2024 RA

Tehnuka Ilanko: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Tehnuka Ilanko: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency
1561 1561 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Sonya Wilson: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Sonya Wilson: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency
876 876 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Guy Langford: 2024
New Year Residency

Guy Langford: 2024
New Year Residency
1706 1706 Michael King Writers Centre

Guy is a writer, composer, actor, producer and teacher. He trained at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School and international theatre school École Philippe Gaulier,…

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Rose Lu: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Rose Lu: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency
1706 1706 Michael King Writers Centre

We have welcomed Rose, a Wellington based writer, as our first writer-in-residence for 2024. Rose gained her Masters of Creative Writing at the International Institute…

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