2018 VW

Amy McDaid has a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. The draft of her first novel Wind Air Sky Guy won the…

Last summer (2016), I was staying in an Airbnb in Devonport and a friend drove me to the top of Mount Victoria to see the…

Joan Norlev Taylor stayed at the centre as the recipient of the NZSA/Auckland Museum Research Grant, (awarded in 2017 and taken up in 2018). During…

Margaret Brosnahan, from Northland, first stayed as a visiting writer  for several weeks during the first half of 2015. She returned in 2018 but this…

Jenny Haworth is well-known as both publisher and writer. She is a regular visitor to the centre and  in 2014  was awarded the NZ Society…

Ivy Alvarez is the author of The Everyday English Dictionary (London: Paekakariki Press, 2016), Hollywood Starlet (Chicago: dancing girl press), Disturbance (Wales: Seren, 2013), and Mortal. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her…

Dorothy Howie is a New Zealander who is a visiting writer staying at the Centre for the first time. She shares her time between her…