Eleanor Catton wins Audience's Choice Award

Eleanor Catton was presented with the Audience's Choice Award at this year's Once Upron a Deadline, a competition which sees six writers take to the streets. In the course of a single day they each visit six locations, and by the end of the day have created a story of no more than 1200 words inspired by their adventures. 

Watch Eleanor read her story here.

Eleanor Catton's first novel, THE REHEARSAL, was published by Granta in the UK in 2009.  She has been short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize; long-listed for the 2010 Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Amazon Rising Stars promotion 2009.  She was also winner of the Betty Trask Award for Best First Novel 2009, winner of the NZ Society of Authors' Hubert Church Best First Fiction Award and has been awarded the Amazon.ca First Novel Award 2011.  Eleanor is also the recipient of a 2010 New Generation Award.  She was also the recipient of the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship to study for a year at the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop in the US.