RESIDENCY ALUMNI

Tracy Farr: 2021
Late Winter Residency

Tracy Farr: 2021
Late Winter Residency
399 399 Michael King Writers Centre

Tracy is a Wellington writer who used to be a scientist. Her debut novel, The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt, was long- and shortlisted…

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Octavia Cade: 2021
Winter Residency 3

Octavia Cade: 2021
Winter Residency 3
254 254 Michael King Writers Centre

We have welcomed our 13th writer-in-residence. Octavia  is a Cambridge based writer with a PhD in science communication. She likes using speculative fiction to talk…

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Kyle Mewburn: 2021
Winter Residency 2

Kyle Mewburn: 2021
Winter Residency 2
1708 1706 Michael King Writers Centre

Kyle is one of New Zealand’s most eclectic and prolific writers. From multi-layered picture books (Old-Hu-hu; Hill & Hole) to laugh-out-loud junior fiction series (Dinosaur…

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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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Things I Learned At Art School – Megan Dunn 2021

Things I Learned At Art School – Megan Dunn 2021 257 400 Michael King Writers Centre

Megan held our seventh residency for 2020 and worked on this, her second book about all of the things she learned at art school and…

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Kate Duignan: 2021
Winter Residency

Kate Duignan: 2021
Winter Residency
1708 1707 Michael King Writers Centre

Kate graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from VUW in 2000.  Her MA project was her first novel, Breakwater.  Kate has also published short…

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Ingrid Horrocks: 2021
Autumn Residency 2

Ingrid Horrocks: 2021
Autumn Residency 2
1707 1708 Michael King Writers Centre

Our tenth writer-in-residence for the year, Ingrid, is working on a collection of interconnected short stories from women’s lives over a two-hundred-year period. Some of…

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Jared Davidson: 2021
Autumn Residency

Jared Davidson: 2021
Autumn Residency
1818 1817 Michael King Writers Centre

Jared is an archivist, historian and writer based in Wellington. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Overland, History Workshop Journal, The Spinoff, Newsroom and…

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Nathan Joe: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency

Nathan Joe: 2021
Emerging Writers Residency
1707 1708 Michael King Writers Centre

Nathan is an award-winning writer, theatre-maker and performance poet based in Ōtautahi. His work largely focuses on the slipperiness of identity and the politics of…

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Steph Matuku: 2021
Established Māori Writers Residency

Steph Matuku: 2021
Established Māori Writers Residency
1707 1708 Michael King Writers Centre

Steph is an award-winning writer from Taranaki, New Zealand (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama, Te Ati Awa). She spent fifteen years writing radio advertising before deciding…

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