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Miro Bilbrough: 2021
Established Writers Residency

Miro Bilbrough: 2021
Established Writers Residency
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Miro is a filmmaker, filmmaking teacher and a poet whose memoir of a counterculture New Zealand adolescence, In the Time of the Manaroans (Victoria Univeristy…

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Jordan Hamel: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency

Jordan Hamel: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency
1708 1707 Michael King Writers Centre

Jordan Hamel is a Pōneke-based writer, poet and performer. He grew up in Timaru on a healthy diet of Catholicism and toxic masculinity. He was…

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Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency

Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency
1075 1075 Michael King Writers Centre

Zarah is a writer from Auckland. She is the author of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life (Giramondo Publishing, 2021) and Autobiography of a Marguerite (Hue…

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Helen Vivienne Fletcher: 2021
Established Writers Residency

Helen Vivienne Fletcher: 2021
Established Writers Residency
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Helen is a widely published children’s and young adult author, spoken word poet and award-winning playwright. She has written an impressive collection of work for…

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Pip Desmond: 2021
Established Writers Residency

Pip Desmond: 2021
Established Writers Residency
1373 1373 Michael King Writers Centre

Pip is a Wellington writer, editor and oral historian who specialises in creative non-fiction. Her memoir Song for Rosaleen, about caring for her mother when…

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Kiran Dass: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency

Kiran Dass: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency
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The first writer to have the timing of her residency affected by the pandemic; Kiran reviews books regularly on RNZ and her writing has appeared…

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Michael King Writers Centre 2022 Residency Recipients Announced

Michael King Writers Centre 2022 Residency Recipients Announced 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Media Release 15 November 2021 The Michael King Writers Centre announces 2022 Residencies This year’s Michael King Writers Centre residency selection panel had their work…

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MKWC Announces An International Exchange With Australia

MKWC Announces An International Exchange With Australia 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Media Release 14 July 2021  The Michael King Writers Centre Announces An International Exchange With Australia Kate Mildenhall has been announced as the recipient of…

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Majella Cullinane: 2021

Majella Cullinane: 2021 1920 1920 Michael King Writers Centre

We welcomed Majella as the recipient of the 2021 NZSA Auckland Museum Research Grant which included four weeks of residency time at MKWC. Majella writes…

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The Last Guests – Josh Pomare 2021

The Last Guests – Josh Pomare 2021 258 400 Michael King Writers Centre

This is the novel Josh worked on when he was our third resident for 2020 and was here in January – before the pandemic changed…

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