Awards & grants

Entries for the 2019 CLNZ/NZSA Writers' Award are now closed. This $25,000 award is one of the investments made through the CLNZ Cultural Fund and is open to writers of any genre of non-fiction, including writers of education material. The award enables the successful applicant to devote time to a specific writing project.

Entries for the 2019 CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants are now closed (21 June-26 July 2019). These grants support New Zealand writers by providing assistance to writers who wish to undertake research for a fiction or non-fiction writing project.

Entries for the 2018 awards are now closed and the finalists and winners have been selected. The next round will be held in 2020. The CLNZ Education Awards occur every two years and celebrate excellence in New Zealand educational resource development.

The CLNZ Cultural Fund contributes to the PANZ Industry Training Fund. This training fund supports three programmes and provides development opportunities for each stage of a career in publishing.

As the Cultural Fund Awards and Grants come to a close for 2018, let's celebrate the achievements of the winners, recipients and finalists.