Applications are open at the University of Canterbury for the Ursula Bethell/Creative New Zealand Residency in Creative Writing for 2009.
Created to foster New Zealand writing, the residency provides a writer with a full-time post at the university to work in an academic environment.
Applicants should be authors of proven merit normally resident in New Zealand, or New Zealanders temporarily resident overseas.
The position is full-time and tenable for up to twelve months at the University of Canterbury at the rate of $54,160 per annum; funded jointly by Creative New Zealand.
Applications close on 17 October 2008.
