Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency
The Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency is offered by the Arts Board of Creative New Zealand on a biennial basis. Established in 2000, it was initially offered on an annual basis. The residency has provided international professional development opportunities for four New Zealand writers: Sarah Quigley, Tina Shaw, Kapka Kassabova and Philip Temple. Lloyd Jones is the recipient of the 2007 Residency.
The Arts Board has made a commitment to fund a further three Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residencies. Chair Murray Shaw says that the decision to continue the residency biennially until 2009, rather than every year, is the result of a Creative New Zealand evaluation of the four residencies.
"By offering the residency every second year we hope to negotiate a more flexible time frame for the residency, which currently takes place during winter," he says. "In future, at least part of the residency will occur in summer. It will also allow us to give German literary organisations greater advance notice about each resident so they can include them in more of their literary events."
The Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency is the organisation’s largest writers’ residency. As well as supporting other international residencies for artists, Creative New Zealand’s Arts Board currently co-funds five writer-in-residence programmes at New Zealand universities, plus a children’s writer-in-residence programme at the Dunedin College of Education.
Applications to Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency 2007 have closed.
The primary aim of this Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency will be for the writer to work on an approved project while in Berlin. On returning, the writer will be expected to have completed, or substantially completed, a body of writing, and should be able to demonstrate other tangible benefits to New Zealand literature. Criteria and application guide at http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/files/Berlin-2007.pdf
The biennial residency includes the rental costs of an apartment in the centre of Berlin, a stipend of NZ$3000 a month and a return airfare from New Zealand to Germany.
The residency is open to established New Zealand writers who have been resident in New Zealand for at least three years prior to making the application.
