2026

We have welcomed Josie, our eleventh writer-in-residence – she is a fiction writer who lives in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland. Josie is the author of…

Kirsty has published two novels – part historical novels and part contemporary and has published short stories and poems in anthologies. She won the 2020…

Anne completed a Master of Creative Writing at AUT in 2014. Two years later, she won the Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award with Tūī Street Tales, (Scholastic),…

Sarah was born and raised on Auckland’s North Shore, and trained as a newspaper journalist before working in magazines and book publishing. She has a…

Cassie (Kāi Tahu/Pākehā) is an award winning author, editor, and mentor living under the watchful gaze of Taranaki Maunga. She writes primarily adult speculative fiction…

Claire is a Rotorua writer whose first novel Dice was published in 2023 by Allen & Unwin (Aus/NZ). Dice, a literary courtroom drama, drew on Claire’s research…

Connie is a Hamilton writer, who works as the Deputy-Editor of E-Tangata magazine. Her short stories and essays have been published in Landfall, Newsroom, Takahē,…

Emma, (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha) is a writer living and working in Taranaki. Her first book of short fiction, Ruin, was published in 2023…

Dr Vincent O’Malley FRHistS FRSNZ is a Wellington writer and historian who has authored many bestselling and acclaimed works on Aotearoa New Zealand history, including…

Trina descends from Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Whawhaakia and Pākeha whakapapa. She grew up in Kirikiriroa and has lived in Tamaki Mākaurau, London…