VISITING WRITERS

Suzanne Weinert (2019) (2018) (2017) (2022) (2023)

Suzanne Weinert (2019) (2018) (2017) (2022) (2023) 799 800 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Laurence Fearnley ( 2017)

Laurence Fearnley ( 2017) 181 181 Michael King Writers Centre

Dunedin writer Laurence Fearnley was awarded the 2016 NZSA/Auckland Museum Research Grant (taken up in 2017). Laurence’s project focuses on landscape and scent and is…

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Joan Norlev Taylor: 2018

Joan Norlev Taylor: 2018 1187 1187 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Margaret Brosnahan (2018) (2015)

Margaret Brosnahan (2018) (2015) 250 250 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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Jenny Howarth (2018)
(2017) (2015) (2014) (2013)

Jenny Howarth (2018)
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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…

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Warwick Pudney (2017)
(2016) (2015)

Warwick Pudney (2017)
(2016) (2015)
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Warwick Pudney has been a regular visiting writer, spending time at the centre most years to devote time to his writing . He is senior…

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Tui Allen (2016)

Tui Allen (2016) 225 225 Michael King Writers Centre

Tui was born in Te Awamutu but spent 40 years living in Auckland before returning to live in the Waikato in the year 2000. She…

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Michael Woodcock (2016)

Michael Woodcock (2016) 250 250 Michael King Writers Centre

Michael Woodcock is a New Zealander living in Rural Wairarapa (Carterton) with his wife Gaye, on their small farm nestled close to the Tararua Mountains.…

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Mary Macpherson (2016) (2012)

Mary Macpherson (2016) (2012) 250 250 Michael King Writers Centre

Mary Macpherson is a Wellington poet and photographer. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2006 and her work has appeared…

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Ivy Alvarez (2018)

Ivy Alvarez (2018) 360 360 Michael King Writers Centre

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…

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