Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards 2009
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Short Story Competition
Enter the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards.
Download your entry form here.
The annual Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards are underway for 2009. Now in their 25th year the Short Story Awards were started to help encourage and recognise the talents of New Zealand writers.
New Zealand is known for it's superb short story writers, from Katherine Mansfield and Tessa Duder to Witi Ihimaera and Owen Marshall. Since it's inception in 1984, the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards has become nationally recognised as both a champion of and a showcase for New Zealand short fiction.
Amongst those who have achieved success in this competition are some of this country's leading writers, including Norman Bilbrough, Judith White, Barbara Anderson, Linda Olsson and Sarah Quigley.
The Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards, in association with Random House, could be your opportunity to become a published writer and win fantastic cash and book prizes. Judged by leading New Zealand writers Elizabeth Smither and Fleur Beale, the winning three stories in each division will win cash, books from Random House and be published in the Sunday Star-Times.
This year the Sunday Star-Times is proud to announce a new addition to the Short Story Awards. The Peoples' Choice Award is a new category whereby the winner is decided by public vote. Excerpts from the top 10 entries will be published on-line and a public voting system will decide the winner.
OPEN DIVISION
1st prize: $5000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times and $500 worth of books from Random House
2nd prize: $2000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times and $300 worth of books from Random House
3rd prize: $1000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times and $200 worth of books from Random House
SECONDARY SCHOOL DIVISION
1st prize: $1000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times, work experience day at Random House, $500 cash and $500 worth of Random House books for winner’s school.
2nd prize: $500 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times and $300 worth of Random House books for finalist’s school.
3rd prize: $250 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times and $200 worth of Random House books for finalist’s school.
BEST UNPUBLISHED WRITER
Random House experience with key members of the company, including fiction publisher Harriet Allan and $200 worth of books from Random House.
PEOPLES’ CHOICE AWARD
$750 cash, story published in Sunday Star-Times and $250 worth of books from Random House.
Download your entry form here.
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