Nominations for the 2022 Surrey Hotel Writer’s Residency Award in association with Newsroom close incredibly soon. The cut-off is midnight, Saturday July 30.
Email me at stephen11@xtra.co.nz with the subject line in screaming caps THE SURREY HOTEL WRITERS RESIDENCY IN
ASSOCIATION WITH NEWSROOM. Send in a brief covering letter outlining the project you have in mind, and it wouldn’t hurt to maybe attach a few pages of the work in progress. Established authors and complete nobodies will be assessed on the merit of their application so long as they have had something published somewhere. Novelists, short story writers, poets, memoirists, biographers….This is for authors of books only, and books only for adults; no screenplay writers, no playwrights, no comics illustrators, no YA or children’s authors. It’s all about a book written for grown-ups.
Winners will need to take up their residency before December 1. Covid could always return and muck things up. Too bad. The prize money will only be collected when the winners actually arrive at the Surrey Hotel.
