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Emma Neale: 2025
Summer Writers Residency

Emma Neale: 2025
Summer Writers Residency
1660 1610 Michael King Writers Centre

Emma is the author of six novels, seven collections of poetry, and a collection of short stories. Her sixth novel, Billy Bird (2016) was short-listed…

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Kirsteen Ure: 2025
Emerging Writers Residency

Kirsteen Ure: 2025
Emerging Writers Residency
580 548 Michael King Writers Centre

Kirsteen holds our first residency for the year. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau, she has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland and…

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Dr Hinekura Smith: 2024 Emerging Māori Writers Residency

Dr Hinekura Smith: 2024 Emerging Māori Writers Residency 1706 1706 Michael King Writers Centre

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 Duckor-Jones: 2024
Spring Residency

Sam Duckor-Jones: 2024
Spring Residency
1920 1920 Michael King Writers Centre

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 Holley: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Joy Holley: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency
563 563 Michael King Writers Centre

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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Barbara Sumner: 2024
Winter Residency

Barbara Sumner: 2024
Winter Residency
2560 2560 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Applications for MKWC 2025 Residency Programme Open

Applications for MKWC 2025 Residency Programme Open 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Media 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…

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Recipients of International Exchange with Australia Announced

Recipients of International Exchange with Australia Announced 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Media Release 18 June 2024  The Michael King Writers Centre announces recipients of International Exchange with Australia New Zealand writer Dominic Hoey and Australian writer…

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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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