CLNZ / NZSA Writers’ Award

A $25,000 Award to a New Zealand Writer
The Writers’ Award is proudly brought to you by the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ).
The award was established to provide financial support for writers wishing to devote time to a specific project and to cover reasonable research expenses relating to it. In a broad range of non-fiction genre, specifically including education works, it is the clear intention of the Writers’ Award that a book will be published as a result of winning the award.
The 2020 CLNZ / NZSA Writers Award went to Nick Bollinger: read the full media release here
Past Winners
2019 – Rebecca Macfie her biography of Helen Kelly – read the full media release
2018 – Nic Low (Ngai Tahu) for his project, Uprising – read more on CLNZ website
2017 – Ben Schrader for his project, Won and Lost: Saving New Zealand’s Built Heritage 1885-2016 – read more on CLNZ website
2016 – Neville Peat for his project, The Invading Sea – read more on CLNZ website