Hinekura is a Māori woman, educator, weaver, researcher and mother who descends from the Far North iwi of Te Rarawa and Nga Puhi in Aotearoa…
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Sam is an artist and writer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara, now at home in Māwhera. He has published two collections of poetry with Te Herenga Waka…
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Joy, our 13th resident for the year, lives in Pōneke. Her debut collection of short fiction Dream Girl was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2023. She completed her…
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While at the Michael King writers centre Barbara will be working on the final draft of The Mystifications, a slightly true novel about a mystery…
read moreMedia Release 27 June 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2025 Writers in Residence Programme The Michael King Writers Centre is pleased…
read moreMedia Release 18 June 2024 The Michael King Writers Centre announces recipients of International Exchange with Australia New Zealand writer Dominic Hoey and Australian writer…
read moreDr Kathryn Heyman is the author of six novels and the acclaimed memoir, Fury, which was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and…
read moreDominic 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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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, 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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