3 August 2015
NZSA
/ Auckland Museum Research Grants - Now Open for Applications
 The Auckland Museum and NZ Society of
Authors are once again delighted to offer two RESEARCH grants for writers
who want to utilise the considerable facilities and resources of the
Auckland Museum Library in the development of their fiction or non-fiction manuscript.
This year’s grants
comprise of:
- One National Grant
of $4,000 supplemented by the option of 4 weeks funded accommodation
at the Michael King Writers Centre in Devonport.
- One Auckland Regional Grant of
$2,500 for writers from the Auckland region.
The Auckland
Museum Library offers a reading room and copying facilities for the grant
recipients as well as guided access to the library’s collections of
manuscripts, pictures and publications. Both recipients will receive a one
year membership to the Auckland Museum Institute, benefits include access
to the Members’ Lounge.
Applicants for both grants need to be members of the NZ Society of Authors.
The deadline for applications is 5pm, 5 October 2015.
In 2014 the recipient of the National Research Grant was Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
– who utilised the Auckland Museum Library to research a biography of the
early twentieth century Auckland photographer Arthur Breckon. Douglas Lloyd
Jenkins said "My period in the Auckland Museum Library has given me a
wonderful opportunity for immersive research - that is to lose myself in
the wealth of material on offer. It has given me an understanding of
Arthur’s Breckon’s thinking as a photographer that could not have been achieved
by sporadic short visits.”
The Auckland Museum Library is one of New Zealand’s major research
libraries. The depth of material available is highly valued throughout New
Zealand and internationally.
Membership of the NZ Society of Authors PEN Inc is open to all budding and
established writers. You can find out more at www.authors.org.nz
For an application form and terms & conditions for the NZSA / Auckland
Museum Research Grants
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