Applications are now open for the 2013
Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, worth $100,000.
Open to established writers who
have already published a significant body of work, the fellowship will be
awarded for a significant project that will take two years or more to
complete.
Previous recipients of the
fellowship are Owen Marshall, Vincent O’Sullivan, C.K. Stead, Rachel Barrowman,
Neville Peat, Dame Fiona Kidman, Philip Simpson, Kate De Goldi, Peter Wells and
Dr Peter Simpson.
Creative New Zealand’s literary
genre priorities include autobiography/memoir, biography, children’s fiction,
creative non-fiction, essays, fiction, graphic novels with a strong literary
element, histories, literary criticism, narrative non-fiction and poetry.
The Fellowship was offered for the
first time in 2003, and was renamed in recognition of the late Dr Michael King
for his contribution to literature and his role in advocating for a major
fellowship for New Zealand writers.
Applications close at 5pm on Friday 8 March
2013.
For further
information on how to apply go to:
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