I fell in love with Michael King in the late 1970’s. A fellow Sagittarian, my soul mate, the love of my life. My hero in…
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Victor holds the University of Auckland Residency which he started on the 19th of February and is our fourth residency for the year. He will…
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Our second residency for the year is held by Rosetta and she is working on her second novel. Rosetta spent her formative writing years developing…
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Lawrence holds our third residency for the year and is working on a literary novel of communities in turmoil, set on a future Kāpiti Coast.…
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Ivy Alvarez is the author of The Everyday English Dictionary (London: Paekakariki Press, 2016), Hollywood Starlet (Chicago: dancing girl press), Disturbance (Wales: Seren, 2013), and Mortal. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her…
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Allan is our first writer in residence for 2018 and is working on some contemporary short fiction. Allan recently completed his PhD in creative writing…
read moreMedia Release 23 May 2018 Frances Edmond joins 2018 Shanghai Writing Program Frances Edmond has been selected as the third New Zealand writer to join…
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Xiao Bai who held the 2015 Rewi Alley Fellowship at the Michael King Writers Centre.
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The Michael King Writers’ Centre is pleased to offer workshops on writing memoir with author, film and art historian, and life writing mentor Deborah Shepard.…
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