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AUT New Zealand Creative Writing Competition

AUT NZ Creative Writing Competition logoThe 2009-2010 AUT New Zealand Creative Writing Competition has now closed.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to send in their stories and song lyrics. The quality of the work we’ve received has been outstanding.

The judges will now take time to decide the winners of the two competition genres.

Prize winners will be announced in late April.

Prizes

Song lyric

The winner will receive a new Sony Vaio laptop, recommended retail $1699. The winning lyrics will be sung by a band live on bFM Breakfast.  The same band will perform the song at a Fancy New Band night which the winner will attend. 

Short Story

The winners of the two categories and a selection of entries will be published in a special magazine insert in Idealog magazine's May/June issue. Each category winner will receive a new Sony Vaio laptop, recommended retail $1699 and five hours mentoring with leading New Zealand author, Carl Nixon.

BA-CreativeEntry Criteria

There are two categories in the Short Story genre:

1.  Emerging (aged 15 – 24 years, unpublished)
2.  Open (aged 25 years and over, unpublished)

Song Lyric: Open (aged 15 years and over)

Both categories:

  • New Zealand residents only may apply
  • AUT/Idealog/bFM staff are NOT eligible to apply
  • Entrants must be unpublished. For the short story category anMasters of Creative Writing unpublished writer is one who has not had a fiction work appear in trade book format. This means that the writer has not had fiction work appear in a widely circulated book format available for sale to the general public. For the song lyric category an unpublished writer is someone who has not had their lyrics used in a song available for sale to the general public (either CD or online).

The Judges

Song Lyric: DJs Mikey Havoc and Charlotte Ryan from bFM will be judging the song lyric competition. They will announce their favourite lyrics each week and will speak to the winner of the competition live on air.

Short Story: Tessa Duder will judge the short story competition. Tessa has been a judge for many book and short story competitions including the Sunday Star Times Award and the Katherine Mansfield Award. Her collection of short stories, published in 2008, Is She Still Alive? – scintillating tales for women of a certain age featured on the Booksellers New Zealand’s Best Seller list for 11 weeks.

The Mentor

Carl Nixon is a leading NZ playwright, short story writer and a novelist. He has won numerous awards for his fiction, including winning both the Katherine Mansfield short story competition and the Sunday Star Times competition (twice). Carl was the UrsulaBethell/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at Canterbury University in 2007, where he completed his first novel, Rocking Horse Road. He is a qualified teacher and has taught creative writing at the Hagley Writer's institute.

Terms and Conditions

Competition terms and conditions are provided here. Terms and Conditions.

Contact

Enquiries, please email: creativewriting@aut.ac.nz

Last updated: 19 Feb 2010 10:00am

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