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Colleen Maria Lenihan: 2019
Emerging Māori Writers Residency

Colleen Maria Lenihan: 2019
Emerging Māori Writers Residency
1335 1333 Michael King Writers Centre

Colleen is of Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi and Irish descent. After returning to New Zealand in 2016 after fifteen years in Tokyo and one in New…

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Steven Toussaint: 2019
Summer Writers Residency

Steven Toussaint: 2019
Summer Writers Residency
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Steve is working on his third full-length collection of poetry that explores the climate of reproach and apology that pervades our public discourse today and…

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Yvette Walker: 2019
Emerging Writers Residency

Yvette Walker: 2019
Emerging Writers Residency
2047 2047 Michael King Writers Centre

Yvette, our second resident for the year is a LGBTQIA writer who was born in Australia and is now a New Zealand resident living in…

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Rachel O’Neill: 2019
Emerging Writers Residency

Rachel O’Neill: 2019
Emerging Writers Residency
603 603 Michael King Writers Centre

We have welcomed Rachel as our first writer-in-residence for the year. Rachel is a filmmaker, writer and artist based in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara, Aotearoa. Her debut…

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Serie Barford: 2018
Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Serie Barford: 2018
Established Pasifika Writers Residency
1179 1179 Michael King Writers Centre

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
165 165 Michael King Writers Centre

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

Yvette Walker: 2018 726 726 Michael King Writers Centre

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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