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MKWC Announces An International Exchange With Australia 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

MKWC Announces An International Exchange With Australia

Media Release 14 July 2021  The Michael King Writers Centre Announces An International Exchange With Australia Kate Mildenhall has been announced as the recipient of…

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Signals 2019 Launched 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Signals 2019 Launched

Media Release 9 December 2019  Signals 2019 Launched The Michael King Writers Centre launched the eighth issue of Signals, its literary journal for young writers,…

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Michael King Writers Centre 2020 Residency Recipients Announced 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Michael King Writers Centre 2020 Residency Recipients Announced

Media Release 4 November 2019  The Michael King Writers Centre announces its Residencies for 2020 This year’s Michael King Writers Centre Residency Selection Panel had…

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Chinese Writer selected for Residency at MKWC 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Chinese Writer selected for Residency at MKWC

Media Release 10 September 2019 Michael King Writers Centre New Zealand China Friendship Society – Rewi Alley Fellowship Sun Wei travels to Aotearoa for residency…

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Applications for 2020 Residencies Open 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Applications for 2020 Residencies Open

Media Release 19 August 2019  New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2020 Writers in Residence Programme. The Michael King Writers Centre is pleased to…

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Signals 2018 Launched 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Signals 2018 Launched

Media Release 10 December 2018  Signals 2018 Launched The Michael King Writers Centre launched the seventh issue of Signals, its literary journal for young writers,…

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Michael King Writers Centre 2019 Residency Recipients Announced 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Michael King Writers Centre 2019 Residency Recipients Announced

Media Release 10 October 2018 Michael King Writers Centre 2019 Residency Recipients Announced From a history of the Listener to a series of inter-linked short…

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MKWC at the National Writers Forum 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

MKWC at the National Writers Forum

Media Release 27 August 2018 WIN A WEEK AT THE MICHAEL KING WRITERS CENTRE AND A ONE-ON-ONE CRAFT SESSION WITH PAULA MORRIS  Writers attending the…

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Frances Edmond joins 2018 Shanghai Writing Program 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre

Frances Edmond joins 2018 Shanghai Writing Program

Media Release 23 May 2018  Frances Edmond joins 2018 Shanghai Writing Program Frances Edmond has been selected as the third New Zealand writer to join…

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“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” 150 150 Michael King Writers Centre
Writing Your Heart Out with Deborah Shepard: The art and craft of memoir 360 207 Michael King Writers Centre

Writing Your Heart Out with Deborah Shepard: The art and craft of memoir

The Michael King Writers’ Centre is pleased to offer workshops on writing memoir with author, film and art historian, and life writing mentor Deborah Shepard.…

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Young Writers Programme 280 187 Michael King Writers Centre

Young Writers Programme

The Young Writers Programme was started by the late Dame Chris Cole Catley and Ros Ali in 2008 to serve talented North Shore teenagers who…

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