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The Michael King Writers’ Centre is calling for applications
from New Zealand writers for four supported residencies in 2013.
The residency programme aims to support New Zealand writers
and to promote the development of high-quality New Zealand writing by
providing opportunities for authors to devote time to a major project.
Writers who are selected for the residencies receive free accommodation
at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport, use of the writer’s studio
and receive a stipend.
There will be four residencies in 2013:
The eight-week residencies are open to emerging or established
writers, while the six-month residency offered in partnership with The
University of Auckland is for an established author who may benefit from an
academic environment. Writers must be working on a specific project in
fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction or non-fiction. Writers who live
in Auckland are welcome to apply. The residencies are offered with the
assistance of Creative New Zealand.
Application forms and further information are available on the centre’s web site
or from the centre.
Applications close on Friday October 12, 2012, and the
selections are expected to be made in November.
Twenty-two New Zealand writers have held residencies at the
centre since it was set up in 2005. The current writer in residence is
novelist Eleanor Catton. The centre is also able to assist writers who do not
qualify for its supported residency programme. It has a second bedroom which
is let at a modest rate to visiting writers who need a quiet place to work.
For further information, please call Karren Beanland, Manager:
Ph/fax: 09 445 8451 Mobile: 021 496 488 Email: administrator@writerscentre.org.nz |
Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Michael King Writers’ Centre: Four writers’ residencies available in 2013
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