The Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing

The Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing is organised by the Royal Society of New Zealand in association with the New Zealand Listener magazine and the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.

There are two categories: fiction and non-fiction. Winners from each category are awarded a cash prize of $2500 and winning entries are printed in the New Zealand Listener.

2009

Winners

The two winning entries in the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Writing were announced on Wednesday night at the prestigious 2009 Science Honours Dinner in Auckland.

Tina Makereti from the Kapiti Coast was awarded the non-fiction prize for her essay Twitch and Katie Henderson from Auckland won the fiction category with her story Strandings.

• 2009 Winning & Shortlisted entries
• 2009 full media release

Competition Details:
EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE

"I live at the edge of the universe, like everybody else."
--Bill Manhire

This year we are celebrating the International Year of Astronomy. Ever since Galileo first aimed his telescope at Jupiter's moons, technology has been enlarging our knowledge of the universe.

We now know our own insignificance and isolation and yet we have immense power to communicate as never before. The race of humans is isolated in space and time and yet where, as individuals, do we go to be alone?

You are invited to write about the place - past or present or future - of human beings in the universe.

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Previous Years

• 2008 Winning & Shortlisted entries
• 2007 Winning Entries