The Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book and Unpublished Manuscript Awards are run in association with the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZ Pen).
This year I was again a finalist, and flew up to Auckland to attend the awards ceremony.
I did not expect to win, and had been happy (over the moon actually) to be a finalist for the second year running with two different manuscripts.
The Unpublished Manuscript Award finalists were presented with their certificates, and then the winner of the award and the $10,000 prize money was announced. I was confident it would not be me.
I was completely blown away when the name annouced was MINE!
I won the Unpublished Manuscript Award!!!!
Now I have a literary agent who is interested in submitting this work to publishers in the USA.
Things have moved forward dramatically…and yet, I know that there are no guarantees…..just a lot of hope and excitement at this stage!
This award is the second highest literary award in New Zealand, and to win it is major kudos. My next goal is to win the (published) book award!
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