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The Kingi McKinnon Scholarship for Emerging Writers
The Kingi McKinnon Scholarship for Emerging Writers has been established in honour of Kingi McKinnon, a widely respected author and tutor on the Waiariki Creative Writing programme, who passed away suddenly in September 2006.
Scholarship Information
This scholarship is open to unpublished* writers who wish develop their creative writing skills with a view to achieving publication, and will pay the fees of the Waiariki Certificate in Creative Writing for one year.
Entry Criteria
- Applicants should be unpublished* writers.
- There is no age limit for applicants but you must be either a New Zealand Citizen or hold New Zealand Residency.
- Because the Certificate is taught online, applicants must have reliable access to a computer and internet connection.
- Applicants are asked to submit three pieces of writing up to 500 words in any two of the following genre: short story, poetry, review, comment, or essay. In addition, the application should include a piece of no more than 300 words on why they should be the recipient of the scholarship.
- Work must be the original work of the applicant and the application must be made by the author.
- Applicants under the age of 18 must have signed parental/guardian approval attached to their application form.
- Applicants must not be currently employed in a field directly connected with fiction or non-fiction writing.
- Applications must be received by the Waiariki Institute of Technology by 1st June 2010
- The successful applicant will be advised by 30th June 2010.
- The successful applicant will be expected to complete the course work on time and pass all courses, and to acknowledge the Scholarship in their future CV.
Please note: the 2010 the Certificate programme begins 19th July 2010 and ends June 2011
For further enquiries and for an application form, please contact Jaarna Hoskins, Waiariki Institute of Technology on 0800 Waiariki or email: Jaarna.Hoskins@waiariki.ac.nz
*For the purpose of this scholarship, ‘unpublished’ refers to paid writing, not to work published without payment. Applicants may have published up to three items for which they were paid minimum fees. Please advise details in application form.
Download the Kingi McKinnon Scholarship application form (pdf 20KB)
Congratulations...
Congratulations to creative writing tutor Jenny Argante who has won this year's Timaru Rose Festival Poetry Award with a rhymed poem, 'Domestic Jungle'. Judge Jan Hill said of the poem:
“The winner stood out: it was a well-worked poem with an appealing sustained metaphor and a surprise ending. Furthermore, it had a clever rhyming system which was not obvious on first reading. The more I got into the poem, Domestic Jungle, the more it involved my senses. I could hear the sound of cat-feet tracking on the corded tread, I could see the sand-ribbed carpets. I was breathing the steamy air, and walking through the jungle in the dimly filtered light. I could smell the aromatic peat and hear the tom-tom beat of the pots and pans in the kitchen. I was delighted to come across the shabby ape in his study-cage and see the picaninnies splashing in the water-hole before they trekked to bed. The night creeps closer, ominous and dread and at last the parents, with feral grunts are free to couple warm with sweat / inside their jungle paradise. And thus we return nicely to the theme expressed at the beginning of the poem.”
Jenny’s prize is this year's 'Timaru rose' and a cheque for $300. Jenny says, "I am giving the rose to two young writer friends who have just set up home together, so as to inspire them. The cheque I am keeping to inspire myself."
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