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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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Kate Duignan: 2021
Winter Residency
Kate Duignan: 2021
Winter Residency 1708 1707 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Ingrid Horrocks: 2021
Autumn Residency 2
Ingrid Horrocks: 2021
Autumn Residency 2 1707 1708 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Jared Davidson: 2021
Autumn Residency
Jared Davidson: 2021
Autumn Residency 1818 1817 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Nathan Joe: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency
Nathan Joe: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency 1707 1708 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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