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Wednesday 20 January 2021
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Young writer “awards’

By Mark Tronson - Press Service International
Photo - 2019 NZ Basil Sellers Over 31s Award ‘Emma McGeorge’ presented by Russell Modlin

Each year Press Service International presents awards at its annual conferences to those young writers whom a group of Panellists mark their articles.

That sounds very simple, the issue is that there are different groups of young writers and each of those groups have a bunch of panellists – five panellists in each.

Let me understand this

Australians 18-30 years  -  one group of young writers

Kiwis 18-30  -  a second group of young writers
Internationals 18-30  -  a third group of young writers

Sport  -  a fourth group of young writers

Over 31s Australians  -  a fifth group of young writers

Over 31s Inter’ls and NZ   -  a sixth group of young writers

Where do the panellists fit

There are six separate groups listed above. Each of those groups have allocated five people who serve as panellists.

5 panellists for Aust 18-30

5 panellists for Kiwis 18-30

5 panellists for Internationals 18-30

5 panellists for Sport writers

5 panellists for Aust Over 31s

5 panellists for Inter’ls / NZ Over 1s

How do the Panellists do their thing

In 2020 the Panellists role has become much more simple. This year the young writers send in what they consider to be their BEST article between January and July. That is one selected from the five they have written.

In July the panellists in their groups mark only what each young writer in their group considers their BEST article. That will be in early July.

It was a constant search for panellists when each panellist was required to mark each and every article and then a statistician collated the points. But in 2020 is has become a much more simple process, whereby the panellists only mark ONE article from the young writers in each group.

Photo  -  2019 NZ Youth Development Award  -  Rebecca Hoverd and Jessica Knell 

Set out an example

Let us take the Kiwi young writers – 18-30 age group.

Jessica McPherson

Matthew Thornton

Rebecca Hoverd

Sunny Kang

Rebecca Howan

Barry Kirby
Ethan Miller

Jessica Knell

Caleb Haurua

Richard Kwon

Blake Gardiner

Kate Tooke

Kevin Park

Araina Pereria

Manuele Teofilo

Harrison Bellve

Chanell Diaz

Total 17

In July each of these Kiwi young writers will send in what they each consider to be their BEST article.

Those 17 articles are then collated and sent to the five Kiwi Panellists

Brian Carrell   -    NZ Anglican Bishop Ret.

Christina Tyson  -  fmr NZ Salvation Army Media head

Liz Hay   -  retired Editor

Wayne Graham  -  editor of NZ Daily Encourager

Sarah Richards  -  former Bible Society Editor

Then what happens

The five NZ Panellists send their respective marks to the statistician who collates and does the count. There are various awards as to the marking outcomes.

NZ Basil Sellers Award

NZ Tronson Consistency

NZ Theology

NZ Youth Development

The same applies to each group with a different set of panellists.

The 2020 awards will be presented at the PSI annual young writer conference on Saturday 12 September on the Gold Coast  -  adjacent to the Gold Coast Airport, Living Temple Christian Church (Tugun Baptist).

 Photo  -  Sport writers Wes Tronson and David Goodwin 2019 PSI Melbourne young writer conf.  

Dr Mark Tronson is a Baptist minister (retired) who served as the Australian cricket team chaplain for 17 years (2000 ret) and established Life After Cricket in 2001. He was recognised by the Olympic Ministry Medal in 2009 presented by Carl Lewis Olympian of the Century. He mentors young writers and has written 24 books, and enjoys writing. He is married to Delma, with four adult children and grand-children. Dr Tronson writes a daily article for Christian Today Australia (since 2008) and in November 2016 established Christian Today New Zealand. Dr Mark Tronson’s Press Service International in 2019 was awarded the Australasian Religious Press Association’s premier award, The Gutenberg. In September 2020 Summer Moore presented her commission portrait of Dr Mark Tronson holding the Gutenberg plaque. The above photo is the upper part from this portrait.

Mark Tronson's archive of articles can be viewed at: http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/mark-tronson.html

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