NZSA/Auckland Museum Research Grant Seeks Submissions!
The Auckland Museum and New Zealand Society of Authors are once again delighted to offer three RESEARCH grants in 2014
to assist writers wishing to undertake research for a writing project.
The grants create an opportunity for three writers to utilise the considerable facilities and resources of the Auckland
Museum Library in the development of their fiction or non-fiction manuscript. They comprise one national grant of $3500
(supplemented by an optional 4 weeks of accommodation in Auckland at the Michael King Writers Centre) and two regional
grants of $1500 for two Auckland writers.
In 2013 the recipient of the National Research Grant was Whiti Hereaka - a Wellington playwright, novelist, screenwriter
and barrister who has been researching for her literary novel Kurangaituku/Bird Woman. While the two local (Auckland)
grants of $1500 were awarded to historical biographer and non-fiction writer Diana Harris and historian/writer Angela
Lassig.
Application Deadline: 16th December.
The grants were offered for the first time in 2012 in recognition of the value of the Museum to fiction and non-fiction
writers. The Library holds one of New Zealand’s major research collections and the breadth and depth of the historical
record is well suited to writers’ research. The Library is available for use by the general public, in addition to
academics and researchers.
For application forms, terms and conditions please visit www.authors.org.nz or email office@nzauthors.org.nz
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