Congratulations to Rebecca Tansley who has been awarded Seed funding in the New Zealand Writers Guild's first round for 2020. The NZWG says the application rate for this round was excellent, with 153 Seed and 28 Seed Advanced applications received. Rebecca's funding is for her project Portrait Of A Modern Woman, about a woman who leaves behind life in colonial New Zealand to endure loneliness, poverty and prejudice on her quest to conquer the European art world.