Alumni Created Works

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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

This work of creative non- fiction profiling 10 contemporary navigators from across Polynesia who use traditional non-instrument techniques to guide their voyaging canoes is Jeff’s…