RESIDENCY ALUMNI

Bren MacDibble: 2020
Established Writers Residency*Postponed to 2022

Bren MacDibble: 2020
Established Writers Residency*Postponed to 2022
1804 1804 Michael King Writers Centre

Born in Whanganui and raised on farms around the North Island, Bren MacDibble incorporates her love of the land into her environmentally themed children’s books.…

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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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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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Miro Bilbrough: 2021
Established Writers Residency

Miro Bilbrough: 2021
Established Writers Residency
333 333 Michael King Writers Centre

Miro is a filmmaker, filmmaking teacher and a poet whose memoir of a counterculture New Zealand adolescence, In the Time of the Manaroans (Victoria Univeristy…

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Jordan Hamel: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency

Jordan Hamel: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency
1708 1707 Michael King Writers Centre

Jordan Hamel is a Pōneke-based writer, poet and performer. He grew up in Timaru on a healthy diet of Catholicism and toxic masculinity. He was…

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Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency

Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency
1075 1075 Michael King Writers Centre

Zarah is a writer from Auckland. She is the author of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life (Giramondo Publishing, 2021) and Autobiography of a Marguerite (Hue…

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Helen Vivienne Fletcher: 2021
Established Writers Residency

Helen Vivienne Fletcher: 2021
Established Writers Residency
497 497 Michael King Writers Centre

Helen is a widely published children’s and young adult author, spoken word poet and award-winning playwright. She has written an impressive collection of work for…

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Pip Desmond: 2021
Established Writers Residency

Pip Desmond: 2021
Established Writers Residency
1373 1373 Michael King Writers Centre

Pip is a Wellington writer, editor and oral historian who specialises in creative non-fiction. Her memoir Song for Rosaleen, about caring for her mother when…

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Kiran Dass: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency

Kiran Dass: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency
706 706 Michael King Writers Centre

The first writer to have the timing of her residency affected by the pandemic; Kiran reviews books regularly on RNZ and her writing has appeared…

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The Last Guests – Josh Pomare 2021

The Last Guests – Josh Pomare 2021 258 400 Michael King Writers Centre

This is the novel Josh worked on when he was our third resident for 2020 and was here in January – before the pandemic changed…

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