Thar she glows: the Surrey Hotel, in Grey Lynn, Auckland. Photo by 2018 residency winner Naomi Arnold
Steve Braunias
Steve Braunias edits Newsroom’s books section, ReadingRoom, is an author and a noted writer for the NZ Herald.
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Steve Braunias announces the 2020 Surrey Hotel writer’s residency in association with Newsroom. Yowsa!
O brave new world of Level One! O let the good times roll, again. And in the spirit of liberation and freedom and good times rolling, the annual prestigious Surrey Hotel writer’s residency award in association with Newsroom is back in business – and open right now.
The Surrey Hotel, in Grey Lynn, Auckland, is widely considered the grooviest residency in New Zealand arts and letters. It’s got ye olde Tudor stylings and the swimming pool has to be seen to be believed. The residency allows winners the comfort, glamour and honour of staying at the distinctly odd and certainly very striking Surrey Hotel to work on whatever literary project is dear to their heart.
New Zealand authors – of any experience, working in any genre, but truly committed and serious about their work – are invited to apply now.
Read more about it here on Newsroom
Last year’s winner NZSA member Colleen Maria Lenihan.
Nominations for the 2020 Surrey Hotel Writer’s Residency Award in association with Newsroom are open now, and close soon. As in really soon: the deadline is Friday, June 26.
Email stephen11@xtra.co.nz with the subject line THE SURREY HOTEL RESIDENCY IN ASSOCIATION WITH NEWSROOM.
NZSA member Naomi Arnold, also a past winner….
