CLL Writers' Awards Open for 2010

The Copyright Licensing Ltd Writers' Awards known as the CLL Writers' Awards are open for 2010. Each year two awards of $35,000 are granted to provide financial support to 2 established writers to devote time to a specific non-fiction writing project.

To be eligible to enter applicants must be either New Zealand citizens or have permanent residency status. Other requirements of entry are that applicants must be proven writers of merit, supply an outline of the proposed work and a completed Working Plan of how the Award will be used.



To qualify for the CLL Writers' Award the project must be non-fiction. Some examples of acceptable themes are history, biography, natural or social history, specialist non-fiction, general non-fiction, personal memoir, educational textbook or reference book, guide book, “how-to” book.

Applications to the CLL Writers' Awards close on 15 July 2010. Successful writers will be notified by 15 September 2010 and announced at a function held in Auckland later in September. The period of the CLL Writers' Awards runs for one calendar year from January 2011.

The CLL Writers' Awards are funded from copyright licensing revenue received by CLL on behalf of publishers and authors. Since its inauguration in 2002 many winners of the Award have produced significant works such as Jill Trevelyan's biography Rita Angus: An Artist's Life which won the 2009 Montana Medal for Non-Fiction.

Last year's winners [2009] of the CLL Writers' Awards were Filmmaker Peter Wells who received financial assistance to write a series of biographical essays on William Colenso, entitled The Hungry Heart: The Enquiring Mind and Art Historian and Curator Damian Skinner for his writing project: The Hands of the Ancestors: Customary Maori Carvers in the Twentieth Century. Other renowned New Zealand writers who have also been recipients of this prestigious award are Sarah Quigley and Stevan Eldred-Grigg. More about past winners of the CLL Writers' Awards.

Full Submission Guidelines and Application Forms

Closing Date 15 July 2010

Related Links
CLL Newsletter Spring 2009 Damian Skinner and Peter Wells Winners

Landfall Essay Writing Competition 2010

Entries open on 1 May 2010 for the eighth Landfall Essay Competition sponsored by Otago University Press. The winner of the competition will receive $3000 and a year's subscription to Landfall. The winning entries will also be published in the November 2010 issue of Landfall.

The Landfall Essay Competition seeks to encourage New Zealand writers to think aloud about New Zealand culture. The aim is to revive and sustain the tradition of vivid, contentious and creative essay writing in New Zealand.

The Landfall Essay Competition which began in 1997 is open to all New Zealand writers. Essays must be unpublished and can be on any topic to a maximum of 6000 words.

Entries close: 5 pm, Friday 31 July 2010.

Submission Guidelines

Entries should be addressed to:

Landfall Essay Competition
Otago University Press
PO Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand

NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2010 Finalists

The New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010 Finalists have been announced recently. The 20 finalist books were selected from more than 130 children’s books published in New Zealand in 2009. Included in the finalist line-up are two of New Zealand's best loved writers for children Margaret Mahy and Joy Cowley. Winners will be chosen in four categories: Picture Book, Non-fiction, Junior Fiction and Young Adult Fiction. The winning books for the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards for 2010 will be announced on Wednesday 19 May 2010.


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For more details about the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards finalists for 2010

NZ Post Writers and Readers Week 2010

The New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week will take place in Wellington over 6 days from 9 March to 13 March 2010. The writing festival features a smorgsbord of international and New Zealand writing. Three times Man Booker Prize nominee Sarah Waters and author of The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger are some of the big names likely to attract large crowds. The local talent line-up includes Bill Manhire, Briar Grace-Smith and Emily Perkins among others. Be it fiction, poetry, biography, memoir, drama you will find the best of contempory writing at this year's festival.

In all some 30 local and international writers will share their ideas, debate contemporary issues and read from their work during festival week. Guest writers include: Neil Gaiman, Sarah Waters, Simon Schama, Richard Dawkins, Geoff Dyer, Geoff Cochrane, Kevin Connolly, Charlotte Grimshaw , Ilija Trojanow, Kate Camp, Glyn Maxwell, Judith Binney, Gil Adamson, Susanna Moore, Briar Grace-Smith, Joan London, Emily Perkins, Charlotte Grimshaw, Neil Cross, Audrey Niffenegger, Peter Singer, Daniel Kehlmann, Kamila Shamsie, Chloe Hooper, Bill Manhire, Lisa Moore, James Belich, Margo Lanagan, Philip Hoare, Rod Oram, Derek Johns, Ian Wedde, Sam Elworthy, Laurie Chittenden, Michael Heyward, Fariba Hachtroudi, Anna Taylor.

When: 9-14 March 9.30am-7pm
Where: Embassy Theatre & Wellington Town Hall
Concession Tickets Available: Book at Ticketek

Review Writing Competition for School Kids

Write a review of any show or workshop attended during the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival held between February 26 - 21 March and win fantastic prizes. Winning reviews will be published in Tearaway magazine and on the New Zealand International Arts Festival website.

Categories and Awards
Junior students (yrs 3-8)
• 1st prize for winning entry
• 2nd prize for highly commended

Senior students (yrs 9-13)
• 1st prize for winning entry
• 2nd prize for highly commended

Further details about this Writing Competition