Applications for one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prestigious and long-running Fellowships are now open – closing 11pm Friday 30 May 2025.
For over fifty years, since 1970, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship has enabled a New Zealand writer to live and work for three months or more in Menton, southern France, with access to a writing room at Villa Isola Bella – where Katherine Mansfield once lived and wrote. The residency is open to creative writers across all genres, including fiction, children’s fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and playwriting.
The successful applicant will travel to Menton in 2026.
The Fellowship provides:
- A grant of $50,000 to cover all costs including travel to Menton, insurance, living and accommodation.
- Use of a dedicated writing room beneath the terrace of Villa Isola Bella.
- Accommodation is not provided at the Villa; Fellows arrange their own, often with advice from previous recipients.
Katherine Mansfield spent long periods at Villa Isola Bella in 1919 and 1920 while seeking to improve her health after contracting tuberculosis.
Previous recipients include Selina Tusitala Marsh, Charlotte Grimshaw, Paula Morris, Carl Nixon, Kate Camp, Anna Jackson, Mandy Hager, Greg McGee, Justin Paton, Chris Price, Ken Duncum, Damien Wilkins, Jenny Pattrick, Stuart Hoar, Dame Fiona Kidman, Ian Wedde and other prestigious writers such as Bill Manhire, Janet Frame, Witi Ihimaera, Elizabeth Knox, Lloyd Jones, Roger Hall, Marilyn Duckworth, Michael King and Allen Curnow.
The Fellowship is managed by The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi, supported by an Advisory Committee including members of the Winn-Manson Menton Trust.
Find out more and apply here:
www.thearts.co.nz/awards/katherine-mansfield-menton-fellowship
