Anna Taylor (writer)

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Anna Taylor
BornAnna Horsley
1982 (age 39–40)
New Zealand

Anna Taylor (born 1982) is an author from New Zealand.

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Background

Taylor was born in 1982. In 2006 she received her MA in creative writing at the Victoria University of Wellington. Taylor lives in Wellington, New Zealand. [1]

Career

Until 2009, Taylor published under the name Anna Horsley. Taylor is her mother's surname. [2]

Taylor's first collection of short stories, Relief, was published in 2009 by Victoria University Press. [3]

Fiction by Taylor been published in a number of anthologies and literary journals including The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories, [4] Sport, [5] Turbine, [6] and Hue&Cry. [7]

Taylor is currently a creative writing tutor at Whitireia New Zealand. [8]

Awards

Relief won the 2010 NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards. [9]

While at the Victoria University of Wellington Taylor won the 2006 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for the manuscript Going Under: Stories (which was later published as Relief). [10]

In 2009 she received the Todd New Writer's Bursary from Creative New Zealand. [11]

In 2012 she received the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship with David Lyndon Brown. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Anna Taylor". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Anna Taylor". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Taylor, Anna (2009). Relief. Victoria University Press. ISBN   9780864735874.
  4. ↑ Morris, Paula, ed. (2009). The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories. Penguin New Zealand. ISBN   9780143006817.
  5. ↑ "Sport: Anna Horsley". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Horsley, Anna (2006). "The Dress". Turbine. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Anna Taylor". Hue & Cry. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Creative Writing & Publishing Tutors". Whitireia. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  9. ↑ "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "Prize winners". International Institute of Modern Letters | Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  11. ↑ "Creative New Zealand Grants" (PDF). Creative New Zealand. 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  12. ↑ "Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship | Stipend for Published NZ Writers". Grimshaw. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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