Dick Frizzell along with Sir Bob Harvey (former Waitakere mayor) have contributed a cash prize of around $5,000 for next years recipient of the annual Surrey Hotel-Newsroom writers residency award. Frizzell emailed Steve Braunias about the award saying: "This may sound grand...possibly even delusional....but this book of mine [newly released, Me, According to the History of Art] looks like it might do quite well, and I was thinking I'd like to do something constructive with the royalties. And then I thought of you and your crazy Surrey Hotel writers residency award."
Entries for the 2021 Award will open around May next year. Find out more here.
October 27, 2020
