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Adam Foundation Prize In Creative Writing
The Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing was set up in 1996 by benefactors Denis and Verna Adam. It is awarded to an outstanding MA student at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. History The Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing was set up in 1996 by Denis and Verna Adam (through the Victoria University Foundation), to further their wish of encouraging and supporting the development of creative writing in New Zealand. Denis and Verna Adam were art collectors and philanthropists who established the Adam Foundation in 1975 to house their art collection and later to support the arts in general, believing that art “nurtures the finer instincts of human beings”. Denis Adam died in October 2018, aged 94. In 2009, the Prize was awarded for the first time to a work of creative non-fiction and in 2014, a young adult novel, described by Mal Peet as “richly imagined, sinisterly futuristic and morally complex,” was the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Institute Of Modern Letters
The International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) ( mi, Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o te Ao) is a centre of creative writing based within Victoria University of Wellington. Founded in 2001, the IIML offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses (including a PhD in creative writing) and has taught many leading New Zealand writers. It publishes the annual '' Ōrongohau Best New Zealand Poems'' anthology and an online journal, and offers several writing residencies. Until 2013 the IIML was led by the poet Bill Manhire, who had headed Victoria's creative writing programme since 1975; since his retirement, Damien Wilkins has taken over as the IIML's director. History The IIML developed out of creative writing courses run by Bill Manhire at the university since 1975. Initially undergraduate courses were offered, and a master's degree programme (New Zealand's first master's degree in creative writing) was introduced in 1997. Manhire's courses involved setting writing exercises to allow s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Jenner
Lynn Jenner is a poet and essayist from New Zealand. Background Jenner was born in Hāwera, Taranaki. She worked as an educational psychologist and counsellor until 2003. She began studying writing at Whitireia Polytechnic and completed an MA in creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington. She received her PhD in 2013 from the International Institute of Modern Letters at the Victoria University of Wellington. Her advisor was Bill Manhire. Jenner currently lives on the Kapiti Coast. Works Jenner published her first collection of poetry, ''Dear Sweet Harry'', in 2010. Her second book, ''Lost and Gone Away'', was published in 2015 and is partly a memoir, including essays, and poetry. A third book titled "PEAT" was published by Otago University Press in July 2019. This book weaves Jenner's reactions to the building of the Kapiti Expressway near her home together with her relationship with the late poet, editor, and philanthropist Charles Brasch. Poems by Jenner hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of New Zealand Literary Awards
Current and historic literary awards in New Zealand include: See also * New Zealand literature References {{reflist Literary awards A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Ma ... New Zealand literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca K Reilly
Rebecca K Reilly (born 1991) is a New Zealand author. Her debut novel ''Greta & Valdin'' (2021) received the 2019 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. At the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, it was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction and received the Hubert Church prize for the best first book of fiction. Early life and education Reilly grew up in Waitākere City, West Auckland. She is of Ngāti Hine and Ngāti Wai descent. Reilly completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, where she was the 2019 recipient of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for her debut novel, then titled ''Vines''. It was subsequently renamed ''Greta & Valdin''. The novel took her a year and a half to write, although she had been collecting material for 14 years. Career ''Greta & Valdin'' was published by Victoria University Press in 2021. It is a novel about the family an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tayi Tibble
Tayi Tibble (born 1995) is a New Zealand poet. Her poetry reflects Māori culture and her own family history. Her first collection of poetry, ''Poūkahangatus'' (2018), received the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and was published in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2022. Her second collection, ''Rangikura'', was published in 2021. Life and career Tibble was born in Wellington in 1995, and grew up in Porirua. She is the oldest of seven children and decided she wanted to become a writer at age 8. She descends from the iwi (tribes) of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui. She has an undergraduate degree in history. ''Poūkahangatus'' Tibble completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters (based at Victoria University of Wellington) in 2017, and received the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for her work ''In a Fish Tank Filled with Pink Light''. That work subsequently became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annaleese Jochems
Annaleese Jochems (born 1994) is a New Zealand author and bookseller. Her debut novel ''Baby'' (2017) won the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing and the Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Life and career Jochems was born in Whangārei in 1994, and grew up on a farm in Pakaraka. Her father is a beef farmer and her mother is a teacher, and she has two younger brothers. She has said she decided to become a writer when she was 14. Jochems studied creative writing, first at the Manukau Institute of Technology and subsequently at the International Institute of Modern Letters where she completed a Master of Arts. She was the recipient of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing in 2016 for her draft manuscript, which was published as ''Baby'' by Victoria University Press in 2017. ''Baby'' is about a young woman who steals her father's money and runs away with her female personal trainer; the two purchase a boat named '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hera Lindsay Bird
Hera Lindsay Bird (born 31 December 1987) is a New Zealand poet. Life and career Hera Lindsay Bird was born and raised in Thames in the North Island of New Zealand. She attended Victoria University of Wellington and then received her Master's degree in poetry from its International Institute of Modern Letters. Her first collection of poetry, the self-titled ''Hera Lindsay Bird'', was published by Victoria University Press in 2016 and Penguin UK in 2017 and won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Bird first gained popularity when her poem "Keats Is Dead So Fuck Me From Behind" went viral in the summer of 2016. She and her work have since been profiled in ''VICE'', '' I-D'', and ''The Guardian''. In 2018 Bird's work was selected by British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy to be published by Smith/Doorstop Books as part of their Laureate's Choice series. The published collection was called ''Pamper Me to Hell & Back.'' In 2022 a Tweet pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes
The Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes is an American literary award which offers prizes in four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. The award was established at Yale University in 2011 with the first prizes presented in 2013.Charles McGrath"A Writer’s Estate to Yield $150,000 Literary Prizes" ''New York Times'', June 17, 2011. Administered by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the award recognizes English language writers from anywhere in the world. The mission of the award is to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns. Eight prizes are awarded annually. Winners receive a citation and an unrestricted remuneration of $165,000. The individual prizes are among the richest literary prize amounts in the world, if not the richest in certain categories. The award is endowed from the combined estates of writer Donald Windham and actor Sandy Campbell. Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashleigh Young
Ashleigh Young (born 1983) is a poet, essayist, editor and creative writing teacher. She received the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2017 for her second book, a collection of personal essays titled ''Can You Tolerate This?'' which also won the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Life Young was born in 1983 in Te Kuiti and grew up there and in Wellington. Writing featured in her life from childhood, when she wrote and illustrated a series of small books, started a magazine, created her own bedroom library, and (with her brothers) made movies with a borrowed video camera. She lived in London for several years and also worked for a year as director of the Katherine Mansfield House and Garden in Wellington, a house in which "you could step inside and imagine yourself to be a child in another century. She lists some of her favourite New Zealand writers and poets as Pip Adam, Hera Lindsay Bird, James Brown, Jenny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Trask Award
The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation. Each year the awards total £20,000, with one author receiving a larger prize amount, called the "Prize", and the remainder given to one or more other writers, called the "Awards". The award was established in 1984 by the Society of Authors, at the bequest of the late Betty Trask, a reclusive author of over thirty romance novels. The awards are given to traditional or romantic novels, rather than those of an experimental style, and can be for published or unpublished works. List of award and prize winners Note: Beginning in 2009, the "Betty Trask Prize" is given to one author; the remaining receive the "Betty Trask Award". A blue ribbon () indicates the winner for that year. 1980s 1984 * Ronald Frame for ''Winter Journey'' - £6,750 * Clare Nonhebel for ''Cold Showers'' - £6,750 * James Buchan for ''A Parish of Rich Women '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria University Of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well known for its programmes in law, the humanities, and some scientific disciplines, and offers a broad range of other courses. Entry to all courses at first year is open, and entry to second year in some programmes (e.g. law, criminology, creative writing, architecture, engineering) is restricted. Victoria had the highest average research grade in the New Zealand Government's Performance Based Research Fund exercise in both 2012 and 2018, having been ranked 4th in 2006 and 3rd in 2003. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton (born 24 September 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her award-winning debut novel, '' The Rehearsal'', written as her Master's thesis, was published in 2008, and has been adapted into a 2016 film of the same name. Her second novel, ''The Luminaries'', won the 2013 Booker Prize, making Catton the youngest author ever to win the prize (at age 28) and only the second New Zealander. It was subsequently adapted into a television miniseries, with Catton as screenwriter. Early life Catton was born in Canada, where her father was a graduate student completing his doctorate at the University of Western Ontario on a Commonwealth scholarship. Her mother Judith is a New Zealander from Canterbury, while her father, philosopher Philip Catton, comes from Washington State. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
