Otago University Press has great pleasure
in putting a call out for entries in to the Kathleen Grattan Award 2015 – it’s
time to get those manuscripts into shape! Emma Neale – celebrated poet,
novelist and prose writer – is this year’s award judge. The closing date for
entries is 31 July.
The Kathleen Grattan Award is one of New
Zealand’s most substantial awards for poetry: the winner receives $10,000 and Otago
University Press considers the winning manuscript for publication. The winner
also receives a year’s subscription to Landfall.
See the award web page for details of how
to enter.
About the Kathleen Grattan Award
Auckland poet Kathleen Grattan, a
journalist and former editor of the New
Zealand Woman's Weekly, died in 1990. A member of the Titirangi Poets, her
work was published in Landfall and
other volumes including Premier Poets,
a collection from the World Poetry Society. Her daughter Jocelyn Grattan, who
also worked for the New Zealand Woman's
Weekly, shared her mother's love of literature. She has generously left Landfall a bequest with which to
establish an award in memory of Kathleen Grattan.
The Kathleen Grattan Award, initially
established as a yearly award, is now awarded biannually.
Previous Award Winners
2013 Siobhan Harvey (Cloudboy)
2011 Emma Neale (The
Truth Garden)
2010 Jennifer Compton (This City)
2009 Leigh Davis (Repairing
of a Life)
2008 Joanna Preston (The Summer King)
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