AUT - AUT New Zealand Creative Writing Competition
AUT New Zealand Creative Writing Competition
The 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.
Entry Criteria
There are two categories in the Short Story genre:
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 Open (aged 25 years and over, unpublished)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- Entrants must be unpublished.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 an
unpublished writer is one who has not had a fiction work appear in trade book format.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 For the song lyric category an unpublished writer is someone who has not had their lyrics used in a song available for sale to the general public (either CD or online).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
Terms and Conditions
Competition terms and conditions are provided here. Terms and Conditions.
Enquiries, please email: creativewriting@aut.ac.nz