Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency

By Ōtepoti He Puna Auaha | Dunedin UNESCO City Of Literature | Posted: Wednesday Feb 12, 2025

Applications are open now and close at 5 PM, Friday 7 March

The Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency is for an established New Zealand writer of Pacific heritage to carry out work on a creative writing project exploring Pacific identity, culture or history at the University of Hawai‘i for three months. One award valued at NZ$33,300 is granted each year, towards three months of writing.

APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2025/2026 ACADEMIC YEAR ARE NOW OPEN!

Join an online info session to learn how this prestigious program could help you take your creative writing to new heights!

Tuesday 18 February, 3.30-4.30pm, MS Teams. Register here.

This award is offered in partnership with Creative New Zealand, the national arts development agency developing, investing in and advocating for the arts.

The recipient will based at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in Honolulu for either the Fall (August-November) or Spring (February-May) semester of the US academic year.

Hawai‘i has been identified as a strategic location for artists and is considered the hub of Pacific writing with numerous universities, library resources, networks, writers’ forums and publishers. It is also an important link to the mainland US and has a strong indigenous culture.

Previous grantees have included writers Coco Solid, Sarona Aiono-Iosefa and Marisa Maepu, poets Tusiata Avia, Karlo Mila and Daren Kamali, filmmakers Sima Urale and Toa Fraser, and playwright Victor Rodger.

Find out more here: Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency