Shortlist for Creative Science Writing Prize
News release from the Royal Society of New
Zealand
18 October 2010
Shortlist announced for Royal
Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science
Writing
The shortlist for the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Writing has been announced, with the winners to be revealed on 10 November at the 2010 Research Honours celebration in Christchurch.
There are two categories, non-fiction and fiction, with 10 entries shortlisted for each category. The winners will receive cash awards of $2500 and their entries will be printed in the New Zealand Listener.
The theme of this year’s competition was ‘The Mind’, with entrants taking their inspiration from the John Milton quote “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n”.
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, headed by Professor Bill Manhire.
Professor Manhire, after whom the
competition is named, said this creative writing competition
was a great way to encourage science communication through
writing.
“Each year we see a wide range of
approaches to the theme. This year’s theme of The Mind was
designed to allow entrants to explore the links between the
brain, the heart and the personality.”
2010
Shortlisted Entries
Non Fiction
category
• Ruth Beran- Heaven and Hell Heaven
and Hell-Ruth Beran
• Cliff Fell- Six Theories of the
Mind
• Ingrid Horrocks- Explorations in the Wandering
Mind: A Digression
• Jason McGrath- The Quantum Soul
• Blair Granville- You Are Not an Individual
• Hayden Williams -Frontline, Borderline: Dispatches
from a History of Mental Illness Frontline,
• Alice
Miller- Dark Energy beyond the Reception Rooms: The Mind,
Love and Tolstoy
• Malcolm Gunn -Meet Your Amygdala and
Feel the Fear
• Philippa Werry- The Weight of Memory
• Tom Parsons -Mind- Lost, Found or Created? What You
Think is Up to You
Fiction
category
• Esme Putt -Interpretations
• Collin Minnaar- The maladjustee
• Isobel
Gabites- Heaven in the Mind
• Jennifer Carrington
(penname) - Five Impressions on Paper
• H. Lucy
Hodgson- The Place Where Happiness Lives
• Serie
Barford- The Mesmerist the Musician
• David Hill- Out
of Sight?
• Julia Charity- Pyramid in Paradise
• Rod Fee- The Phase Transitions of Petrie
All the
shortlisted entries can be read at www.royalsociety.org.nz
ENDS
Background information
The Royal Society of New Zealand promotes
science, technology and the humanities in schools, in
industry and in society. We administer several funds for
science and technology, publish science journals, offer
advice to Government, and foster international scientific
contact and co-operation.