YOUNG NZ WRITERS YOUTH LAUREATE AWARD
Young NZ Writers in conjunction with Phantom Feather Press announce the national Young NZ Writers Youth Laureate Award, a free-to-enter programme intended to develop and publish a New Zealand student novelist. The prize is for the youth author of an unpublished fiction manuscript to be mentored by a New Zealand author/editor to have a novella-length manuscript developed for publication by Phantom Feather Press under an imprint for youth writers. The winning student will receive NZ$200 prize money, an ongoing in depth one-on-one mentorship with a published author/editor to bring the work to publishable standard, and a contract for publication (ebook and print), including five free print author copies. The winner will also receive a bespoke cover for their work illustrated acclaimed Australian artist and author David Schembri with overall design and layout by writer-designer Alicia Ponder. The winner will be announced on 1st February 2019 and a prize-giving and book launch to be held at GeyserCon science fiction and fantasy conference in Rotorua on Queen’s Birthday Weekend in June 2019.
Submissions Closed
Young NZ Writers in conjunction with Phantom Feather Press announce the national Young NZ Writers Youth Laureate Award, a free-to-enter programme intended to develop and publish a New Zealand student novelist. The prize is for the youth author of an unpublished fiction manuscript to be mentored by a New Zealand author/editor to have a novella-length manuscript developed for publication by Phantom Feather Press under an imprint for youth writers. The winning student will receive NZ$200 prize money, an ongoing in depth one-on-one mentorship with a published author/editor to bring the work to publishable standard, and a contract for publication (ebook and print), including five free print author copies. The winner will also receive a bespoke cover for their work illustrated acclaimed Australian artist and author David Schembri with overall design and layout by writer-designer Alicia Ponder. The winner will be announced on 1st February 2019 and a prize-giving and book launch to be held at GeyserCon science fiction and fantasy conference in Rotorua on Queen’s Birthday Weekend in June 2019.
Submissions Closed
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