The NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize is an award for published and unpublished New Zealand writers.
Laura Solomon was a poet, novelist, playwright and software developer and a long time member of NZSA.
When she was 22, her first novel Black Light was published, but her writing career was later cut short by the diagnosis of a brain tumour and she died on 18 February 2019, aged 44.
The judging criteria, as set by Laura Solomon, call for new writing with a unique and original vision.
It is judged by a three-person panel consisting of one New Zealand literary figure and representatives from the Solomon family and The Cuba Press.