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Wintec Announces New Zealand’s Richest Writing Prize

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26 March 2013

Wintec Announces New Zealand’s Richest Writing Prize

Wintec in Hamilton is pleased to announce a new and unique writing prize – an award for the highest-paid sentence in New Zealand.

Steve Braunias, editor in residence at Wintec’s School of Media Arts, will award $500 to the student who has written the best sentence during the year.

The award will be held annually, and is eligible for all third-year degree students and diploma students of journalism at Wintec. The $500 prize makes it New Zealand’s richest-ever award for a single sentence of writing.

Mr Braunias says he hopes the award will encourage quality writing among the Wintec students.

“Every story anyone ever writes is made up of sentences,” he says. “A good sentence really jumps out, and can give the reader a powerful jolt, or move them, make them laugh, make them think, or change the entire direction of their life, possibly.

“It might contain information. It might be illuminating. It might be a beautifully composed piece of language, each word strung up like lanterns. It might be short.

“I will be on the look-out, and have my cheque book ready to award the student who may not be the greatest reporter, or the best interviewer, but who has, for one moment, been inspired to write a line worth $500.”

Mr Braunias has won about 30 national awards for writing. He is a staff writer at Metro magazine, and is the author of six books. His latest book, Civilisation: 20 Towns at the Edge of the World, has featured on the best-seller list. He will judge the award for best sentence at the end of the year.

The winner will be announced at the Wintec Press Club event in November.

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