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Daren Kamali: 2024
Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Daren Kamali: 2024
Established Pasifika Writers Residency
323 323 Michael King Writers Centre

Fijian writer Daren Kamali is a poet, writer and musician, creative arts youth worker and mentor. He cofounded the South Auckland Poets Collective in 2008.…

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Vasanti Unka: 2024
Early Autumn Residency

Vasanti Unka: 2024
Early Autumn Residency
480 480 Michael King Writers Centre

Vasanti writes, illustrates and designs books for ages, four to forever. Her picture books have sold around the world and won numerous awards. Vasanti is…

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Dani Yourukova: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Dani Yourukova: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency
1706 1706 Michael King Writers Centre

Dani, our fifth writer-in-residence for 2024 is a wellington-based writer of poetry, essays, scripts and short fiction. They completed their Masters of Creative Writing at…

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Tehnuka Ilanko: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Tehnuka Ilanko: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency
1561 1561 Michael King Writers Centre

Tehnuka (she/they) is a Tamil tauiwi volcanologist born and raised in Ōtautahi, and living in Kirikiriroa. She has over thirty short stories, poems, and essays…

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Sonya Wilson: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Sonya Wilson: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency
876 876 Michael King Writers Centre

Sonya is an award-winning writer, reporter and producer and is the founder and Executive Director of the children’s charity Kiwi Christmas Books. She was a broadcast…

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Guy Langford: 2024
New Year Residency

Guy Langford: 2024
New Year Residency
1706 1706 Michael King Writers Centre

Guy is a writer, composer, actor, producer and teacher. He trained at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School and international theatre school École Philippe Gaulier,…

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Rose Lu: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Rose Lu: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency
1706 1706 Michael King Writers Centre

We have welcomed Rose, a Wellington based writer, as our first writer-in-residence for 2024. Rose gained her Masters of Creative Writing at the International Institute…

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MKWC 2024 Residencies Announced

MKWC 2024 Residencies Announced 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Media Release 1 December 2023 The Michael King Writers Centre announces 2024 Residencies This year’s Michael King Writers Centre residency selection panel once again had…

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Ruby Porter: 2023
Emerging Writers Residency

Ruby Porter: 2023
Emerging Writers Residency
1706 1706 Michael King Writers Centre

Our final writer-in-residence for the year, Ruby is a prose-writer, poet and artist. She tutors creative writing at the University of Auckland, and in high…

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Joan Fleming: 2023
Early Summer Residency

Joan Fleming: 2023
Early Summer Residency
1841 1842 Michael King Writers Centre

Joan’s latest book is Song of Less (Cordite Books, 2022), a verse novel exploring ritual, taboo, and the limits of individualism in the ruins of ecological…

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