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Applications Invited For Writer's Residency

Applications Invited For Writer's Residency

Fulbright New Zealand and Creative New Zealand invite applications for the 2009 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency, an award which offers a New Zealand writer of Pacific heritage the opportunity to work for three months on a creative writing project exploring Pacific identity, culture or history at the University of Hawai‘i.

Valued at NZ$30,000, the residency includes return airfares to Hawai‘i, accommodation costs and an artist stipend. It is open to writers across all genres, including fiction and non-fiction authors, playwrights, poets and screen writers. Previous recipients have included filmmaker Sima Urale, performance poet Tusiata Avia, playwright Victor Rodger and children’s author Sarona Aiono-Iosefa.

The three month residency is available from mid-August to mid-November 2009. The closing date for applications to Creative New Zealand is Monday 6 April 2009.

See http://www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nz-cnz.html or contact Creative New Zealand for further information:

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