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 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…
read moreYvette Walker is an Australian LGBTQIA writer of Irish ancestry. She has a BA (Honours) and a PhD from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.…
read moreFrances was the third writer to go to Shanghai as part of our international exchange and had this to say about her experience: We were…
read moreAmy 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 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 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 is the author of several non-fiction books, short fiction and poetry. He was deputy editor at the NZ Listener and culture editor at…
read moreMedia 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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We are delighted to welcome Tracy back to the centre for a residency – she was a visiting writer in 2009 and worked on her…
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