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Gina Cole: 2022 Australian Residency Exchange – to Varuna
Gina Cole: 2022 Australian Residency Exchange – to Varuna 1708 1707 Michael King Writers Centre

Gina is of Fijian, Scottish and Welsh descent. She is a freelance writer and lives in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her collection Black Ice Matter won the…

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Tara Black: 2022
Emerging Writers Residency
Tara Black: 2022
Emerging Writers Residency 1708 1707 Michael King Writers Centre

Tara is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara based cartoonist and art school drop-out. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from Massey University and can often be…

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Bloody Woman – Lana Lopesi 2021
Bloody Woman – Lana Lopesi 2021 400 600 Michael King Writers Centre

Lana was our our fourth writer-in-residence for 2021 and worked on this book, her second manuscript – a work that seeks to build a speculative…

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Michele Powles: 2022
Autumn Residency
Michele Powles: 2022
Autumn Residency 1707 1708 Michael King Writers Centre

Our seventh resident for the year, Michele has been a writer, producer and dancer across the globe. Her fiction and non-fiction has been published widely…

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MKWC Announces Inaugural Residency with Australia
MKWC Announces Inaugural Residency with Australia 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Media Release 30 March 2022   New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its Inaugural 2022 International Residency with Australia The Michael King Writers Centre in…

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Matthew Packer: 2022
Emerging Writers Residency
Matthew Packer: 2022
Emerging Writers Residency 587 587 Michael King Writers Centre

Matthew is a writer, scholar, and teacher based in Wellington. He returned home in 2021 after several years teaching university English in Iowa. Much of…

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Ashleigh Young: 2022
Late Summer Residency
Ashleigh Young: 2022
Late Summer Residency 1920 1920 Michael King Writers Centre

We have welcomed our fifth writer-in-residence for the 2022 Programme… Ashleigh is the author of How I Get Ready (VUP, 2019), Can You Tolerate This? (VUP, 2016), and Magnificent Moon (VUP,…

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Scott Butler: 2022
Established Māori Writers Residency
Scott Butler: 2022
Established Māori Writers Residency 1920 1920 Michael King Writers Centre

Scott’s (Ngāti Kahu), first home was on an air-force base in Blenheim, New Zealand. His love of books came from the birthday gift his father…

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Faith Wilson: 2022
Emerging Pasifika Writers Residency
Faith Wilson: 2022
Emerging Pasifika Writers Residency 1707 1708 Michael King Writers Centre

Faith (Sāmoa|Germany, Clan Gunn|England), is a writer and editor who grew up in the Waikato but now lives in Tāmaki Makaurau. She is the founder…

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Shilo Kino: 2022
Emerging Māori Writers Residency
Shilo Kino: 2022
Emerging Māori Writers Residency 1349 1349 Michael King Writers Centre

Our second writer-in-residence for the year, Shilo (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Maniapoto) is an award-winning writer and journalist. The Pōrangi Boy is her first book and the…

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