NZSA Asian Short Story Award Winner Announced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday 21 November 2011
Wellington Writer wins NZSA Asian Short Story Award
A delightful story by Wellington based Singaporean/Chinese writer
NZSA Asian Short Story Award ceremony in Auckland on Friday evening.
$3,000 which was kindly sponsored by Creative New Zealand.
A pleasing 42 entries were received and overall the judges were delighted with the quality. “The majority of stories showed understanding of the fundamentals of good writing, compelling storytelling and character development” commented Renee Laing.
“Many of these stories, with good editing, could be submitted for further competitions/publication.”
“It was especially wonderful to see the broad representation of stories and characters from South Asia, South East
Asia and North East Asia. Overall, we enjoyed a rich collection of stories – many centred on NZ with strong themes of finding identity, coming to terms with family relationships, adapting to a new country, leaving an old country, or realizing a change in society, country or self. “
Second place was awarded to Angelique Kasmara for her story for $1,000. Equal third was given to Lee Murray for
Rosabel Tan took first prize at the inauguralPaper Butterflies won the first prize ofAsians with Perms. Angelique received a chequeThe Red Cardigan and Latika Vasil for her story, Open Home. The four stories are available on The judging panel comprised Renee Laing, Sue Gee and Steven Eldred-Grigg. www.authors.org.nz. END For further information contact Maggie Tarver, (09) 379 4801 director@nzauthors.org.nz The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) PO Box 7701 Wellesley Street Auckland 1141 www.authors.org.nz
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