|
|
Click through for more details about our sponsors:
Tasman Creative Communities Scheme
Rātā Foundation
Wilsons Abel Tasman
River Haven
Tasman Creative Communities Scheme
Rātā Foundation
Wilsons Abel Tasman
River Haven
EQUAL PRIZES FOR ENGLISH AND MĀORI SECTIONS
$1,000 first place
$500 second place
$300 third place
Entries are now closed
Click here for details on the Award Ceremony
$1,000 first place
$500 second place
$300 third place
Entries are now closed
Click here for details on the Award Ceremony
Entry fee
- $20.00 per entry for 26 years and over and
- $10.00 per entry for 18-25 years.
- Written assessment is available for an additional $20 per entry.
Conditions
To Submit Your Entry
Download an entry form from the choices below, with details on how to submit via email.
English language section
- Open to writers residing in Aotearoa New Zealand aged eighteen years and over.
- Limit 1500 words.
- Submissions may be written in English or te reo Māori.
- Submissions in short story form to fit in the Adult or Young Adult categories.
- Full Terms and Conditions are detailed on the entry form.
To Submit Your Entry
Download an entry form from the choices below, with details on how to submit via email.
English language section
|
| ||||
Te reo Māori section
|
| ||||
FINALIST JUDGES
|
Winner of the 2020 Women in Film and Television (WIFT) NZ Te Reo Māori Champion Award, Stacey (Te Arawa, Ngāi Tahu) will judge the 10 shortlisted stories submitted in the Māori language section.
Television presenter and author in English and Māori, Stacey is passionate about the use of both languages to enrich our unique New Zealand culture. |
Promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, Elizabeth will judge the 10 shortlisted stories in the English language section.
Elizabeth has published many successful books, including The Vinter's Luck and The Absolute Book. Her award-winning young adult fiction includes the Dreamhunter series. |
SHORTLIST JUDGES
|
Recently made a member of the NZ Order of Merit, Paul has a PhD from the University of Canterbury and has worked as writer, director and actor in experimental theatre, bi-cultural theatre, and community-based theatre, in the mainstream film industry, and as a community activist in Wellington, the Pacific and the West Coast. He was instrumental in establishing the Blackball Readers & Writers Festival.
|
Of Māori (Ngāpuhi, Te Whakatōhea, Te Arawa) and Dutch descent, Jade is an architectural designer, writer and housing advocate. Her literary interests include decolonisation, contemporary theology and Māori futurism.
Ko Jade Kake tōna ingoa. He uri ia o Ngāpuhi rātou ko Te Whakatōhea ko Te Arawa. Ki te taha o tōna pāpā, nō Hōrana rātou. He kaihoahoa, he kaituhituhi, he kaihāpai ia. Ko āna aronga nui i te mahi tuhinga, ko te whakahokinga mai o te whenua, te whakaū anō o te rangatiratanga o ngā hapū katoa, ngā wairuatanga hou, me te tirohanga anamata a te Māori. |
Sylvan has an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University and an MFA from the University of Michigan where he has taught creative writing. His fiction and essays have been published in New Zealand and the USA. Awarded the Todd New Writer's Bursary in 2020, Sylvan is currently working on his first novel.
|
|
|
|
Click the buttons below to download the A4 size poster if you would like to share competition details with your writing groups or work colleagues.