RESIDENCY ALUMNI

Whiti Hereaka: 2017
Māori Writers Residency

Whiti Hereaka: 2017
Māori Writers Residency
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Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa) will take up the Māori Writer’s Residency to work on the final draft of a new novel for adults…

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Anthony Byrt: 2017
Spring Residency

Anthony Byrt: 2017
Spring Residency
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Anthony Byrt is a regular writer for Metro, a contributing editor to Paperboy, and the New Zealand correspondent for Artforum International. In 2013 he was…

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Frankie McMillan:2017
University of Auckland Residency

Frankie McMillan:2017
University of Auckland Residency
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The six-month University of Auckland Residency at the MKWC was awarded to Frankie McMillan for a book of small narrative forms, mainly prose poetry and…

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Anna Jackson: 2017
Early Summer Residency

Anna Jackson: 2017
Early Summer Residency
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Anna has written and edited a number of academic books on topics ranging from Gothic children’s fiction to verse biography in Australia, Canada and New…

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Hannah August: 2016
Summer Residency

Hannah August: 2016
Summer Residency
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Hannah August is a writer, editor and researcher based in Wellington. She has written for publications such as the Times Literary Supplement and Metro. She has a PhD…

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Elspeth Sandys: 2016
Autumn Residency

Elspeth Sandys: 2016
Autumn Residency
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Elspeth has published eight novels, two collections of short stories and written numerous plays for radio (RNZ and BBC) and television. Her stage plays have…

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Briar-Grace-Smith

Briar Grace-Smith: 2016
Māori Writers Residency

Briar Grace-Smith: 2016
Māori Writers Residency
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Briar Grace-Smith descends from Ngā Puhi and is an award-winning writer of plays, screenplays and short stories. Her first play Ngā Pou Wāhine won the 1995 Bruce…

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Vivienne Plumb: 2016
University of Auckland Residency

Vivienne Plumb: 2016
University of Auckland Residency
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Vivienne Plumb graduated from Victoria Universityof Wellington, with a B.A. in English and Art History (1997) and an M.A. in Creative Writing (2001). She then…

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Roger Horrocks: 2015
Autumn Residency

Roger Horrocks: 2015
Autumn Residency
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Roger Horrocks was founder and head of the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at Auckland University, the largest department of its kind in…

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Rochelle Bright: 2015
University of Auckland Writers Residency

Rochelle Bright: 2015
University of Auckland Writers Residency
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Rochelle Bright is an exciting voice in New Zealand theatre. She works in crossover drama, which blurs the boundaries between plays, music, cabaret and opera.…

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