Cultural Fund Selection Panel

Cultural Fund Selection Panel

Contestable Fund Grants - Selection Panel

We are very grateful to have the continued support of Abby Aitcheson and Kim Harris as selection panel members, and we welcome Craig Gamble to the 2024 Contestable Fund Grants selection panel. We sincerely appreciate the important work they undertake to ensure the grants process is successful, and quite simply couldn’t do it without them! Read more about them below.

Abby Aitcheson

2025 Selection Panel Member

Abby Aitcheson has held various editorial roles at independent publishers and Penguin Random House imprints in Aotearoa and London. She has also worked as a freelance editor and as a bookseller for Time Out Books. She now finds herself working as a legal editor in Tokyo, but will always think of Tairāwhiti as home. 2021 was the first year that Abby has been a selection panel member.

Anne de Lautour

2025 Selection Panel Member

Anne has been an active participant in the literature and publishing sector for more than thirty years. She has worked for major publishing houses in Aotearoa New Zealand and was Association Director of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) from 2007 - 2017.

Based in Thames, Coromandel, Anne is currently Executive Officer at Storylines Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki, and acts as a consultant to the publishing industry.

Anne was a selection panel member in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2023 for the Contestable Fund Grants and is now an External Advisor for our Partnership Fund.

The Selection Panel members are selected based on their knowledge and expertise in writing and publishing. We follow Creative New Zealand guidelines to prevent conflicts of interest.

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