NZSA Manuscript Assessment Programme
NZSA Manuscript Assessment Programme seeks projects with Maori/Pacific Island Content.
The NZSA Programme offers an exceptional opportunity for writers to have their completed manuscript evaluated by an experienced assessor.
An assessment assists an author to improve their work by providing a constructive, detailed report on the project’s strengths and weaknesses, and offering suggestions on how the author might move the project forward.
A selection panel will choose 13 successful applicants who will be matched with an assessor who specialises in the genre in which the applicant writes. The programme is open to writers of poetry, fiction, short fiction, plays, non-fiction, memoir and children’s fiction. (excluding picture books.)
This year 1 of the assessment places will set aside for a manuscript with significant Maori/Pacific Island content. NB: The author of this manuscript does not need to be a member of the NZSA.
The programme will also offer 5 of the successful applicants discretionary ‘mini-mentorships’ to be undertaken when the assessment is completed. These short mentorships begin in early October and will help to guide the writer in the reworking of their manuscript.
Application Deadline: 1 June 2012
For an application form please contact the NZSA national office by emailing programmes@nzauthors.org.nz or visit our website www.authors.org.nz
