2012 Takahē CULTURAL STUDIES COMPETITION
2012 Takahē POETRY COMPETITION
Page Blackmore Booksellers National Short Story Competition 2012
2012 Takahē CULTURAL STUDIES COMPETITION
Takahē, with the support of CNZ, is delighted to announce the
Takahē 2012 Cultural Studies Competition
to be judged by Dr. Brenda Allen and Dr. Cassandra Fusco.
FIRST PRIZE: $250
Up to four runners up will each receive one year's free subscription toTakahē
Non-fiction essay or Visual arts essay.
Entry Fee: NZ$5.00
Entries of previously unpublished works should be posted to:
Takahē 2012 Cultural Studies Competition
PO Box 13-335
Christchurch 8141
New Zealand
to be received no later than 30 September 2012.
No email entries, please.
Results will be published in Takahē 77 (December) 2012.
2012 Takahē POETRY COMPETITION
This year our poetry competition will be judged by
KERRIN P SHARPE
FIRST PRIZE: $250 SECOND PRIZE: $100
Two runners up will receive one year's free subscription to Takahē
Unpublished poems of up to 50 lines on any theme will be accepted.
Entry Fee: NZ$5.00 per poem
Each poem should be printed on one side of A4 paper and posted to:
Takahē 2012 Poetry Competition
PO Box 13-335
Christchurch 8141
New Zealand
to be received no later than 30 September 2012.
No email entries, please.
Results will be published in Takahe 77 (December) 2012.

National Short Story Competition 2012
Judge: Gavin Bishop
Closing date: 25th April 2012
The Winning Entry Will Be Published in the August Edition of
Takahē Magazine
Entry Forms available from
http://www.topofthesouthwriters.blogspot.com
or Page & Blackmore, Booksellers
or Chrissie Ward, 106a Nile Street, Nelson
Results:
2011 Takahē POETRY COMPETITION
The 2011 Takahē Poetry Competition was judged by
SUE WOOTTON
| 1st | Jan Hutchison. - "Reading the Book Aloud" |
| 2nd | Susanna Gendall - "Love" |
| Runner up | Michael Botur - "Coulda Said" |
| Runner up | Jo Thorpe - "Phoebe and her charge at the Café Bella Figura" |
2011 Takahē SHORT STORY COMPETITION
The 2011 Takahē Short Story Competition was judged by
author and former Takahē Fiction Editor
ISA MOYNIHAN
| 1st | Deborah Rogers - "The Girl from Nanjing Road" |
| 2nd | Aaron Blaker - "Road Kill" |
| Highly Commended | Alex Stone - "River" |
| Highly Commended | Frances Mountier - "Alright" |
2010 Takahē CULTURAL STUDIES COMPETITION
The 2010 Takahē Cultural Studies Competition was judged by
DR. BRENDA ALLEN, RUDOLF BOELEE
and DR. CASSANDRA FUSCO
| 1st | Hayden Williams - "Panning Cambrian" |
| 2nd equal | Brigid Barrer - "Canterbury Paintings" |
| 2nd equal | Janet Charman - "A Reading of Four paintings by Marc Blake: Fucking Paradise, Everything I’ve ever known, Fleeting and ECHELON" |
| 4th | Janet Wainscott - "Into the Desert" |
2010 Takahē POETRY COMPETITION
The 2010 Takahē Poetry Competition was judged by
JAMES NORCLIFFE
| 1st | Sue Wootton - "Haunted" |
| 2nd | Tusiata Avia - "Wairua Rd" |
| Runner up | Sue Wootton - "Hatch" |
| Runner up | Aleksandra Lane - "The Economist" |
Organized by:
Takahe Collective Trust, Box 13-335, Christchurch 8141, New Zealand.