2025 Sargeson Fellows announced
Tuesday, 21 January 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The Frank Sargeson Trust has announced the recipients of the 2025 Sargeson Fellowship.
The 2025 fellows and their projects are:
- Rachael King, who will work on YA fantasy novel ‘Song of the Saltings’, and a creative nonfiction project that is part memoir, part literary criticism and part cultural history
- Kate Duignan, who will develop her third novel, set in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand.
The fellows will share an annual stipend of NZ$26,000 to concentrate on a project.
Named in memory of writer Frank Sargeson and established in 1987, the Sargeson Fellowship is a national literary award offered to published Aotearoa New Zealand writers to allow them ‘the opportunity to focus on their craft in a sustained way’. Previous fellows have included Charlotte Grimshaw, Catherine Chidgey, Paula Morris, James George, Hera Lindsay Bird, Nathan Joe and Lee Murray.
More information is available on the Frank Sargeson website.
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