Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Call for applications for 2012 Michael King Writers' Fellowship




Creative New Zealand is calling for applications from established New Zealand writers for the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, valued at $100,000. The Fellowship was offered for the first time in 2003, and was renamed in recognition of the late Dr Michael King for his contribution to literature and his role in advocating for a major fellowship for New Zealand writers.
Previous recipients of the fellowship are Owen Marshall, Vincent   O’Sullivan, C.K. Stead, Rachel Barrowman, Neville Peat, Dame Fiona Kidman, Philip Simpson, Kate De Goldi and Peter Wells.
The fellowship will be awarded for a significant project that will take two years or more to complete and is open to established authors of any literary genre who have already published a significant body of work.  Creative New Zealand’s literary genre priorities include autobiography/memoir, biography, children’s fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, fiction, graphic novels with a strong literary element, histories, literary criticism, narrative non-fiction and poetry.
Applications close on Friday 9 March 2012. To find out more about eligibility and how to apply please go to our website.

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