1. 1. Anthology of winners 2007 2010 Royal Society of New Zealand MANHIRE PRIZE for CREATIVE SCIENCE WRITING
2. 2. The Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing is an annual creative science writing competition to encourage science communication through the written word. A different theme is chosen annually and writers of all kinds are asked to submit a short story which can be ction or non-ction. The competition has been running since 2004 and the two winning pieces have been published annually in the New Zealand Listener.
3. 3. The Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing Framework Fiction winners Non Fiction winners
4. 4. Here is a story I once heard from a Dutch writer. One evening two frogs fell into a vat of milk. One was a scientist. The other was a poet. The scientist trod water for a while, then did a rapid calculation involving the buoyancy of his frog-body in milk. It was clear that he could not last. He gave a sigh and sank to the bottom, where he drowned. The poet tried to remember what he knew about milk. Something about the milk of paradise, came to mind. There was something, too, about the milk of human kindness. Some lines for a new poem of his own also occurred to him, though we will not quote them here. And all the while he went on treading water or, more accurately, milk occasionally wondering how long he could last. In the morning, the farmers wife came into the dairy. There in the vat was a large block of butter and lying on top a small, exhausted frog. Bill Manhire
5. 5. Framework 2007 Climate Change 2008 Evolution
6. 6. 2009 Edge of the Universe 2010 The Mind
7. 7. 16 Planets by Bryan Walpert
8. 8. Waimate by Dave Armstrong
9. 9. Strandings by Katie Henderson
10. 10. Heaven in the mind by Isobel Gabites
11. 11. Touchstones by Alison Ballance
12. 12. Bibliography
13. 13. Progress, Laughter, Sex. But not in that order. by Will Catton
14. 14. Bibliography
15. 15. Twitch by Tina Makereti
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17. 17. Dark energy beyond the reception rooms: the mind, love, and Tolstoy by Alice Miller
18. 18. Bibliography