Tania, Author at Michael King Writers Centre

Philip Palios: 2022 + 2023

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Philip is a writer and community publishing advocate from the Coast Salish region of North America. His first novel, Electric Love (2016) explores an activist’s…

Claire Mabey: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Claire Mabey: 2024
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Claire is the founder of literary organisations Verb Wellington and LitCrawl Wellington. She is co-curator of the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts’ writers…

Hazel Phillips: 2024
Autumn Residency

Hazel Phillips: 2024
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Hazel, our eighth Writer-in-residence for the year, is the author of three books: Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand (MUP, 2022); Wild Westie (Penguin,…

Sharon White: 2024

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Sharon is the author of several books of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction, including Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia, winner of the AWP award in…

Daren Kamali: 2024
Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Daren Kamali: 2024
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Fijian writer Daren Kamali is a poet, writer and musician, creative arts youth worker and mentor. He cofounded the South Auckland Poets Collective in 2008.…

Vasanti Unka: 2024
Early Autumn Residency

Vasanti Unka: 2024
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Vasanti writes, illustrates and designs books for ages, four to forever. Her picture books have sold around the world and won numerous awards. Vasanti is…

Dani Yourukova: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Dani Yourukova: 2024
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Dani, our fifth writer-in-residence for 2024 is a wellington-based writer of poetry, essays, scripts and short fiction. They completed their Masters of Creative Writing at…

The Grimmelings – Rachael King 2024

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We welcomed Rachael not only as our final writer-in-residence for 2020 but also, by wonderful coincidence as the 100th writer to take up a residency…

Tehnuka Ilanko: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Tehnuka Ilanko: 2024
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Tehnuka (she/they) is a Tamil tauiwi volcanologist born and raised in Ōtautahi, and living in Kirikiriroa. She has over thirty short stories, poems, and essays…

Sonya Wilson: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Sonya Wilson: 2024
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Sonya is an award-winning writer, reporter and producer and is the founder and Executive Director of the children’s charity Kiwi Christmas Books. She was a broadcast…

Tania

Philip Palios: 2022 + 2023

Claire Mabey: 2024 Emerging Writers Residency

Hazel Phillips: 2024 Autumn Residency

Sharon White: 2024

Daren Kamali: 2024 Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Vasanti Unka: 2024 Early Autumn Residency

Dani Yourukova: 2024 Emerging Writers Residency

The Grimmelings – Rachael King 2024

Tehnuka Ilanko: 2024 Emerging Writers Residency

Sonya Wilson: 2024 Emerging Writers Residency

Claire Mabey: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Hazel Phillips: 2024
Autumn Residency

Daren Kamali: 2024
Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Vasanti Unka: 2024
Early Autumn Residency

Dani Yourukova: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Tehnuka Ilanko: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Sonya Wilson: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency