Awards & grants

Entries for the 2020 CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants will open in September 2020. Each year a portion of the revenue allocated to the CLNZ Cultural Fund is made available in a contestable fund.

Entries for the 2020 CLNZ/NZSA Writers' Award are now closed. This $25,000 award is one of the investments made through the CLNZ Cultural Fund and is open to writers of any genre of non-fiction, including writers of education material. The award enables the successful applicant to devote time to a specific writing project.

Applications are now closed for this Special Round of Contestable Fund Grants, with $120,000 available. This special fund was made available to support short-term projects that have arisen or been developed to respond to the changed environment in the New Zealand writing and publishing sector during COVID-19. The annual Contestable Fund process supports a very wide range of projects, and this Special Round will do the same.

The CLNZ Cultural Fund contributes to the PANZ Industry Training Fund. This training fund supports three programmes and provides development opportunities for each stage of a career in publishing.

As the Cultural Fund Awards and Grants come to a close for 2019, let's celebrate the achievements of the successful recipients.