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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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Tracy Farr: 2021
Late Winter Residency
Tracy Farr: 2021
Late Winter Residency 399 399 Michael King Writers Centre

Tracy is a Wellington writer who used to be a scientist. Her debut novel, The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt, was long- and shortlisted…

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Kate Mildenhall: 2022 Australian Residency Exchange – to MKWC
Kate Mildenhall: 2022 Australian Residency Exchange – to MKWC 894 894 Michael King Writers Centre

Kate is the much-acclaimed author of the novels Skylarking (Black Inc.) and The Mother Fault (S&S). The Mother Fault was longlisted for the 2021 ABIA…

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Octavia Cade: 2021
Winter Residency 3
Octavia Cade: 2021
Winter Residency 3 254 254 Michael King Writers Centre

We have welcomed our 13th writer-in-residence. Octavia  is a Cambridge based writer with a PhD in science communication. She likes using speculative fiction to talk…

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Chris Maclean: 2021
Chris Maclean: 2021 960 960 Michael King Writers Centre

Chris is a Waikanae based writer and publisher with a keen interest in the outdoors. An early career as a stained-glass artist led to his…

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Kyle Mewburn: 2021
Winter Residency 2
Kyle Mewburn: 2021
Winter Residency 2 1708 1706 Michael King Writers Centre

Kyle is one of New Zealand’s most eclectic and prolific writers. From multi-layered picture books (Old-Hu-hu; Hill & Hole) to laugh-out-loud junior fiction series (Dinosaur…

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Reawakened: Traditional navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa – Jeff Evans 2021
Reawakened: Traditional navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa – Jeff Evans 2021 220 304 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Things I Learned At Art School – Megan Dunn 2021
Things I Learned At Art School – Megan Dunn 2021 257 400 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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