With
the support of the Wallace Foundation we are awarding the following prizes in
2016
·
$600 for the Wallace Arts Trust Prize Best Short
Story; and
·
$300 for the Wallace Arts Trust Runner-up Short
Story.
The
competition welcomes both emerging and established writers to share their
stories based on the theme ‘A Kiwi Romance’ using a maximum of 750 words .
Participation
is the most valued aspect of this inaugural award, which is also supported by
the GABA Trust.
The winning story will be
announced in Auckland during Pride 2016 and published on gaynz.com. Additional
publicity and storytelling opportunities are being pursued – watch this space!
· Julie Helean, award-winning author
· Gina Cole, winner of the inaugural
Alternative Bindings writing contest, 2014
· Stevan Eldred-Grigg, award-winning writer
of novels, short stories and history
· Peter Wells, award-winning author and
film-maker whose books include his memoir Long Loop Home' which won the
2002 New Zealand Book Awards Biography Prize.
Email
us at alternativebindings@gmail.com
for full entry criteria. Entries close 1 December 2015.
Please
share news of this contest with your writer friends. Keep up to date with us on
https://www.facebook.com/AlternativeBindings or at our blogspot, alternativebindings.blogspot.co.nz
The
Wallace Foundation was established by the James Wallace Arts Trust and Sir
James Wallace to foster, maintain, promote and advance the education of New
Zealand artists and New Zealand people generally in the creative arts.
Alternative
Bindings is a collective of LGBTQI lovers of books and the written word. We run
events during Auckland Pride each February that encourage people to express
their own stories in writing.
For
more information please contact
Andrew
Rumbles
09
5800941
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