary Ethnic Writers and Writing

If you have a dream to publish poetry, novels or nonfiction, contact Jaarna Hoskins today for further details and an application pack.

Jaarna Hoskins
School of Computing, Technology and Communications
Ph: 0800 924 274 / 07 346 8652 / 021 190 5690
Email: Jaarna.Hoskins@waiariki.ac.nz

Submissions close on the 1st June 2011 so be quick!

Kingi McKinnon wrote fiction for children and young adults. He was widely published, won a number of awards, and was an inaugural tutor on the Waiariki Creative Writing programme. Kingi passed away in 2006, and the scholarship is in honour and memory, and in response to his passion to encourage new writers.


*You may have published up to 3 pieces of writing for low or no pay. Please advise on application.