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Diane is a novelist, memoirist, and poet who runs an online and face to face creative writing school, Creative Writing Dunedin. During her residency –…

Ivy has been awarded a late summer residency, our fifth for the year and is working on a multi-volume collection, Diaspora. Ivy says ‘Diaspora is my…

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…

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…

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…

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. Their debut…

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…

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…