Previous recipients

2021 - Jade Kake (Ngāpuhi, Te Whakatōhea, Te Arawa)
for her project on the legacy of Professor Rewi Thompson (1953-2017; Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa) - read more here

2020 - Nick Bollinger
for his project Revolutions Per Minute: The Counterculture in New Zealand 1960-1975 - read more here

2019 - Rebecca Macfie
for her biography of Helen Kelly - read more here

2018 - Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu)
for his project Uprising - read more here

2017 - Ben Schrader
for his project Won and Lost: Saving New Zealand's Built Heritage 1885-2016 - read more here

2016 - Neville Peat
for his project The Invading Sea - read more here

2021 - Lauren Keenan (Te Ātiawa ki Taranaki), Anthony Green, Lillian Duval and Bonnie Maihi - read more here

2020 - Fraser Smith, Vasanti Unka, Elizabeth Cox and Wystan Curnow - read more here

2019 - Giovanna Fenster, Philip Simpson, Ghazaleh Golbakhsh and Joanne Drayton (Stout) - read more here

2018 - Jock Phillips, Philip Matthews, Pip Desmond and Mike Dickinson (Stout) - read more here

2017 - Jamie Robins, Phil Garnock-Jones, Pip Hall and Michalia Arathimos - read more here

2016 - Susy Pointon, Jared Davidson, Grace Millar and Aaron Fox - read more here

2015 - Heather McQuillan, Paul Moon, Philippa Werry and Paul Bensemann - read more here

2021 CONTESTABLE FUND GRANTS RECIPIENTS

• Ashlee Sturme
  Inhale - a collection of writing from Maori Wahine $9,800
• Flying Start Books
  Kowhai Adaptations - Te Reo Māori Red Rocket Readers $6,960
• Jacqueline Leckie
  Land of the Old Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa $8,200
• Kotahi Rau Pukapuka Trust
  He Puna Kupu mō Hare Pota - Vocabulary Creation for Harry Potter in te reo Māori $12,640
• Little Mouse Limited
  Ōhinemutu - A bilingual, short story $5,000
• Metro Media Group Ltd
  Metro Book Reviews in Broadsheet format $7,000
• NANSEN Magazine
  Migration magazine making our third issue in Aotearoa $5,500
• NZ Booklovers
  Awards 2022 - fiction, lifestyle and children’s picture books $2,000
• OneTree House Ltd
  Bilingual and te reo Māori publishing programme $7,000
• Stacey Morrison and Penguin Random House New Zealand
  Māori at Home audio edition $4,000
• Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust Te Whare Waituhi o Aotearoa
  The Storylines National Children’s Literature Authors and Illustrators Hui $6,900

Read more here about the successful 2021 recipients

2020 CONTESTABLE FUND GRANTS RECIPIENTS

• Mila's My Aganu'u
  Series Dahlia Malaeulu (Mila's Books) - $9,000
• Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival podcasts (2021)
  Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival - $4,900
• Token Cripple
  Henrietta Bollinger - $8,000
• Ringawera (working title)
  Kārena and Kasey Bird - $8,000
• Our Backyard Children's Picture Books
  Marie Connolly and Jenny Lee - $7,500
• Kāwai: a saga from the uttermost end of the earth
  Monty Soutar - $8,000
• Better off Read - Elements 2021
  Pip Adam, Better off Read Podcast - $5,000
• Red Rocket Readers Te Reo Māori Adaptations
  Flying Start Books - $8,000
• Comic Series commissioned by Toby Morris (working title)
  The Spinoff - $8,500
• Connectors Digital - A Remote Learning Resource
  Global Education Systems - $8,000

Read more here about the successful 2020 recipients

2020 SPECIAL ROUND OF CONTESTABLE FUND GRANT RECIPIENTS

• NZ Children's & Young Adult Book Awards, Books Alive online author events and virtual story times
  LIANZA Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa - $10,000
• Out of the Woods e-comic
  Educational Resources Ltd - $12,000
• Young Voices : Virus!
  Write On School for Young Writers - $12,000
• #NZSAConnects: i)NZSALive ii)NZSAwebWorkshops iii) NZSAWritersRead
  NZ Society of Authors $7,500
• PukapukaHub Podcast
  The Coalition for Books - $5,000
• Who We Are Now?
  The Pantograph Punch - $12,000
• Auckland Writers Festival Winter Series
  Auckland Writers' and Readers' Festival Charitable Trust - $3,000
• Meantime
  Majella Cullinane - $10,000
• Cenotaph Stories: Contemporary Reflections
  Auckland War Memorial Museum - $5,000
• This Is Us - the diaspora in lockdown
  Pete Carter - $12,000
• Children's picture book, with working title 'Enough'
  Sarah Johnson - $10,000
• Graphic Artists Book (working title only)
  Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu - $ 15,000
• ReadingRoom: Portrait of the Author
  Newsroom NZ Ltd - $6,500

Read more here about the successful 2020 recipients

2019 CONTESTABLE FUND GRANT RECIPIENTS

• Dee Publications $5,000
• Publishers Association of New Zealand $9,000
• Kiwa Digital $10,000
• Auckland University Press $6,000
• Little Island Press Ltd $12,500
• Wildling Books $2,000
• Peter Alsop $6,500
• Going West Books and Writers' Festival Trust $5,000
• Flying Start Books $10,000
• Code Education $10,000
• Wendy Pye Publishing $5,000
• The Coalition of Books $4,000
• Counter Journal $3,000

Read more here about the successful 2019 recipients

2018 CONTESTABLE FUND GRANT RECIPIENTS

• Dunedin Writers Festival $2,410
• Academy of New Zealand Literature $10,000
• Clean Slate Press $10,000
• Graeme Lay $3,000
• Lesley Smith $10,000
• Lift Education $7,500
• One Tree House $5,000
• Lost Property.org.nz $3,700
• Audiobooks NZ $10,000

Read more here about the successful 2018 recipients

2017 CONTESTABLE FUND GRANT RECIPIENTS

• Oratia Media $5,000
• Gecko Press $5,000
• Academy of New Zealand Literature $10,000
• The Writing Bug Ltd $5,000
• The Sapling $15,000
• Toitoi Media Ltd $10,000
• Essential Resources $15,000
• Gillian Candler $10,000

Read more here about the successful 2017 recipients

2016 CONTESTABLE FUND GRANT RECIPIENTS

• Toitoi Media Limited $7,600
• Huia (NZ) Ltd $10,000
• Lesley Smith $10,000
• NZ Book Awards Trust $20,000
• Prue Langbein $8,000
• Clean Slate Press Ltd $8000
• Zak Waipara $5000
• Flying Start Books Ltd $5000

Read more here about the successful 2016 recipients