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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

2019 RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS

• Giovanna Fenster
• Philip Simpson
• Ghazaleh Golbakhsh
• Joanne Drayton (Stout)

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2018 RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS

• Jock Phillips
• Philip Matthews
• Pip Desmond
• Mike Dickinson (Stout)

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2017 RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS

• Jamie Robins
• Phil Garnock-Jones
• Pip Hall
• Michalia Arathimos

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2016 RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS

• Susy Pointon
• Jared Davidson
• Grace Millar
• Aaron Fox

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2015 RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS

• Heather McQuillan
• Paul Moon
• Philippa Werry
• Paul Bensemann

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