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Serie Barford: 2018
Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Serie Barford: 2018
Established Pasifika Writers Residency
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We have welcomed Serie as our fourteenth and last resident for the year. Serie was born in Aotearoa to a migrant German-Samoan mother and a Palagi…

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Signals 2018 Launched

Signals 2018 Launched 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Media Release 10 December 2018  Signals 2018 Launched The Michael King Writers Centre launched the seventh issue of Signals, its literary journal for young writers,…

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Pala Molisa: 2018
Emerging Pasifika Writers Residency

Pala Molisa: 2018
Emerging Pasifika Writers Residency
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Pala Molisa is a Ni-Vanuatu academic who has recently finished teaching at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Accounting and Commercial Law. His PhD looked…

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Yvette Walker: 2018

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Yvette Walker is an Australian LGBTQIA writer of Irish ancestry. She has a BA (Honours) and a PhD from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.…

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Frances Edmond – Shanghai 2018

Frances Edmond – Shanghai 2018 1134 1134 Michael King Writers Centre

Frances was the third writer to go to Shanghai as part of our international exchange and had this to say about her experience: We were…

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Amy McDaid: 2018

Amy McDaid: 2018 715 715 Michael King Writers Centre

Amy McDaid has a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. The draft of her first novel Wind Air Sky Guy won the…

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Trevor Bentley: 2018
Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Trevor Bentley: 2018
Established Pasifika Writers Residency
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Trevor was educated at the Auckland and Waikato Universities and has a special interest in researching, teaching and writing about the interaction of Māori and…

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Karyn Hay: 2018
Late Spring Residency (2)

Karyn Hay: 2018
Late Spring Residency (2)
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Karyn Hay is an award-winning novelist and broadcaster: her debut novel Emerald Budgies won the New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book…

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Mark Broatch: 2018
Late Spring Residency (1)

Mark Broatch: 2018
Late Spring Residency (1)
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Mark Broatch is the author of several non-fiction books, short fiction and poetry. He was deputy editor at the NZ Listener and culture editor at…

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Michael King Writers Centre 2019 Residency Recipients Announced

Michael King Writers Centre 2019 Residency Recipients Announced 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Media Release 10 October 2018 Michael King Writers Centre 2019 Residency Recipients Announced From a history of the Listener to a series of inter-linked short…

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