The New Zealand Society of Authors is pleased to announce that the recipient of the Lillian Ida Smith Award is Auckland writer John MacKinven.
The award attracted 59 applications but judging panel convenor Robert Elliot says John ’s manuscript outline stood out for meeting the most critical elements of the criteria set for the award and his entry deserved the opportunity to move closer to completion.
John’s project, a literary crime novel, grew out of a story of the same name (Snow on the Desert Road) that came first equal in the Heartland short story competition in 2008.