Three
lucky secondary school students are to work with three of New Zealand ’s
best professional authors in order to hone their writing skills and develop
their craft.
The 2012
recipients are Ashlee-Ann Sneller of Kaitaia , Indiana
Rose of Gore, Verity Johnson of West
Auckland. Indiana is developing a novel, Ashlee-Ann’s
focus is a poetry collection while Verity’s focus is non-fiction writing which
she hopes will one day lead to a series of radio programmes.
The NZSA Youth Mentoring Programme is offered to
three secondary school students (15-18) every year nationally and the
mentorships are hotly contested.
Selection panel convenor, author Tina Shaw, said the
selection process was very difficult this year because the quality of
applications was so high.
“The panel really struggled to choose the winners
and runners up as there were so many outstanding applications. We really were impressed and would encourage
many of the applicants to apply again next year.”
The Youth Mentorships are offered by the NZSA every year with the intent
of fostering and developing emerging writing talent with the support of
established authors. The NZSA has run a highly
successful mentoring programme for
writers since 1999 and it is sponsored by Creative New Zealand.
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