Applications
are now open for the 2016 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers
Fellowship.
The fellowship comprises a stipend of $22,000 and six months’ rent
free accommodation in one of Wellington’s oldest colonial buildings.
Built in
Thorndon in 1867, the Cottage has been painstakingly restored and is close to
the National Library, the Turnbull Library and National Archive. It’s provided
an inner city base for writers from a range of genres: novelists, poets,
biographers... The first New Zealand resident was Peter Wells, in 2002. He’s
been followed by Tim Corballis, Michael Harlow, Renée, Beryl Fletcher, Whiti
Hereaka, Jennifer Compton, Kirsty Gunn, Pat White, Peter Walker, Vivienne
Plumb, Denis Welch, Tina Makereti, and most recently by Witi Ihimaera who was
jointly awarded the 2015 fellowship with Owen Marshall.
The Randell
Cottage Creative NZ Writer in Residence is selected by a Trust-appointed
committee to work on an approved project from July to December each year. The
deadline for applications is Friday, 6 November 2015, with the successful
applicant announced in December.
Application
forms and further information can be found at http://www.randellcottage.co.nz/residency/application/
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