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Gillian Candler: 2022
Winter Residency

Gillian Candler: 2022
Winter Residency
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Our tenth writer-in-residence for the year, Gillian is an award-winning children’s author. Her books include the popular “Explore and Discover” series about nature habitats. Her…

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Kurangaituku – Whiti Hereaka 2021

Kurangaituku – Whiti Hereaka 2021 300 400 Michael King Writers Centre

Whiti has twice held a MKWC Residency, (2012/2017) and joined the Michael King Writers Centre Trust in June 2019. Kurangaituku is Whiti’s fourth novel and…

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Sinead Overbye: 2022
Emerging Māori Writers Residency

Sinead Overbye: 2022
Emerging Māori Writers Residency
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Our ninth resident for the year, Sinead (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou) is a kairangahau and writer who lives in Wellington. Her work has been…

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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
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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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