Short-story awards
PA Wellington Nearly 600 short-story writers are out to win $9OO in this year’s Katherine Mansfield Memorial awards.
The judge for the memorial award is Mr Maurice Gee, of Nelson, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Kex Zealand Book Award for his novel “Plumb.” Mrs Fiona Kidman will judge the young writer’s award for writers aged up to 24. Mrs Kidman won the Ngaio Marsh award for television in 1971. The author, Irene Adcock, will judge the junior award for secondary school entrants. The awards are sponsored by the Women Writers* Society and a New Zealand! trading bank.
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Press, 28 August 1979, Page 21
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