Upcoming opportunities for Māori writers and students

Pikihuia Awards

The biennial Pikihuia awards have returned for 2017 bringing with them the chance for fame and cash prizes. Selected winners and finalists will be published in Huia Short Stories 12.

Six categories including:

• Best short story written in English
• Best short story written in te reo Māori
• Best short Film Script
• Best Novel Extract
• Best short story by a school student in English
• Best short story by a school student in te reo Māori

With $2000 up for grabs for the winners of the first four categories and winners of the school student categories are up to win a cash prize of $500 and $250 worth of HUIA books for their school be sure to get your entries in.

Enter online at Huia or The Māori Literature Trust, entries close 5pm Tuesday 18^th April and winners are announced at the awards ceremony in Wellington this September.

Check out some of the books in our collections from past winners:

• Tihema Baker – Watched
• Kelly Ana Morey – Daylight Second
• James George – Ocean Roads
• Tina Makereti – Where The Rekohu Bone Sings
• Paula Morris – Hibiscus Coast
• Briar-Grace Smith – Purapurawhetū

Or try the Huia short stories collections.

Sir Āpirana Ngata Memorial Scholarship

Up to 10 scholarships are on offer at a value of between $1000 and $3000 and are open to all Māori students, in any field, from any iwi. Preference is given to applicants who are descendants of Māori WW1 veterans. Applications close 1^st of May 2017.

The Sir Āpirana Ngata Memorial Scholarship, created by the Māori Soldiers Trust to support higher education amongst Māori, is administered by Te Tumu Paeroa. Funding for the scholarship comes from Hereheretau Station, an investment of the Māori Soldiers Trust Fund set up at the urging of Sir Āpirana Ngata, who was once a recipient of a scholarship himself.

Download an application for the Sir Apirana Ngata Scholarship

Whāia te iti kahurangi ki te tūohu koe, me he maunga teitei.
Pursue excellence – should you stumble, let it be to a lofty mountain.

Podcast – Changing face of rural New Zealand

Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from specialist human rights radio show Speak up – Kōrerotia. This show is created by Sally Carlton.

This episode was recorded live at Ashburton Museum and features Tanya Robinson (Ashburton Museum), Sophie-Claire Violette (Mid Canterbury Newcomers Network), Cornelius Grobler, and Leen Braam and Mubashir Mukhtar (Ashburton District Council) discussing stories of migration to Mid Canterbury.

• ‘New Faces, New Lives’ exhibition at Ashburton Museum
• Population growth and increasing diversity in Ashburton region
• Experiences as a migrant in Ashburton

 

Transcript of audio file

Find out more in our collection

• Find titles about Ashburton
• Find titles about Emigration and Immigration in New Zealand
• Find titles about Emigration and Immigration in New Zealand statistics
• Find titles about Migrant labour in New Zealand

    

Web resources

• The reinvention of Ashburton The Listener
• Crossing the Bridge
• Start with a Smile Ashburton

More about Speak up – Kōrerotia

• Speak up – Kōrerotia on Facebook
• Contact the host of the show via speakupkorerotia@gmail.com.

The show is also available on the following platforms:

• Plains FM website
• SoundCloud
• iTunes