New novel to explore Phar Lap’s iconic status
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An author working on a novel nigh Phar Lap is alongside four award-winning New Zealand writers who volition stimulate got upwards residencies at the Michael King Writers’ Centre adjacent year.
Kelly Ana Morey, who won the Copyright Licensing Limited Research Grant final twelvemonth to query her novel nigh Phar Lap, plans to consummate the projection patch she holds the residency inwards 2014. She believes the book, called Daylight Second, is the commencement New Zealand literary novel nigh a racehorse. As a horse-lover all her life, she says the plain of written report affair is inwards her deoxyribonucleic acid together with Phar Lap is a bully story.
The mass volition besides examine “why this Equus caballus meant together with thence much to people, why they made him a Depression-era hero together with a national icon for both New Zealand together with Australia, together with the passion together with compulsion that drives people inside the industry.”
Morey, who volition stimulate got upwards the Maori Writer’s Residency, is from Kaiwaka and has written 4 novels, iii social histories, a memoir, poems together with curt stories. She won the First Book Prize at the NZ Book Awards inwards 2004, received the Todd Writer’s Bursary inwards 2003, the Janet Frame Literary Award for Imaginative Fiction inwards 2005, together with was highly commended inwards the BNZ Short Story Awards inwards 2012.
Competition for the residencies was fierce. More than 75 writers applied for the 4 spots, with nearly 150 applications inwards total. The chair of the choice panel, author together with middle trustee Dr Peter Simpson, said that the applications this twelvemonth were of particular character together with the panel was delighted with the writers who had been selected.
“It is a really impressive group. Some of the decisions were really hard to brand together with nosotros regretted the involve to disappoint many thoroughly worthwhile contenders,” Simpson said.
Three of the residencies are for viii weeks together with one, offered inwards partnership with The University of Auckland, is for vi months. Last year’s University of Auckland beau Eleanor Catton went on to win the Man Booker Prize for her book The Luminaries.
Writers who are selected for the iii eight-week residencies have costless accommodation at the Michael King Writers’ Centre inwards Devonport together with a stipend of $8,000. The University of Auckland Residency is during the University’s minute semester together with brings a stipend/salary of $30,000. The 2014 residency programme is offered thank you lot to the back upwards of Creative New Zealand together with the middle hopes to offering a like programme inwards 2015. Twenty-eight New Zealand writers stimulate got held residencies at the middle since it was develop inwards 2005. The electrical flow author inwards residence is novelist together with graphic creative individual Sarah Laing.
The middle is besides able to aid writers who produce non qualify for its supported residency programme. It has a minute chamber which is permit at a little charge per unit of measurement to visiting writers who involve a placidity house to work.
The other iii writers chosen for 2014 were Anne Kennedy from Auckland, Peter Wells from Napier, together with Alice Miller.
Alice Miller, who is a poet, fiction writer, essayist together with playwright, has been awarded the Summer Residency to tumble out her novel novel called The Tower. It is nigh “poetry, beauty together with the occult”, interweaving 2 stories, i nigh a contemporary New Zealand would-be opera author together with the other nigh ‘George’ Yeats, the married adult woman of W.B. Yeats.
Author together with cinema director Peter Wells has won numerous awards for his writing together with cinema work. He is awarded the Autumn Residency to tumble out an illustrated, creative non-fiction mass called The Enigma of Family, which uses a serial of menage unit of measurement letters to opened upwards up the Pandora’s box of the yesteryear together with explores how history tin flame last revealed through the lives of ordinary people.
Novelist, poet, editor together with screenwriter Anne Kennedy has been selected for the six-month University of Auckland Residency at the Michael King Writers’ Centre to tumble out a novel novel. Kennedy is inwards New Zealand later a decade inwards Honolulu where she taught fiction together with covert writing at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa.
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