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Kathryn Heyman: 2024 Australian Residency Exchange – to MKWC
Kathryn Heyman: 2024 Australian Residency Exchange – to MKWC 1660 1660 Michael King Writers Centre

Dr Kathryn Heyman is the author of six novels and the acclaimed memoir, Fury, which was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and…

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Dominic Hoey: 2024 Australian Residency Exchange – to Varuna
Dominic Hoey: 2024 Australian Residency Exchange – to Varuna 1604 1604 Michael King Writers Centre

Dominic is a Tāmaki Makaurau based poet, author and playwright. His two novels, Iceland and Poor People With Money were New Zealand bestsellers. Iceland was…

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Dr Darryn Joseph: 2024
Established Māori Writers Residency
Dr Darryn Joseph: 2024
Established Māori Writers Residency 1080 1080 Michael King Writers Centre

Darryn (Ngāti Maniapoto) is a Palmerston North-based academic, writer and pāpā of three. He has written in te reo Māori short stories, board books, picture…

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Craig Cliff: 2024
Late Autumn Residency
Craig Cliff: 2024
Late Autumn Residency 2046 2048 Michael King Writers Centre

Craig, our tenth writer-in-residence, is the author of the novels Nailing Down the Saint and The Mannequin Makers, and the story collection A Man Melting, which won the 2011…

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Frances Turner: 2024
Frances Turner: 2024 480 640 Michael King Writers Centre

Frances (Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation, European) is a proud mother of two divine daughters, an arts leader with…

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Amanda Wenger: 2023
Amanda Wenger: 2023 724 1086 Michael King Writers Centre

Amanda, (she/her) is a Houston-based writer and performer with a background in critical care nursing.  She has designed and facilitated writing workshops for health professionals…

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Michael Botur: 2023 + 2022
Michael Botur: 2023 + 2022 2560 1707 Michael King Writers Centre

Michael is a fiction writer and poet who lives in Whangārei. He is the author of thirteen books and has received numerous fiction writing awards. He…

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Chris Sanguin: 2023
Chris Sanguin: 2023 567 436 Michael King Writers Centre

Chris joined the University of Edinburgh in 2015 as Professor of Technology Enhanced Science Education. His learning and teaching interests include (i) automatic assessment of…

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Philip Palios: 2022 + 2023
Philip Palios: 2022 + 2023 960 960 Michael King Writers Centre

Philip is a writer and community publishing advocate from the Coast Salish region of North America.  His first novel, Electric Love (2016) explores an activist’s…

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Claire Mabey: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency
Claire Mabey: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency 1920 1920 Michael King Writers Centre

Claire is the founder of literary organisations Verb Wellington and LitCrawl Wellington. She is co-curator of the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts’ writers…

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