RESIDENCY ALUMNI

Rachel O’Neill: 2019
Emerging Writers Residency

Rachel O’Neill: 2019
Emerging Writers Residency
603 603 Michael King Writers Centre

We have welcomed Rachel as our first writer-in-residence for the year. Rachel is a filmmaker, writer and artist based in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara, Aotearoa. Her debut…

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Serie Barford: 2018
Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Serie Barford: 2018
Established Pasifika Writers Residency
1179 1179 Michael King Writers Centre

We have welcomed Serie as our fourteenth and last resident for the year. Serie was born in Aotearoa to a migrant German-Samoan mother and a Palagi…

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Pala Molisa: 2018
Emerging Pasifika Writers Residency

Pala Molisa: 2018
Emerging Pasifika Writers Residency
165 165 Michael King Writers Centre

Pala Molisa is a Ni-Vanuatu academic who has recently finished teaching at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Accounting and Commercial Law. His PhD looked…

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Trevor Bentley: 2018
Established Pasifika Writers Residency

Trevor Bentley: 2018
Established Pasifika Writers Residency
871 872 Michael King Writers Centre

Trevor was educated at the Auckland and Waikato Universities and has a special interest in researching, teaching and writing about the interaction of Māori and…

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Karyn Hay: 2018
Late Spring Residency (2)

Karyn Hay: 2018
Late Spring Residency (2)
2497 2499 Michael King Writers Centre

Karyn Hay is an award-winning novelist and broadcaster: her debut novel Emerald Budgies won the New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book…

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Mark Broatch: 2018
Late Spring Residency (1)

Mark Broatch: 2018
Late Spring Residency (1)
377 377 Michael King Writers Centre

Mark Broatch is the author of several non-fiction books, short fiction and poetry. He was deputy editor at the NZ Listener and culture editor at…

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Tracy Farr: 2018
Spring Residency

Tracy Farr: 2018
Spring Residency
711 711 Michael King Writers Centre

We are delighted to welcome Tracy back to the centre for a residency – she was a visiting writer in 2009 and worked on her…

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Kelly Joseph: 2018
Emerging Māori Writers Residency

Kelly Joseph: 2018
Emerging Māori Writers Residency
2507 2507 Michael King Writers Centre

Kelly Joseph (Ngāti Maniapoto) is a writer and artist currently living in Westland with her two daughters and husband. She has previously had stories published…

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Jacquie McRae: 2018
Māori Writers Residency

Jacquie McRae: 2018
Māori Writers Residency
1927 1927 Michael King Writers Centre

Jacquie McRae (Tainui and Ngāti Koata) is working on a project that is a fictional novel based on facts about the colourful history of the…

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Chris Price: 2008

Chris Price: 2008 297 297 Michael King Writers Centre

Chris Price plans to complete a new collection of poems, The Blind Singer, and lay the groundwork for another major project – a full-length work of…

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