The New
Zealand Society of Authors is delighted to announce that the winner of the
Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2014 is award-winning Dunedin author and
poet Emma Neale.
Emma Neale is a novelist and poet. Her novels, all published
by Random House, are Night Swimming, Little Moon, Double Take, Relative
Strangers, and Fosterling. She is also the author of four
collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The Truth Garden
(Otago University Press, 2012).
She was the Burns Fellow at the University of Otago for 2012
and a past recipient of the Todd/Creative New Zealand New Writers Bursary, the
NZSA/Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature, and the Kathleen Grattan Award
for Poetry.
Emma will be using her fellowship
to work on a new novel with the working title: The Billy Book/Feather-head. The
judges commented that Emma Neale’s project The Billy Book/Featherhead
was ‘inventive, joyful and beautifully written’.
With grateful thanks to Peter
Beatson this award occurs annually and provides the successful applicant with
$7,000. In 2013 the fellowship was awarded to Diane Brown who used the time to
work on a long poem 12 Days of Looking at a River and a long
poetic narrative Taking My Mother to the Opera, which is in the final
stages of editing.
We would also like to congratulate those applicants who were
shortlisted and highly commended.
Shortlist: Tina Shaw, Tim Upperton, Sue Wootton,
Christine Leunens, Maxine Alterio and Coral Atkinson.
For further information visit our website authors.org.nz or contact office@nzauthors.org.nz
1 comment:
Delighted to see this.
Post a Comment