Applications are now open for the 2025 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency.

This award is for an established New Zealand writer of Pacific heritage to carry out work on a creative writing project exploring Pacific identity, culture or history at the University of Hawai‘i for three months.

“During my stay in Hawai’i I gained invaluable personal insights into my writing craft and made friendships with people that will endure into the future” — Gina Cole, 2023

This award is offered in partnership with Creative New Zealand, the national arts development agency developing, investing in and advocating for the arts.

The recipient will based at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in Honolulu for either the Fall (August-November) or (February-May) semester of the US academic year.

Click here to find out more and apply!