Writers: please share the news if your title is on the Long List, but please do not share which story is yours while the judges are still deliberating. Thank you!
alphabetically by title:
A Moth in the Clementines
Alan Recuperating on a Bed of Rabbits
Centripetal Force
Cloud Storage
Cows
Doing the Math
Encounter
Family Meals
In the Boonies
Mateo
Moon Landings
My Wife’s Best Friend
No Memory of Dying
Nonna Francesca
One Bedroom, Sky
Run
Shoes
Sparkling Duet
Thanks for the Dinosaur Eyes, Dad
The Bottom of the Cliff
The People Who Go Missing
The Punchline
The seven stages of grief are really eight
The Tall Horse
The Unwelcome
This Kitchen Moment
Try a Different Standpoint
Unfinished Things
Waiting
PRIZES
First $1,000
Second $400
Third $100
JUDGES
The 2021 judges for the national competition are acclaimed poet and novelist Diane Brown and prize-winning novelist, essayist and anthologist Paula Morris.
The international youth competition is guest judged in 2021 by poet Kerry Lane and curated by the youth journal fingers comma toes.
Diane Brown is a novelist, memoirist, and poet who runs her own creative writing school, Creative Writing Dunedin. Her publications include two collections of poetry, Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland and Learning to Lie Together; a novel, If The Tongue Fits, and verse novel, Eight Stages of Grace, a travel memoir, Liars and Lovers, a prose/poetic memoir, Here Comes Another Vital Moment and a poetic family memoir, Taking My Mother To The Opera. Her latest book is a long poetic narrative, Every Now and Then I Have Another Child, Otago University Press, 2020. Diane will be talking about her newest work at the 2021 Fringe Festival and discussing the bending of boundaries in poetic narratives at the 2021 Dunedin Readers and Writers Festival. In 2013 she was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to writing and education. She lives in Dunedin with her husband, author Philip Temple.
Paula Morris MNZM (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whatua, Aotearoa New Zealand) is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist from Auckland. Her most recent book, Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde, a collaboration with photographer Haru Sameshima, is longlisted for the 2021 Ockham NZ Book Awards. Paula is co-editor of the 2020 anthology Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand and, with Alison Wong, the forthcoming A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa NZ. An Associate Professor
at the University of Auckland, where she directs the Master of Creative Writing,
Paula also teaches creative writing at festivals, schools and community programmes. She is the founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature, and serves on the boards of the Coalition for Books, the Māori Literature Trust, the Mātātuhi Foundation and the NZ Book Awards Trust.
Youth competition judgeKerry Lane is a poet and playwright living by the sea in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa. Current projects include a puppet theatre piece about Minnie Dean, a long-form podcast about the end of the world, and an experimental poetry-ish project about memory.
