The NZSA Manuscript Assessment
Programme is now open. This annual 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.)
In 2012 two of the assessments will be
dedicated to mid-career writers and one will set aside for a manuscript with
significant Maori/Pacific Island content.
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
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