Anzac Bridge Fellowship

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The Anzac Bridge Fellowship is a yearly award run by New Zealand Pacific Studio. It is connected to the ANZAC Memorial Bridge at Kaiparoro in northern Wairarapa and is open to writers and artists from any creative background. It is offered with The Friends of ANZAC Bridge, New Zealand Pacific Studio, and Trust House Community Enterprise, Masterton, and began in 2006. The fellowship focuses on war, peace, memory and history, and it has a strong link to the Kaiparoro bridge.

Projects must involve the communities around Eketāhuna and Northern Masterton (including Kaiparoro, Mount Bruce, Mauriceville, Rongokokako and Nireaha) and contribute to or enrich the annual Anzac Day memorial service at the Kaiparoro Bridge. The fellowship lasts three weeks in April, leading up to Anzac Day on 25 April.

Past fellows:
- 2014 – Anna Borrie, multimedia artist: Fiordland Harakeke Cloak Remembrance Project
- 2015 – Connah Podmore, interdisciplinary artist: Writing to History
- 2016 – Philippa Werry, author: Two Bridges, Two Countries
- 2017 – Christine Yardley, theatre and ceramics artist: For King and Country (community concerts)
- 2018 – Rebecca Holden, visual artist: A Home Away From Home (WWI project about the women who ran the Aotea Convalescent Home in Egypt)
- 2019 – Karen Wrigglesworth, writer and engineer: Whanganui Memorials – Keepers of the stories we tell ourselves
- 2020 – Esther Bunning, portrait painter: photographing horses and designing flags and banners across six towns