Alumni Created Works

Hazel completed this book during her residency in 2025. It was entered into NZ Mountain Film and Book Festival 2025 book competition. The festival theme…

Dominic was the 2024 recipient of the MKWC residency exchange to Varuna Writers House – whilst there he worked on this book, his third novel.

Duncan worked on this novel, his third, during his 2023 residency.

The Mires is the novel Tina worked on during her 2020 residency. It was shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

We welcomed Rachael not only as our final writer-in-residence for 2020 but also, by wonderful coincidence as the 100th writer to take up a residency…

Jared had the autumn Residency in 2021 and worked on this book which was long listed for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in…

At the 2024 Ockham NZ Book Awards, for this book, Emma (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou), was awarded one of the Mātātuhi Foundation Best First Book…

Emma (Kāi Tahu) was our second writer-in-residence for 2021. Ruin, her residency project, won the Hubert Church Best First Book Award for fiction at the 2024…

Penelope’s third book is a collective study of copies and how they raise questions around copyright and intellectual property. Inspired by copies located in New…

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…