RESIDENCY ALUMNI

Dominic Hoey: 2019
Early Autumn Writers Residency

Dominic Hoey: 2019
Early Autumn Writers Residency
2804 2804 Michael King Writers Centre

Our ninth resident for the year – Dominic is an author, playwright and poet based in Tamaki Makaurau. His debut novel, Iceland was a New…

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Meagan France: 2019
Emerging Writers Residency

Meagan France: 2019
Emerging Writers Residency
470 470 Michael King Writers Centre

Meagan is an Auckland based writer of European and Māori descent born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. She moved permanently to New Zealand in…

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Gary Henderson: 2019
University of Auckland Residency 1

Gary Henderson: 2019
University of Auckland Residency 1
2362 2362 Michael King Writers Centre

We have welcomed Gary as our seventh resident for the year, he is a playwright, director and writing teacher whose work is produced locally and…

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Diane Brown: 2019
Late Summer Writers Residency

Diane Brown: 2019
Late Summer Writers Residency
476 476 Michael King Writers Centre

Diane is a novelist, memoirist, and poet who runs an online and face to face creative writing school, Creative Writing Dunedin. During her residency –…

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Ivy Alvarez: 2019
Late Summer Writers Residency

Ivy Alvarez: 2019
Late Summer Writers Residency
660 661 Michael King Writers Centre

Ivy has been awarded a late summer residency, our fifth for the year and is working on a multi-volume collection, Diaspora. Ivy says ‘Diaspora is my…

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Colleen Maria Lenihan: 2019
Emerging Māori Writers Residency

Colleen Maria Lenihan: 2019
Emerging Māori Writers Residency
1335 1333 Michael King Writers Centre

Colleen is of Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi and Irish descent. After returning to New Zealand in 2016 after fifteen years in Tokyo and one in New…

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Steven Toussaint: 2019
Summer Writers Residency

Steven Toussaint: 2019
Summer Writers Residency
1000 1000 Michael King Writers Centre

Steve is working on his third full-length collection of poetry that explores the climate of reproach and apology that pervades our public discourse today and…

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Yvette Walker: 2019
Emerging Writers Residency

Yvette Walker: 2019
Emerging Writers Residency
2047 2047 Michael King Writers Centre

Yvette, our second resident for the year is a LGBTQIA writer who was born in Australia and is now a New Zealand resident living in…

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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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