NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grants

NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grants

Now Open for Applications

The Auckland Museum and NZ Society of Authors are once again delighted to offer two RESEARCH grants for writers who want to utilise the considerable facilities and resources of the Auckland Museum Library in the development of their fiction or non-fiction manuscript.

This year’s grants comprise of:

• One National Grant of $4,000 supplemented by the option of 4 weeks funded accommodation at the Michael King Writers Centre in Devonport.
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• One Auckland Regional Grant of $2,500 for writers from the Auckland region.
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The Auckland Museum Library offers a reading room and copying facilities for the grant recipients as well as guided access to the library’s collections of manuscripts, pictures and publications. Both recipients will receive a one year membership to the Auckland Museum Institute, benefits include access to the Members’ Lounge.

Applicants for both grants need to be members of the NZ Society of Authors. The deadline for applications is5pm, 5 October 2015.

In 2014 the recipient of the National Research Grant was Douglas Lloyd Jenkins – who utilised the Auckland Museum Library to research a biography of the early twentieth century Auckland photographer Arthur Breckon. Douglas Lloyd Jenkins said "My period in the Auckland Museum Library has given me a wonderful opportunity for immersive research - that is to lose myself in the wealth of material on offer. It has given me an understanding of Arthur’s Breckon’s thinking as a photographer that could not have been achieved by sporadic short visits.”

The Auckland Museum Library is one of New Zealand’s major research libraries. The depth of material available is highly valued throughout New Zealand and internationally.

Membership of the NZ Society of Authors PEN Inc is open to all budding and established writers. You can find out more at www.authors.org.nz

For an application form and terms & conditions for the NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grants

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