Landfall Essay Competition Prize

In 1997, Landfall celebrated its 50th anniversary. To mark the occasion, then editor Chris Price launched the Landfall Essay Competition, sponsored by University of Otago Press.

The purpose of the competition remains as it was at the outset: to encourage New Zealand writers to think aloud about New Zealand culture, and to revive and sustain the tradition of vivid, contentious and creative essay writing in this country - as embodied in the non-fiction of early Landfall contributors such as Bill Pearson, in the essays of past winners of this competition, and in the essays the journal continues to publish. The Landfall Essay Competition is run biennially.

2008: TBA

2005  Winner:       Anna Sanderson 'Dr Yang’

2004 Winners:

Martin Edmond and Tze Ming Mok were the winners of the joint winners of the fourth Landfall Essay Prize, judged by Vincent O'Sullivan. They shared the $2,500 prize and also received a year's subscription to Landfall. Their winning entries were published in Landfall 208, along with shortlisted entries from Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Jessica LeBas, Tim Corballis and Ian Wedde.

For more information, write to: Landfall Essay Competition, University of Otago Press, PO Box 56, Dunedin. Email university.press@otago.ac.nz .

Conditions of Entry

1. Essays will be fully developed, independent works and will be no more than 6000 words long.

2. Essays will be on a topic of the author's choosing.

3. Essays will not have been published elsewhere.

4. Writers will be resident in New Zealand.

5. One entry per person will be accepted. Entrants should include a stamped, addressed envelope for return of their contributions.

6. The judge will assess the merits of the essays and reserve the right not to award a prize. No correspondence with the judge will be entered into.

7. Landfall reserves the right to publish the winning entry, and other shortlisted entries, at the editor's discretion.

8. It is a condition of the competition that the winning writer's name and photograph may be used by Landfall for publicity purposes.