Alumni Created Works

There’s A Cure For This: A Memoir – Emma Wehipeihana (Espiner) 2023

There’s A Cure For This: A Memoir – Emma Wehipeihana (Espiner) 2023 345 527 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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The Mires – Tina Makereti 2024

The Mires – Tina Makereti 2024 344 527 Michael King Writers Centre

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!

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The Grimmelings – Rachael King 2024

The Grimmelings – Rachael King 2024 341 527 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of NZ – Jared Davidson 2023

Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of NZ – Jared Davidson 2023 345 478 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Ruin – Emma Hislop 2023

Ruin – Emma Hislop 2023 345 525 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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The Art of Coping Art – Penelope Jackson 2022

The Art of Coping Art – Penelope Jackson 2022 345 490 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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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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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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Reawakened: Traditional navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa – Jeff Evans 2021

Reawakened: Traditional navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa – Jeff Evans 2021 220 304 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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