Funding
English Language and Literature
Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Residency
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Randell Cottage Writers Trust
Creative New Zealand |
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| Contacts: | The Secretary PO Box 11 032 Wellington |
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General information:
The Trust works in partnership with the Embassy of France and the New Zealand-France Friendship Fund and with Creative New Zealand to provide a six month residency each year to a French and New Zealand writer respectively.
The Randell Cottage Creative New Zealand Writers Residency is the first dedicated writers' Residency in Wellington and the first to be offered to international writers in the Southern Hemisphere. As such it represents an exciting development for the city as well as for the nation as a whole.
The Randell Cottage is an historic dwelling in the picturesque, central city suburb of Thorndon, in Wellington. It has been gifted by the Price family as a writers' residence.
The Randell Cottage Writers Trust now administers the property. The purpose of the Trust is to promote and foster the development of literature by establishing a writers' residency scheme providing accommodation; and by awarding literary scholarships. The inaugural New Zealand scholar, Peter Wells, was resident in 2002.
One of the unique features of the Randell Cottage Writers Residency is that is affords a measure of reciprocity with the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship. This means that the residency is also available on a rotating basis to French writers for the remaining 6 month period each year. The inaugural French writer, Nadine Ribault, had her residency from July 2002. French residents are funded and selected separately by the French Government and the New Zealand France Friendship Fund.
