Mojozone - NZ rock climbing info and forum Climber News PDF Guide downloads
New Zealand Alpine Club Main Menu

User login

Join the club, Renew, Buy a guidebook, Donate

Join the NZACBuy a guidebookHuts and LodgesRecreation advocacy - have your sayJoin the NZACBuy a guidebook

The 70th Issue Climber - Creative Writing Competition

To celebrate the 70th edition of The Climber, Macpac and the NZAC hosted a Creative Writing Short Story Competition open to all readers of the magazine. The winning entries were announced and published in The Climber edition 71. Stories could be either fiction or non-fiction, but an additional award was to be given to the best pure fiction piece received.

All the following are in printable PDF format. If you are unable to view this format please visit the site www.adobe.com to obtain a free download of the software.


1st Prize
was a Macpac Sundowner 600 loft down jacket

Winner: Ticked by Esther Packard Hill (14kb) (also winner of the special prize for best fiction piece - a copy of Colin Monteath's book 'Under a Sheltering Sky'

2nd Prize was a Macpac Balfour windproof fleece

Winner: David by Fran Pothecary (21kb)

3rd Prize was a Macpac Horizen Tee

Winner: It Ended With A Bottleby Bruce White(19kb)

Other entries received were:

Bruce Naylor by Bruce Naylor (8kb)

Ground Up by Tom Williams (16kb)

Ice Cold Hell by Jamie Blower (16kb)

Into the Silence by Anna Gerber (21kb)

Japanese Tea With Salt by Adele Rewiti (41kb)

Just Another Day in the Hills by Neil Hickman (18kb)

Mount Aspiring by Davina Jones (26kb)

My First Journey Into the Alpine Environs by Nin Sawicki (18kb)

Sale of the Century by Paul Prince (16kb)

Signals by Kate Williman (17kb)

Solo Echo by Sarah Wilson (830kb)

The Nuns Veil by Paul Crowe (17kb)

Tititea Speaks by Nina Sawicki (16kb)

To Aspire by Nina Sawicki (6kb)

X Marks the Moments by Cormac Flynn (17kb)

 


.