Calling all writers, poets and playwrights! CompleteMS manuscript assessment programme on offer
By Read NZ | Posted:
The NZSA CompleteMS Programme is supported by Creative NZ and is open to financial members of the NZSA.
The aim of the programme is to provide writers with that essential critical feedback on an advanced work, moving it closer to publication.
Manuscripts should be at 2nd or 3rd draft and can be poetry, fiction, short fiction or non-fiction; the emphasis is on a completed work that the writer feels requires the objective view of an experienced assessor who can provide constructive critiquing and suggestions for improvement and refinement. There are 13 CompleteMS assessments available.
APPLICATIONS FOR 2021 PROGRAMME OPEN 1 MARCH
Applications for the NZSA CompleteMS Programme are available as online forms. You need to fill out the online form and pay the application fee. (If you are a new member and have not yet received your membership number, write ‘new member’ for the membership question in the form.)
Applications to this programme are online only. We do not require printed versions of your application.
CompleteMS Programme application form
CompleteMS Programme Information
Here's what two writers had to say about their CompleteMS assessment:
“An assessment can pick up a manuscript, give it a shake-up and a new eye and give a writer a different direction and a boost for their work.”
“If any writer is harbouring doubts about where to take his/her manuscript, the CompleteMS programme provides a handy compass.”
This programme is made possible thanks to support from Creative New Zealand
Pictures and profiles of CompleteMS recipients of 2020
Pictures and profiles of CompleteMS recipients of 2016
Pictures and profiles of CompleteMS recipients of 2017
Pictures and profiles of CompleteMS recipients of 2018
Pictures and profiles of CompleteMS recipients of 2019
More info about applying for CompleteMS (including guidelines for writing a synopsis)