Tania, Author at Michael King Writers Centre

Reawakened: Traditional navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa – Jeff Evans 2021

Reawakened: Traditional navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa – Jeff Evans 2021 https://writerscentre.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Pacific-Navigators-June-2021-Jeff-Evans.jpg 220 304 Michael King Writers Centre Michael King Writers Centre //writerscentre.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Michael-King-Writers-Centre-Logo.png June 10, 2021 June 15, 2022

This work of creative non- fiction profiling 10 contemporary navigators from across Polynesia who use traditional non-instrument techniques to guide their voyaging canoes is Jeff’s…

Things I Learned At Art School – Megan Dunn 2021

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Megan held our seventh residency for 2020 and worked on this, her second book about all of the things she learned at art school and…

Kate Duignan: 2021
Winter Residency

Kate Duignan: 2021
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Kate graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from VUW in 2000. Her MA project was her first novel, Breakwater. Kate has also published short…

Ingrid Horrocks: 2021
Autumn Residency 2

Ingrid Horrocks: 2021
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Our tenth writer-in-residence for the year, Ingrid, is working on a collection of interconnected short stories from women’s lives over a two-hundred-year period. Some of…

Jared Davidson: 2021
Autumn Residency

Jared Davidson: 2021
Autumn Residency https://writerscentre.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/9-Jared-Davidson-e1621315128529.jpg 1818 1817 Michael King Writers Centre Michael King Writers Centre //writerscentre.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Michael-King-Writers-Centre-Logo.png May 18, 2021 April 23, 2025

Jared is an archivist, historian and writer based in Wellington. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Overland, History Workshop Journal, The Spinoff, Newsroom and…

Nathan Joe: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency

Nathan Joe: 2021
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Nathan is an award-winning writer, theatre-maker and performance poet based in Ōtautahi. His work largely focuses on the slipperiness of identity and the politics of…

Steph Matuku: 2021
Established Māori Writers Residency

Steph Matuku: 2021
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Steph is an award-winning writer from Taranaki, New Zealand (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama, Te Ati Awa). She spent fifteen years writing radio advertising before deciding…

Gina Cole: 2021
Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Gina Cole: 2021
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Our sixth writer-in-residence for the year; Gina, is of Fijian, Scottish and Welsh descent. She is the author of Black Ice Matter, which won Best…

Rachael King: 2020
Early Summer Residency

Rachael King: 2020
Early Summer Residency https://writerscentre.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20-Rachael-King-e1615172835986.jpg 1321 1320 Michael King Writers Centre Michael King Writers Centre //writerscentre.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Michael-King-Writers-Centre-Logo.png March 8, 2021 March 8, 2021

We welcomed Rachael not only as our final writer-in-residence for 2020 but also, by wonderful coincidence as the 100th writer to take up a residency…

Suzette Jackson: 2021

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Suzette recently completed her MSW thesis titled: Career Pathways of Social Workers with Criminal Convictions: Gifted Healers and Misunderstood Misfits. She used her week at…

Tania

Reawakened: Traditional navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa – Jeff Evans 2021

Things I Learned At Art School – Megan Dunn 2021

Kate Duignan: 2021 Winter Residency

Ingrid Horrocks: 2021 Autumn Residency 2

Jared Davidson: 2021 Autumn Residency

Nathan Joe: 2021 Emerging Writers Residency

Steph Matuku: 2021 Established Māori Writers Residency

Gina Cole: 2021 Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Rachael King: 2020 Early Summer Residency

Suzette Jackson: 2021

Kate Duignan: 2021
Winter Residency

Ingrid Horrocks: 2021
Autumn Residency 2

Jared Davidson: 2021
Autumn Residency

Nathan Joe: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency

Steph Matuku: 2021
Established Māori Writers Residency

Gina Cole: 2021
Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Rachael King: 2020
Early Summer Residency