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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Sam is an award-winning, prolific playwright and journalist, noted for his queer and political work. He has won the Bruce Mason Playwrighting Award, New Zealand’s…
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Josie lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland with her husband and two daughters. Her debut novel, Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts will be published by…
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Our second writer-in-residence Duncan is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, performer and short story writer. He has written film scripts, plays, short stories and novels, touring…
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Kia hari te tau hou! We are very happy to have welcomed Daniel as our first writer-in-residence for 2023, he will be working on an…
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Vana is a Greek-New Zealand poet who has been moving between Aotearoa and Kirihi Greece, and has now settled in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Her most recent…
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Madison is a Wellington-based editor and works for the Air Force. Her hobbies include painting and chronically reinventing herself. She holds a Master of Creative…
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Erik is the author of the poetry collections There’s No Place Like the Internet in Springtime (2018) and Another Beautiful Day Indoors (2022), both with Victoria University Press.…
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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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Pauline is an author and educationalist of Samoan, Tuvaluan, Scottish and Irish heritage. Her first book Dawn Raid: My New Zealand Story received Best New…
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